• a gambling card game in which chips are placed on the ace and king and queen and jack of separate suits (taken from a separate deck); a player plays the lowest card of a suit in his hand and successively higher cards are played until the sequence stops; the player who plays a card matching one in the layout wins all the chips on that card
• minute free-swimming freshwater copepod having a large median eye and pear-shaped body and long antennae used in swimming; important in some food chains and as intermediate hosts of parasitic worms that affect man e.g. Guinea worms
• (Greek mythology) one of a group of giants having a single eye in the middle of their forehead
• twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
• one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.)
• edible muscle of mollusks having fan-shaped shells; served broiled or poached or in salads or cream sauces
• thin slice of meat (especially veal) usually fried or broiled
• edible marine bivalve having a fluted fan-shaped shell that swim by expelling water from the shell in a series of snapping motions
verb
• decorate an edge with scallops
• bake in a sauce, milk, etc., often with breadcrumbs on top
• the amount added to the cost to determine the asking price
• detailed stylistic instructions for typesetting something that is to be printed; manual markup is usually written on the copy (e.g. underlining words that are to be set in italics)
• a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ
• port wine mulled with oranges and cloves
• (chess) a piece that can be moved diagonally over unoccupied squares of the same color
• an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
• the law enforcement agency of the Justice Department that operates a nationwide system of prisons and detention facilities to incarcerate inmates sentenced to imprisonment for federal crimes
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