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• Out of the Wilderness (album) — Out of the Wilderness Studio album by Robert Bradley s Blackwater Surprise Released 21 Ap …   Wikipedia

• Plucked — Pluck Pluck, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Plucked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Plucking}.] [AS. pluccian; akin to LG. & D. plukken, G. pfl[ u]cken, Icel. plokka, plukka, Dan. plukke, Sw. plocka. ?27.] 1. To pull; to draw. [1913 Webster] Its own nature . . . plucks …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• plucked — said of fish broken or injured, e.g. herrings removed from a net but stuck so fast that they cannot be shaken out but have to be plucked by hand, pulling their heads off …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• plucked — plÊŒkt adj. brave, courageous plÊŒk n. internal organs of animals (used for food); pulling, tugging; failure; daring, spunk; courage v. pull out feathers (as of a chicken); tear out; cause to fail; deceive, cheat …   English contemporary dictionary

• pluck something out of the air — pluck (something) out of the air if you pluck a number out of the air, you say any number and not one that is the result of careful calculation. That figure of eighty thousand pounds isn t something we ve just plucked out of the air. We ve done a …   New idioms dictionary

• pluck out of the air — pluck (something) out of the air if you pluck a number out of the air, you say any number and not one that is the result of careful calculation. That figure of eighty thousand pounds isn t something we ve just plucked out of the air. We ve done a …   New idioms dictionary

• pluck something out of the air — pluck something out of/from/the air phrase to say the first number, date, fact etc that you think of without knowing whether it is correct ‘75% of people agree with me,’ I said, plucking a figure out of the air. Thesaurus: to guesssynonym Main en …   Useful english dictionary

• pluck out of the air —    To pluck something out of the air means to say a name, date, number, etc. spontaneously, without thinking about it.     What are we going to call the cat?    I just plucked a name out of the air and said: How about Daisy? …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

• pluck — [[t]plʌ̱k[/t]] plucks, plucking, plucked 1) VERB If you pluck a fruit, flower, or leaf, you take it between your fingers and pull it in order to remove it from its stalk where it is growing. [WRITTEN] [V n from n] I plucked a lemon from the tree …   English dictionary

• pluck — pluck1 [plʌk] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(pull something)¦ 2 pluck your eyebrows 3¦(take somebody/something away)¦ 4¦(chicken)¦ 5 pluck up (the) courage (to do something) 6¦(music)¦ 7 pluck something out of the air 7 pluck something out of thin air Phrasal… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• 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