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Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, No bill, No true bill, or Not found, though in some jurisdictions Ignored is still used..

Look :: Look (n.) The act of looking; a glance; a sight; a view; -- often in certain phrases; as, to have, get, take, throw, or cast, a look..

Vulgarism :: Vulgarism (n.) A vulgar phrase or expression.

Inversion :: Inversion (n.) A change of the usual order of words or phrases; as, of all vices, impurity is one of the most detestable, instead of, impurity is one of the most detestable of all vices..

Beaten :: Beaten (a.) Become common or trite; as, a beaten phrase..

Countersign :: Countersign (a.) A private signal, word, or phrase, which must be given in order to pass a sentry; a watchword..

Temperament :: Temperament (v. t.) The peculiar physical and mental character of an individual, in olden times erroneously supposed to be due to individual variation in the relations and proportions of the constituent parts of the body, especially of the fluids, as the bile, blood, lymph, etc. Hence the phrases, bilious or choleric temperament, sanguine temperament, etc., implying a predominance of one of these fluids and a corresponding influence on the temperament..

Section :: Section (n.) A part of a musical period, composed of one or more phrases. See Phrase..

Mention :: Mention (n.) A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of..

Neoterist :: Neoterist (n.) One ho introduces new word/ or phrases.

Italicism :: Italicism (n.) A phrase or idiom peculiar to the Italian language; to Italianism.

Legacy :: Legacy (n.) A business with which one is intrusted by another; a commission; -- obsolete, except in the phrases last legacy, dying legacy, and the like..

Expressional :: Expressional (a.) Of, or relating to, expression; phraseological; also, vividly representing or suggesting an idea or sentiment..

Obsoletism :: Obsoletism (n.) A disused word or phrase; an archaism.

Peg :: Peg (n.) A step; a degree; esp. in the slang phrase To take one down peg..

Phrase :: Phrase (n.) A mode or form of speech; the manner or style in which any one expreses himself; diction; expression.

Word :: Word (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence..

Good :: Good (superl.) Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth.

Godspeed :: Godspeed (n.) Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, God speed you..

Paraphrasian :: Paraphrasian (n.) A paraphraser.

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