a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
BPD
barrels per day.
Hoabinhian
of, pertaining to, or typifying a middle to late Stone Age culture found in southeast Asia that is characterized chiefly by agricultural village settlements.
Nampula
a city in E Mozambique. 18,000.
builder's knot
clove hitch.
joviality
the state or quality of being jovial merriment; jollity.
destroyer
a fast, relatively small, warship armed mainly with 5-inch (13-cm) guns.
jodhpur
an ankle-high shoe for wearing with such breeches, having a strap that encircles the ankle and buckles on the side.
Hope diamond
a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
knobbling roll
a roll for a rolling mill, having a series of regularly shaped projections and depressions on its face.
depression
a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason.
mathematize
to reduce to a mathematical formula or problem; regard in purely mathematical terms.
hj hancock
U.S. jazz pianist and composer.
nm
nautical mile.
Nacogdoches
a city in N Texas. 27,149.
habeas corpus
a writ requiring a person to be brought before a judge or court, especially for investigation of a restraint of the person's liberty, used as a protection against illegal imprisonment.
BPD
barrels per day.
Hoabinhian
of, pertaining to, or typifying a middle to late Stone Age culture found in southeast Asia that is characterized chiefly by agricultural village settlements.
Nampula
a city in E Mozambique. 18,000.
builder's knot
clove hitch.
joviality
the state or quality of being jovial merriment; jollity.
destroyer
a fast, relatively small, warship armed mainly with 5-inch (13-cm) guns.
jodhpur
an ankle-high shoe for wearing with such breeches, having a strap that encircles the ankle and buckles on the side.
Hope diamond
a sapphire-blue Indian diamond, the largest blue diamond in the world, weighing 44.5 carats and supposedly cut from a bigger diamond that was once part of the French crown jewels: now in the Smithsonian Institution.
knobbling roll
a roll for a rolling mill, having a series of regularly shaped projections and depressions on its face.
depression
a condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason.
mathematize
to reduce to a mathematical formula or problem; regard in purely mathematical terms.
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