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41strandy — restive, passionate, spoken of children ; such they call STRANDY MIRES. N. The word RANDY is sometimes used in much the same sense in the South, and is particularly applied to a restive or frolicksome horse …
42restively — restive ► ADJECTIVE 1) unable to keep still or silent; restless. 2) (of a horse) stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways. DERIVATIVES restively adverb restiveness noun. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin restare remain …
43restiveness — restive ► ADJECTIVE 1) unable to keep still or silent; restless. 2) (of a horse) stubbornly standing still or moving backwards or sideways. DERIVATIVES restively adverb restiveness noun. ORIGIN Old French, from Latin restare remain …
44pollrumptious — restive, unruly. Kent …
45France — /frans, frahns/; Fr. /frddahonns/, n. 1. Anatole /ann nann tawl /, (Jacques Anatole Thibault), 1844 1924, French novelist and essayist: Nobel prize 1921. 2. a republic in W Europe. 58,470,421; 212,736 sq. mi. (550,985 sq. km). Cap.: Paris. 3.… …
46res´tive|ness — res|tive «REHS tihv», adjective. 1. restless; uneasy: »a restive audience. A restive, resurgent Germany, ten years after the abyss of total defeat... (Newsweek). 2. hard to manage: »a restive child. SYNONYM(S): intractable, refractory …
47res´tive|ly — res|tive «REHS tihv», adjective. 1. restless; uneasy: »a restive audience. A restive, resurgent Germany, ten years after the abyss of total defeat... (Newsweek). 2. hard to manage: »a restive child. SYNONYM(S): intractable, refractory …
48res|tive — «REHS tihv», adjective. 1. restless; uneasy: »a restive audience. A restive, resurgent Germany, ten years after the abyss of total defeat... (Newsweek). 2. hard to manage: »a restive child. SYNONYM(S): intractable, refractory …
49October 2009 in Pakistan — October 5, five people were killed when a suicide bomber dressed in military fatigues walked through the security cordon at the World Food Program offices of the United Nations in Islamabad.[1] October 9, in the busiest bazaar in Peshawar, the… …
50restless — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. nervous, restive, impatient; fidgety, skittish, jumpy, unquiet, disturbed. See agitation, changeableness, fear. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Not content when still] Syn. fidgety, skittish, feverish,… …
