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Answerable. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages.
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Applied to that class of literature in which the principal personage is the Spanish picaro, meaning a rascal, a knave, a rogue, an adventurer.
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Applied to the method delivering the ball in bowling, by swinging the arm horizontally.
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Applied to the peculiar wormlike wave motion of the intestines and other similar structures, produced by the successive contraction of the muscular fibers of their walls, forcing their contents onwards; as, peristaltic movement.
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Apt or disposed to quarrel; given to brawls and contention; easily irritated or provoked to contest; irascible; choleric.
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