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Crisping
- verb - make brown and crisp by heating; "toast bread"; "crisp potatoes"
- make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; "The dress got wrinkled"; "crease the paper like this to make a crane"
Cui Bono
- - Lit., for whose benefit; incorrectly understood, it came to be used in the sense, of what good or use; and hence, (what) purpose; object; specif., the ultimate object of life.
Dairying
- noun - the business of a dairy
Deifying
- verb - consider as a god or godlike; "These young men deify financial success"
- exalt to the position of a God; "the people deified their King"
Deigning
- verb - Deem worthy.
- do something that one considers to be below one's dignity
Drifting
- verb - aimless wandering from place to place
- be in motion due to some air or water current; "The leaves were blowing in the wind"; "the boat drifted on the lake"; "The sailboat was adrift on the open sea"; "the shipwrecked boat drifted away from the shore"
- be piled up in banks or heaps by the force of wind or a current; "snow drifting several feet high"; "sand drifting like snow"
- be subject to fluctuation; "The stock market drifted upward"
- cause to be carried by a current; "drift the boats downstream"
- continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another; "a drifting double-dealer"; "the floating population"; "vagrant hippies of the sixties"
- drive slowly and far afield for grazing; "drift the cattle herds westwards"
- live unhurriedly, irresponsibly, or freely; "My son drifted around for years in California before going to law school"
- move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in sea
Drilling
- verb - learn by repetition; "We drilled French verbs every day"; "Pianists practice scales"
- make a hole, especially with a pointed power or hand tool; "don't drill here, there's a gas pipe"; "drill a hole into the wall"; "drill for oil"; "carpenter bees are boring holes into the wall"
- teach by repetition
- the act of drilling
- the act of drilling a hole in the earth in the hope of producing petroleum
- train in the military, e.g., in the use of weapons
- undergo military training or do military exercises
Drinking
- verb - be fascinated or spell-bound by; pay close attention to; "The mother drinks in every word of her son on the stage"
- consume alcohol; "We were up drinking all night"
- drink excessive amounts of alcohol; be an alcoholic; "The husband drinks and beats his wife"
- propose a toast to; "Let us toast the birthday girl!"; "Let's drink to the New Year"
- take in liquids; "The patient must drink several liters each day"; "The children like to drink soda"
- the act of consuming liquids
- the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall"
Dripping
- verb - a liquid (as water) that flows in drops (as from the eaves of house)
- extremely wet; "dripping wet"; "soaking wet"
- fall in drops; "Water is dripping from the faucet"
- let or cause to fall in drops; "dribble oil into the mixture"
- Melted beef fat
- the sound of a liquid falling drop by drop; "the constant sound of dripping irritated him"
Edifying
- verb - enlightening or uplifting so as to encourage intellectual or moral improvement; "the paintings in the church served an edifying purpose even for those who could not read"
- make understand;