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Abettors
- noun - one who helps or encourages or incites another
AEstuous
- - Glowing; agitated, as with heat.
Aphthous
- - Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthas, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.
Auctions
- noun - a variety of bridge in which tricks made in excess of the contract are scored toward game; now generally superseded by contract bridge
- sell at an auction
- the public sale of something to the highest bidder
Bastions
- noun - a group that defends a principle; "a bastion against corruption"; "the last bastion of communism"
- a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle
- projecting part of a rampart or other fortification
Bootboys
- noun - a youth subculture that appeared first in England in the late 1960s as a working-class reaction to the hippies; hair was cropped close to the scalp; wore work-shirts and short jeans (supported by suspenders) and heavy red boots; involved in attacks against Asians and football hooliganism
Caltrops
- noun - a plant of the genus Trapa bearing spiny four-pronged edible nutlike fruits
- an old military weapon consisting of an iron ball with four spikes so arranged that when it is laid upon the ground one spike always stands upright. Used particularly against cavalry.
- Mediterranean annual or biennial herb having pinkish to purple flowers surrounded by spine-tipped scales; naturalized in America
- tropical annual procumbent poisonous subshrub having fruit that splits into five spiny nutlets; serious pasture weed
Captions
- noun - brief description accompanying an illustration
- provide with a caption, as of a photograph or a drawing
- taking exception; especially a quibble based on a captious argument; "a mere caption unworthy of a reply"
- translation of foreign dialogue of a movie or TV program; usually displayed at the bottom of the screen
Captious
- adjective - tending to find and call attention to faults; "a captious pedant"; "an excessively demanding and faultfinding tutor"