Ballet (n.) An artistic dance performed as a theatrical entertainment, or an interlude, by a number of persons, usually women. Sometimes, a scene accompanied by pantomime and dancing. |
Ballet (n.) The company of persons who perform the ballet. |
Ballet (n.) A light part song, or madrigal, with a fa la burden or chorus, -- most common with the Elizabethan madrigal composers. |
Ballet (n.) A bearing in coats of arms, representing one or more balls, which are denominated bezants, plates, etc., according to color. |
Dolly (n.) A contrivance, turning on a vertical axis by a handle or winch, and giving a circular motion to the ore to be washed |
Dolly (n.) A tool with an indented head for shaping the head of a rivet. |
Dolly (n.) In pile driving, a block interposed between the head of the pile and the ram of the driver. |
Dolly (n.) A small truck with a single wide roller used for moving heavy beams, columns, etc., in bridge building. |
Dolly (n.) A compact, narrow-gauge locomotive used for moving construction trains, switching, etc. |
Dolly (n.) A child's mane for a doll. |
Dolly Varden () A character in Dickens's novel "Barnaby Rudge," a beautiful, lively, and coquettish girl who wore a cherry-colored mantle and cherry-colored ribbons. |
Dolly Varden () A style of light, bright-figured dress goods for women |
Flat (superl.) Having an even and horizontal surface, or nearly so, without prominences or depressions |
Flat (superl.) Lying at full length, or spread out, upon the ground |
Flat (superl.) Wanting relief |
Flat (superl.) Tasteless |
Flat (superl.) Unanimated |
Flat (superl.) Lacking liveliness of commercial exchange and dealings |
Flat (superl.) Clear |
Flat (superl.) Below the true pitch |
Flat (superl.) Not sharp or shrill |
Flat (superl.) Sonant |
Flat (adv.) In a flat manner |
Flat (adv.) Without allowance for accrued interest. |
Flat (n.) A level surface, without elevation, relief, or prominences |
Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide |
Flat (n.) Something broad and flat in form |
Flat (n.) A flat-bottomed boat, without keel, and of small draught. |
Flat (n.) A straw hat, broad-brimmed and low-crowned. |
Flat (n.) A car without a roof, the body of which is a platform without sides |
Flat (n.) A platform on wheel, upon which emblematic designs, etc., are carried in processions. |
Flat (n.) The flat part, or side, of anything |
Flat (n.) A floor, loft, or story in a building |
Flat (n.) A horizontal vein or ore deposit auxiliary to a main vein |
Flat (n.) A dull fellow |
Flat (n.) A character [/] before a note, indicating a tone which is a half step or semitone lower. |
Flat (n.) A homaloid space or extension. |
Flat (v. t.) To make flat |
Flat (v. t.) To render dull, insipid, or spiritless |
Flat (v. t.) To depress in tone, as a musical note |
Flat (v. i.) To become flat, or flattened |
Flat (v. i.) To fall form the pitch. |
Flat-bottomed (a.) Having an even lower surface or bottom |
Flat-cap (n.) A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere |
Flat foot () A foot in which the arch of the instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground |
Flat-footed (a.) Having a flat foot, with little or no arch of the instep. |
Flat-footed (a.) Firm-footed |
Flat-headed (a.) Having a head with a flattened top |
Goloe-shoe (n.) A galoche. |
Shoe (n.) A covering for the human foot, usually made of leather, having a thick and somewhat stiff sole and a lighter top. It differs from a boot on not extending so far up the leg. |