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   bath towel
         n 1: a large towel; to dry yourself after a bath

English Dictionary: beaded lizard by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
beaded lizard
n
  1. lizard with black and yellowish beadlike scales; of western Mexico
    Synonym(s): beaded lizard, Mexican beaded lizard, Heloderma horridum
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Betitle \Be*ti"tle\, v. t.
      To furnish with a title or titles; to entitle. [Obs.]
      --Carlyle.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   bit twiddling n.   [very common] 1. (pejorative) An exercise in
   tuning (see {tune}) in which incredible amounts of time and effort
   go to produce little noticeable improvement, often with the result
   that the code becomes incomprehensible.   2. Aimless small
   modification to a program, esp. for some pointless goal.   3. Approx.
   syn. for {bit bashing}; esp. used for the act of frobbing the device
   control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get it back to a
   known state.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bit diddling
  
      {bit bashing}
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   bit twiddling
  
      1. (pejorative) An exercise in tuning (see {tune}) in which
      incredible amounts of time and effort go to produce little
      noticeable improvement, often with the result that the code
      becomes incomprehensible.
  
      2. Aimless small modification to a program, especially for
      some pointless goal.
  
      3. {bit bashing}, especially used for the act of frobbing the
      device control register of a peripheral in an attempt to get
      it back to a known state.
  
      [{Jargon File}]
  
  
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