An instance of excessive praise.
Excessive praise or approval, which is often insincere and sometimes contrived to win favour.
A deliberate affront or slight.
A sudden checking of a cable or rope.
Derived from a simpler polyhedron by the addition of extra triangular faces.
Conspicuously short.
Flat and broad, with the end slightly turned up.
To slight, ignore or behave coldly toward someone.
To check; to reprimand.
To halt the movement of a rope etc by turning it about a cleat or bollard etc; to secure a vessel in this manner.
To turn down insultingly; to dismiss.
To sob with convulsions.
To stub out (a cigarette etc).
To clip or break off the end of; to check or stunt the growth of.