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(transitive, rare) To furnish or adorn with eyelashes
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A method of temporarily straightening the hair by sealing a liquid keratin and preservative solution into the hair with a hair iron.
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One who brutes (shapes diamonds by grinding).
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Material removed by the action of someone who buffs.
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(surgery, especially in plural) A narrow adhesive strip that is used to close the edges of small wounds
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Small pieces or strips (streamers) of colored paper or other material (metal, plaster, etc) generally thrown about at festive occasions, especially at weddings and in victory celebrations.
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A paint scheme used on ships, mainly during World War I, consisting of a complex pattern of geometric shapes in contrasting colours, interrupting and intersecting each other. Its aim was not to conceal but rather to make it difficult to estimate the ship's range, speed, and heading.
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Having a rough edge (used especially of hand-made paper).
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(surgery) A small roll or plug used to stop a sore, wound, etc.; a pledget.
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The small curls of rubber that are left behind after using an eraser.
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In ceramics, to remove (as by sanding) the seam lines left by the meeting of two molds.
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(construction) A splice or seam made in the field (not factory) where overlapping sheets are joined together using an adhesive, splicing tape, or heat or solvent welding.
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The process of adding small particles to a surface for the sake of texture.
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A little hollow; a dimple.
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A brush or tool used for such painting.
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A horizontal metal grill through which water, ash, or small objects can fall, while larger objects cannot.
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Alternative form of graveled (“perplexed, baffled, annoyed”) [Covered with gravel.]
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(transitive) To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.
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(transitive) To impress or mark with a seam or cicatrix.
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To enclose within a kernel
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Obsolete form of nib. [The tip of a pen or tool that touches the surface, transferring ink to paper.]
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A mechanism that overlaps material to make it thicker; a lapping cylinder or lapping machine.
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(rare) A cosmetic coating on the lips, lipgloss; also, a coat of sunscreen for the lips.
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(transitive, of a body part or person) Having had lotion applied.
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To apply mousse (styling cream).
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(transitive) To apply an exterior coating to.
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To sew with this kind of seam.
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(roofing) In SPF roofing, a condition of the foam in which the surface shows a linear course textured pattern and/or a pebbled surface. This surface is generally downwind of the sprayed polyurethane path and, if severe, unacceptable for proper coating and protection.
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(construction) To apply a parge on to a surface.
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A chemical hair treatment imparting or removing curliness, whose effects typically last for a period of weeks; a perm.
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(Britain) A series of waves in the hair produced by means of chemical substances and heat; a perm
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A small hole, of a size that could have been made by a pin
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A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
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(transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.
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A coarse kind of rock, somewhat cellular in texture; ragstone.
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A man who is believed to have power to control the rain.
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(transitive, engineering) To fit with new teeth.
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An abrasive for rubbing with: a whetstone, file, or emery cloth, etc.
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(transitive) To abrade the surface of (something) with sand or sandpaper in order to smooth or clean it.
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A set for flattering the seams of metal sheets, leather work, etc.
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A person who sews seams.
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A line formed by the seam of a garment.
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Having or showing a seam.
adj
Pleached or interwoven by natural growth; intertwined; intertwisted.
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(papermaking) A dark particle or impurity in finished paper resulting from a bundle of incompletely cooked wood fibres in the pulp.
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A seam running along the side (of a garment, a cigarette, etc.).
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(Britain, dialectal) To split; to crack.
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(woodworking) Any coloration of wood, either living or dead, by fungi, which is considered visually or texturally appealing. Biochemical responses by the tree are not included within the scope of spalting.
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A piece of skin used in making glue.
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ornamentation in the form of sprigs or sprays
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To apply or treat with laundry starch, to create a hard, smooth surface.
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A long, relatively straight region against a different coloured background.
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Having stripes; striped.
adj
Obsolete spelling of strawen [(archaic) Made of straw.]
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(anatomy) A seam or line, such as that between the segments of a crustacean, between the whorls of a univalve shell, or where the elytra of a beetle meet.
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(intransitive, botany) To put forth a tassel or flower.
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To provide or furnish with teeth.
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Alternative form of toothmug [A mug for holding dentures when not in use.]
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A mug for holding dentures when not in use.
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(transitive) To open the seam or seams of; to rip; to cut open.
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(construction, also attributively) A concrete slab used in flooring with a gridlike structure of ribs running at right angles to each other on its underside.
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A piece (of food, metal, wood etc.) having this shape.
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A process similar to splice grafting, except that a cleft or slit is made in the end of both scion and stock, in the direction of the grain and in the middle of the sloping surface, forming a kind of tongue, so that when put together, the tongue of each is inserted in the slit of the other.
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