angel : Idioms & Phrases

• a bed without posts.

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• noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  angel cake.
  

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• noun a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen
  phencyclidine; PCP; phencyclidine hydrochloride.
  

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• noun the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally
  Angel.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A species of shark (Squatina angelus) from six to eight feet long, found on the coasts of Europe and North America. It takes its name from its pectoral fins, which are very large and extend horizontally like wings when spread. (b) One of several species of compressed, bright colored fishes warm seas, belonging to the family, Chætodontidæ.

Webster 1913

• noun a light sponge cake made without egg yolks
  angel cake.
  

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• standard gold. Obs. Fuller.

Webster 1913

• noun sharks with broad flat bodies and winglike pectoral fins but that swim the way sharks do
  monkfish; angelfish; Squatina squatina.
  

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• . See Angel fish.

Webster 1913

• (Mil.), a kind of chain shot.

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• a perfumed liquid made at first chiefly from angelica; afterwards containing rose, myrtle, and orange-flower waters, with ambergris, etc. Obs.

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• noun South American plant cultivated for its very large nocturnally fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers
  Brugmansia suaveolens; Datura suaveolens.
  
• noun a South American plant that is cultivated for its large fragrant trumpet-shaped flowers
  Datura arborea; Brugmansia arborea; maikoa.
  

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• noun South American fibrous-rooted begonias having prominent basal leaf lobes suggesting angels' wings and racemes of coral-red flowers
  Begonia cocchinea.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black.

Webster 1913

• noun the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic
  blue; Amytal; blue devil; amobarbital sodium.
  

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• noun a city in southern California; motion picture capital of the world; most populous city of California and second largest in the United States
  Los Angeles.
  

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death cup; death angel; death cap.
  

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• noun fungus similar to Amanita phalloides
  Amanita verna.
  
• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death cup; death angel; death cap.
  

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• noun an angel believed to have special affection for a particular individual
  guardian spirit.
  

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• . (a) The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship and protection of each human being from birth. (b) Hence, a protector or defender in general. O. W. Holmes.

Webster 1913

• noun arborescent South American shrub having very large orange-red flowers
  Brugmansia sanguinea; Datura sanguinea.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a South American humming bird of the genus Heliangelos, noted for its beautiful colors and the brilliant luster of the feathers of its throat.

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