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   gipsywort
         n 1: hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers [syn:
               {gipsywort}, {gypsywort}, {Lycopus europaeus}]

English Dictionary: Gypsy Rose Lee by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
give care
v
  1. provide care for; "The nurse was caring for the wounded"
    Synonym(s): care, give care
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Gypsy Rose Lee
n
  1. United States striptease artist who became famous on Broadway in the 1930s (1914-1970)
    Synonym(s): Lee, Gypsy Rose Lee, Rose Louise Hovick
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
gypsywort
n
  1. hairy Eurasian herb with two-lipped white flowers [syn: gipsywort, gypsywort, Lycopus europaeus]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gipser \Gip"ser\, Gipsire \Gip"sire\, n. [F. gibeci[8a]re a game
      pouch or game pocket. Cf. {Gibbier}.]
      A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. --Ld. Lytton.
  
               A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as
               morn[82] milk.                                       --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gipser \Gip"ser\, Gipsire \Gip"sire\, n. [F. gibeci[8a]re a game
      pouch or game pocket. Cf. {Gibbier}.]
      A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle. --Ld. Lytton.
  
               A gipser all of silk, Hung at his girdle, white as
               morn[82] milk.                                       --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Secretary \Sec"re*ta*ry\, n.; pl. {Secretaries}. [F.
      secr[82]taire (cf. Pr. secretari, Sp. & Pg. secretario, It.
      secretario, segretario) LL. secretarius, originally, a
      confidant, one intrusted with secrets, from L. secretum a
      secret. See {Secret}, a. & n.]
      1. One who keeps, or is intrusted with, secrets. [R.]
  
      2. A person employed to write orders, letters, dispatches,
            public or private papers, records, and the like; an
            official scribe, amanuensis, or writer; one who attends to
            correspondence, and transacts other business, for an
            association, a public body, or an individual.
  
                     That which is most of all profitable is acquaintance
                     with the secretaries, and employed men of
                     ambassadors.                                       --Bacon.
  
      3. An officer of state whose business is to superintend and
            manage the affairs of a particular department of
            government, and who is usually a member of the cabinet or
            advisory council of the chief executive; as, the secretary
            of state, who conducts the correspondence and attends to
            the relations of a government with foreign courts; the
            secretary of the treasury, who manages the department of
            finance; the secretary of war, etc.
  
      4. A piece of furniture, with conveniences for writing and
            for the arrangement of papers; an escritoire.
  
      5. (Zo[94]l.) The secretary bird.
  
      {Secretary Bird}. [So called in allusion to the tufts of
            feathers at the back of its head, which were fancifully
            thought to resemble pens stuck behind the ear.] (Zo[94]l.)
            A large long-legged raptorial bird ({Gypogeranus
            serpentarius}), native of South Africa, but now
            naturalized in the West Indies and some other tropical
            countries. It has a powerful hooked beak, a crest of long
            feathers, and a long tail. It feeds upon reptiles of
            various kinds, and is much prized on account of its habit
            of killing and devouring snakes of all kinds. Called also
            {serpent eater}.
  
      Syn: See the Note under {Clerk}, n., 4.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Gypsywort \Gyp"sy*wort"\, n. (Bot.)
      A labiate plant (the {Lycopus Europ[91]us}). Gypsies are said
      to stain their skin with its juice.
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