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  • 91zilch — [n] nothing blank, diddly squat*, goose egg*, hill of beans*, insignificancy, nada*, naught, not anything, nothingness, nought, void, zero, zip, zippo*; concepts 407,707 …

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  • 92rivers —    There are a few traces in 19th century local traditions of a belief that certain rivers are malevolent, and will periodically take a human life. The best known is the Dart (Devon), about which there is a rhyme:    River of Dart, River of Dart …

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  • 93dreadnaught — noun battleship that has big guns all of the same caliber • Syn: ↑dreadnought • Hypernyms: ↑battleship, ↑battlewagon * * * noun see dreadnought I * * * dreadˈnought or dreadˈnaught …

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  • 94fearnought — noun also fearnaught ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷ ( s) Etymology: fear (II) + nought, naught 1. : a thick heavy overcoating that is made of wool often mixed with shoddy and that has a rough shaggy face; also …

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  • 95nocht — ˈnäḵt chiefly Scotland variant of naught * * * nocht Sc. variant of nought …

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  • 96noughty — ˈnȯd.ē, i adjective Etymology: Middle English, from nought naught + y chiefly Scotland : worthless …

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  • 97nout — ˈnȯt, ˈnōt dialect England variant of naught * * * nout obs. form of nought, nowt …

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  • 98ci´pher|a|ble — ci|pher «SY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. secret writing or code. A cipher transposes the letters of a message according to a set pattern, or replaces the proper letters with substitutes called for in the system used, or combines both methods. »Part… …

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  • 99ci|pher — «SY fuhr», noun, verb. –n. 1. secret writing or code. A cipher transposes the letters of a message according to a set pattern, or replaces the proper letters with substitutes called for in the system used, or combines both methods. »Part of the… …

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