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91Wild Hunt — For other uses, see Wild Hunt (disambiguation). The wild hunt: Åsgårdsreien (1872) by Peter Nicolai Arbo The Wild Hunt is an ancient folk myth prevalent across Northern, Western and Central Europe.[1] The fundamental prem …
92Menippean satire — Not to be confused with Menippeah The genre of Menippean satire is a form of satire, usually in prose, which has a length and structure similar to a novel and is characterized by attacking mental attitudes instead of specific individuals.[1]… …
93Chromatic dragon (Dungeons & Dragons) — The following is a list of the chromatic dragons, a fictional creature from the role playing game Dungeons Dragons. In this setting Chromatic dragons are typically of evil alignment. Tiamat is the queen of chromatic dragons. Chromatic dragons… …
94great auk — a large, flightless auk, Pinguinus impennis, of rocky islands off North Atlantic coasts: extinct since 1844. [1820 30] * * * Flightless seabird (Pinguinus impennis) extinct since 1844. Great auks bred in colonies on rocky islands off North… …
95Poland — /poh leuhnd/, n. a republic in E central Europe, on the Baltic Sea. 38,700,291; ab. 121,000 sq. mi. (313,400 sq. km). Cap.: Warsaw. Polish, Polska. * * * Poland Introduction Poland Background: Poland is an ancient nation that was conceived around …
96Queensland — /kweenz land , leuhnd/, n. a state in NE Australia. 2,295,123; 670,500 sq. mi. (1,736,595 sq. km). Cap.: Brisbane. * * * State (pop., 2001: 3,635,121), northeastern Australia. Bounded on the north by the Pacific Ocean and the Great Barrier Reef,… …
97fable, parable, and allegory — Introduction any form of imaginative literature (allegory) or spoken utterance constructed in such a way that readers or listeners are encouraged to look for meanings hidden beneath the literal surface of the fiction. A story (rhetoric) is… …
98western Africa, history of — Introduction history of the region from the 11th century to the present. A reasonable body of sources for the writing of western African history begins to be available about AD 1000. Three centuries earlier, the Arabs (Arab) had… …
99predatory — adjective 1) predatory birds Syn: predacious, carnivorous, hunting, raptorial; of prey 2) a predatory gleam in his eyes Syn: exploitative, wolfish, rapacious, vulturine, vulturous …
100buzzard — In Britain this is a name for a hawk; in the USA it describes various large birds of prey, including the vulture. Applied to a person by an American speaker, ‘buzzard’ describes a rapacious and contemptible individual, though a passing… …
