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41amateur — noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: French, from Latin amator lover, from amare to love Date: 1784 1. devotee, admirer 2. one who engages in a pursuit, study, science, or sport as a pastime rather than as a profession 3 …
42blunderbuss — noun Etymology: by folk etymology from obsolete Dutch donderbus, from Dutch donder thunder + obsolete Dutch bus gun Date: 1654 1. a muzzle loading firearm with a short barrel and flaring muzzle to facilitate loading 2. a blundering person …
43blunder — I. verb (blundered; blundering) Etymology: Middle English blundren, probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Old Norse blunda to shut one s eyes, doze, Norwegian dialect blundra Date: 14th century intransitive verb 1. to move unsteadily or… …
44fumble — I. verb (fumbled; fumbling) Etymology: probably of Scandinavian origin; akin to Swedish fumla to fumble Date: 1534 intransitive verb 1. a. to grope for or handle something clumsily or aimlessly b. to make awkward attempts to do or find something… …
45mess — I. noun Etymology: Middle English mes, from Anglo French, from Late Latin missus course at a meal, from missus, past participle of mittere to put, from Latin, to send more at smite Date: 14th century 1. a quantity of food: a. archaic food set on… …
46Battle of the Nile — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Battle of the Nile partof=the French Revolutionary Wars caption= The Destruction of L Orient at the Battle of the Nile by George Arnald date=August 1 2 1798 place=Aboukir Bay, Egypt result=Decisive British… …
47Ethelred the Unready — Infobox British Royalty|Monarch name=Ethelred the Unready title=King of England reign=18 March, 978 – 23 April 1016 predecessor=Edward the Martyr (978) Sweyn (1014) successor=Sweyn (1013) Edmund Ironside (1016) date of birth=966 68 place of birth …
48Marx Brothers — The Marx Brothers were an American family comedy act, originally from New York City, that enjoyed success in Vaudeville, Broadway, and motion pictures from the early 1900s to around 1950. Five of Marx Brothers’ thirteen feature films were… …
49Mary I of England — Mary I Queen Mary by Hans Eworth Queen of England and Ireland (more...) Reign …
50Foreign relations of Russia — This article covers the foreign relations of Russia since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.UN membership, NATO/EU partnershipOn December 27, 1991, the Russian Federation assumed the seat formerly held by the Soviet Union in the UN… …
