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A period of ten years; such as, decennary periods, reviews, surveys, etc.

The presentation of defining devices that originate in an unlimited variety of techniques: humorous, figurative, and linguistic; utilizing witworthy words with the intention of amusing readers.

1. A daily record of events or transactions, a journal; specifically, a daily record of matters affecting the writer personally, or which come under his personal observation.
2. A book prepared for keeping a daily record, or having spaces with printed dates for daily memoranda and jottings; also, applied to calendars containing daily memoranda on matters of importance to people generally, or to members of a particular profession, occupation, or pursuit.

1. A book in which one word continually leads to another.
2. A publication that is always changing the subject on every page.
3. A book that is bound to be of use to everyone who needs verbal clarifications except when a definition contains another form of the same word and never explains the meanings of any of the various forms.
4. The universe arranged in alphabetical order.

1. A book dealing with the individual words of a language (or certain specified classes of them), so as to set forth their orthography, pronunciation, signification, and use, their synonyms, derivation, and history, or at least some of these facts: for convenience of reference, the words are arranged in some stated order, now, in most languages, alphabetical; and in larger dictionaries the information given is illustrated by quotations from literature; a word-book, vocabulary, or lexicon.

The word "dictionary" comes from the Latin dictio, “the act of speaking”, and dictionarius, “a collection of words”.

2. A more recent definition for a dictionary is the ordered list stored in and used by a computer; specifically, (a) a list of contents, e.g. of a database; (b) a list of words acceptable to a word-processing program, against which each word of text is checked.

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Of or pertaining to the fingers.

1. Giving someone the freedom to make a decision according to individual circumstances: "She has enough discretionary income to pay for a nice vacation on the California coast this year."
2. Given according to the merits of an individual case, rather than being provided or awarded automatically.
3. Able to be used as desired without any stipulations; done or used when necessary.

Relating to the enforcing of rules and the punishing of people who break them.

A place where medicines are prepared and dispensed (distributed or weighted out in carefully determined portions); especially, a place where the poor can obtain medical advice and medicines gratuitously or at a nominal price.

1. Relating to a home or homes.
2. Provided for or attending to people in their own homes.

1. Causing sleep, dormitive.
2. A sleep-producing medicine; a narcotic.

1. A species of camel, also called the Arabian camel, with one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.

It is a common beast of burden in Egypt, Syria, and the neighboring countries.
2. A camel with one hump; working and racing; native to, North Africa, Southwest Asia.
3. Etymology: from Old French dromadaire, which came from Late Latin dromedarius, "kind of camel"; from Latin dromas, dromados, from Greek dromas kamelos, "running camel"; from dromos, "a race course".

1. An agent or representative sent on a particular mission.
2. An agent sent on a mission to represent or advance the interests of another.

1. A tidal opening, an inlet or creek through which the tide enters; an arm of the sea indenting the land.
2. The tidal mouth of a great river, where the tide meets the current of fresh water.