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  • 51Crown — Crow Crow (kr[=o]), v. i. [imp. {Crew} (kr[udd]) or {Crowed} (kr[=o]d); p. p. {Crowed} ({Crown} (kr[=o]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowing}.] [AS. cr[=a]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[aum]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. {Crake}.] 1.… …

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  • 52To crow over — Crow Crow (kr[=o]), v. i. [imp. {Crew} (kr[udd]) or {Crowed} (kr[=o]d); p. p. {Crowed} ({Crown} (kr[=o]n), Obs.); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crowing}.] [AS. cr[=a]wan; akin to D. kraijen, G. kr[aum]hen, cf. Lith. groti to croak. [root]24. Cf. {Crake}.] 1.… …

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  • 53Mädchen — Das macht dem Mädchen (der Liebe) kein Kind: eine Sache ist nicht so schlimm, sie kann keinen großen Schaden anrichten oder nach sich ziehen. Die Redensart spiegelt moralische Vorstellungen der Gesellschaft vergangener Jahrhunderte; denn es galt… …

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  • 54crow — crow1 [krəu US krou] n [Sense: 1,3; Origin: Old English crawe] [Sense: 2; Date: 1200 1300; Origin: CROW2] 1.) a large shiny black bird with a loud cry 2.) [singular] the loud sound a ↑cock makes …

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  • 55crow — I. /kroʊ / (say kroh) noun 1. either of two large, lustrous black Australian birds of the genus Corvus, having a characteristic harsh staccato call and shorter neck feathers than the raven: a. the Torresian crow, C. orru, found in Indonesia, New… …

  • 56bragging — I noun an instance of boastful talk his brag is worse than his fight whenever he won we were exposed to his gasconade • Syn: ↑brag, ↑crow, ↑crowing, ↑vaporing, ↑line shooting, ↑ …

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  • 57Roud Folk Song Index — The Roud Folk Song Index is a database of 300,000 references to over 21,600 songs that have been collected from oral tradition in the English language from all over the world. It is a combination of the Broadside Index (printed sources before… …

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  • 58Индекс народных песен Роуда — (англ. Roud Folk Song Index)  база данных из 300 000 ссылок на более чем 21 600 песен, которые были собраны в устной традиции на английском языке на всех континентах, где язык имеет распространение. Труд по систематизации был проделан… …

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  • 59Clan MacAulay — This article is about the Clan MacAulay. For the unrelated clan from the Isle of Lewis, see Macaulay of Lewis Clan MacAulay Crest badge …

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  • 60Hel (location) — Helheim redirects here. For the glacier in Greenland, see Helheim Glacier. For the band, see Helheim (band). Main article: Death in Norse paganism Odin Rides to Hel (1908) by W. G. Collingwood. In Norse mythology, Hel, the location, shares a name …

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