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dapper collapse: marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners; "a dapper young man"; "a jaunty red hat"

paleography collapse: the study of ancient forms of writing (and the deciphering of them)

nominate collapse: propose as a candidate for some honor; put forward; nominate for appointment to an office; "The President nominated her as head of the Civil Rights Commission"

clarity collapse: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression

foil collapse: a light slender flexible sword tipped by a button; a piece of thin and flexible sheet metal; "the photographic film was wrapped in foil"; picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector; anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities; "pretty girls like plain friends as foils"; cover or back with foil; "foil mirrors"; enhance by contrast; "In this picture, the figures are foiled against the background"

openness collapse: characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive; without obstructions to passage or view; "the openness of the prairies"

euphuism collapse: an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology; any artificially elegant style of language

well-groomed collapse: having your hair neatly brushed and combed; having tasteful clothing and being scrupulously neat

trick collapse: a cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"; an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"; (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner; a period of work or duty

polyphonic prose collapse: a rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance

burl collapse: a large rounded outgrowth on the trunk or branch of a tree; the wood cut from a tree burl or outgrowth; often used decoratively in veneer; remove the burls from cloth

condyle collapse: a round bump on a bone where it forms a joint with another bone

script collapse: a particular orthography or writing system; a written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance; write a script for; "The playwright scripted the movie"

pirate collapse: a ship that is manned by pirates; someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation; copy illegally; of published material

swim collapse: travel through water; "We had to swim for 20 minutes to reach the shore"; "a big fish was swimming in the tank"

describe collapse: give a description of; "He drew an elaborate plan of attack"

classy collapse: elegant and fashionable; "classy clothes"; "a classy dame"; "a posh restaurant"; "a swish pastry shop on the Rue du Bac"- Julia Child

dub collapse: provide (movies) with a soundtrack of a foreign language; give a nickname to

honorific collapse: an expression of respect; "the Japanese use many honorifics"; conferring or showing honor or respect; "honorific social status commonly attaches to membership in a recognized profession"

scroll collapse: a document that can be rolled up (as for storage); move through text or graphics in order to display parts that do not fit on the screen; "Scroll down to see the entire text"

rocker collapse: a curved support that permits the supported object to rock to and fro; an ice skate with a curved blade; a trough that can be rocked back and forth; used by gold miners to shake auriferous earth in water in order to separate the gold; a teenager or young adult in the 1960s who wore leather jackets and rode motorcycles; a performer or composer or fan of rock music; an attendant who rocks a child in a cradle

modality collapse: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment; a particular sense; a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility

ink collapse: dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods; a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing; fill with ink; "ink a pen"; append one's signature to; "They inked the contract"

primogeniture collapse: right of inheritance belongs exclusively to the eldest son

algorithm collapse: a precise rule (or set of rules) specifying how to solve some problem

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