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  • 121hdg — Arabic root, to shuffle along, totter. howdah, from Arabic hawdaj, litter, sedan chair, from hadaja, to shuffle along, totter. * * * …

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  • 122dodder — dodder1 dodderer, n. /dod euhr/, v.i. to shake; tremble; totter. [1610 20; cf. DITHER, TOTTER, TEETER, etc.] dodder2 /dod euhr/, n. a leafless parasitic plant, Cuscuta gronovii, having dense clusters of small, white, bell shaped flowers on orange …

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  • 123shake — shakable, shakeable, adj. /shayk/, v., shook, shaken, shaking, n. v.i. 1. to move or sway with short, quick, irregular vibratory movements. 2. to tremble with emotion, cold, etc. 3. to become dislodged and fall (usually fol. by off …

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  • 124teetertotter — /tee teuhr tot euhr/, Chiefly Northern, North Midland, and Western U.S. n. 1. a seesaw. v.i. 2. to ride a seesaw. Also, teeter totter. [gradational formation based on TOTTER] Regional Variation. 1. See seesaw. * * * …

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  • 125Germany — • History divided by time periods, beginning with before 1556 Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Germany     Germany     † …

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  • 126Parallelism — • The balance of verse with verse, an essential and characteristic feature in Hebrew poetry. Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Parallelism     Parallelism      …

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  • 127stagger — 1. noun a) An unsteady movement of the body in walking or standing, as if one were about to fall; a reeling motion; vertigo; often in the plural; as, the stagger of a drunken man. b) A disease of horses and other animals, attended by reeling,… …

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  • 128seesaw — 1. noun a) A structure composed of a plank, balanced in the middle, used as a game in which one person goes up as the other goes down; a teeter totter b) a series of up and down movements. Syn: teeter totter 2. verb …

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