Name Dropping - Law Dictionary Search Results

name dropping

The practice of casually mentioning important people in order to impress ones listener

called the Indus). The Persians pronounced this word Hindu and named their Aryan brethren Hindus. The Greeks, who probably gained their … probably gained their first ideas of India from the Persians, dropped the hard aspirate, and called the Hindus 'Indoi'. ('Hindulsm' by

namedrop

admire so as to impress them same as to drop names … interlocutors admire so as to impress them same as to drop names

Omit

To let go to leave unmentioned not to insert or name to drop … go to leave unmentioned not to insert or name to drop

Honeydew

drops like dew Two substances have been called by this name one exuded from the plants and the other secreted by … on the leaves of trees and other plants in small drops like dew Two substances have been called by this name

VerbarMonotropa

saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem

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