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Clint
- unknown - any small surface exposure of hard or flinty rock, as on a hillside or in a stream bed
Daint
- - Something of exquisite taste; a dainty. [Obs.] -- a. Dainty.
Deist
- adjective - a person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
- of or relating to deism
Drift
- noun - a force that moves something along
- a general tendency to change (as of opinion); "not openly liberal but that is the trend of the book"; "a broad movement of the electorate to the right"
- a horizontal (or nearly horizontal) passageway in a mine; "they dug a drift parallel with the vein"
- a large mass of material that is heaped up by the wind or by water currents
- a process of linguistic change over a period of time
- 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"
- drive slowly and far afield for
Edict
- noun - a formal or authoritative proclamation
- a legally binding command or decision entered on the court record (as if issued by a court or judge); "a friend in New Mexico said that the order caused no trouble out there"
- Decree
ELINT
- noun - intelligence derived from electromagnetic radiations from foreign sources (other than radioactive sources)
Eliot
- noun - British poet (born in the United States) who won the Nobel prize for literature; his plays are outstanding examples of modern verse drama (1888-1965)
- British writer of novels characterized by realistic analysis of provincial Victorian society (1819-1880)
Evict
- verb - expel from one's property or force to move out by a legal process; "The landlord evicted the tenants after they had not paid the rent for four months"
- expel or eject without recourse to legal process; "The landlord wanted to evict the tenants so he banged on the pipes every morning at 3 a.m."
- Throw out
Exist
- verb - have an existence, be extant;
- support oneself; "he could barely exist on such a low wage"; "Can you live on $2000 a month in New York City?"; "Many people in the world have to subsist on $1 a day"
Faint
- adjective - a spontaneous loss of consciousness caused by insufficient blood to the brain
- deficient in magnitude; barely perceptible; lacking clarity or brightness or loudness etc; "a faint outline"; "the wan sun cast faint shadows"; "the faint light of a distant candle"; "weak colors"; "a faint hissing sound"; "a faint aroma"; "a weak pulse"
- indistinctly understood or felt or perceived; "a faint clue to the origin of the mystery"; "haven't the faintest idea"
- lacking clarity or distinctness;
- lacking conviction or boldness or courage; "faint heart ne'er won fair lady"
- lacking strength or vigor; "damning with faint praise"; "faint resistance"; "feeble efforts"; "a feeble voice"
- pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain
- weak and likely to lose consciousness; "suddenly felt faint from the pain"; "was sick and faint from hunger"; "felt light in the head"; "a swooning fit"; "light