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| all-round |
all-around. |
| -art |
variant of -ard. |
| Blue Man Group |
a creative organization that provides performance-art theater in the form of a trio of blue-painted entertainers who incorporate such elements as food, odd props, rock music, and audience participation into their show. |
| galleass |
a large, three-masted, heavily-armed fighting galley used in the Mediterranean in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. |
| Janjaweed |
(used with a pl. verb) a heavily-armed, mounted militia group based in the Darfur region of Sudan. The name "janjaweed" comes from the Arabic, meaning "ghost riders." |
| -orium |
a place or device associated with or pertaining to; -arium. |
| Punjabi |
an Indo-Aryan language of the Punjab. [1/3 definitions] |
| sand grouse |
any of various birds related to pigeons that are found in arid and semi-arid regions of Asia, Africa, and southern Europe. |
| sinusoidal projection |
an equal-area map projection of the entire earth in which all lines of latitude are shown as straight lines and all lines of longitude as curved. |
| stiff-arm |
to shove (an opposing player, as in football) with one's arm held straight; straight-arm. [2 definitions] |
| straight-arm |
to keep (a sports opponent, esp. a football tackler) away from oneself by holding one's arm out straight; stiff-arm. [2 definitions] |
| Urdu |
the official literary language of Pakistan, written with Persian-Arabic characters, and widely used by Muslims in India. |
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