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111performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
112tree — treelike, adj. /tree/, n., v., treed, treeing. n. 1. a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground. 2. any of various shrubs,… …
113Tree — /tree/, n. Sir Herbert Beerbohm /bear bohm/, (Herbert Beerbohm), 1853 1917, English actor and theater manager; brother of Max Beerbohm. * * * I Woody perennial plant. Most trees have a single self supporting trunk containing woody tissues, and in …
114Mathematics and Physical Sciences — ▪ 2003 Introduction Mathematics Mathematics in 2002 was marked by two discoveries in number theory. The first may have practical implications; the second satisfied a 150 year old curiosity. Computer scientist Manindra Agrawal of the… …
115ghostly — adjective a ghostly vision at the end of the hallway Syn: spectral, ghostlike, phantom, wraithlike, phantasmal, phantasmic; unearthly, unnatural, supernatural; insubstantial, shadowy; eerie, weird, uncanny; frightening, spine chilling, hair… …
116hair-raising — adjective the hair raising stories we would tell around the campfire Syn: terrifying, frightening, petrifying, alarming, chilling, horrifying, shocking, spine chilling, blood curdling, bone chilling, white knuckle, fearsome, nightmarish; eerie,… …
117scary — adjective, informal that movie is too scary for me Syn: frightening, alarming, terrifying, petrifying, hair raising, spine chilling, blood curdling, bone chilling, chilling, horrifying, nerve racking, fearsome, unnerving; eerie, sinister;… …
118chill´ing|ly — chill|ing «CHIHL ihng», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. very cold; frigid: »chilling temperatures, Figurative. a chilling reception. 2. Figurative. making the blood run cold; frightening; terrifying: »Mary [Shelley] wrote a chilling tale about a Swiss… …
119chill|ing — «CHIHL ihng», adjective, noun. –adj. 1. very cold; frigid: »chilling temperatures, Figurative. a chilling reception. 2. Figurative. making the blood run cold; frightening; terrifying: »Mary [Shelley] wrote a chilling tale about a Swiss scientist… …
120Infrigidation — In*frig i*da tion, n. [L. infrigidatio.] The act of chilling or causing to become cold; a chilling; coldness; congelation. [Obs.] Boyle. [1913 Webster] …
