a three-dimensional shape having twelve plane faces, in particular a regular solid figure with twelve equal pentagonal faces

a person given to voluble, empty talk; nonsense; blather

a bell tower, especially one freestanding from the body of a church

making or having a harsh sound; grating; creaking

solemnly renounce

a feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension

the infirmity or weakness of old age; senility

one's range of knowledge or sight

in poetry, a "foot" of two syllables, both of which are long in quantitative meter or stressed in accentual meter

to grow together; adhere (usually followed by to)

deep longing, especially when accompanied by tenderness or sadness

knitting; to knit with a reverse stitch

the concluding section in musical and poetic bar form

of the nature of or resembling that of sugar

to anticipate and prevent or eliminate (difficulties, disadvantages, etc.) by effective measures; render unnecessary

to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, especially by degrading or frustrating means