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  • 61Drew Busby — Personal information Date of birth 8 December 1947 (1947 12 08) (age 63) Place of birth …

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  • 62surfeit — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. excess, glut, superfluity, superabundance, plethora; satiety, repletion, engorgement. See sufficiency. Ant., lack, dearth. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. surplus, superfluity, profusion; see excess 1 ,… …

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  • 63Satiety — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Satiety >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 satiety satiety satisfaction saturation repletion glut surfeit Sgm: N 1 cloyment cloyment satiation Sgm: N 1 weariness weariness &c. 841 …

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  • 64clavier — [18] The Latin word for ‘key’ was clāvis (it was related to claudere ‘close’). Its application to the keys of a musical instrument has contributed two words to English: clavier, which came via French or German from an unrecorded Latin *clāviārius …

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  • 65close — [13] Close originally entered English as a verb. It came from clos , the past participial stem of Old French clore ‘shut’, which was a descendant of Latin claudere (related to Latin clāvis ‘key’, from which English gets clavier, clavichord,… …

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  • 66clove — There are two distinct words clove in English. In clove of garlic [OE] the underlying notion is of ‘cutting’; the head of garlic is as it were ‘divided up’ into separate sections. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *gleubh… …

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  • 67ing — aborn·ing; aw·ing; bear·ing; be·ing; bell·ing; berth·ing; bind·ing; boul·der·ing; brok·ing; brown·ing; cheese·par·ing; cleans·ing; clos·ing; con·cern·ing; con·sid·er·ing; cop·ing; cov·er·ing; crack·ing; crown·ing; duck·ing; dur·ing; en·dur·ing;… …

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  • 68clavier — [18] The Latin word for ‘key’ was clāvis (it was related to claudere ‘close’). Its application to the keys of a musical instrument has contributed two words to English: clavier, which came via French or German from an unrecorded Latin *clāviārius …

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  • 69close — [13] Close originally entered English as a verb. It came from clos , the past participial stem of Old French clore ‘shut’, which was a descendant of Latin claudere (related to Latin clāvis ‘key’, from which English gets clavier, clavichord,… …

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  • 70clove — There are two distinct words clove in English. In clove of garlic [OE] the underlying notion is of ‘cutting’; the head of garlic is as it were ‘divided up’ into separate sections. The word goes back ultimately to the Indo European base *gleubh… …

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