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walter mitty
an ordinary, timid person who is given to adventurous and self-aggrandizing daydreams or secret plans as a way of glamorizing a humdrum life. -
hampden
John, 1594–1643, British statesman who defended the rights of the House of Commons against Charles I. -
abbotsford
estate (1812-32) of Sir Walter Scott, on the Tweed in SE Scotland -
alvarez
Luis Walter. 1911–88, US physicist. He made (with Felix Bloch) the first measurement of the neutron's magnetic moment (1939). Nobel prize for physics 1968 -
bagehot
Walter. 1826–77, English economist and journalist: editor of The Economist; author of The English Constitution (1867), Physics and Politics (1872), and Lombard Street (1873) -
batesian mimicry
mimicry in which a harmless species is protected from predators by means of its resemblance to a harmful or inedible species