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booby
Any of six or seven species of large tropical seabirds (family Sulidae), named for their presumed lack of intelligence. Two common species are wide-ranging in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans; another is found in the Pacific from S California to N Peru and on the Galá pagos Islands. The booby has a long bill, cigar-shaped body, and long, narrow, angular wings. It flies high above the ocean looking for schools of fish and squid, which it snatches in a vertical dive. Boobies vary in length from 25 to 35 in. (65-85 cm). They nest in colonies but are territorial.


book
Written (or printed) message of considerable length, meant for circulation and recorded on any of various materials that are durable and light enough to be easily portable. The papyrus roll of ancient Egypt is more nearly the direct ancestor of the modern book than is the clay tablet; examples of both date to c.3000 BC. Somewhat later, the Chinese independently created an extensive scholarship based on books, many made of wood or bamboo strips bound with cords. Lampblack ink was introduced in China c.AD 400 and printing from wooden blocks in the 6th cent. The Greeks adopted the papyrus roll and passed it on to the Romans. The parchment or vellum codex superseded the papyrus roll by AD 400. Medieval parchment or vellum leaves were prepared from the skins of animals. By the 15th cent., paper manuscripts were common. Printing spread rapidly in the late 15th cent. Subsequent technical achievements, such as the development of offset printing, improved many aspects of book culture.


cookie
File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site (i.e., by the server that manages the Web site) that lets a Web server store on the user's own machine information about the user, retrievable whenever the user returns to that Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to track which Web sites a user has visited, to target Web advertising, and to keep track or the products a user wishes to order on-line. Early cookies could retrieve data from other parts of the user's hard disk; current versions prevent this and permit a site to have access only to cookies written by that site.


holly
Any of approximately 400 species of red- or black-berried ornamental shrubs and trees that make up the genus Ilex (family Aquifoliaceae), incl. the popular Christmas hollies. English holly (I. aquifolium) bears shiny, spiny, dark, evergreen leaves; Amer. holly (I. opaca) has oblong, prickly leaves; both have usually red fruits. There are spineless and yellow-fruited forms of both species.


honey
Sweet, viscous liquid food, dark golden in color, produced in the honey sacs of various bees from the nectar of flowers. Honey has played an enormous role in human nutrition since ancient times; until about 250 years ago, it was ...

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