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  • countershading — (in the coloration of certain animals) a pattern, serving as camouflage, in which dark colours occur on parts of the body exposed to the light and pale colours on parts in the shade
  • counterweighed — Simple past tense and past participle of counterweigh.
  • counterweights — Plural form of counterweight.
  • county borough — (in England and Wales from 1888 to 1974 and in Wales from 1996) a borough administered independently of any higher tier of local government
  • court of honor — the planning body of a girl-scout troop, composed of patrol leaders, the troop scribe, the troop treasurer, and the adult troop leader.
  • courtesy coach — a free coach
  • courtesy light — the interior light in a motor vehicle
  • courting chair — a chair or small upholstered sofa for two persons.
  • cruft together — (jargon)   To hack together though with the suggestion that the result may be cruft.
  • cuproscheelite — (mineral) A mineral (CuWO4) having the same structure as scheelite but with calcium replaced by copper.
  • curiosity shop — a shop selling unusual items and curios
  • cushion rafter — auxiliary rafter.
  • data warehouse — Computers. a large, centralized collection of digital data gathered from various units within an organization: The annual report uses information from the data warehouse.
  • daughterboards — Plural form of daughterboard.
  • daylight hours — the hours when it is daylight
  • debt of honour — a debt that is morally but not legally binding, such as one contracted in gambling
  • desulphuration — the removal of sulphur; desulphurization
  • discus thrower — an athlete whose event is the discus
  • do the honours — If someone does the honours at a social occasion or public event, they act as host or perform some official function.
  • dragon's mouth — arethusa (def 1).
  • draughts board — A draughts board is a square board for playing draughts, with 64 equal-sized, black and white squares.
  • draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
  • drummond light — calcium light.
  • dunbartonshire — a historical county of W Scotland: became part of Strathclyde region in 1975; administered since 1996 by the council areas of East Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire
  • dutch cupboard — a buffet with open upper shelves.
  • dutch reformed — of or relating to a Protestant denomination (Dutch Reformed Church) founded by Dutch settlers in New York in 1628 and renamed the Reformed Church in America in 1867.
  • duty-free shop — airport: untaxed goods store
  • eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
  • emprosthotonus — (medicine) A condition in which the body is bent sharply forward.
  • ethnoreligious — Of or pertaining to ethnicity and religion.
  • ethylene group — the divalent group, -CH2CH2-, derived from ethylene
  • eutrophication — Excessive richness of nutrients in a lake or other body of water, frequently due to runoff from the land, which causes a dense growth of plant life and death of animal life from lack of oxygen.
  • flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
  • follow through — the act of following.
  • follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
  • for the use of — If something is for the use of a particular person or group of people, it is for that person or group to use.
  • forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
  • formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
  • fortune hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fortune-hunter — a person who hopes to prosper, especially through marriage to someone of wealth.
  • fourth of july — Independence Day.
  • fresh out (of) — having just sold or used up the last one or part (of)
  • front of house — restaurant
  • frozen yoghurt — a dessert made from sweetened yoghurt that has been frozen
  • futtock shroud — any of several metal rods secured at their lower ends to a futtock band and at their upper ends to a futtock plate, connecting the lower mast to the topmast rigging.
  • galactophorous — bearing milk; lactiferous.
  • get through to — reach: on phone
  • go around with — If you go around with a person or group of people, you regularly meet them and go to different places with them.
  • great yarmouth — a city in SE Massachusetts.
  • group of eight — the Group of Seven nations and Russia, whose heads of government meet to discuss economic matters and international relations
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