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2,685 words match “LOO”

CLOOM v.
To close with glutinous matter. [Obs.] Mortimer.
CLOOP n.
The sound made when a cork is forcibly drawn from a bottle. "The cloop of a cork wrenched from a bottle." Thackeray.
CLOOT n. 2 definitions
The Devil; Clootie; -- usually in the pl. Burns.
CLOOTIE n. 2 definitions
The Devil. "Satan, Nick, or Clootie." Burns.
COLD-BLOODED a. 3 definitions
Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.
CORNFLOOR n.
A thrashing floor. Hos. ix. 1.
CRACK-LOO; CRACKALOO n.
ceiling of a room so that they shall fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor. [Gamblers' Cant, U. S.]
DELOO n.
The duykerbok.
DOUBLOON n.
A Spanish gold coin, no longer issued, varying in value at different times from over fifteen dollars to about five. See Doblon in Sup.
DOWNLOOKED a.
Having a downcast countenance; dejected; gloomy; sullen. [R.] Dryden.
DRAGON'S BLOOD; DRAGON'S HEAD; DRAGON'S TAIL n.
See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.
DRAWLOOM n. 2 definitions
A kind of loom used in weaving figured patterns; -- called also drawboy.
EMBLOOM v.
To emblossom. Savage.
ENGLOOM v.
To make gloomy. [R.]
EPIPLOON; EPIPLOOEN n.
See Omentum.
FLOOD n. 6 definitions
ered; a deluge; a freshet; an inundation. A covenant never to destroy The earth again by flood. Milton.
FLOODAGE n.
Inundation. [R.] Carlyle.
FLOODER n.
One who floods anything.
FLOODING n. 2 definitions
An abnormal or excessive discharge of blood from the uterus. Dunglison.
FLOOK n.
A fluke of an anchor.
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