A college student was delivering pizza to a regular customer"s house in New York.
The guy who answered the door asked him, "What is the usual tip?"
"Well," replied the youth,"this is my first trip here, but the other guys say if I get a quarter out of you, I"ll be doing great."
"Is that so?" snorted the man. "Well, just to show them how wrong they are, here"s five dollars."
"Thanks!" replied the youth, "I"ll put this in my school fund."
"What are you studying?" asked the man.
The lad smiled and said: "Applied psychology."
certificate n. Official document detailing a person's birth.
- control n. Contraception.
- n. - emergence of a baby or young from its mother's body.
- beginning (birth of civilization).
- a ancestry (of noble birth). B high or noble birth; inherited position. give birth to 1 produce (young).
- be the cause of. [old norse]
- rate n. Number of live births per thousand of population per year.
BISON
n. (pl. Same) wild hump-backed ox of europe or n. America. [latin from germanic]
BITCH
—n. - female dog or other canine animal.
- slang offens. Spiteful woman.
- slang unpleasant or difficult thing. —v. - speak scathingly or spitefully.
- complain. [old english]
BITTY
adj. (-ier, -iest) made up of bits; scrappy.
BLACK
and blue adj. Bruised.
- and white —n. Writing or printing (in black and white). —adj. - (of a film etc.) Monochrome.
- consisting of extremes only, oversimplified.
- art n. = *black magic.
- beetle n. The common cockroach.
- belt n. - highest grade of proficiency in judo, karate, etc.
- holder of this grade, entitled to wear a black belt.
- box n. Flight-recorder.
- country n. (prec. By the) industrial area of the midlands.
- death n. (prec. By the) 14th-c. Plague in europe.
- economy n. Unofficial and untaxed trade.
- eye n. Bruised skin around the eye.
- flag n. Flag of piracy.
- forest gateau n. Chocolate sponge with cherries and whipped cream.
- friar n. Dominican friar.
- hole n. Region of space from which matter and radiation cannot escape.
- ice n. Thin hard transparent ice on a road etc.
- magic n. Magic supposed to invoke evil spirits.
- maria n. Slang police van.
- mark n. Mark of discredit.
- market n. Illicit trade in rationed, prohibited, or scarce commodities. black marketeer n.
- mass n. Travesty of the mass, in worship of satan.
- pepper n. Pepper made by grinding the whole dried pepper berry including the outer husk.
- power n. Movement for black rights and political power.
- pudding n. Sausage of pork, dried pig's blood, suet, etc.
- rod n. Principal usher of the house of lords etc.
- sheep n. Colloq. Member of a family, group, etc. Regarded as a disgrace or failure.
- spot n. - place of danger or trouble.
- plant disease producing black spots.
- tea n. Tea that is fully fermented before drying.
- tie n. - black bow-tie worn with a dinner jacket.
- colloq. Man's formal evening dress.
- velvet n. Mixture of stout and champagne.
- watch n. (prec. By the) royal highland regiment.
- widow n. Venomous spider of which the female devours the male.
- —adj. - reflecting no light, colourless from lack of light (like coal or soot); completely dark.
- (black) of the human group with dark-coloured skin, esp. African.
- (of the sky etc.) Heavily overcast.
- angry; gloomy (black look, mood).
- implying disgrace etc. (in his black books).
- wicked, sinister, deadly.
- portending trouble (things look black).
- comic but sinister (black comedy).
- (of tea or coffee) without milk. 10 (of industrial labour or its products) boycotted, esp. By a trade union, in a strike etc. —n. - black colour or pigment.
- black clothes or material (dressed in black).
- a (in a game) black piece, ball, etc. B player of this.
- credit side of an account (in the black).
- (black) member of a dark-skinned race, esp. An african. —v. - make black (blacked his boots).
- declare (goods etc.) ‘black’. black out 1 effect a blackout on.
- undergo a blackout. [old english]
- —adj. - reflecting no light, colourless from lack of light (like coal or soot); completely dark.
- (black) of the human group with dark-coloured skin, esp. African.
- (of the sky etc.) Heavily overcast.
- angry; gloomy (black look, mood).
- implying disgrace etc. (in his black books).
- wicked, sinister, deadly.
- portending trouble (things look black).
- comic but sinister (black comedy).
- (of tea or coffee) without milk. 10 (of industrial labour or its products) boycotted, esp. By a trade union, in a strike etc. —n. - black colour or pigment.
- black clothes or material (dressed in black).
- a (in a game) black piece, ball, etc. B player of this.
- credit side of an account (in the black).
BLADE
n. - cutting part of a knife etc.
- flattened part of an oar, propeller, etc.
- a flat narrow leaf of grass etc. B broad thin part of a leaf.
- flat bone, e.g. In the shoulder. [old english]
BLAME
—v. (-ming) 1 assign fault or responsibility to.
- (foll. By on) fix responsibility for (an error etc.) On (blamed it on his brother). —n. - responsibility for an error etc.
- blaming or attributing of responsibility (got all the blame). be to blame be responsible; deserve censure. blameable adj. Blameless adj. Blameworthy adj. [french: related to *blaspheme]
BLAND
adj. - a mild, not irritating. B tasteless; insipid.
- gentle in manner; suave. blandly adv. Blandness n. [latin blandus smooth]
BLANK
cheque n. - cheque left for the payee to fill in.
- colloq. Unlimited freedom of action.
- verse n. Unrhymed verse, esp. Iambic pentameters.
- —adj. - a (of paper) not written or printed on. B (of a document) with spaces left for a signature or details.
- a empty (blank space). B unrelieved (blank wall).
- a without interest, result, or expression (blank face). B having (temporarily) no knowledge etc. (mind went blank).
- complete (a blank refusal; blank despair). —n. - a unfilled space, esp. In a document. B document having blank spaces.
- (in full blank cartridge) cartridge containing gunpowder but no bullet.
- dash written instead of a word or letter. —v. (usu. Foll. By off, out) screen, obscure. draw a blank get no response; fail. blankly adv. Blankness n. [french blanc white, from germanic]
BLARE
—v. (-ring) 1 sound or utter loudly.
- make the sound of a trumpet. —n. Blaring sound. [low german or dutch, imitative]
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