Rhymes for ALEXANDRE-DUMAS

• French writer remembered for his swashbuckling historical tales (1802-1870)

• a pair of loose trousers tied by a drawstring around the waist; worn by men and women in some Asian countries

• (usually plural) loose-fitting nightclothes worn for sleeping or lounging; have a jacket top and trousers

• any of several tropical and subtropical treelike herbs of the genus Musa having a terminal crown of large entire leaves and usually bearing hanging clusters of elongated fruits

• elongated crescent-shaped yellow fruit with soft sweet flesh

• (astronomy) the angular distance of a celestial point measured westward along the celestial equator from the zenith crossing; the right ascension for an observer at a particular location and time of day

• an electrical device that sends or receives radio or television signals

• sensitivity similar to that of a receptor organ

• one of a pair of mobile appendages on the head of e.g. insects and crustaceans; typically sensitive to touch and taste

• For the reason (that).

• On account (of), for sake (of).

• (by ellipsis) Used alone to refuse to provide a full answer a question begun with "why", usually taken as an anapodoton of the elided full phrase "Because I said so".

• On account of, because of.

• By or for the cause that; on this account that; for the reason that.

• As is known, inferred, or determined from the fact that.

• So that, in order that.

• llamas

• a Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism

• (plural) optical instrument consisting of a frame that holds a pair of lenses for correcting defective vision

• (used chiefly as a direction or description in music) soft; in a quiet, subdued tone

• a keyboard instrument that is played by depressing keys that cause hammers to strike tuned strings and produce sounds

• (music) low loudness

• used as a direction in music; to be played relatively softly

• type genus of the family Pseudomonodaceae

• equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other)

• television equipment consisting of a lens system that focuses an image on a photosensitive mosaic that is scanned by an electron beam

• a town in central Kansas, the county seat of Saline county, Kansas

• any property detected by the olfactory system

• a distinctive odor that is pleasant

• a medium that disseminates moving pictures

• a theater where films are shown

• a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury

• (botany) a usually terminal tuft of bracts (as in the pineapple) or tuft of hairs (especially on certain seeds)

• (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet; forms as the comet approaches the sun and is warmed

• a punctuation mark (,) used to indicate the separation of elements within the grammatical structure of a sentence

• anglewing butterfly with a comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing

• state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

• a document certifying the successful completion of a course of study

• a unit of apothecary weight equal to an eighth of an ounce or to 60 grains

• formerly the basic unit of money in Greece

• a dramatic work intended for performance by actors on a stage

• an episode that is turbulent or highly emotional

• the literary genre of works intended for the theater

• the quality of being arresting or highly emotional

• an injection of a liquid through the anus to stimulate evacuation; sometimes used for diagnostic purposes

• a body of water cut off from a larger body by a reef of sand or coral

• capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century

• wild or domesticated South American cud-chewing animal related to camels but smaller and lacking a hump

• a neoplasm of lymph tissue that is usually malignant; one of the four major types of cancer

• molten rock in the earth's crust

• informal terms for a mother

• a name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped, meaning 'Mother'

• an extravagant comedy in which action is more salient than characterization

• an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the world

• a schematic or preliminary plan

• rock that form the continuous lower layer of the earth's crust; rich in silicon and magnesium

• any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury

• an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

• tropical American prickly pear of Jamaica

• important warm-water fatty fish of the genus Thunnus of the family Scombridae; usually served as steaks

• any very large marine food and game fish of the genus Thunnus; related to mackerel; chiefly of warm waters

• New Zealand eel

• United States labor leader who organized the longshoremen (1901-1990)

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• a person's financial situation (good or bad)

• a sum of money paid in compensation for loss or injury

• an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices'

• something lost (especially money lost at gambling)

• the common people generally

• land and the buildings on it

• a recompense for worthy acts or retribution for wrongdoing

• a collection of things sharing a common attribute

• a body of students who are taught together

• people having the same social, economic, or educational status

• education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

• a league ranked by quality

• a body of students who graduate together

• (biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

• elegance in dress or behavior

• arrange or order by classes or categories

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual

• having important effects or influence

• education imparted in a series of lessons or meetings

• a connected series of events or actions or developments

• general line of orientation

• a mode of action

• a line or route along which something travels or moves

• a body of students who are taught together

• part of a meal served at one time

• (construction) a layer of masonry

• facility consisting of a circumscribed area of land or water laid out for a sport

• as might be expected

• move swiftly through or over

• move along, of liquids

• hunt with hounds

• any of various mostly cold-blooded aquatic vertebrates usually having scales and breathing through gills

• (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Pisces

• the flesh of fish used as food

• the twelfth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about February 19 to March 20

• seek indirectly

• catch or try to catch fish or shellfish

• of advancing the ball by throwing it

• (baseball) an advance to first base by a batter who receives four balls

• (military) a written leave of absence

• (American football) a play that involves one player throwing the ball to a teammate

• the location in a range of mountains of a geological formation that is lower than the surrounding peaks

• any authorization to pass or go somewhere

• a document indicating permission to do something without restrictions

• a flight or run by an aircraft over a target

• a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs

• a difficult juncture

• one complete cycle of operations (as by a computer)

• an automatic advance to the next round in a tournament without playing an opponent

• a permit to enter or leave a military installation

• a complimentary ticket

• a usually brief attempt

• (sports) the act of throwing the ball to another member of your team

• success in satisfying a test or requirement

• go across or through

• move past

• make laws, bills, etc. or bring into effect by legislation

• for time to move forward

• place into the hands or custody of

• stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point

• travel past

• come to pass

• go unchallenged; be approved

• use up a period of time in a specific way

• pass over, across, or through

• transmit information

• disappear gradually

• go successfully through a test or a selection process

• be superior or better than some standard

• accept or judge as acceptable

• allow to go without comment or censure

• transfer to another; of rights or property

• pass into a specified state or condition; sink into

• throw (a ball) to another player

• be inherited by

• cause to pass

• grant authorization or clearance for

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

• eliminate from the body

• any competition

• a contest of speed

• people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock

• (biology) a taxonomic group that is a division of a species; usually arises as a consequence of geographical isolation within a species

• the flow of air that is driven backwards by an aircraft propeller

• a canal for a current of water

• move hurridly

• compete in a race

• to work as fast as possible towards a goal, sometimes in competition with others

• cause to move fast or to rush or race

• a singular metaphysical entity from which material properties are said to derive