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hence
     1. adv. (archaic) from here, from this place, away
           I'm going hence, because you have insulted me.
           Get thee hence, Satan!
     2. adv. (archaic, figuratively) from the living or from this world
           After a long battle, my poor daughter was taken hence.
     3. adv. (archaic, of a length of time) in the future from now
           A year hence it will be forgotten.
     4. adv. (conjunctive) as a result; therefore, for this reason
           I shall go to Japan and hence will not be here in time for the party.
           The purse is handmade and hence very expensive.
     5. interj. (obsolete) Go away! Begone!
           "...Hence! and bestow your dead
           Where no wrong against him cries!".
to
     1. part. A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.
           I want to leave.
           He asked me what to do.
           I don’t know how to say it.
           I have places to go and people to see.
     2. part. As above, with the verb implied.
           "Did you visit the museum?" "I wanted to, but it was closed.".
           If he hasn't read it yet, he ought to.
     3. part. A particle used to create phrasal verbs.
           I have to do laundry today.
     4. prep. Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
           We are walking to the shop.
     5. prep. Used to indicate purpose.
           He devoted himself to education.
           They drank to his health.
     6. prep. Used to indicate result of action.
           His face was beaten to a pulp.
     7. prep. Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
           similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
     8. prep. (obsolete,) As a.
           With God to friend (with God as a friend);   with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe);   lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice);   t
     9. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
           one to one = 1:1
           ten to one = 10:1.
           I have ten dollars to your four.
     10. prep. (arithmetic) Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
           Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
           Three to the power of two is nine.
           Three to the second is nine.
     11. prep. Used to indicate the indirect object.
           I gave the book to him.
     12. prep. (time) Preceding.
           ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
     13. prep. Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
           Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
           There's a lot of sense to what he says.
     14. prep. (Canada, UK, Newfoundland, West Midlands) At.
           Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
     15. adv. Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
           Please push the door to.
     16. adv. (nautical) Into the wind.
     17. adv. misspelling of too
prepare
     1. v. To make ready for a specific future purpose; to set up; to assemble.
           We prepared the spacecraft for takeoff.
     2. v. To make ready for eating or drinking; to cook.
           We prepared a fish for dinner.
     3. v. (intransitive) To make oneself ready; to get ready, make preparation.
           We prepared for a bumpy ride.
     4. v. To produce or make by combining elements; to synthesize, compound.
           She prepared a meal from what was left in the cupboards.
     5. n. (obsolete) preparation
by
     1. prep. Near or next to.
           The mailbox is by the bus stop.
     2. prep. At some time before (the given time), or before the end of a given time interval.
           Be back by ten o'clock!  We will send it by the first week of July.
     3. prep. Indicates the actor in a clause with its verb in the passive voice: Through the action or presence of.
           The matter was decided by the chairman.  The boat was swamped by the water.  He was protected by his body armour.
     4. prep. Indicates the creator of a work: Existing through the authorship etc. of.
           There are many well-known plays by William Shakespeare
     5. prep. Indicates the cause of a condition or event: Through the action of, caused by, responsibility for; by dint of.
     6. prep. Indicates a means: Involving/using the means of.
           I avoided the guards by moving only when they weren't looking.
     7. prep. Indicates a source of light used as illumination.
           The electricity was cut off, so we had to read by candlelight.
     8. prep. Indicates an authority, rule, or permission followed.
           I sorted the items by category.  By the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and wife.
     9. prep. Indicates the amount of some progression: With a change of.
           Our stock is up by ten percent.
     10. prep. In the formulae X by X and by Xs, indicates a steady progression, one X after another.
           We went through the book page by page.  We crawled forward by inches.
     11. prep. Indicates a referenced source: According to.
           He cheated by his own admission.
     12. prep. Indicates an oath: With the authority of.
           By Jove! I think she's got it!  By all that is holy, I'll put an end to this.
     13. prep. Used to separate dimensions when describing the size of something.
           It is easy to invert a 2-by-2 matrix.  The room was about 4 foot by 6 foot.  The bricks used to build the wall measured 10 by 20 by 30 cm.
     14. prep. (horse breeding) Designates a horse's male parent (sire); cf. out of.
           She's a lovely little filly, by Big Lad, out of Damsel in Distress.
     15. adv. Along a path which runs by the speaker.
           I watched as it passed by.
     16. adv. In the vicinity, near.
           There was a shepherd close by.
           The shop is hard by the High Street.
     17. adv. To or at a place, as a residence or place of business.
           I'll stop by on my way home from work.
           We're right near the lifeguard station. Come by before you leave.
     18. adv. Aside, away.
           The women spent much time after harvest putting jams by for winter and spring.
     19. adj. Out of the way, subsidiary.
     20. n. (card games) A pass
     21. interj. alternative spelling of bye
drying
     1. v. present participle of dry
     2. n. The act of drying.
     3. n. A method of food preservation by removing water.
     dry
          1. adj. Free from or lacking moisture.
                This towel's dry. Could you wet it and cover the chicken so it doesn't go dry as it cooks?
          2. adj. Unable to produce a liquid, as water, (Petrochemistry) oil, or (farming) milk.
                This well is as dry as that cow.
          3. adj. (masonry) Built without or lacking mortar.
          4. adj. (chemistry) Anhydrous: free from or lacking water in any state, regardless of the presence of other liquids.
                Dry alcohol is 200 proof.
          5. adj. Free from or lacking alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
                Of course it's a dry house. He was an alcoholic but he's been dry for almost a year now.
          6. adj. (law) Describing an area where sales of alcoholic or strong alcoholic beverages are banned.
                You'll have to drive out of this dry county to find any liquor.
          7. adj. Free from or lacking embellishment or sweetness, particularly:
          8. adj.          (wine & other alcoholic beverages) Low in sugar; lacking sugar; unsweetened.
                        Proper martinis are made with London dry gin and dry vermouth.
          9. adj.          (humor) Amusing without showing amusement.
                        Steven Wright has a deadpan delivery, Norm Macdonald has a dry sense of humor, and Oscar Wilde had a dry wit.
          10. adj.          Lacking interest, boring.
                        A dry lecture may require the professor to bring a watergun in order to keep the students' attention.
          11. adj.          (fine arts) Exhibiting precise execution lacking delicate contours or soft transitions of color.
          12. adj. (science, somewhat pejorative) Involving computations rather than work with biological or chemical matter.
          13. adj. (of a sound recording) Free from applied audio effects.
          14. adj. Without a usual complement or consummation; impotently. (attn, en, improve this)
                never dry fire a bow; dry humping her girlfriend; making a dry run
          15. n. (US) A prohibitionist (of alcoholic beverages).
          16. n. (especially, Australia, with "the") The dry season.
          17. n. (Australia) An area of waterless country.
          18. n. (UK, politics) A radical or hard-line Conservative; especially, one who supported the policies of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, contrasted with wet.
          19. v. (intransitive) To lose moisture.
                The clothes dried on the line.
          20. v. To remove moisture from.
                Devin dried her eyes with a handkerchief.
          21. v. (obsolete, intransitive) To be thirsty.
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
hardening
     1. v. present participle of harden
     2. n. The process by which something hardens.
     3. n. That which hardens, such as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
     harden
          1. v. (intransitive) To become hard (tough, resistant to pressure).
          2. v. (transitive, ergative) To make something hard or harder (tough, resistant to pressure).
          3. v. (transitive, figurative) To strengthen.
          4. v. (transitive, computing) To modify (a website or other system) to make it resistant to malicious attacks.
          5. v. (ambitransitive, dated) To become or make (a person or thing) resistant or less sensitive.
          6. v. (ambitransitive, phonology) To become or make (a consonant) more fortis.
          7. n. alt form, hurden, , coarse linen
or
     1. conj. Connects at least two alternative words, phrases, clauses, sentences, etc. each of which could make a passage true. In English, this is the "inclusive or." The "exclusive or" is formed by "either(...)
           In Ohio, anyone under the age of 18 who wants a tattoo or body piercing needs the consent of a parent or guardian.
           He might get cancer, or be hit by a bus, or God knows what.
     2. conj. (logic) An operator denoting the disjunction of two propositions or truth values. There are two forms, the inclusive or and the exclusive or.
     3. conj. Counts the elements before and after as two possibilities.
     4. conj. Otherwise (a consequence of the condition that the previous is false).
           It's raining! Come inside or you'll catch a cold!
     5. conj. Connects two equivalent names.
           The country Myanmar, or Burma
     6. n. (logic, electronics) alternative form of OR
     7. n. (tincture) The gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     8. adj. (tincture) Of gold or yellow tincture on a coat of arms.
     9. adv. (obsolete) Early (on).
     10. adv. (obsolete) Earlier, previously.
     11. prep. (now archaic, or dialect) Before; ere.
removal
     1. n. The process of moving, or the fact of being removed.
     2. n. The relocation of a business etc.
     3. n. The dismissal of someone from office.
     4. n. (Ireland) An evening funeral ritual in which the coffin holding the deceased is brought, usually from a funeral home, to the church where the funeral mass will be celebrated the following day. Prayers
     5. n. (slang) Murder.
of
     1. prep. Expressing distance or motion.
     2. prep.          (now obsolete, or dialectal) From (of distance, direction), "off".
     3. prep.          (obsolete except in phrases) Since, from (a given time, earlier state etc.).
     4. prep.          From, away from (a position, number, distance etc.).
                    There are no shops within twenty miles of the cottage.
     5. prep.          (North America, Scotland, Ireland) Before (the hour); to.
                    What's the time? / Nearly a quarter of three.
     6. prep. Expressing separation.
     7. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with the action indicated by a transitive verb and the quality or substance by a grammatical object.)
                    Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
     8. prep.          (Indicating removal, absence or separation, with resulting state indicated by an adjective.)
                    He seemed devoid of human feelings.
     9. prep.          (obsolete) (Indicating removal, absence or separation, construed with an intransitive verb.)
     10. prep. Expressing origin.
     11. prep.          (Indicating an ancestral source or origin of descent.)
                    The word is believed to be of Japanese origin.
     12. prep.          (Indicating a (non-physical) source of action or emotion; introducing a cause, instigation); from, out of, as an expression of.
                    The invention was born of necessity.
     13. prep.          (following an intransitive verb) (Indicates the source or cause of the verb.)
                    It is said that she died of a broken heart.
     14. prep.          (following an adjective) (Indicates the subject or cause of the adjective.)
                    I am tired of all this nonsense.
     15. prep. Expressing agency.
     16. prep.          (following a passive verb) (Indicates the agent (for most verbs, now usually expressed with by).)
                    I am not particularly enamoured of this idea.
     17. prep.          (Used to introduce the "subjective genitive"; following a noun to form the head of a postmodifying noun phrase) (see also 'Possession' senses below).
                    The contract can be terminated at any time with the agreement of both parties.
     18. prep.          (following an adjective) (Used to indicate the agent of something described by the adjective.)
                    It was very brave of you to speak out like that.
     19. prep. Expressing composition, substance.
     20. prep.          (after a verb expressing construction, making etc.) (Used to indicate the material or substance used.)
                    Many 'corks' are now actually made of plastic.
     21. prep.          (directly following a noun) (Used to indicate the material of the just-mentioned object.)
                    She wore a dress of silk.
     22. prep.          (Indicating the composition of a given collective or quantitative noun.)
                    What a lot of nonsense!
     23. prep.          (Used to link a given class of things with a specific example of that class.)
                   Welcome to the historic town of Harwich.
     24. prep.          (Links two nouns in near-apposition, with the first qualifying the second); "which is also".
                    I'm not driving this wreck of a car.
     25. prep. Introducing subject matter.
     26. prep.          (Links an intransitive verb, or a transitive verb and its subject (especially verbs to do with thinking, feeling, expressing etc.), with its subject-ma
                    I'm always thinking of you.
     27. prep.          (following a noun (now chiefly nouns of knowledge, communication etc.)) (Introduces its subject matter); about, concerning.
                    He told us the story of his journey to India.
     28. prep.          (following an adjective) (Introduces its subject matter.)
                    This behaviour is typical of teenagers.
     29. prep. Having partitive effect.
     30. prep.          (following a number or other quantitive word) (Introduces the whole for which is indicated only the specified part or segment); "from among".
                    Most of these apples are rotten.
     31. prep.          (following a noun) (Indicates a given part.)
     32. prep.          (now archaic, literary, with preceding partitive word assumed, or as a predicate after to be) Some, an amount of, one of.
                    On the whole, they seem to be of the decent sort.
     33. prep.          (Links to a genitive noun or possessive pronoun, with partitive effect (though now often merged with possessive senses, below).)
                    He is a friend of mine.
     34. prep. Expressing possession.
     35. prep.          Belonging to, existing in, or taking place in a given location, place or time. Compare "origin" senses, above.
                    He was perhaps the most famous scientist of the twentieth century.
     36. prep.          Belonging to (a place) through having title, ownership or control over it.
                    The owner of the nightclub was arrested.
     37. prep.          Belonging to (someone or something) as something they possess or have as a characteristic; (the "possessive genitive". (With abstract nouns, this inter
                    Keep the handle of the saucepan away from the flames.
     38. prep. Forming the "objective genitive".
     39. prep.          (Follows an agent noun, verbal noun or noun of action.)
                    She had a profound distrust of the police.
     40. prep. Expressing qualities or characteristics.
     41. prep.          (now archaic, or literary) (Links an adjective with a noun or noun phrase to form a quasi-adverbial qualifier); in respect to, as regards.
                    My companion seemed affable and easy of manner.
     42. prep.          (Indicates a quality or characteristic); "characterized by".
                    Pooh was said to be a bear of very little brain.
     43. prep.          (Indicates quantity, age, price, etc.)
                    We have been paying interest at a rate of 10%.
     44. prep.          (US, informal considered incorrect by some) (Used to link singular indefinite nouns (preceded by the indefinite article) and attributive adjectives mod
                    It's not that big of a deal.
     45. prep. Expressing a point in time.
     46. prep.          (chiefly regional) During the course of (a set period of time, day of the week etc.), now specifically with implied repetition or regularity.
                    Of an evening, we would often go for a stroll along the river.
     47. prep.          (UK dialectal, chiefly in negative constructions) For (a given length of time).
                    I've not tekken her out of a goodly long while.
     48. prep.          (after a noun) (Indicates duration of a state, activity etc.)
                    After a delay of three hours, the plane finally took off.
natural
     1. adj. That exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem.
           The species will be under threat if its natural habitat is destroyed.
     2. adj. Of or relating to nature.
           In the natural world the fit tend to live on while the weak perish.
     3. adj. Without artificial additives.
           Natural food is healthier than processed food.
     4. adj. As expected; reasonable.
           It's natural for business to be slow on Tuesdays.
           His prison sentence was the natural consequence of a life of crime.
     5. adj. (music) Neither sharp nor flat. Denoted ♮.
           There's a wrong note here: it should be C natural instead of C sharp.
     6. adj. (music) Produced by natural organs, such as those of the human throat, in distinction from instrumental music.
     7. adj. (music) Applied to an air or modulation of harmony which moves by easy and smooth transitions, digressing but little from the original key.
     8. adj. (math) Having 1 as the base of the system, of a function or number.
     9. adj. Without, or prior to, modification or adjustment.
           the natural motion of a gravitating body
           The chairs were all natural oak but the table had a lurid finish.
           So-called second-generation silicone breast implants looked and felt more like the natural breast.
     10. adj.          (dice) The result of a dice roll before bonuses or penalties are added to or subtracted from the result.
     11. adj. Having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position; not unnatural in feelings.
     12. adj. (obsolete) Connected by the ties of consanguinity.
     13. adj. (obsolete) Born out of wedlock; illegitimate; bastard.
           a natural child
     14. adj. (of sexual intercourse) Without a condom.
           We made natural love.
     15. n. (now rare) A native inhabitant of a place, country etc.
     16. n. (music) A note that is not or is no longer to be modified by an accidental, or the symbol ♮ used to indicate such a note.
     17. n. One with an innate talent at or for something.
           He's a natural on the saxophone.
     18. n. An almost white colour, with tints of grey, yellow or brown; originally that of natural fabric.
           (color panel, FAD6A5)
     19. n. (archaic) One with a simple mind; a fool or idiot.
     20. n. (colloquial, chiefly UK) One's natural life.
     21. n. (US, colloquial) A hairstyle for people with afro-textured hair in which the hair is not straightened or otherwise treated.
     22. n. (algebra) Closed under submodules, direct sums, and injective hulls.
juices
     1. n. plural of juice
     2. v. third-person singular present indicative of juice
     juice
          1. n. A liquid from a plant, especially fruit.
                Squeeze the orange and some juice will come out.
          2. n. A beverage made of juice.
                I’d like two orange juices please.
          3. n. Any liquid resembling juice.
          4. n. (Scotland) A soft drink.
          5. n. (slang) Electricity.
          6. n. (slang) Liquor.
          7. n. (slang) Political power.
          8. n. (slang) Petrol; gasoline.
          9. n. (slang) Vitality.
          10. n. (slang) The amount charged by a bookmaker for betting services.
          11. n. (slang) Steroids.
          12. n. (slang) Semen.
          13. n. (slang) The vaginal lubrication that a woman naturally produces when sexually aroused.
          14. n. (slang) Musical agreement between instrumentalists.
          15. v. To extract the juice from something.
          16. v. To energize or stimulate something.
          17. adj. alternative spelling of Jew's (used in certain set phrases like juice harp)
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