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121haw — I [[t]hɔ[/t]] v. i. 1) to utter a sound representing a hesitation or pause in speech 2) a hesitation; pause • Etymology: 1625–35; imit. II haw [[t]hɔ[/t]] interj. 1) (used as a word of command to a horse or other draft animal, usu. directing it… …
122dissepiment — /dəˈsɛpəmənt/ (say duh sepuhmuhnt) noun 1. a partition or septum. 2. Botany one of the partitions formed within ovaries and fruits by the coherence of the sides of the constituent carpels. {Latin dissaepīmentum that which separates, from dis 1 +… …
123close — verb To finish, bring to an end, conclude, terminate, complete, wind up; as, to close an account, a bargain, a trial, an estate, or public books, such as tax books. In accounting, to transfer the balance of a temporary or contra or adjunct… …
124close — verb To finish, bring to an end, conclude, terminate, complete, wind up; as, to close an account, a bargain, a trial, an estate, or public books, such as tax books. In accounting, to transfer the balance of a temporary or contra or adjunct… …
125town — [OE] The ancestral meaning of town is ‘enclosed place’ – amongst its relatives are German zaun ‘hedge, fence’ and Old Irish dūn ‘fort, camp, fortified place’. Its Old English forerunner tūn was used for an ‘enclosure’ or ‘yard’, and also for a… …
126windbreak — ☆ windbreak [wind′brāk΄ ] n. a hedge, fence, or row of trees that serves as a protection from wind …
127gap — n. 1 an unfilled space or interval; a blank; a break in continuity. 2 a breach in a hedge, fence, or wall. 3 a wide (usu. undesirable) divergence in views, sympathies, development, etc. (generation gap). 4 a gorge or pass. Phrases and idioms:… …
128Accentor modularis — Hedge Hedge, n. [OE. hegge, AS. hecg; akin to haga an inclosure, E. haw, AS. hege hedge, E. haybote, D. hegge, OHG. hegga, G. hecke. [root]12. See {Haw} a hedge.] A thicket of bushes, usually thorn bushes; especially, such a thicket planted as a… …