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Prims
- verb - assume a prim appearance; "They mince and prim"
- contract one's lips; "She primmed her lips after every bite of food"
- dress primly
Quids
- noun - a wad of something chewable as tobacco
- something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does or gives or promises
- the basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence
Quins
- noun - one of five children born at the same time from the same pregnancy
Quips
- noun - a witty saying
- make jokes or quips; "The students were gagging during dinner"
- witty remark
Quits
- verb -
- give up in the face of defeat of lacking hope; admit defeat; "In the second round, the challenger gave up"
- give up or retire from a position; "The Secretary of the Navy will leave office next month"; "The chairman resigned over the financial scandal"
- go away or leave
- on equal terms by payment or requital; "we're now quits"; "finally quits with the loan"
- turn away from; give up; "I am foreswearing women forever"
Raids
- noun - a sudden short attack
- an attempt by speculators to defraud investors
- enter someone else's territory and take spoils; "The pirates raided the coastal villages regularly"
- search for something needed or desired; "Our babysitter raided our refrigerator"
- search without warning, make a sudden surprise attack on; "The police raided the crack house"
- take over (a company) by buying a controlling interest of its stock; "T. Boone Pickens raided many large companies"
Rails
- noun - a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
- a barrier consisting of a horizontal bar and supports
- a horizontal bar (usually of wood or metal)
- any of numerous widely distributed small wading birds of the family Rallidae having short wings and very long toes for running on soft mud
- complain bitterly
- convey (goods etc.) by rails; "fresh fruit are railed from Italy to Belgium"
- criticize severely; "He fulminated against the Republicans' plan to cut Medicare"; "She railed against the bad social policies"
- enclose with rails; "rail in the old graves"
- fish with a handline over the rails of a boat; "They are railing for fresh fish"
- lay with rails; "hundreds of miles were railed out here"
- provide with rails; "The yard was railed"
- separate with a railing; "rail off the crowds from the Presidential palace"
Rains
- noun - anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
- drops of fresh water that fall as precipitation from clouds
- precipitate as rain; "If it rains much more, we can expect some flooding"
- water falling in drops from vapor condensed in the atmosphere
Reims
- noun - a city in northeastern France to the east of Paris; scene of the coronation of most French kings; site of the unconditional German surrender in 1945 at the end of World War II
Reins
- noun - any means of control; "he took up the reins of government"
- control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse"
- keep in check; "rule one's temper"
- one of a pair of long straps (usually connected to the bit or the headpiece) used to control a horse
- stop or check by or as if by a pull at the reins; "He reined in his horses in front of the post office"
- stop or slow up one's horse or oneself by or as if by pulling the reins; "They reined in in front of the post office"