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| all-star |
a player on an all-star team. [1/2 definitions] |
| American Beauty |
a type of hybrid rose that bears long-stemmed red flowers. |
| ancient Rome |
a civilization cultivated by the city-state of Rome from the 8th century B.C.E. through its development as a republic and its collapse as an empire in the 5th century A.D. |
| beauty salon |
an establishment that offers a full range of beauty and grooming services, including hair-styling, manicures, and facials. |
| bubble memory |
a solid-state computer device that stores information, coded into binary digits, in microscopic magnetized areas in sheets, as of garnet. |
| cactus |
a leafless, fleshy-stemmed, often prickly plant that grows in hot, dry regions of America. |
| cakewalk |
a high-strutting, marchlike dance done in competition for the prize of a cake, awarded to the most intricate or unusual performance. [1/5 definitions] |
| calumet |
a long-stemmed, decorated tobacco pipe used by North American Indians in ceremonies, esp. promoting peace and friendship; peace pipe. |
| cam |
in machinery, a noncircular disc or cylinder that, when rotated, imparts an up-and-down or start-and-stop motion to a connected part. |
| campanile |
a bell tower, esp. a free-standing one near another building such as a church. |
| cane |
the stalk of a large, hard-stemmed grass, such as bamboo, or the plant itself. [1/7 definitions] |
| Carthage |
an ancient Phoenician city-state founded in the ninth century B.C. near the site of modern Tunis and destroyed in 146 B.C. by the Romans. |
| cat burglar |
a burglar who gains entry through upper windows, roof doors, and the like; second-story man. |
| cello |
a large four-stringed instrument of the violin family with a pitch lower than that of the viola but higher than that of the double bass; violoncello. |
| churchwarden |
a long-stemmed smoking pipe made of clay. [1/3 definitions] |
| cliff dweller |
(informal) a person who lives in a many-storied urban apartment house. [1/2 definitions] |
| cross-stitch |
to sew or embroider in cross-stitches. [1/3 definitions] |
| double-stop |
the two tones produced by playing a double-stop, or their graphic representation; chord. [1/2 definitions] |
| easel |
a free-standing frame for holding an artist's canvas, blackboard, or the like. |
| flint |
a piece of this stone, esp. as used in guns or fire-starting. [1/3 definitions] |
| hackney |
(often cap.) a horse of English breed with a high-stepping gait. [1/4 definitions] |
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