Dictionaries & Thesauruses
epub |eng | 1982-01-12 | Author:Monte Burch [Burch, Monte]

Fixed glass is easy to install in a rough opening; simply follow the sequence of steps outlined at left. There is no reason that every window in a barn should ...
( Category: Design & Construction July 25,2014 )
epub, mobi | | 2014-02-28 | Author:Maggie Scott

Slack − this is thought to be derived from Old Norse slakki, ‘a hollow between hills’, but some meanings of the word may show influence from Scots slock and its ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

6 Lust Than lichery, that lathly cors, Come berand lyk a bagit hors; And Idilnes did him leid; Thair wes with him ane vgly sort And mony stynkand fowll tramort ...
( Category: Slang & Idioms July 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-03-12 | Author:Chris Robinson & Eileen Finlayson [Robinson, Chris]

Flan − gust of wind, especially one blowing smoke down a chimney, back draught; squall. As the following quotations show, flans are not good for housewives, sailors or gardeners. A ...
( Category: Vocabulary July 23,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-02-28 | Author:Chris Robinson

3 Wee Beasts And lat no small beistis suffir skaith [harm] na skornis This quotation from William Dunbar, writing at the beginning of the sixteenth century, makes him sound like ...
( Category: Linguistics July 23,2014 )
azw |eng | 2007-10-24 | Author:Kirkpatrick, Betty [Kirkpatrick, Betty]

jenny-a’-things a small shop that sells a wide range of different things: I got the marble in the village jenny-a’-things when I was a bairn (=child). jessie an insulting term ...
( Category: Dictionaries July 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jacques Fomerand

J JAPAN. See “COMFORT WOMEN”; DENIAL; FEMALE INFANTICIDE; FORCED LABOR; INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL FOR THE FAR EAST; SEX TRAFFICKING; WORLD WAR I PEACE TREATIES. JAPANESE DETENTION CAMPS. See KOREMATSU, FRED ...
( Category: Reference July 19,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-09 | Author:Collins, Helen [Collins, Helen]

Chapter 10: The Upper West Side Apartment “Jodi!” Ronald stared, sleepy and amazed, looking at Jodi over the chain still connecting the apartment lock to the doorjamb. For once he ...
( Category: Decorative Arts & Design July 19,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-23 | Author:Robert E. Buswell Jr. & Donald S. Lopez Jr. [Buswell, Robert E. Jr. & Lopez, Donald S. Jr.]

nirmāṇarati. (P. nimmānarati; T. ’phrul dga’; C. huale tian; J. kerakuten; K. hwarak ch’ŏn 化樂天). In Sanskrit, “enjoying creations” or “enjoying emanations,” the fifth (in ascending order) of the six ...
( Category: Dictionaries July 17,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-07-21 | Author:Michael Douglas & John Parker [Douglas, Michael & Parker, John]

That Christmas of 1985, Douglas was appearing in movies running at 3000 cinemas across America. A Chorus Line opened around the same time as The Jewel of the Nile, to ...
( Category: Performing Arts July 1,2014 )
epub | | 2014-06-11 | Author:Marc Okrand

chlrgh • DaQ chIrgh temple (structure) (n) chIS be white (v) choH alter, change (v) choH change (n) chol close in, get closer, come nearer (v) choljaH ponytail holder (n) ...
( Category: Television June 29,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2011-04-08 | Author:Steven Pinker

342 | HOW THE MIND WORKS practice, the routes to automaticity, are called “mechanistic” and seen as detrimental to understanding. As one pedagogue lucidly explained, “A zone of potential construction ...
( Category: Cognitive Psychology June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:carr

respectable and solid class than the nouveaux riches of the midcentury. The career of Juan March, who became the richest man in modern Spain, represents the persistence of an earlier ...
( Category: History June 6,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-03-15 | Author:Simon Winchester [Winchester, Simon]

2. The Hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem, used as an asylum for the reception and cure of mentally deranged persons; originally situated in Bishopsgate, in 1676 rebuilt near London ...
( Category: English May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-06-30 | Author:Aristotle

P THE ATHLOTHETAE (Chapter 60) Having completed his survey of officials appointed annually by lot our author turns to officials of other kinds, in this chapter a board which was ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical May 16,2014 )