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• fraught — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, freight, load, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German vracht, vrecht Date: 14th century chiefly Scottish load, cargo II. transitive verb (fraughted or fraught; fraughting) Etymology: Middle English …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Well-made play — The well made play (from the French: pièce bien faite ) is a genre of theatre from the nineteenth century, which Eugène Scribe first codified and is thought to have created and which Victorien Sardou developed. By the mid nineteenth century, it… …   Wikipedia

• Pumping (oil well) — In the context of oil wells, pumping is a routine operation involving injecting fluids into the well. Pumping may either be done by rigging up to the kill wing valve on the Xmas tree or, if an intervention rig up is present pumping into the riser …   Wikipedia

• Tillington, West Sussex — infobox UK place country = England static static image caption=All Hallows, Tillington latitude= 50.98913 longitude= 0.62975 official name = Tillington population = shire district= Chichester shire county= West Sussex region= South East England… …   Wikipedia

• Upperton, West Sussex — infobox UK place country = England static static image caption= latitude= 50.996 longitude= 0.6371 official name = Upperton population = civil parish= Tillington shire district= Chichester shire county= West Sussex region= South East England… …   Wikipedia

• literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …   Universalium

• performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical.       The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …   Universalium

• List of A Series of Unfortunate Events locations — This is a list of fictional locations that appear in the children s book series A Series of Unfortunate Events, by Lemony Snicket. Contents 1 Geographic locations 1.1 Hinterlands 1.2 Mortmain Mountains …   Wikipedia

• Russia — /rush euh/, n. 1. Also called Russian Empire. Russian, Rossiya. a former empire in E Europe and N and W Asia: overthrown by the Russian Revolution 1917. Cap.: St. Petersburg (1703 1917). 2. See Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. 3. See Russian… …   Universalium

• United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… …   Universalium