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71phosgene — /fos jeen, foz /, n. Chem. a poisonous, colorless, very volatile liquid or suffocating gas, COCl2, a chemical warfare compound: used chiefly in organic synthesis. Also called carbon oxychloride, carbonyl chloride, chloroformyl chloride. [1805 15; …
72mozy — adjective a) Shaggy; hairy. The clown, who shaves but once a week, is of course very mozy when he comes under the barbers hands. b) Musty; starting to decay; tainted. Mozy, adj., ...also, as applied to meat, fruit, c., tainted, musty, beginning… …
73smell — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ overpowering, pervasive, pungent, rich, sharp, strong ▪ There was an overpowering smell of burning rubber. ▪ f …
74odour — n. smell 1) to emit, exude, give off, produce an odour 2) to perceive; recognize an odour 3) a faint, slight; fetid, foul, rank, unpleasant; heavy; musty; pleasant; pungent, strong odour 4) an odour emanates from repute (BE) 5) in bad; good odour …
75corny — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj., slang, sentimental, mushy, sticky; old fashioned, stale, musty, banal, sticky. See sensibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. stale, trite, sentimental, unsophisticated; see dull 4 , sentimental ,… …
76fresh — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. novel, recent; new, unfaded, unjaded, unhackneyed, unused; healthy, vigorous; rested, unfatigued; unsalted; cool, refreshing, brisk, keen; inexperienced; slang, insolent. See newness, cold, health,… …
77fusty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. musty, stuffy, stale; old fashioned. See oldness. II (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Smelling of mildew or decay: frowzy, moldy, musty, putrid, rancid, rank2, rotten. See SMELLS. 2. Of a style… …
78rank — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lush, luxuriant, vigorous; coarse; malodorous, fetid, rancid, offensive; arrant, extreme, gross. n. row, line; position, caste, quality; status, grade, standing, footing. See repute, badness, class …
79moist — [14] Latin mūcidus meant ‘mouldy’ and ‘snivelling’ (it was a derivative of mūcus, source of English mucus). In Vulgar Latin it became altered to *muscidus, which is thought to have branched out in meaning to ‘wet’, and passed in this sense into… …
80mucilage — (n.) late 14c., mussillage, viscous substance found in vegetable material, from O.Fr. mucilage (14c.), from L.L. mucilago musty or moldy juice (4c.), from L. mucere be musty or moldy, from mucus mucus (see MUCUS (Cf. mucus)). Meaning adhesive is… …
