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   tete a tete
         adv 1: without the intrusion of a third person; in intimate
                  privacy; "we talked tete-a-tete"

English Dictionary: tete-a-tete by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
tete-a-tete
adj
  1. involving two persons; intimately private; "a tete-a-tete supper"; "a head-to-head conversation"
    Synonym(s): tete-a-tete, head-to-head
n
  1. a private conversation between two people
  2. small sofa that seats two people
    Synonym(s): love seat, loveseat, tete-a-tete, vis-a-vis
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Tuatha De Danann
n
  1. race of Celtic gods or demigods; ruled Ireland in the Golden Age
    Synonym(s): Tuatha De Danann, Tuatha De
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
  
  
      6. To make ready for an object, purpose, or use, as food by
            cooking; to cook completely or sufficiently; as, the meat
            is done on one side only.
  
      7. To put or bring into a form, state, or condition,
            especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death;
            to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to
            remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take
            off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form
            of; to translate or transform into, as a text.
  
                     Done to death by slanderous tongues.   -- Shak.
  
                     The ground of the difficulty is done away. -- Paley.
  
                     Suspicions regarding his loyalty were entirely done
                     away.                                                --Thackeray.
  
                     To do on our own harness, that we may not; but we
                     must do on the armor of God.               -- Latimer.
  
                     Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen
                     tunic.                                                -- W. Morris
                                                                              (Jason).
  
                     Though the former legal pollution be now done off,
                     yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as
                     much to be shunned.                           --Milton.
  
                     It [[bd]Pilgrim's Progress[b8]] has been done into
                     verse: it has been done into modern English. --
                                                                              Macaulay.
  
      8. To cheat; to gull; to overreach. [Colloq.]
  
                     He was not be done, at his time of life, by
                     frivolous offers of a compromise that might have
                     secured him seventy-five per cent.      -- De Quincey.
  
      9. To see or inspect; to explore; as, to do all the points of
            interest. [Colloq.]
  
      10. (Stock Exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a
            bill or note.
  
      Note:
            (a) Do and did are much employed as auxiliaries, the verb
                  to which they are joined being an infinitive. As an
                  auxiliary the verb do has no participle. [bd]I do set
                  my bow in the cloud.[b8] --Gen. ix. 13. [Now archaic
                  or rare except for emphatic assertion.]
  
                           Rarely . . . did the wrongs of individuals to
                           the knowledge of the public.      -- Macaulay.
            (b) They are often used in emphatic construction. [bd]You
                  don't say so, Mr. Jobson. -- but I do say so.[b8]
                  --Sir W. Scott. [bd]I did love him, but scorn him
                  now.[b8] --Latham.
            (c) In negative and interrogative constructions, do and
                  did are in common use. I do not wish to see them;
                  what do you think? Did C[91]sar cross the Tiber? He
                  did not. [bd]Do you love me?[b8] --Shak.
            (d) Do, as an auxiliary, is supposed to have been first
                  used before imperatives. It expresses entreaty or
                  earnest request; as, do help me. In the imperative
                  mood, but not in the indicative, it may be used with
                  the verb to be; as, do be quiet. Do, did, and done
                  often stand as a general substitute or representative
                  verb, and thus save the repetition of the principal
                  verb. [bd]To live and die is all we have to do.[b8]
                  --Denham. In the case of do and did as auxiliaries,
                  the sense may be completed by the infinitive (without
                  to) of the verb represented. [bd]When beauty lived
                  and died as flowers do now.[b8] --Shak. [bd]I . . .
                  chose my wife as she did her wedding gown.[b8]
                  --Goldsmith.
  
                           My brightest hopes giving dark fears a being.
                           As the light does the shadow.      -- Longfellow.
                  In unemphatic affirmative sentences do is, for the
                  most part, archaic or poetical; as, [bd]This just
                  reproach their virtue does excite.[b8] --Dryden.
  
      {To do one's best}, {To do one's diligence} (and the like),
            to exert one's self; to put forth one's best or most or
            most diligent efforts. [bd]We will . . . do our best to
            gain their assent.[b8] --Jowett (Thucyd.).
  
      {To do one's business}, to ruin one. [Colloq.] --Wycherley.
  
      {To do one shame}, to cause one shame. [Obs.]
  
      {To do over}.
            (a) To make over; to perform a second time.
            (b) To cover; to spread; to smear. [bd]Boats . . . sewed
                  together and done over with a kind of slimy stuff
                  like rosin.[b8] --De Foe.
  
      {To do to death}, to put to death. (See 7.) [Obs.]
  
      {To do up}.
            (a) To put up; to raise. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
            (b) To pack together and envelop; to pack up.
            (c) To accomplish thoroughly. [Colloq.]
            (d) To starch and iron. [bd]A rich gown of velvet, and a
                  ruff done up with the famous yellow starch.[b8]
                  --Hawthorne.
  
      {To do way}, to put away; to lay aside. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
  
      {To do with}, to dispose of; to make use of; to employ; --
            usually preceded by what. [bd]Men are many times brought
            to that extremity, that were it not for God they would not
            know what to do with themselves.[b8] --Tillotson.
  
      {To have to do with}, to have concern, business or
            intercourse with; to deal with. When preceded by what, the
            notion is usually implied that the affair does not concern
            the person denoted by the subject of have. [bd]Philology
            has to do with language in its fullest sense.[b8] --Earle.
            [bd]What have I to do with you, ye sons of Zeruiah? --2
            Sam. xvi. 10.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Without \With*out"\, prep. [OE. withoute, withouten, AS.
      wi[eb][?]tan; wi[eb] with, against, toward + [?]tan outside,
      fr. [?]t out. See {With}, prep., {Out}.]
      1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without
            doors.
  
                     Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the
                     coursers rein.                                    --Dryden.
  
      2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond.
  
                     Eternity, before the world and after, is without our
                     reach.                                                --T. Burnet.
  
      3. Not with; otherwise than with; in absence of, separation
            from, or destitution of; not with use or employment of;
            independently of; exclusively of; with omission; as,
            without labor; without damage.
  
                     I wolde it do withouten negligence.   --Chaucer.
  
                     Wise men will do it without a law.      --Bacon.
  
                     Without the separation of the two monarchies, the
                     most advantageous terms . . . must end in our
                     destruction.                                       --Addison.
  
                     There is no living with thee nor without thee.
                                                                              --Tatler.
  
      {To do without}. See under {Do}.
  
      {Without day} [a translation of L. sine die], without the
            appointment of a day to appear or assemble again; finally;
            as, the Fortieth Congress then adjourned without day.
  
      {Without recourse}. See under {Recourse}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Do \Do\, v. i.
      1. To act or behave in any manner; to conduct one's self.
  
                     They fear not the Lord, neither do they after . . .
                     the law and commandment.                     -- 2 Kings
                                                                              xvii. 34.
  
      2. To fare; to be, as regards health; as, they asked him how
            he did; how do you do to-day?
  
      3. [Perh. a different word. OE. dugen, dowen, to avail, be of
            use, AS. dugan. See {Doughty}.] To succeed; to avail; to
            answer the purpose; to serve; as, if no better plan can be
            found, he will make this do.
  
                     You would do well to prefer a bill against all kings
                     and parliaments since the Conquest; and if that
                     won't do; challenge the crown.            -- Collier.
  
      {To do by}. See under {By}.
  
      {To do for}.
            (a) To answer for; to serve as; to suit.
            (b) To put an end to; to ruin; to baffle completely; as, a
                  goblet is done for when it is broken. [Colloq.]
  
                           Some folks are happy and easy in mind when their
                           victim is stabbed and done for.   --Thackeray.
  
      {To do withal}, to help or prevent it. [Obs.] [bd]I could not
            do withal.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To do without}, to get along without; to dispense with.
  
      {To have done}, to have made an end or conclusion; to have
            finished; to be quit; to desist.
  
      {To have done with}, to have completed; to be through with;
            to have no further concern with.
  
      {Well to do}, in easy circumstances.

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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