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  • 1hibernate — v. n. 1. Winter, pass the winter. 2. Lie torpid in winter …

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  • 2hibernate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. winter; become dormant, hole up (inf.). See inactivity. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. sleep through the winter, winter, vegetate, seclude oneself, immure oneself, keep out of society, lie dormant, lie… …

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  • 3hibernate — verb 1) bears hibernate in winter Syn: lie dormant, lie torpid, sleep; overwinter 2) he wanted to hibernate in front of a fire for the night Syn: hole up, escape, withdraw, retreat, cocoon …

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  • 4hibernate — [v] lie dormant; sleep through cold weather hide, hole up, immure, lie torpid, sleep, vegetate, winter; concept 315 …

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  • 5France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …

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  • 6The Idler (1758–1760) — This article is about the 18th century series of essays. For other publications called The Idler, see The Idler (disambiguation). The Idler was a series of 103 essays, all but twelve of them by Samuel Johnson, published in the London weekly the… …

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  • 7bird — birdless, adj. /berrd/, n. 1. any warm blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard shelled egg. 2. a fowl or game bird. 3 …

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  • 8Bird — /berrd/, n. Larry, born 1956, U.S. basketball player. * * * I Any of the warm blooded, beaked vertebrates of the class Aves, including more than 9,600 living species. A covering of feathers distinguishes birds from all other animals. Birds have a …

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  • 9Hungary — /hung geuh ree/, n. a republic in central Europe. 9,935,774; 35,926 sq. mi. (93,050 sq. km). Cap.: Budapest. Hungarian, Magyarország. * * * Hungary Introduction Hungary Background: Hungary was part of the polyglot Austro Hungarian Empire, which… …

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  • 10apodiform — ▪ bird Introduction   any member of one of two groups of birds (bird), the swifts (swift) and the hummingbirds (hummingbird), that are very different from one another in general appearance and way of life. The two groups, considered suborders,… …

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