stag seaweed (Codium fragile); green sea fingers; dead man's fingers; felty fingers; forked felt-alga; sponge seaweed
eldest son (may be the only son); first-born son
to be too much for one; to find unmanageable; to be beyond one's control; to not know what to do with
dry; dry (tone, humour, etc.); unemotional; dry (of alcohol)
academic book; scholarly book; learned book; tome
cackling (sound of shrill laughter)
twentieth day of the month; twenty days
storehouse; warehouse; godown
charm; attractiveness; courtesy; ingratiating behaviour; entertainment; amusement
stranger; tramp; wanderer
live-in domestic service; live-in apprenticeship; public duty; public service
conquest; domination; mastery
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
to anyone; to everyone; by anyone; by everyone; in everyone; in anyone
humanity; empathy; kindness; human nature; common sense; customs and manners
profit and loss; advantage and disadvantage
greedy; grasping; tightfisted; predatory (e.g. business); calculating; avaricious
natural features; topography; climate; spiritual features
pot; jar; dice cup; depression; basin (e.g. of a waterfall); aim; what one wants
perishable food; perishables
hurriedly; in a hurry; in haste; (arch.) sudden
overflowing; effusive; exuberant; bountiful
near-miss; just missing (each other)
high-pressure salesmanship; the hard sell; aggressive peddling
strange; wonderful; weird; outrageous; mysterious
bunch of flowers; bouquet
to throw; to cast (e.g. vote, light, shadow); to devote oneself (e.g. to a cause); to invest; to put in; to administer (medicine); to give
sense of unity; sense of oneness
present continuous tense; present progressive form
all day long; all the day; throughout the day
waste of labor or energy; waste of labour; vain effort
stochastic; probabilistic