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pewter collapse: any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead)

glorious collapse: having great beauty and splendor; "a glorious spring morning"; "a glorious sunset"; "splendid costumes"; "a kind of splendiferous native simplicity"; bringing great happiness and thankfulness; "glorious freedom"; "glorious times"; having or deserving or conferring glory; "a long and glorious career"; "our glorious literature"; having or worthy of pride; "redoubtable scholar of the Renaissance"; "born of a redoubtable family"

poignant collapse: keenly distressing to the mind or feelings; "poignant anxiety"

tart collapse: a pastry cup with a filling of fruit or custard and no top crust; a small open pie with a fruit filling

rounded collapse: curving and somewhat round in shape rather than jagged; "low rounded hills"; "rounded shoulders"

biting collapse: causing a sharply painful or stinging sensation; used especially of cold; "bitter cold"; "a biting wind"

dusky collapse: lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

sterling collapse: British money; especially the pound sterling as the basic monetary unit of the UK

sensational collapse: causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion; relating to or concerned in sensation; "the sensory cortex"; "sensory organs"

cabbage collapse: any of various types of cabbage; any of various cultivars of the genus Brassica oleracea grown for their edible leaves or flowers

exquisite collapse: of extreme beauty; "her exquisite face"; lavishly elegant and refined; intense or sharp; "suffered exquisite pain"; "felt exquisite pleasure"

festoon collapse: flower chains suspended in loops between points; an embellishment consisting of a decorative representation of a string of flowers suspended between two points; used on pottery or in architectural work; a curtain of fabric draped and bound at intervals to form graceful loops; decorate with strings of flowers; "The public buildings were festooned for the holiday"

baroque collapse: elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century; having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation; "the building...frantically baroque"-William Dean Howells

violent collapse: (of colors or sounds) intensely vivid or loud; "a violent clash of colors"; "her dress was a violent red"; "a violent noise"; "wild colors"; "wild shouts"; effected by force or injury rather than natural causes; "a violent death"; acting with or marked by or resulting from great force or energy or emotional intensity; "a violent attack"; "a violent person"; "violent feelings"; "a violent rage"; "felt a violent dislike"

gilded collapse: based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"

murky collapse: dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"

wampum collapse: small cylindrical beads made from polished shells and fashioned into strings or belts; used by certain Native American peoples as jewelry or currency

bitter collapse: the taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth; English term for a dry sharp-tasting ale with strong flavor of hops (usually on draft); proceeding from or exhibiting great hostility or animosity; "a bitter struggle"; "bitter enemies"; expressive of severe grief or regret; "shed bitter tears"; one of the four basic taste sensations; sharp and disagreeable; like the taste of quinine; very difficult to accept or bear; "the bitter truth"; "a bitter sorrow"; make bitter

bluff collapse: the act of bluffing in poker; deception by a false show of confidence in the strength of your cards; pretense that your position is stronger than it really is; "his bluff succeeded in getting him accepted"; a high steep bank (usually formed by river erosion); bluntly direct and outspoken but good-natured; "a bluff but pleasant manner"; "a bluff and rugged natural leader"; very steep; having a prominent and almost vertical front; "a bluff headland"; "where the bold chalk cliffs of England rise"; "a sheer descent of rock"; frighten someone by pretending to be stronger than one really is; deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand

fierce collapse: marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions; inclined to react violently; fervid; "fierce loyalty"; "in a tearing rage"; "vehement dislike"; "violent passions"

cutting collapse: the act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"; a piece cut off from the main part of something; a part (sometimes a root or leaf or bud) removed from a plant to propagate a new plant through rooting or grafting; suitable for cutting or severing; "a cutting tool"; "the cutting edge"; as physically painful as if caused by a sharp instrument; "a cutting wind"; "keen winds"; "knifelike cold"; "piercing knifelike pains"; "piercing cold"; "piercing criticism"; "a stabbing pain"; "lancinating pain"; (of speech) harsh or hurtful in tone or character; "cutting remarks"; "edged satire"; "a stinging comment"

primrose collapse: any of numerous short-stemmed plants of the genus Primula having tufted basal leaves and showy flowers clustered in umbels or heads

ointment collapse: semisolid preparation (usually containing a medicine) applied externally as a remedy or for soothing an irritation

hog collapse: domestic swine; a sheep up to the age of one year; one yet to be sheared; a person regarded as greedy and pig-like; take greedily; take more than one's share

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