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Again
- adverb - anew; "she tried again"; "they rehearsed the scene again"
Amain
- adverb - at full speed; with great haste; "the children ran down the hill amain"
- with all your strength; "he pulled the ropes amain"
Blain
- noun - an inflammatory swelling or sore
Brain
- noun - hit on the head
- kill by smashing someone's skull
- mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense"
- someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius";
- that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord
- that which is responsible for one's thoughts and feelings; the seat of the faculty of reason; "his mind wandered"; "I couldn't get his words out of my head"
- the brain of certain animals used as meat
Chain
- noun - (business) a number of similar establishments (stores or restaurants or banks or hotels or theaters) under one ownership
- (chemistry) a series of linked atoms (generally in an organic molecule)
- a linked or connected series of objects; "a chain of daisies"
- a necklace made by a stringing objects together; "a string of beads"; "a strand of pearls";
- a series of (usually metal) rings or links fitted into one another to make a flexible ligament
- a series of hills or mountains; "the valley was between two ranges of hills"; "the plains lay just beyond the mountain range"
- a series of things depending on each other as if linked together; "the chain of command"; "a complicated concatenation of circumstances"
- a unit of length
- anything that acts as a restraint
- British biochemist (born in Germany) who isolated and purified penicillin, which had been discovered in 1928 by Sir Alexander Fleming (1906-1979)
Drain
- noun - a gradual depletion of energy or resources; "a drain on resources"; "a drain of young talent by emigration"
- a pipe through which liquid is carried away
- deplete of resources; "The exercise class drains me of energy"
- empty of liquid; drain the liquid from; "We drained the oil tank"
- emptying something accomplished by allowing liquid to run out of it
- flow off gradually; "The rain water drains into this big vat"
- make weak; "Life in the camp drained him"
- tube inserted into a body cavity (as during surgery) to remove unwanted material
Grain
- noun - whisky made, wholly or in part,
from cereals other than malted barley.
- 1/60 dram; equals an avoirdupois grain or 64.799 milligrams
- 1/7000 pound; equals a troy grain or 64.799 milligrams
- a cereal grass; "wheat is a grain that is grown in Kansas"
- a relatively small granular particle of a substance; "a grain of sand"; "a grain of sugar"
- a weight unit used for pearls or diamonds: 50 mg or 1/4 carat
- become granular
- dry seed-like fruit produced by the cereal grasses: e.g. wheat, barley, Indian corn
- foodstuff prepared from the starchy grains of cereal grasses
- form into grains
- paint (a surface) to make it look like stone or wood
- the direction, texture, or pattern of fibers found in wood or leather or stone or in a woven fabric; "saw the board across the grain"
- the physical composition of something (especially with respect to the size and shape of the small constituents of a
Plain
- adjective - a basic knitting stitch
- clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment;
- express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness; "My mother complains all day"; "She has a lot to kick about"
- extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
- free from any effort to soften to disguise; "the plain and unvarnished truth"; "the unvarnished candor of old people and children"
- lacking embellishment or ornamentation; "a plain hair style"; "unembellished white walls"; "functional architecture featuring stark unornamented concrete"
- lacking in physical beauty or proportion; "a homely child"; "several of the buildings were downright homely"; "a plain girl with a freckled face"
- lacking patterns especially in color
- not elaborate or elaborated; simple; "plain food"; "stuck to the plain facts"; "a plain blue suit"; "a plain rectangular