bake blind v. phr.— «When recipes tell you to bake blind, they don’t mean cover your eyes. Baking blind is the term for cooking a pie shell—partially or completely—without any filling. You shouldn’t just pop the shell in the oven. It’ll puff or...
buffalo n.— «“So if it’s an artillery shell we can see that,” McPhail says, “and then you send your buffalo up there which has this big claw, and it sort of just claws at it and makes sure it is what we think it is.” The buffalo in question is the...
blind adj.— «Top Government sources have told The Sunday Express that a majority of the 2,000-strong Krasnopol inventory has been found defective: the shell, priced over Rs 15 lakh per piece, hits the target accurately during test-firing but fails...
cultchless adj.— «The Chesapeake Bay Foundation, for example, stood by as nearly 750,000 such “cultchless” oysters were eaten by cow-nosed rays in two days earlier this spring at a reef site on the Piankatank River. Cultchless is another term for a...
magnecule n.— «When the atoms are removed from the arc, the electron orbits return to a collectively neutral state, except that instead of single atoms, multiple atoms are now combined magnetically into units. Santilli coined the term “magnecules”...
bottle service n.— «Some Chicago clubgoers wanting to feel like a VIP will shell out hundreds of dollars for their own bottle of expensive vodka or other liquor, then settle in to be doted on at a private table where they can see and be seen. But...