an official prosecutor for a judicial district

Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)

missionary work for Islam

a light touch or stroke

a small quantity of something moist or liquid

apply (usually a liquid) to a surface

hit lightly

a Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad

dip a foot or hand briefly into a liquid

play in or as if in water, as of small children

work with in an amateurish manner

bob forward and under so as to feed off the bottom of a body of water

covered with bright patches (often used in combination)

an amateur who engages in an activity without serious intentions and who pretends to have knowledge

any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling

small European grebe

a dicotyledonous genus of the family Ericaceae

low straggling evergreen shrub of western Europe represented by several varieties with flowers from white to rose-purple

the capital and largest city of Bangladesh

small European freshwater fish with a slender bluish-green body

Australasian kingfishers

Australian kingfisher having a loud cackling cry

Russian country house

a concentration camp for Jews created by the Nazis near Munich in southern Germany

small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

small long-bodied short-legged German breed of dog having a short sleek coat and long drooping ears; suited for following game into burrows

a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals

relating to or consisting of dacite

the honeycreepers

a member of an armed gang of robbers

robbery by a gang of armed dacoits

low-growing to prostrate shrub with slender trailing branches; New Zealand

a kind of polyester fabric

evergreen coniferous shrubs or trees of New Zealand to Malaysia and Philippines

New Zealand evergreen valued for its light easily worked wood

Australasian evergreen trees or shrubs

New Zealand shrub

New Zealand silver pine of conical habit with long slender flexuous branches; adapted to cold wet summers and high altitudes

tall New Zealand timber tree

Tasmanian timber tree with yellow aromatic wavy-grained wood used for carving and ship building; sometimes placed in genus Dacrydium

type genus of the Dacrymycetaceae: fungi with a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa

a family of basidiomycetous fungi belonging to the order Tremellales having a bifurcate basidium that lacks septa

either of the two dilated ends of the lacrimal ducts at the nasal ends of the eyes that fill with tears secreted by the lacrimal glands

inflammation of the lacrimal sac causing obstruction of the tube draining tears into the nose

the craniometric point at the junction of the anterior border of the lacrimal bone with the frontal bone

a metrical unit with stressed-unstressed-unstressed syllables

a finger or toe in human beings or corresponding body part in other vertebrates

of or consisting of dactyls