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  • display hack — (graphics)   A program with the same approximate purpose as a kaleidoscope: to make pretty pictures. Famous display hacks include munching squares, smoking clover, the BSD Unix "rain(6)" program, "worms(6)" on miscellaneous Unixes, and the X "kaleid(1)" program. Display hacks can also be implemented without programming by creating text files containing numerous escape sequences for interpretation by a video terminal; one notable example displayed, on any VT100, a Christmas tree with twinkling lights and a toy train circling its base. The hack value of a display hack is proportional to the aesthetic value of the images times the cleverness of the algorithm divided by the size of the code. Synonym psychedelicware.
  • display pack — an empty box, etc, on a shop shelf, advertising a piece of merchandise that, due to its value or size, is not stored on the shelf. The display pack is normally taken to the till and there exchanged, on payment, for the actual item
  • displeasance — the state or cause of being displeased
  • dissemblance — dissembling; dissimulation.
  • dissociality — the fact or characteristic of being dissocial
  • dissocialize — to render dissocial
  • distanceless — without distance
  • distractable — Alternative form of distractible.
  • distractedly — having the attention diverted: She tossed several rocks to the far left and slipped past the distracted sentry.
  • distractible — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
  • ditheistical — of or relating to ditheism, ditheistic
  • domesticable — to convert (animals, plants, etc.) to domestic uses; tame.
  • domestically — of or relating to the home, the household, household affairs, or the family: domestic pleasures.
  • donatistical — relating to a Donatist or Donatism
  • duplications — Plural form of duplication.
  • dynastically — In a dynastic (or dynastical) way.
  • dysenterical — Alternative form of dysenteric.
  • elastic band — rubber strip for binding items together
  • elucidations — Plural form of elucidation.
  • episodically — In an episodic manner; in episodes.
  • fasciculated — Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
  • fascinatedly — In a fascinated manner; with fascination.
  • federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
  • fidel castro — Cipriano [sip-ree-ah-noh;; Spanish see-pree-ah-naw] /ˌsɪp riˈɑ noʊ;; Spanish ˌsi priˈɑ nɔ/ (Show IPA), 1858?–1924, Venezuelan military and political leader: president 1901–08; exiled 1908.
  • fused silica — glass made entirely from silica, having a very low rate of thermal expansion.
  • galactosides — Plural form of galactoside.
  • gas cylinder — container for storing gas
  • gesticulated — to make or use gestures, especially in an animated or excited manner with or instead of speech.
  • glycosidases — Plural form of glycosidase.
  • gradualistic — Of or pertaining to gradualism.
  • grand siècle — the 17th century in French art and literature, esp the classical period of Louis XIV
  • griddlecakes — Plural form of griddlecake.
  • hydroelastic — undergoing a change in elasticity as a result of the flow of water or another fluid
  • iceland moss — an edible lichen, Cetraria islandica, of arctic regions, containing a starchlike substance used in medicine.
  • iceland spar — a transparent variety of calcite that is double-refracting and is used as a polarizer.
  • incapsulated — Simple past tense and past participle of incapsulate.
  • indelicacies — Plural form of indelicacy.
  • iracundulous — easily angered or irritable
  • kaleidoscope — an optical instrument in which bits of glass, held loosely at the end of a rotating tube, are shown in continually changing symmetrical forms by reflection in two or more mirrors set at angles to each other.
  • landscapists — Plural form of landscapist.
  • lapidescence — a lapidescent quality or condition
  • lapidicolous — living under stones
  • laxadaisical — Misspelling of lackadaisical.
  • leading case — a case that is regarded as having settled a particular point of law; a case that is used as guidance for legal decisions
  • linseed cake — a cake or a mass made by expressing the oil from linseed, used chiefly as feed for cattle.
  • loco disease — locoism.
  • locus standi — the right of a party to appear and be heard before a court
  • macclesfield — a market town in NW England, in Cheshire: former centre of the silk industry; pharmaceuticals, services. Pop: 50 688 (2001)
  • maledictions — Plural form of malediction.
  • masculinized — Simple past tense and past participle of masculinize.
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