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a. Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in their native state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.
n. A fore-and-aft-rigged vessel with a mainmast stepped a little farther forward than in a sloop and carrying a mainsail and jibs, with a jigger mast far aft, usually placed abaft the rudder post.
Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome possession. [Slang]
The hypodermic injection of tuberculin, which has little or no effect with healthy cattle, but causes a marked rise in temperature in tuberculous animals.
n. [Toxin + - oid.] (Physiol. Chem.) An altered form of a toxin, possessing little or no toxic power.
n. 1. Any task, labor, set of circumstances, or the like, that yields satisfactory results or gives pleasure with little trouble or effort, as an easy course of study, a job where work is light, a bargain, etc. [Slang, Chiefly U. S.]
2. A snap shot with a firearm.
3. (Photog.) A snapshot.
4. Something of no value; as not worth a snap. [Colloq.]
A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
v. t. & i. [Cf. Slug, v. t.] To hit hard, esp. with little attention to aim or the like, as in cricket or boxing; to slug. [Cant or Slang]
n. (Card Playing) Winning all the tricks of a deal (called, in bridge, grand slam, the winning of all but one of the thirteen tricks being called a little slam.
(Pol. Econ.) A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, โ advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. โWhatever may be thought of Henry Georgeโs single- tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively higher assessment of ground rent, with corresponding relief for those who have made improvements, is a much-needed reform.โ A. T. Hadley.
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