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award
award [Anglo-French awarder agarder to look at, decide on, impose, alteration of Old French esguarder to look at, from es-, intensive prefix + guarder to guard] 1 : to give in accordance with a judicial or administrative determination or decision [ punitive damages] 2 : to grant as deserved [ed the contract to the lowest bidder] n 1 : a judgment or final decision: as a : arbitrator's award b : a formal decision regarding benefits in a workers' compensation claim 2 : something granted esp. on the basis of merit or entitlement: as a : a contract won by a successful bidder b : relief usually in the form of money (as damages or alimony) granted to a party in a legal proceeding ...
Bopeep
The act of looking out suddenly as from behind a screen so as to startle some one as by children in play or of looking out and drawing suddenly back as if frightened...
Browbeat
To depress or bear down with haughty stern looks or with arrogant speech and dogmatic assertions to abash or disconcert by impudent or abusive words or looks to bully as to browbeat witnesses...
Gaze
To fix the eyes in a steady and earnest look to look with eagerness or curiosity as in admiration astonishment or with studious attention...
VerbarRonde
A kind of script in which the heavy strokes are nearly upright giving the characters when taken together a round look...
Rubiginose
Having the appearance or color of iron rust rusty looking...
Smicker
To look amorously or wantonly to smirk...
Seem
To appear or to appear to be to have a show or semblance to present an appearance to look to strike ones apprehension or fancy as being to be taken as...
Selenium
A nonmetallic element of the sulphur group of atomic number 34 analogous to sulphur in its compounds It is found in small quantities with sulphur and some sulphur ores and obtained in the free state as a dark reddish powder or crystalline mass or as a dark metallic looking substance It exhibits under the action of light a remarkable variation in electric conductivity and is used in certain electric apparatus Symbol Se Atomic weight 7896...
Sheeps eye
A modest diffident look a loving glance commonly in the plural...
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