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noun • Profit; return; proceeds. • (chiefly in the plural) Money given to servants by visitors; a gratuity; also vale. • Submission. • Something hung up or spread out to hide or protect the face, or hide an object from view; usually of gauze, crepe, or similar diaphanous material. • A cover; disguise; a mask; a pretense. • The calyptra of mosses. • A membrane connecting the margin of the pileus of a mushroom with the stalk; a velum. • A covering for a person or thing; as, a caul (especially over the head) • Velum (A circular membrane round the cap of medusa) • A thin layer of tissue which is attached to or covers a mushroom. • An obscuration of the clearness of the tones in pronunciation. verb • To pay homage, bow, submit, defer (to someone or something); to yield, give way (to something). • To remove as a sign of deference, as a hat. • To lower, let fall; to allow or cause to sink. • (vexillology) (current, operational) To lower or "dip" a carried flag or banner in a salute by a forward reducing of the angle of the pike/flagstaff with respect to the ground; in extreme instances, as when saluting a monarch, both the banner and the finial of the pike are allowed to rest upon the ground. • To dress in, or decorate with, a veil. • To conceal as with a veil. | ||||||||
| 29% | 6 | To cause to descend or drop | ||||||
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| 23% | 6 | Descend a mountain by rope | ||||||
noun • (mountaineering) a descent of a vertical cliff or wall made by using a doubled rope that is fixed to a higher point and wrapped around the body verb • descend by means of a rappel | ||||||||
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