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Dumpier
- adjective - resembling a garbage dump
- short and plump
- short and thick; as e.g. having short legs and heavy musculature; "some people seem born to be square and chunky"; "a dumpy little dumpling of a woman"; "dachshunds are long lowset dogs with drooping ears"; "a little church with a squat tower"; "a squatty red smokestack"; "a stumpy ungainly figure"
Duskier
- adjective - lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"
- naturally having skin of a dark color; "a dark-skinned beauty"; "gold earrings gleamed against her dusky cheeks"; "a smile on his swarthy face"; "`swart' is archaic"
Dustier
- adjective - covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
Earlier
- adjective - (comparative and superlative of `early') more early than; most early; "a fashion popular in earlier times"; "his earlier work reflects the influence of his teacher"; "Verdi's earliest and most raucous opera"
- at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time; "early morning"; "an early warning"; "early diagnosis"; "an early death"; "took early retirement"; "an early spring"; "early varieties of peas and tomatoes mature before most standard varieties"
- before now; "why didn't you tell me in the first place?"
- being or occurring at an early stage of development; "in an early stage"; "early forms of life"; "early man"; "an early computer"
- belonging to the distant past; "the early inhabitants of Europe"; "former generations"; "in other times"
- comparatives of `soon' or `early'; "Come a little sooner, if you can"; "came earlier than I expected"
- earlier in time; previously; "I had know
Ebonies
- noun - a very dark black
- hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys
- tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork
Edified
- adjective - instructed and encouraged in moral, intellectual, and spiritual improvement
- make understand;
Elegies
- noun - a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
- Song of mourning
Emeries
- noun - a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper)