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  • 71Thickset — Thick set , n. 1. A close or thick hedge. [1913 Webster] 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 72Thickset — Thick set , a. 1. Close planted; as, a thickset wood; a thickset hedge. Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. Having a short, thick body; stout. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 73Bovid — Taxobox name = Bovids fossil range = Early Miocene to Recent image caption = Sable Antelope regnum = Animalia phylum = Chordata classis = Mammalia ordo = Artiodactyla familia = Bovidae familia authority = Gray, 1821 subdivision ranks =… …

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  • 74Chauncy Hare Townshend — Not to be confused with Chauncy Townsend . Chauncy Hare Townshend, born Chauncy Hare Townsend (10 April 1798, Godalming, Surrey – 25 February 1868) was a 19th century English poet, clergyman, mesmerist, collector, dilettante and hypochondriac. He …

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  • 75chunk — chunk1 /chungk/, n. 1. a thick mass or lump of anything: a chunk of bread; a chunk of firewood. 2. Informal. a thick set and strong person. 3. a strong and stoutly built horse or other animal. 4. a substantial amount of something: Rent is a real… …

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  • 76stodgy — stodgily, adv. stodginess, n. /stoj ee/, adj., stodgier, stodgiest. 1. heavy, dull, or uninteresting; tediously commonplace; boring: a stodgy Victorian novel. 2. of a thick, semisolid consistency; heavy, as food. 3. stocky; thick set. 4. old… …

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  • 77stubby — stubbily, adv. stubbiness, n. /stub ee/, adj., stubbier, stubbiest. 1. of the nature of or resembling a stub. 2. short and thick or broad; thick set or squat: stubby fingers. 3. consisting of or abounding in stubs. 4. bristly, as the hair or… …

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  • 78Paul Legrand — Nadar: Paul Legrand as Pierrot, c. 1857. Musée d Orsay, Paris Paul Legrand (1816–1898), born Charles Dominique Martin Legrand, was a highly regarded and influential French mime who turned the Pierrot of his predecessor, Jean Gaspard Deburau, into …

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  • 79pudgy — adj dumpy, thick, thick set; stumpy, squabby, squat, chunky, stocky, built like a fire plug; stout, buxom, plump, plumpish, pleasingly plump; rotund, chubby, Inf. tubby, Inf. paunchy, corpulent, obese, fat, Esp. Brit. podgy …

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  • 80chunk´i|ness — chunk|y «CHUHNG kee», adjective, chunk|i|er, chunk|i|est. 1. like a chunk; short and thick: »He threw a chunky log on the fire. 2. Informal. stocky: »The little boy had …

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