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   Salah al-Din Battalions
         n 1: the military arm of Hamas responsible for suicide bombings
               and other attacks on Israel [syn: {Qassam Brigades}, {Salah
               al-Din Battalions}, {Iz Al-Din Al-Qassam Battalions}]

English Dictionary: sialolith by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sialolith
n
  1. a stone formed in the salivary gland [syn: sialolith, salivary calculus]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Sole \Sole\, n. [AS. sole, fr. L. soolea (or rather an assumed
      L. sola), akin to solumround, soil, sole of the foot. Cf.
      {Exile}, {Saloon}, {Soil} earth, {Sole} the fish.]
      1. The bottom of the foot; hence, also, rarely, the foot
            itself.
  
                     The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.
                                                                              --Gen. viii.
                                                                              9.
  
                     Hast wandered through the world now long a day, Yet
                     ceasest not thy weary soles to lead.   --Spenser.
  
      2. The bottom of a shoe or boot, or the piece of leather
            which constitutes the bottom.
  
                     The [bd]caliga[b8] was a military shoe, with a very
                     thick sole, tied above the instep.      --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. The bottom or lower part of anything, or that on which
            anything rests in standing. Specifially:
            (a) (Agric.) The bottom of the body of a plow; -- called
                  also {slade}; also, the bottom of a furrow.
            (b) (Far.) The horny substance under a horse's foot, which
                  protects the more tender parts.
            (c) (Fort.) The bottom of an embrasure.
            (d) (Naut.) A piece of timber attached to the lower part
                  of the rudder, to make it even with the false keel.
                  --Totten.
            (e) (Mining) The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to
                  horizontal veins or lodes.
  
      {Sole leather}, thick, strong, used for making the soles of
            boots and shoes, and for other purposes.
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