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Some douse with a bucket of cold water. The bucket is filled with water and left out overnight. They then walk with it outside and spill it over themselves. Preferences include being barefoot outside on the earth, and performing dousing at certain times and more frequently when ill. Dousing after banya. Russia
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" (/ ˌ s uː p ər ˌ k æ l ɪ ˌ f r æ dʒ ɪ ˌ l ɪ s t ɪ k ˌ ɛ k s p i ˌ æ l ɪ ˈ d oʊ ʃ ə s / ⓘ SOO-pər-KAL-ih ...
A dowser, from an 18th-century French book about superstitions. Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, claimed radiations (radiesthesia), [1] gravesites, [2] malign "earth vibrations" [3] and many other objects and materials without the use of a scientific apparatus.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
TOP TABLES: From fiery Sichuan feasts to comforting Uyghur classics, Maya Oppenheim shares her top picks for exploring the vibrant variety of Chinese cuisine in the capital – just in time for ...
An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.
Strychnine (/ ˈ s t r ɪ k n iː n,-n ɪ n /, STRIK-neen, -nin, US chiefly /-n aɪ n /-nyne) [6] [7] is a highly toxic, colorless, bitter, crystalline alkaloid used as a pesticide, particularly for killing small vertebrates such as birds and rodents.
In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]