One evening Sherlock Holmes was going along the street and suddenly saw a man down…
- It’s certain, this gentleman is very tired after work… or he is dead drunk… or he is after being with a woman, … — reflected Holmes. As it’s Sunday today, he can’t be coming back from work… At such a late hour all shops are closed, and he couldn’t buy alcohol. So he is coming back from a woman. But in this remote place there are only two women — Watson’s wife and mine. Consequently, as I’m coming back from Watson’s wife, …
- Watson, rascal, get up!!!
n. Form of highly syncopated early jazz, esp. For the piano.
RAGWORT
n. Yellow-flowered ragged-leaved plant.
RAILCAR
n. Single powered railway coach.
RAILING
n. (usu. In pl.) Fence or barrier made of rails.
RAILMAN
n. = *railwayman.
RAILWAY
n. - track or set of tracks of steel rails upon which trains run.
- such a system worked by a single company.
- organization and personnel required for its working.
RAIMENT
n. Archaic clothing. [arrayment: related to *array]
RAINBOW
trout n. Large trout orig. Of the pacific coast of n. America.
- —n. Arch of colours formed in the sky by reflection, refraction, and dispersion of the sun's rays in falling rain or in spray or mist. —adj. Many-coloured. [old english: related to *rain, *bow1]
RAKEOFF
n. Colloq. Commission or share.
RAMADAN
n. Ninth month of the muslim year, with strict fasting from sunrise to sunset. [arabic]
