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1: unpleasant wetness [syn: {clamminess}]

1: a constitutional monarchy in northern Europe; consists of the mainland of Jutland and many islands between the North Sea and the Baltic Sea [syn: {Denmark}, {Kingdom of Denmark}]

1: one of two official languages of Norway; closely related to Danish [syn: {Bokmal}, {Riksmal}]

1: a Middle Eastern dance in which the dancer makes sensuous movements of the hips and abdomen [syn: {belly dance}, {belly dancing}]

1: a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave [syn: {dance of death}]

1: a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina [syn: {danseur noble}]

1: a male ballet dancer who is the partner of a ballerina [syn: {danseur}]

1: a female ballet dancer [syn: {ballerina}]

1: an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) [syn: {Dante Alighieri}...

1: an Italian poet famous for writing the Divine Comedy that describes a journey through hell and purgatory and paradise guided by Virgil and his idealized Beatrice (1265-1321) [syn: {Dante}]

1: English poet and painter who was a leader of the Pre-Raphaelites (1828-1882) [syn: {Rossetti}]

1: of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings [syn: {Dantesque}]

1: of or relating to Dante Alighieri or his writings [syn: {Dantean}]

1: French revolutionary leader who stormed the Paris bastille and who supported the execution of Louis XVI but was guillotined by Robespierre for his opposition to the Reign of Terror (1759-1794) [syn...

1: United States baseball player and famous pitcher (1867-1955) [syn: {Young}, {Cy Young}]

1: Celtic goddess who was the mother of the Tuatha De Danann; identified with the Welsh Don [syn: {Dana}]

1: the 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea [syn: {Danube River}]

1: the 2nd longest European river; flows into the Black Sea [syn: {Danube}]

1: a port city of northern Poland near the mouth of the Vistula River on a gulf of the Baltic Sea; a member of the Hanseatic League in the 14th century [syn: {Gdansk}]

1: philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events [syn: {Taoism}]

1: any of several ornamental shrubs with shiny mostly evergreen leaves and clusters of small bell-shaped flowers 2: (Greek mythology) a nymph who was transformed into a laurel tree to escape the amoro...

1: widely cultivated low evergreen shrub with dense clusters of fragrant pink to deep rose flowers [syn: {garland flower}]

1: English writer of melodramatic novels (1907-1989) [syn: {du Maurier}, {Dame Daphne du Maurier}]

1: family of tough-barked trees and shrubs and herbs especially of Australia and tropical Africa [syn: {Thymelaeaceae}, {family Thymelaeaceae}]

1: bushy Eurasian shrub with glossy leathery oblong leaves and yellow-green flowers [syn: {spurge laurel}, {wood laurel}]

1: small European deciduous shrub with fragrant lilac-colored flowers followed by red berries on highly toxic twigs [syn: {mezereon}, {February daphne}]

1: minute freshwater crustacean having a round body enclosed in a transparent shell; moves about like a flea by means of hairy branched antennae [syn: {water flea}]

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1: marked by smartness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat" [syn: {dashing}, {jaunty}, {natty}, {raffish}, {rakish}, {smart}, {spiffy}, {snappy}, {spruce}]

1: stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance [syn: {jauntiness}, {nattiness}, {rakishness}]

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1: a small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red" [syn: {spot}, {speckle}, {patch}, {fleck}, {maculation}] v : ...

1: gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings [syn: {dapple-grey}, {dappled-gray}, {dappled-grey}]

1: gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings [syn: {dapple-gray}, {dappled-gray}, {dappled-grey}]

1: having spots or patches of color [syn: {mottled}]

1: gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings [syn: {dapple-gray}, {dapple-grey}, {dappled-grey}]

1: gray with a mottled pattern of darker gray markings [syn: {dapple-gray}, {dapple-grey}, {dappled-gray}]

1: a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir; the 2nd highest peak in the world (28,250 feet high) [syn: {K2}, {Godwin Austen}, {Mount Godwin Austen}]

1: antibacterial drug used to treat leprosy and some kinds of skin diseases

1: areas where Muslims are in the minority and are persecuted [syn: {House of War}]

1: areas where Muslims are in the majority [syn: {House of Islam}]

1: the capital and second largest city of Tanzania [syn: {capital of Tanzania}]

1: a unit of elastance equal to the reciprocal of a farad

1: any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan [syn: {Dardic}, {Dardic language}]

1: a native of ancient Troy [syn: {Trojan}, {Dardanian}]

1: the strait between the Aegean and the Sea of Marmara that separates European Turkey from Asian Turkey [syn: {Hellespont}] 2: the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and Frenc...

1: the unsuccessful campaign in World War I (1915) by the English and French to open a passage for aid to Russia; defeated by the Turks [syn: {Dardanelles}]

1: a native of ancient Troy [syn: {Trojan}, {Dardan}]

1: (Greek mythology) founder of Troy

1: any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan [syn: {Dard}, {Dardic language}]

1: any of a group of Indic languages spoken in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and northern Pakistan [syn: {Dard}, {Dardic}]

1: a challenge to do something dangerous or foolhardy; "he could never refuse a dare" [syn: {daring}] v 1: take upon oneself; act presumptuously, without permission; "How dare you call my lawyer?" [sy...

1: presumptuously daring; "a daredevil test pilot having the right stuff" [syn: {brash}, {temerarious}] n : a reckless impetuous irresponsible person [syn: {madcap}, {hothead}, {swashbuckler}, {lunati...

1: boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior [syn: {daredeviltry}]

1: boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior [syn: {daredevilry}]

1: an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan [syn: {Dari Persian}]

1: an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan [syn: {Dari}]

1: an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers [syn: {oxyphencyclimine}]

1: a rare hereditary condition marked by dark crusted patches (sometimes containing pus) [syn: {keratosis follicularis}]

1: disposed to venture or take risks; "audacious visions of the total conquest of space"; "an audacious interpretation of two Jacobean dramas"; "the most daring of contemporary fiction writers"; "a ve...