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  • 81welter — welter1 /wel teuhr/, v.i. 1. to roll, toss, or heave, as waves or the sea. 2. to roll, writhe, or tumble about; wallow, as animals (often fol. by about): pigs weltering about happily in the mud. 3. to lie bathed in or be drenched in something,… …

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  • 82Kolyma Upland — ▪ mountains, Russia Russian  Kolymskoye Nagorye,         mountain tract in northeastern Siberia, Russia. It lies along the northeastern shores of the Sea of Okhotsk, which it separates from the extensive Kolyma Lowland that drains northward to… …

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  • 83Wagner, Richard — ▪ German composer Introduction in full  Wilhelm Richard Wagner  born May 22, 1813, Leipzig died Feb. 13, 1883, Venice  German dramatic composer and theorist whose operas and music (music drama) had a revolutionary influence on the course of… …

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  • 84Jean-Baptiste Bouvier —     Jean Baptiste Bouvier     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Jean Baptiste Bouvier     Bishop of Le Mans, theologian, b. At St. Charles la Forêt, Mayenne, 16 January, 1783; d. at Rome, 28 December, 1854. Having received merely an elementary education …

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  • 85Order of battle at the Battle of Camperdown — The Battle of Camperdown, William Adolphus Knell, pre 1875, National Museums Scotland The Battle of Camperdown was an important naval action of the …

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  • 86melange — noun admixture, amalgam, assortment, blend, cento, combination, commixture, composition, compound, confused mass, conglomeration, farrago, gallimaufry, hash, hodgepodge, intermixture, jumble, medley, minglement, miscellaneous collection,… …

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  • 87welter — [13] Welter was originally a verb, meaning ‘roll about’ (borrowed probably from Middle Dutch welteren, it came ultimately from the Germanic base *wal , *wel ‘roll’, source also of English wallet, wallow, waltz, etc, and is distantly related to… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 88welter — (v.) to roll or twist, c.1300, from M.Du. or M.L.G. welteren to roll, from P.Gmc. *waltijanan (Cf. O.E. wieltan, O.N. velta, O.H.G. walzan to turn, revolve, Ger. wälzen to roll, Goth. waltjan to roll ), from PIE root *wel …

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  • 89resolve — [[t]rɪzɒ̱lv[/t]] ♦♦♦ resolves, resolving, resolved 1) VERB To resolve a problem, argument, or difficulty means to find a solution to it. [FORMAL] [V n] We must find a way to resolve these problems before it s too late... [V n] They hoped the… …

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  • 90mill about/around — (of people or animals) move around in a confused mass. → mill …

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