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  • micrognuemacs — (text, tool)   (mg) A Public Domain Emacs-style editor modified from MicroEmacs to be more compatible with GNU Emacs. mg is essentially free, it is not associated with the GNU project, and does not have the GNU copyright restrictions. It is a small, fast, portable editor for people who can't run real Emacs thing for one reason or another. It has few if any of the MicroEmacs features that were incompatible with GNU Emacs and adds missing features that seemed essential. MicroGnuEmacs is derived from, and aims to replace, v30 of MicroEmacs, the latest version from the original MicroEmacs author Dave Conroy. The chief contributors were Mike Meyer <[email protected]>, Mic Kaczmarczik <[email protected]>, Bob Larson, and Dave Brower <[email protected]>. mg version 1a of 1986-11-16 works with 4.2BSD, 4.3BSD, Ultrix-32, OS9/68k, VMS, Amiga, System V, Eunice. It is included in base OpenBSD. It should also support MS-DOS, PC-DOS and the Rainbow.
  • middlesbrough — a seaport in NE England, on the Tees estuary.
  • misconfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of misconfigure.
  • misguidedness — The state or condition of being misguided.
  • mousetrapping — Present participle of mousetrap.
  • mud wrestling — sport: physical combat in mud
  • mud-wrestling — wrestling in an enclosure with a floor or base of wet mud, staged as a public display and competitive event.
  • mule spinning — a process of spinning that produces extremely fine yarn by drawing and twisting the roving, and winding the resultant yarn onto a bobbin or spindle in the form of a cop.
  • mulligan stew — a stew made of odd bits of meat and vegetables, esp. as prepared by hobos
  • neurolinguist — One who studies neurolinguistics.
  • neurosurgical — Of, or pertaining to neurosurgery.
  • new age music — a type of gentle melodic popular music originating in the US in the late 1980s, which takes in elements of jazz, folk, and classical music and is played largely on synthesizers and acoustic instruments
  • non-egregious — extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant: an egregious mistake; an egregious liar. Synonyms: gross, outrageous, notorious, shocking. Antonyms: tolerable, moderate, minor, unnoticeable.
  • nongregarious — (zoology) Not gregarious; solitary. Compare 'ungregarious'.
  • nonindigenous — Not indigenous; not native to an area.
  • nonleguminous — pertaining to, of the nature of, or bearing legumes.
  • numerologists — the study of numbers, as the figures designating the year of one's birth, to determine their supposed influence on one's life, future, etc.
  • nun's veiling — a thin, plain-woven, worsted fabric, originally for nuns' veils but now also for dresses, coats, etc.
  • nutrigenetics — the branch of science concerned with the effect of heredity on diet and nutrition
  • nutrigenomics — the study of how individual genetic makeup interacts with diet, especially the effects of this interaction on a person's health.
  • opening hours — Opening hours are the times during which a shop, bank, library, or bar is open for business.
  • outprocessing — to end a military tour of duty, accompanied by necessary paperwork: All enlisted soldiers out-process as a class.
  • outside-right — a footballer who plays on the outside right wing of the field
  • outstretching — Present participle of outstretch.
  • over-trusting — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
  • overingenious — ingenious to a fault
  • packing house — A packing house is a company that processes and packs food, especially meat, to be sold.
  • pantagruelism — (in Rabelais' Pantagruel) the huge son of Gargantua, represented as dealing with serious matters in a spirit of broad and somewhat cynical good humor.
  • paper-pushing — a person who has a routine desk job.
  • pease pudding — a pudding of strained split peas mixed with egg.
  • pneumogastric — of or relating to the lungs and stomach.
  • postbourgeois — (in Marxist thought) belonging to a period of society after the decline of the bourgeoisie
  • prague spring — a brief period of democratization in Czechoslovakia in 1968, under Alexander Dubček.
  • press cutting — an article or picture from a newspaper about someone or something
  • prestigiously — indicative of or conferring prestige: the most prestigious address in town.
  • pride's purge — the forceful exclusion from the House of Commons, carried out by Col. Thomas Pride in December 1648, of about 100 members who favored compromise with the Royalist party.
  • pseudepigraph — a book or piece of writing that is falsely titled or credited
  • pudding stone — conglomerate (def 3).
  • pulse dialing — a system of calling telephone numbers wherein electrical pulses corresponding to the digits in the number called are generated by manipulating a rotary dial or push buttons (contrasted with tone dialing).
  • purse strings — hold the purse strings, to have the power to determine how money shall be spent.
  • quadragesimal — of, relating to, or suitable for Lent; Lenten.
  • quadriplegics — Plural form of quadriplegic.
  • quaking aspen — any of various poplars, as Populus tremula, of Europe, and P. tremuloides (quaking aspen) or P. alba (white aspen) of America, having soft wood and alternate ovate leaves that tremble in the slightest breeze.
  • queen's guide — (in Britain and the Commonwealth when the sovereign is female) a Guide who has passed the highest tests of proficiency
  • queer-bashing — the activity of making vicious and unprovoked verbal or physical assaults upon homosexuals or supposed homosexuals
  • questioningly — In a questioning manner.
  • quick-setting — setting quickly, as a cement, paint, or gelatin.
  • quickstepping — Present participle of quickstep.
  • quinquagesima — the Sunday before Lent; Shrove Sunday.
  • rabblerousing — Of or pertaining to a rabble-rouser.
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