A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
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A shark of the genus Sphyrna or Zygaena, having the eyes set on projections from the sides of the head, which gives it a hammer shape. The Sphyrna zygaena is found in the North Atlantic. Called also hammer fish, and balance fish.
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A heavy, stupid fellow; a blockhead; a numskull; an ignoramus; a dunce; a dullard.
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A stupid person; a dunce.
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The anterior or superior part of an animal, containing the brain, or chief ganglia of the nervous system, the mouth, and in the higher animals, the c…
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Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes of the order Plagiostomi, found in all seas.
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Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and applied to a hurt or sore.
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Very dull; insensible; senseless; wanting in understanding; heavy; sluggish; in a state of stupor; -- said of persons.
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A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and native of the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- called also bonnet shark.
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An instrument for driving nails, beating metals, and the like, consisting of a head, usually of steel or iron, fixed crosswise to a handle.
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A round-edged, or hemispherical, end to the head of a hammer or sledge, used to stretch or bend metal by indentation.
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A stupid fellow; a dolt; a person deficient in understanding.
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One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
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A dunce; a numskull; a blockhead.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
A dunce; a dolt; a stupid fellow.
Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.
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