"Preteritive" is a word in ENGLISH
Used only or chiefly in the preterit or past tenses,
as certain verbs.
The last time I checked, I wasn’t the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.
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Why did the boxer date the pretty girl? Because she was a knockout!
A mystical word or collocation of letters written as in the figure. Worn on an amulet it was supposed to …
Read the complete definitionA gaseous compound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the …
Read the complete definitionalóg-og - To glide or slide down a rope or pole, using chiefly the hands in doing so. Nagalóg-og lang …
Read the complete definitionalugáyan - A bamboo-mat, square, either quite flat or, more frequently, with the edges turned up a little, used chiefly …
Read the complete definitionRelated to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix; as, amic acid; phosphamic acid.
Read the complete definitionánglit - A small cooking-pot used chiefly to boil small quantities of rice in. (cf. alóphop, halóphop—to cook a little …
Read the complete definition\"That which is behind\"; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate.
Read the complete definitionAn appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in …
Read the complete definitionA musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
Read the complete definitionbalálaw - A cover or lid made of palmleaves. It is chiefly used on tuba-containers (baláding) to prevent the tuba …
Read the complete definitionbalintawák - (From Balintawák, a town near Manila). A kind of coloured cloth, chiefly used as head-dress for women or …
Read the complete definitionA covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a …
Read the complete definitionThe name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum …
Read the complete definitionbatoláng - A kind of basket used chiefly in marketing fish; it is usually four-cornered at the bottom and round …
Read the complete definitionbayawán - A small basket used chiefly for winnowing rice in the open. It is similar to a tagakán.
Read the complete definitionBeaver cloth, a heavy felted woolen cloth, used chiefly for making overcoats.
Read the complete definitionA method of anthropometry, used chiefly for the identifi-cation of criminals and other persons, con-sisting of the taking and recording …
Read the complete definitionO. Eng. Expended. Be-fore the Britons and Saxons had introduced the general use of money, they traded chiefly by exchange …
Read the complete definitionOne given to drinking alcoholic beverages too freely; a tippler; -- chiefly used in composition; as, winebibber.
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