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   tidbit
         n 1: a small tasty bit of food [syn: {choice morsel}, {tidbit},
               {titbit}]

English Dictionary: tittivate by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
titbit
n
  1. a small tasty bit of food [syn: choice morsel, tidbit, titbit]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
titivate
v
  1. make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
    Synonym(s): spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
titivation
n
  1. sprucing up; making decorative additions to [syn: titivation, tittivation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tittivate
v
  1. make neat, smart, or trim; "Spruce up your house for Spring"; "titivate the child"
    Synonym(s): spruce up, spruce, titivate, tittivate, smarten up, slick up, spiff up
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tittivation
n
  1. sprucing up; making decorative additions to [syn: titivation, tittivation]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tooth powder
n
  1. a dentifrice in the form of a powder [syn: tooth powder, toothpowder]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
toothpowder
n
  1. a dentifrice in the form of a powder [syn: tooth powder, toothpowder]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
totipotence
n
  1. the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part; "animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development"
    Synonym(s): totipotency, totipotence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
totipotency
n
  1. the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part; "animal cells lose their totipotency at an early stage in embryonic development"
    Synonym(s): totipotency, totipotence
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
totipotent
adj
  1. having the ability to give rise to unlike cells; "embryonic stem cells are totipotent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Debatable \De*bat"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. debatable. See {Debate}.]
      Liable to be debated; disputable; subject to controversy or
      contention; open to question or dispute; as, a debatable
      question.
  
      {The Debatable Land} [or] {Ground}, a tract of land between
            the Esk and the Sark, claimed by both England and
            Scotland; the Batable Ground.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Devout \De*vout"\, a. [OE. devot, devout, F. d[82]vot, from L.
      devotus devoted, p. p. of devovere. See {Devote}, v. t.]
      1. Devoted to religion or to religious feelings and duties;
            absorbed in religious exercises; given to devotion; pious;
            reverent; religious.
  
                     A devout man, and one that feared God. --Acts x. 2.
  
                     We must be constant and devout in the worship of
                     God.                                                   --Rogers.
  
      2. Expressing devotion or piety; as, eyes devout; sighs
            devout; a devout posture. --Milton.
  
      3. Warmly devoted; hearty; sincere; earnest; as, devout
            wishes for one's welfare.
  
      {The devout}, devoutly religious persons, those who are
            sincerely pious.
  
      Syn: Holy; pure; religious; prayerful; pious; earnest;
               reverent; solemn; sincere.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tidbit \Tid"bit`\, n. [Tid + bit.]
      A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious
      morsel. [Written also {titbit}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titbit \Tit"bit`\, n.
      Same as {Tidbit}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tidbit \Tid"bit`\, n. [Tid + bit.]
      A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious
      morsel. [Written also {titbit}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titbit \Tit"bit`\, n.
      Same as {Tidbit}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tidbit \Tid"bit`\, n. [Tid + bit.]
      A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a delicious
      morsel. [Written also {titbit}.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titivate \Tit"i*vate\, Tittivate \Tit"ti*vate\, v. t. & i. [imp.
      & p. p. {Titivated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Titivating}.] [Formed
      from an uncertain source, in imitation of words in -ate fr.
      L.]
      To dress or smarten up; to spruce. -- {Tit`i*va"tion},
      {Tit`ti*va"tion}, n. [Both Humorous]
  
               [bd]Come here, an' let me titivate you.[b8] He sat down
               beside her, and submitted to be dusted.
                                                                              --Quiller-Couch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tittup \Tit"tup\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tittuped}or {Tittupped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Tittuping} or {Tittupping}.] [Written also
      {titup}.] [Cf. {Teeter}.]
      To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an
      impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk. --Kipling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tittup \Tit"tup\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Tittuped}or {Tittupped};
      p. pr. & vb. n. {Tittuping} or {Tittupping}.] [Written also
      {titup}.] [Cf. {Teeter}.]
      To behave or move in a lively or restless manner, as an
      impatient horse; to caper; to prance; to frisk. --Kipling.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titubate \Tit"u*bate\, v. i. [L. titubatus, p. p. of titubare to
      stagger, totter.]
      1. To stumble. [Obs.]
  
      2. To rock or roll, as a curved body on a plane.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Titubation \Tit`u*ba"tion\, n. [L. titubatio: cf. F.
      titubation.]
      The act of stumbling, rocking, or rolling; a reeling.
      --Quain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Dip \Dip\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Dipped}or {Dipt} ([?]); p. pr. &
      vb. n. {Dipping}.] [OE. dippen, duppen, AS. dyppan; akin to
      Dan. dyppe, Sw. doppa, and to AS. d[?]pan to baptize, OS.
      d[?]pian, D. doopen, G. taufen, Sw. d[94]pa, Goth. daupjan,
      Lith. dubus deep, hollow, OSlav. dupl[?] hollow, and to E.
      dive. Cf. {Deep}, {Dive}.]
      1. To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into
            a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.
  
                     The priest shall dip his finger in the blood. --Lev.
                                                                              iv. 6.
  
                     [Wat'ry fowl] now dip their pinions in the briny
                     deep.                                                --Pope.
  
                     While the prime swallow dips his wing. --Tennyson.
  
      2. To immerse for baptism; to baptize by immersion. --Book of
            Common Prayer. Fuller.
  
      3. To wet, as if by immersing; to moisten. [Poetic]
  
                     A cold shuddering dew Dips me all o'er. --Milton.
  
      4. To plunge or engage thoroughly in any affair.
  
                     He was . . . dipt in the rebellion of the Commons.
                                                                              --Dryden.
  
      5. To take out, by dipping a dipper, ladle, or other
            receptacle, into a fluid and removing a part; -- often
            with out; as, to dip water from a boiler; to dip out
            water.
  
      6. To engage as a pledge; to mortgage. [Obs.]
  
                     Live on the use and never dip thy lands. --Dryden.
  
      {Dipped candle}, a candle made by repeatedly dipping a wick
            in melted tallow.
  
      {To dip snuff}, to take snuff by rubbing it on the gums and
            teeth. [Southern U. S.]
  
      {To dip the colors} (Naut.), to lower the colors and return
            them to place; -- a form of naval salute.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Flag \Flag\, n. [Cf. LG. & G. flagge, Sw. flagg, Dan. flag, D.
      vlag. See {Flag} to hang loose.]
      1. That which flags or hangs down loosely.
  
      2. A cloth usually bearing a device or devices and used to
            indicate nationality, party, etc., or to give or ask
            information; -- commonly attached to a staff to be waved
            by the wind; a standard; a banner; an ensign; the colors;
            as, the national flag; a military or a naval flag.
  
      3. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of
                  certain hawks, owls, etc.
            (b) A group of elongated wing feathers in certain hawks.
            (c) The bushy tail of a dog, as of a setter.
  
      {Black flag}. See under {Black}.
  
      {Flag captain}, {Flag leutenant}, etc., special officers
            attached to the flagship, as aids to the flag officer.
  
      {Flag officer}, the commander of a fleet or squadron; an
            admiral, or commodore.
  
      {Flag of truse}, a white flag carried or displayed to an
            enemy, as an invitation to conference, or for the purpose
            of making some communication not hostile.
  
      {Flag share}, the flag officer's share of prize money.
  
      {Flag station} (Railroad), a station at which trains do not
            stop unless signaled to do so, by a flag hung out or
            waved.
  
      {National flag}, a flag of a particular country, on which
            some national emblem or device, is emblazoned.
  
      {Red flag}, a flag of a red color, displayed as a signal of
            danger or token of defiance; the emblem of anarchists.
  
      {To dip, the flag}, to mlower it and quickly restore it to
            its place; -- done as a mark of respect.
  
      {To hang out the white flag}, to ask truce or quarter, or, in
            some cases, to manifest a friendly design by exhibiting a
            white flag.
  
      {To hang the flag} {half-mast high [or] half-staff}, to raise
            it only half way to the mast or staff, as a token or sign
            of mourning.
  
      {To} {strike, [or] lower}, {the flag}, to haul it down, in
            token of respect, submission, or, in an engagement, of
            surrender.
  
      {Yellow flag}, the quarantine flag of all nations; also
            carried at a vessel's fore, to denote that an infectious
            disease is on board.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Doubt \Doubt\, v. t.
      1. To question or hold questionable; to withhold assent to;
            to hesitate to believe, or to be inclined not to believe;
            to withhold confidence from; to distrust; as, I have heard
            the story, but I doubt the truth of it.
  
                     To admire superior sense, and doubt their own!
                                                                              --Pope.
  
                     I doubt not that however changed, you keep So much
                     of what is graceful.                           --Tennyson.
  
      {To doubt not but}.
  
                     I do not doubt but I have been to blame. --Dryden.
  
                     We doubt not now But every rub is smoothed on our
                     way.                                                   --Shak.
  
      Note: That is, we have no doubt to prevent us from believing,
               etc. (or notwithstanding all that may be said to the
               contrary) -- but having a preventive sense, after verbs
               of [bd]doubting[b8] and [bd]denying[b8] that convey a
               notion of hindrance. --E. A. Abbott.
  
      2. To suspect; to fear; to be apprehensive of. [Obs.]
  
                     Edmond [was a] good man and doubted God. --R. of
                                                                              Gloucester.
  
                     I doubt some foul play.                     --Shak.
  
                     That I of doubted danger had no fear. --Spenser.
  
      3. To fill with fear; to affright. [Obs.]
  
                     The virtues of the valiant Caratach More doubt me
                     than all Britain.                              --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
            (b) To strike cloth with teasels to raise a nap.
                  --Halliwell.
            (c) To rub or dress with grease, as leather in the process
                  of cyrrying it. --Tomlinson.
            (d) To prepare for fighting, as a gamecock, by trimming
                  the hackles and cutting off the comb and wattles.
  
      {To dub a fly}, to dress a fishing fly. [Prov. Eng.]
            --Halliwell.
  
      {To dub out} (Plastering), to fill out, as an uneven surface,
            to a plane, or to carry out a series of small projections.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Bitter \Bit"ter\, a. [AS. biter; akin to Goth. baitrs, Icel.
      bitr, Dan., Sw., D., & G. bitter, OS. bittar, fr. root of E.
      bite. See {Bite}, v. t.]
      1. Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of
            wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine;
            bitter as aloes.
  
      2. Causing pain or smart; piercing; painful; sharp; severe;
            as, a bitter cold day.
  
      3. Causing, or fitted to cause, pain or distress to the mind;
            calamitous; poignant.
  
                     It is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast
                     forsaken the Lord thy God.                  --Jer. ii. 19.
  
      4. Characterized by sharpness, severity, or cruelty; harsh;
            stern; virulent; as, bitter reproach.
  
                     Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against
                     them.                                                --Col. iii.
                                                                              19.
  
      5. Mournful; sad; distressing; painful; pitiable.
  
                     The Egyptians . . . made their lives bitter with
                     hard bondage.                                    --Ex. i. 14.
  
      {Bitter apple}, {Bitter cucumber}, {Bitter gourd}. (Bot.) See
            {Colocynth}.
  
      {Bitter cress} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Cardamine}, esp.
            {C. amara}.
  
      {Bitter earth} (Min.), tale earth; calcined magnesia.
  
      {Bitter principles} (Chem.), a class of substances, extracted
            from vegetable products, having strong bitter taste but
            with no sharply defined chemical characteristics.
  
      {Bitter salt}, Epsom salts; magnesium sulphate.
  
      {Bitter vetch} (Bot.), a name given to two European
            leguminous herbs, {Vicia Orobus} and {Ervum Ervilia}.
  
      {To the bitter end}, to the last extremity, however
            calamitous.
  
      Syn: Acrid; sharp; harsh; pungent; stinging; cutting; severe;
               acrimonious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Tip \Tip\, v. t. [Cf. LG. tippen to tap, Sw. tippa, and E. tap
      to strike gently.]
      1. To strike slightly; to tap.
  
                     A third rogue tips me by the elbow.   --Swift.
  
      2. To bestow a gift, or douceur, upon; to give a present to;
            as, to tip a servant. [Colloq.] --Thackeray.
  
      3. To lower one end of, or to throw upon the end; to tilt;
            as, to tip a cask; to tip a cart.
  
      {To tip off}, to pour out, as liquor.
  
      {To tip over}, to overturn.
  
      {To tip the wink}, to direct a wink; to give a hint or
            suggestion by, or as by, a wink. [Slang] --Pope.
  
      {To tip up}, to turn partly over by raising one end.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      {Tooth powder}, a powder for cleaning the teeth; a
            dentifrice.
  
      {Tooth rash}. (Med.) See {Red-gum}, 1.
  
      {To show the teeth}, to threaten. [bd]When the Law shows her
            teeth, but dares not bite.[b8] --Young.
  
      {To the teeth}, in open opposition; directly to one's face.
            [bd]That I shall live, and tell him to his teeth .[b8]
            --Shak.
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