(n) a transmission line for high-frequency signals

(v) influence or urge by gentle urging, caressing, or flattering; "He palavered her into going along"

(v) elaborate, as of theories and hypotheses; "Could you develop the ideas in your thesis"

(v) make palin and comprehensible; "He explained the laws of physics to his students"

(s) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; "emaciated bony hands"; "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"; "eyes were haggard and cavernous"; "small pinched faces"; "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"

(s) caused by or altered by or manifesting disease or pathology; "diseased tonsils"; "a morbid growth"; "pathologic tissue"; "pathological bodily processes"

(s) suggesting the horror of death and decay; "morbid details"

(s) suggesting an unhealthy mental state; "morbid interest in death"; "morbid curiosity"

(a) wandering freely; "at night in bed...his slowly ranging thoughts...encountered her"

(v) fight violence and try to establish peace in (a location); "The U.N. troops are working to pacify Bosnia"

(v) cause to be more favorably inclined; gain the good will of; "She managed to mollify the angry customer"

(n) a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)

(n) a letter from a pastor to the congregation

(n) a musical composition that evokes rural life

(s) suggestive of an idyll; charmingly simple and serene; "his idyllic life in Tahiti"; "the pastoral legends of America's Golden Age"

(s) used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility"

(a) of or relating to a pastor; "pastoral work"; "a pastoral letter"

(a) relating to shepherds or herdsmen or devoted to raising sheep or cattle; "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy"