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41prolix — a. 1. Diffuse, wordy, verbose, circumlocutory, prosaic, loose, long, lengthy, lengthened out, full of detail, prolonged, protracted, long spun, spun out, long winded, discursive, rambling, not concise. 2. Tiresome, tedious, wearisome …
42Longspun — Long spun , a. Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long winded; tedious. [1913 Webster] The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison. [1913 Webster] …
43lengthy — I (prolix) adjective digressive, discursive, garrulous, long winded, loquacious, talky, verbose II (prolonged) adjective elongated, extensive, far reaching, gaunt, lengthened, made to last, prosy, protracted, rangy, sesquipedalian, spare,… …
44diffuse — I. v. a. Disperse, scatter, disseminate, spread, circulate, propagate, distribute, pour out, send abroad, spread abroad. II. a. 1. Prolix, copious, rambling, loose, verbose, wordy, long winded, long spun, spun out. 2. (Med.) Spreading, ill… …
45Brackley — Infobox UK place country = England official name= Brackley latitude= 52.032 longitude= 1.147 civil parish= population = 13,331 (2001 Census) shire district= South Northamptonshire shire county= Northamptonshire region= East Midlands constituency… …
46bovine spongiform encephalopathy — /spun jeuh fawrm / a fatal dementia of cattle, thought to be caused by the prion proteins implicated in Creutzfeldt Jakob disease. Also called mad cow disease. * * * ▪ pathology also called mad cow disease a fatal neurodegenerative… …
47fibre, man-made — Introduction fibre whose chemical composition, structure, and properties are significantly modified during the manufacturing process. Man made fibres are spun and woven into a huge number of consumer and industrial products, including… …
48Textile manufacturing — is one of the oldest human industries. The oldest known textiles date back to about 5000 B.C. In order to make textiles, the first requirement is a source of fiber from which a yarn can be made, primarily by spinning. The yarn is processed by… …
49Spinning (textiles) — Spinning is an ancient textile art in which plant, animal or synthetic fibers are twisted together to form yarn (or thread, rope, or cable). For thousands of years, fiber was spun by hand using simple tools, the spindle and distaff. Only in the… …
50literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
