Definition: (noun) A medical doctor specializing in the treatment of diseases of the eye.
Synonyms: oculist, eye doctor.
Usage: The ophthalmologist asked the patient to read letters off of a chart posted across the room.
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Definition: (noun) A natural outer covering; an integument.
Synonyms: skin, cutis.
Usage: When it became apparent that the burn victim would need a skin graft, the doctors decided to use tegument from his thigh.
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Definition: (noun) Any of various mollusks of the class Gastropoda, such as the snail, slug, cowrie, or limpet, characteristically having a single, usually coiled shell or no shell at all, a ventral muscular foot for locomotion, and eyes and feelers located on a distinct head.
Synonyms: univalve.
Usage: The sound of a shell crushing beneath his foot told him that he had just caused a gastropod's demise.
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Definition: (noun) A person of unquestioning obedience.
Synonyms: stooge, yes-man.
Usage: I liked the play, but I felt that the character of Joe was too much of a flunky, always trying to please Roger and never standing up for himself.
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Definition: (noun) A juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity.
Synonyms: adolescent, teenager.
Usage: He appeared on a jutting headland by the shore of the fruitless sea, seeming like a stripling in the first flush of manhood.
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Definition: (noun) A thief who preys on pedestrians.
Synonyms: padder.
Usage: The footpad was known to local police, as he had a habit of preying on tourists in the center of town.
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Definition: (noun) A medicinal liquid that is rubbed into the skin to relieve muscular stiffness and pain.
Synonyms: liniment.
Usage: The dressings on my wound and the embrocation on my sprained wrist steadily subdue the pains which I have felt so far.
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Definition: (noun) A flat disk of metal ready for stamping as a coin; a coin blank.
Synonyms: coin blank.
Usage: Occasionally, a planchet will escape the mint without having been stamped into a coin.
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Definition: (noun) A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
Synonyms: thicket, brush, copse, brushwood.
Usage: They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
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Definition: (noun) A complex carbohydrate found chiefly in seeds, fruits, tubers, roots and stem pith of plants, notably in corn, potatoes, wheat, and rice.
Synonyms: starch.
Usage: She was on a strict diet and avoided foods with high levels of amylum, sugar, and saturated fat.
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