- Definition: 1. prepare (a metal) for soldering or brazing by applying a thin layer of solder to the surface
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- Definition: 1. (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitch
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- Definition: 1. people who are sick; "they devote their lives to caring for the sick"
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- Definition: 1. (of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"
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- Definition: 1. exhibiting courtesy and politeness; "a nice gesture"
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- Definition: 1. too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
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- Definition: 1. showily imitative of art or artists
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- Definition: 1. having edges that are jagged from injury
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- Definition: 1. characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms"
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- Definition: 1. unproductive of success; "a fruitless search"; "futile years after her artistic peak"; "a sleeveless errand"; "a vain attempt"
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- Definition: 1. affectedly dainty or refined
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- Definition: 1. something that is considered amusing not because of its originality but because of its unoriginality; "the living room was pure camp"
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- Definition: 1. put in a dangerous, disadvantageous, or difficult position
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- Definition: 1. having some resemblance; "a quasi success"; "a quasi contract"
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- Definition: 1. having characteristics of the stage especially an artificial and mannered quality; "stagy heroics"
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- Definition: 1. disturb the composure of
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- Definition: 1. live one's life in a specified environment; "she moves in certain circles only"
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- Definition: 1. providing sophisticated amusement by virtue of having artificially (and vulgarly) mannered or banal or sentimental qualities; "they played up the silliness of their roles for camp effect"; "campy Hollywood musicals of the 1940's"
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- Definition: 1. superficially attractive and stylish; suggesting wealth or expense; "a glossy TV series"
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- Definition: 1. same as arty.
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- Definition: 1. used especially of timbers or boards; bent out of shape usually by moisture; "the floors were warped and cracked"
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- Definition: 1. Not genuine
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- Definition: 1. interweave with tinsel; "tinseled velvet"
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- Definition: 1. smile affectedly or derisively
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- Definition: 1. (often used in combination) not genuine but having the appearance of; "a pseudo esthete"; "pseudoclassic"
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- Definition: 1. reclaimed wool fiber
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- Definition: 1. happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana)
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- Definition: 1. marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"
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- Definition: 1. elegance by virtue of being fashionable
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- Definition: 1. have an effect upon;
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- Definition: 1. be a student of a certain subject; "She is reading for the bar exam"
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- Definition: 1. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck"
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- Definition: 1.
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- Definition: 1. form into twists; "Twist the strips of dough"
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- Definition: 1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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- Definition: 1. eager to investigate and learn or learn more (sometimes about others' concerns); "a curious child is a teacher's delight"; "a trap door that made me curious"; "curious investigators"; "traffic was slowed by curious rubberneckers"; "curious about the neighbor's doings"
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- Definition: 1. a soldier in the regular army
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- Definition: 1. (used in combination) affected by something overwhelming; "conscience-smitten"; "awe-struck"
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- Definition: 1. have an effect upon;
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- Definition: 1. intended to deceive; "a spurious work of art"
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- Definition: 1. befitting or characteristic of those who incline to social exclusiveness and who rebuff the advances of people considered inferior
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- Definition: 1. endowed with feeling and unstructured consciousness; "the living knew themselves just sentient puppets on God's stage"- T.E.Lawrence
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- Definition: 1. full and loud and deep; "heavy sounds"; "a herald chosen for his sonorous voice"
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- Definition: 1. obviously contrived to charm; "an insufferably precious performance"; "a child with intolerably cute mannerisms"
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- Definition: 1. subject to torture; "The sinners will be tormented in Hell, according to the Bible"
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- Definition: 1. Theatrical.
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- Definition: 1. unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech;
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- Definition: 1. affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner
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- Definition: 1. not straightforward; "his tortuous reasoning"
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- Definition: 1. doubtful or suspect; "these so-called experts are no help"
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- Definition: 1. speaking or behaving in an artificial way to make an impression
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- Definition: 1. dye (fabric) before it is spun
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- Definition: 1. state insincerely; "He professed innocence but later admitted his guilt"; "She pretended not to have known the suicide bomber"; "She pretends to be an expert on wine"
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- Definition: 1.
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- Definition: 1. make pure or free from sin or guilt; "he left the monastery purified"
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- Definition: 1. a performance of a play
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- Definition: 1. given to rhetoric, emphasizing style at the expense of thought; "mere rhetorical frippery"
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- Definition: 1. intended to attract notice and impress others; "an ostentatious sable coat"
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- Definition: 1. commanding attention; "an arresting drawing of people turning into animals"; "a sensational concert--one never to be forgotten"; "a stunning performance"
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- Definition: 1. concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
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- Definition: 1. excessively or hypocritically pious; "a sickening sanctimonious smile"
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- Definition: 1. excessively and uncomfortably conscious of your appearance or behavior; "self-conscious teenagers"; "wondered if she could ever be untidy without feeling self-conscious about it"
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