- Definition: 1. United States lawyer and poet who wrote a poem after witnessing the British attack on Baltimore during the War of 1812; the poem was later set to music and entitled `The Star-Spangled Banner' (1779-1843)
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- Definition: 1. drive obliquely; "toe a nail"
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- Definition: 1. a conventional religious painting in oil on a small wooden panel; venerated in the Eastern Church
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- Definition: 1. very imposing or impressive; surpassing the ordinary (especially in size or scale); "an epic voyage"; "of heroic proportions"; "heroic sculpture"
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- Definition: 1. a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or a family; originally (12th to 14th centuries) a story of the families that settled Iceland and their descendants but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account
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- Definition: 1. a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
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- Definition: 1. a trivial lie; "he told a fib about eating his spinach"; "how can I stop my child from telling stories?"
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- Definition: 1. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"
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- Definition: 1. a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events
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- Definition: 1. an informal right to something;
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- Definition: 1. take by attacking with scaling ladders; "The troops scaled the walls of the fort"
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- Definition: 1. located in or characteristic of a city or city life; "urban property owners"; "urban affairs"; "urban manners"
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- Definition: 1. of major significance or importance; "a great work of art"; "Einstein was one of the outstanding figures of the 20th centurey"
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- Definition: 1. a very large person; impressive in size or qualities
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- Definition: 1. the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism
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- Definition: 1. a tasty mixture to be spread on bread or crackers or used in preparing other dishes
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- Definition: 1. directions for the conduct of Christian church services (often printed in red in a prayer book)
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- Definition: 1. a summary of your academic and work history
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- Definition: 1. be or provide a memorial to a person or an event; "This sculpture commemorates the victims of the concentration camps"; "We memorialized the Dead"
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- Definition: 1. brief description accompanying an illustration
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- Definition: 1. a shockingly bad person
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- Definition: 1. a heading of a subdivision of a text
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- Definition: 1. a vertical section of the Earth's crust showing the different horizons or layers
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- Definition: 1. have a love affair with
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- Definition: 1. lying toward or situated in the west; "our company's western office"
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- Definition: 1. a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact
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- Definition: 1. a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie
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- Definition: 1. supply (a movie) with subtitles
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- Definition: 1. a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
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- Definition: 1. a sensational newspaper headline
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- Definition: 1. a tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk
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- Definition: 1. long strip of cloth or paper used for decoration or advertising
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- Definition: 1. Arts and customs
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- Definition: 1. a line drawn underneath (especially under written matter)
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- Definition: 1. too improbable to admit of belief; "a tall story"
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- Definition: 1. adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious matters)
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