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covenstead n

(Wicca) A permanent circle or temple used to meet for rituals and to store religious items, often a mundane location. (Wicca) A Wiccan congregation

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pink slime n

(paper manufacture) An undesirable pink-colored microbial mass occurring in the slurry used in making paper. (informal) A meat byproduct produced from otherwise unusable material such as skin and connective tissue, spinal bones, and digestive tissue by heating and then mixing with ammonia in a centrifuge to produce a food additive

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eschatology n

(countable) System of doctrines concerning final matters, such as death. (uncountable) The study of the end times — the end of the world, notably in Christian theology the second coming of Christ, the Apocalypse or the Last Judgment

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debauch v

(transitive) To morally corrupt (someone); to seduce. (transitive) To debase (something); to lower the value of (something)

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inside baseball n

(US, sports) Technical matters concerning baseball not apparent to spectators. (US) Matters of interest only to insiders

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doggedly adv

In a way that is stubbornly persistent: Abby marked the International Day of the Dog with her beloved Jack Russell terrier, despite how he was doggedly gnawing through her extensive collection of shoes

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anapest n

(US, prosody) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, two short and one long (e.g the word "velveteen"). (US, prosody) A fragment, phrase or line of poetry or verse using this meter; e.g. “Every Who down in Whoville liked Christmas a lot, but the Grinch, who lived just north of Whoville, did NOT!” (Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas.)

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