These are the meanings of the letters ENBALSA when you unscramble them.
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Abase (a.)
To lower or depress; to throw or cast down; as, to abase the eye.
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Abase (a.)
To cast down or reduce low or lower, as in rank, office, condition in life, or estimation of worthiness; to depress; to humble; to degrade.
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Ansae (pl. )
of Ansa
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Balsa (n.)
A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America.
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Banal (a.)
Commonplace; trivial; hackneyed; trite.
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Basal (a.)
Relating to, or forming, the base.
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Blase (a.)
Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; used up.
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Nasal (a.)
Of or pertaining to the nose.
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Nasal (a.)
Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance.
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Nasal (n.)
An elementary sound which is uttered through the nose, or through both the nose and the mouth simultaneously.
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Nasal (n.)
A medicine that operates through the nose; an errhine.
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Nasal (n.)
Part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
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Nasal (n.)
One of the nasal bones.
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Nasal (n.)
A plate, or scale, on the nose of a fish, etc.
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Sabal (n.)
A genus of palm trees including the palmetto of the Southern United States.
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Sable (n.)
A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
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Sable (n.)
The fur of the sable.
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Sable (n.)
A mourning garment; a funeral robe; -- generally in the plural.
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Sable (n.)
The tincture black; -- represented by vertical and horizontal lines crossing each other.
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Sable (a.)
Of the color of the sable's fur; dark; black; -- used chiefly in poetry.
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Sable (v. t.)
To render sable or dark; to drape darkly or in black.