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A large carnivorous feline mammal , found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size,

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A large carnivorous feline mammal , found in Southern Asia and in most parts of Africa, distinct varieties occurring in the different countries. The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. The length, however, is sometimes eleven feet to the base of the tail. The color is a tawny yellow or yellowish brown; the mane is darker, and the terminal tuft of the tail is black. In one variety, called the maneless lion, the male has only a slight mane.

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  • WONDERSTRUCK
    Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
  • WONDER
    OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not
  • WONDERFUL
    Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
  • INTERESTED
    1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness.
  • MARVELOUS
    1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
  • INTERESTINGNESS
    The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith.
  • WONDERLAND
    A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
  • WONDERWORK
    A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
  • WONDERLY
    Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
  • WONDERINGLY
    In a wondering manner.
  • CELEBRITY
    1. Celebration; solemnization. The celebrity of the marriage. Bacon. 2. The state or condition of being celebrated; fame; renown; as, the celebrity of Washington. An event of great celebrity in the history of astronomy. Whewell. 3. A person of
  • ODDITY
    1. The quality or state of being odd; singularity; queerness; peculiarity; as, oddity of dress, manners, and the like. That infinitude of oddities in him. Sterne. 2. That which is odd; as, a collection of oddities.
  • WONDERMENT
    Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
  • WONDER-WORKER
    One who performs wonders, or miracles.
  • INTEREST
    1. To engage the attention of; to awaken interest in; to excite emotion or passion in, in behalf of a person or thing; as, the subject did not interest him; to interest one in charitable work. To love our native country . . . to be interested in
  • WONDEROUS
    See WONDROUS
  • INQUISITIVENESS
    The quality or state of being inquisitive; the disposition to seek explanation and information; curiosity to learn what is unknown; esp., uncontrolled and impertinent curiosity. Mr. Boswell, whose inquisitiveness is seconded by great activity,
  • MARVELOUSLY
    In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
  • INTERESTEDNESS
    The state or quality of being interested; selfishness. Richardson.
  • WONDER-WORKING
    Doing wonders or surprising things.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • UNINTERESTED
    1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration.
  • INCURIOSITY
    Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
  • MARVEL
    wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
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    Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.
  • DISINTEREST
    Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor.
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    An increase in the ratio of transformation of an alternating current converter, accompanied by other changes in electrical conditions, occurring when the secondary of the converter is connected with a condenser of moderate capacity; -- so called
  • BY-INTEREST
    Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.
  • INCELEBRITY
    Want of celebrity or distinction; obscurity. Coleridge.

 

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