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| "DIPLOBLASTIC": "Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinallayers.", | |
| "DEFIGURE": "To delineate. [Obs.]These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.", | |
| "LOMBARD": "Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.", | |
| "BAHAISM": "The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.", | |
| "FUMERELL": "See Femerell.", | |
| "ROYALET": "A petty or powerless king. [R.]there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by hisleave. Fuller.", | |
| "TROPHIED": "Adorned with trophies.The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.", | |
| "ZEQUIN": "See Sequin.", | |
| "MILLWRIGHT": "A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set uptheir machinery.", | |
| "PHOTOGRAPHOMETER": "An instrument for determining the sensibility of the platesemployed in photographic processes to luminous rays.", | |
| "SCHEELIUM": "The metal tungsten. [Obs.]", | |
| "ALVEOLATE": "Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.", | |
| "LIMULUS": "The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a fewspecies from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from theAtlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab,horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.", | |
| "OSMUND": "A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The mostremarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmundaregalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnatefronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstockcontains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.", | |
| "POTTEEN": "See Poteen.", | |
| "UNDERRUN": "To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along andunder, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examiningit.", | |
| "EMPLASTIC": "Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as,emplastic applications.", | |
| "RHYTHMICS": "The department of musical science which treats of the length ofsounds.", | |
| "PLEUROPTERA": "A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.", | |
| "UNBLOODY": "Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice inwhich no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.", | |
| "CINCINNUS": "A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arisealternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called alsoscorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin\"nal (#), a.", | |
| "INDOCILITY": "The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect;unteachableness; intractableness.The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.", | |
| "TELEOCEPHIAL": "An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the commonmarket species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.", | |
| "CANEBRAKE": "A thicket of canes. Ellicott.", | |
| "QUININIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as ayellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.", | |
| "RICINIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly,designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.", | |
| "TELLURAL": "Of or pertaining to the earth. [R.]", | |
| "OTHERNESS": "The quality or state of being other or different; alterity;oppositeness.", | |
| "FASCICLE": "A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicleof fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.", | |
| "REENJOYMENT": "Renewed enjoiment.", | |
| "LONGIROSTER": "One of the Longirostres.", | |
| "RHAPSODIZE": "To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.", | |
| "WATER VIOLET": "See under Violet.", | |
| "TRUNCHEONED": "Having a truncheon.", | |
| "UNDERWENT": "imp. of Undergo.", | |
| "APITPAT": "With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.", | |
| "BRISKET": "That part of the breast of an animal which extends from thefore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of ahorse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.", | |
| "KEPHALIN": "One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposedby Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.", | |
| "METELY": "According to measure or proportion; proportionable;proportionate. [Obs.]", | |
| "JOHNSON GRASS": "A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in theSouthern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks arelarge and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cubagrass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.", | |
| "MOP": "A made-up face; a grimace. \"What mops and mowes it makes!\"Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "SYMPOSIAC": "Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happeningwhere company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "ULVA": "A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including thekinds called sea lettuce.", | |
| "-ANA": "A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote acollection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus,Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsonianaof Johnson, etc.", | |
| "PHARISEAN": "Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.]\"Pharisean disciples.\" Milton.", | |
| "PUTRIDNESS": "Putridity. Floyer.", | |
| "TOUSEL": "Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]", | |
| "TETRAGON": "A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as asquare, a rhombus, etc.", | |
| "HARELD": "The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.", | |
| "PYCNOSTYLE": "See under Intercolumniation. -n.", | |
| "BOLE": "The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.", | |
| "BASISOLUTE": "Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.", | |
| "HISTORIOGRAPHY": "The art of employment of an historiographer.", | |
| "CURSORILY": "In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.", | |
| "GLOSSARIST": "A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; ascholiast. Tyrwhitt.", | |
| "APOTACTITE": "One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitationof the first believers, renounced all their possessions.", | |
| "FRITHY": "Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.", | |
| "ZECHIN": "See Sequin.", | |
| "BESTAR": "To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or aswith, stars; to bestud. \"Bestarred with anemones.\" W. Black.", | |
| "CARICATURIST": "One who caricatures.", | |
| "CHAMAL": "The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.", | |
| "OPINIATED": "Opinionated. [Obs.]", | |
| "PELICOSAURIA": "A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles fromthe Permian formation.", | |
| "PICKERY": "Petty theft. [Scot.] Holinshed.", | |
| "DOUR": "Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.[Scot.]A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.", | |
| "AGERATUM": "A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) haslavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.", | |
| "BEDSTAFF": "\"A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, tohold the clothes from slipping on either side.\" Johnson.Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson.Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.", | |
| "GLADFUL": "Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad\"ful*ness, n. [R.]Spenser.It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.", | |
| "INDOXYL": "A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol,obtained as an oily liquid.", | |
| "NOTHINGISM": "Nihility; nothingness. [R.]", | |
| "GNARL": "To growl; to snarl.And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. Shak.", | |
| "ANGIOSPERMATOUS": "Same as Angiospermous.", | |
| "INCUNABULUM": "A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch;especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.", | |
| "MORIGERATION": "Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.", | |
| "INCOMPARED": "Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "OVERSWAY": "To bear sway over.", | |
| "SUBSECUTE": "To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could besubsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.", | |
| "BACILLUS": "A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetableorganism.", | |
| "ETHEREALITY": "The state of being ethereal; etherealness.Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged toWordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.", | |
| "REJOICER": "One who rejoices.", | |
| "SINGULT": "A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.", | |
| "MELAINOTYPE": "See Melanotype.", | |
| "STOPPED": "Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said ofcertain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.", | |
| "WESTERING": "Passing to the west.Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.", | |
| "CHINAMAN": "A native of China; a Chinese.", | |
| "FORESKIN": "The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; theprepuce.", | |
| "CEPHALOTOME": "An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitatedelivery.", | |
| "OVERLOOKER": "One who overlooks.", | |
| "CARBINOL": "Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in thehomologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol isthe type.", | |
| "PROFESSED": "Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, aprofessed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. Theprofessed (R. C. Ch.) , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by aspecial vow. See the note under Jesuit.", | |
| "COPPER-NOSE": "A red nose. Shak.", | |
| "ESOTERICISM": "Esoteric doctrine or principles.", | |
| "APLACENTAL": "Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.", | |
| "JURAMENTUM": "An oath.", | |
| "LITHARGYRUM": "Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fineyellow scales.", | |
| "LUCIFERIAN": "One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in thefourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because theywould not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.", | |
| "VERDINE": "A commercial name for green aniline dye.", | |
| "ARUNDIFEROUS": "Producing reeds or canes.", | |
| "EXCEEDINGLY": "To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. Itsignifies more than very.", | |
| "STAGNANTLY": "In a stagnant manner.", | |
| "UNMAGISTRATE": "To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate. [Obs.]Milton.", | |
| "BOTTOM": "The part of a ship which is ordinarily under water; hence, thevessel itself; a ship.My ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak.Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the samebottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft.Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amountof merchandise.", | |
| "CARPETLESS": "Without a carpet.", | |
| "RESEMBLABLE": "Admitting of being compared; like. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "RINGBIRD": "The reed bunting. It has a collar of white feathers. Calledalso ring bunting.", | |
| "OVERGREEDY": "Excessively greedy.", | |
| "BOUNDING": "Moving with a bound or bounds.The bounding pulse, the languid limb. Montgomery.", | |
| "ASCERTAINMENT": "The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding outby investigation; discovery.The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.", | |
| "DEVOTEMENT": "The state of being devoted, or set apart by a vow. [R.] Bp.Hurd.", | |
| "CALOTYPE": "A method of taking photographic pictures, on paper sensitizedwith iodide of silver; -- also called Talbotype, from the inventor,Mr. Fox. Talbot.", | |
| "SANDWICH": "Two pieces of bread and butter with a thin slice of meat,cheese, or the like, between them.", | |
| "BORING": "The chips or fragments made by boring. Boring bar, a revolvingor stationary bar, carrying one or more cutting tools for dressinground holes.-- Boring tool (Metal Working), a cutting tool placed in a cutterhead to dress round holes. Knight.", | |
| "IMPERIOUSNESS": "The quality or state of being imperious; arrogance;haughtiness.Imperiousness and severity is but an ill way of treating men who havereason of their own to guide them. Locke.", | |
| "HAEMOPLASTIC": "Same as H\u00e6matoplastic.", | |
| "TANIST": "In Ireland, a lord or proprietor of a tract of land or of acastle, elected by a family, under the system of tanistry.This family [the O'Hanlons] were tanists of a large territory withinthe present county of Armagh. M. A. Lower.", | |
| "MAINTOP": "The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-riggedvessels.", | |
| "NUMB": "To make numb; to deprive of the power of sensation or motion;to render senseless or inert; to deaden; to benumb; to stupefy.For lazy winter numbs the laboring hand. Dryden.Like dull narcotics, numbing pain. Tennyson.", | |
| "TANYSTOMATA": "A division of dipterous insects in which the proboscis is largeand contains lancelike mandibles and maxill\u00e6. The horseflies androbber flies are examples.", | |
| "ARLES": "An earnest; earnest money; money paid to bind a bargain.[Scot.] Arles penny, earnest money given to servants. Kersey.", | |
| "SACCHARIMETRY": "The act, process or method of determining the amount and kindof sugar present in sirup, molasses, and the like, especially by theemployment of polarizing apparatus.", | |
| "GRAMOPHONE": "An instrument for recording, preserving, and reproducingsounds, the record being a tracing of a phonautograph etched in somesolid material. Reproduction is accomplished by means of a systemattached to an elastic diaphragm.", | |
| "LIMOUS": "Muddy; slimy; thick. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "RESORBENT": "Swallowing up. Wodhull.", | |
| "REIS": "The word is used as a Portuguese designation of money ofaccount, one hundred reis being about equal in value to eleven cents.", | |
| "DEPHLEGMATOR": "An instrument or apparatus in which water is separated byevaporation or distillation; the part of a distilling apparatus inwhich the separation of the vapors is effected.", | |
| "PADDLEWOOD": "The light elastic wood of the Aspidosperma excelsum, a tree ofGuiana having a fluted trunk readily split into planks.", | |
| "MISTITLE": "To call by a wrong title.", | |
| "PERSUASIBILITY": "Capability of being persuaded. Hawthorne.", | |
| "RAFTING": "The business of making or managing rafts.", | |
| "PROTEROGYNOUS": "Having the pistil come to maturity before the stamens;protogynous; -- opposed to proterandrous.", | |
| "MULTIFACED": "Having many faces.", | |
| "CATCHPENNY": "Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from theignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.-- n.", | |
| "VILLA": "A country seat; a country or suburban residence of somepretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper.", | |
| "OARSMAN": "One who uses, or is skilled in the use of, an oar; a rower.", | |
| "MAGNIFICENCE": "The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality ofbeing magnificent. Acts xix. 27. \"Then cometh magnificence.\" Chaucer.And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's highmagnificence, who built so spacious. Milton.The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence. Eustace.", | |
| "THUNDERHEAD": "A rounded mass of cloud, with shining white edges; a cumulus, -- often appearing before a thunderstorm.", | |
| "SORTANCE": "Suitableness; agreement. [Obs.] hak.", | |
| "TRIFOLIUM": "A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers andusually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all ofwhich are called clover. See Clover.", | |
| "GLIB": "To make glib. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "FOOTHOT": "Hastily; immediately; instantly; on the spot; hotfloot. Gower.Custance have they taken anon, foothot. Chaucer.", | |
| "ORPHELINE": "An orphan. [Obs.] Udcll.", | |
| "ADULARIA": "A transparent or translucent variety of common feldspar, ororthoclase, which often shows pearly opalescent reflections; --called by lapidaries moonstone.", | |
| "JUMPING DISEASE": "A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit,observed among the woodsmen of Maine.", | |
| "STAGY": "Having an air or manner characteristic of the stage;theatrical; artificial; as, a stagy tone or bearing; --chiefly useddepreciatively.", | |
| "POLITICASTER": "A petty politician; a pretender in politics. Milton.", | |
| "SHRIEKER": "One who utters a shriek.", | |
| "PRATIQUE": "Primarily, liberty of converse; intercourse; hence, acertificate, given after compliance with quarantine regulations,permitting a ship to land passengers and crew; -- a term usedparticularly in the south of Europe.", | |
| "HIGH": "To hie. [Obs.]Men must high them apace, and make haste. Holland.", | |
| "PUSILLANIMOUSLY": "With pusillanimity.", | |
| "MALTMAN": "A man whose occupation is to make malt.", | |
| "VIRGINIA": "One of the States of the United States of America.-- a.", | |
| "AMISSIBLE": "Liable to be lost. [R.]", | |
| "QUARTERLY": "A periodical work published once a quarter, or four times in ayear.", | |
| "WATER BELLOWS": "Same as Tromp.", | |
| "INCORPOREALIST": "One who believes in incorporealism. Cudworth.", | |
| "PROTEUS": "A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed differentshapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance orprinciples.", | |
| "ANTISYPHILITIC": "Efficacious against syphilis.-- n.", | |
| "CATACAUSTIC": "Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curveformed by reflection. See Caustic, a. Nichol.", | |
| "RELENTMENT": "The act or process of retenting; the state of having relented.Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "BETTY": "A short bar used by thieves to wrench doors open. [Written alsobettee.]The powerful betty, or the artful picklock. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "FREN": "A stranger. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "PRODIGIOUSNESS": "The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of havingqualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.", | |
| "INSCRUTABLY": "In an inscrutable manner.", | |
| "BEJUMBLE": "To jumble together.", | |
| "NEMOPHILIST": "One who is fond of forest or forest scenery; a haunter of thewoods. [R.]", | |
| "GOOD-TEMPERED": "Having a good temper; not easily vexed. See Good-natured.", | |
| "RANDON": "Random. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "BOTCHEDLY": "In a clumsy manner.", | |
| "EXCOMMUNE": "To exclude from participation in; to excommunicate. [Obs.]Poets . . . were excommuned Plato's common wealth Gayton.", | |
| "BULLOCK": "To bully. [Obs.]She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote.", | |
| "AKNOW": "Earlier form of Acknow. [Obs.] To be aknow, to acknowledge; toconfess. [Obs.]", | |
| "GYROSTATIC": "Of or pertaining to the gyrostat or to gyrostatics.", | |
| "CRURAL": "Of or pertaining to the thigh or leg, or to any of the partscalled crura; as, the crural arteries; crural arch; crural canal;crural ring.", | |
| "CATCHWORD": "The first word of any page of a book after the first, insertedat the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for theassistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing.", | |
| "PRETENSELESS": "Not having or making pretenses.", | |
| "PASHAW": "See Pasha.", | |
| "PERISSE": "To perish. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PECULIARIZE": "To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusivepossession. [R.] Dr. John Smith.", | |
| "PYOPNEUMOTHORAX": "Accumulation of air, or other gas, and of pus, in the pleuralcavity.", | |
| "TIRING-ROOM": "The room or place where players dress for the stage.", | |
| "ORCHIDOLOGIST": "One versed in orchidology.", | |
| "SEMIBRIEF": "A semibreve. [R.]", | |
| "LUBRICOUS": "Lubric.", | |
| "AFFRIENDED": "Made friends; reconciled. [Obs.] \"Deadly foes . . .affriended.\" Spenser.", | |
| "EPENDYMA": "The epithelial lining of the ventricles of the brain and thecanal of the spinal cord; endyma; ependymis.", | |
| "EXTRADITE": "To deliver up by one government to another, as a fugitive fromjustice. See Extradition.", | |
| "PERMISSIBILITY": "The quality of being permissible; permissibleness;allowableness.", | |
| "SUPERNATURAL": "Being beyond, or exceeding, the power or laws of nature;miraculous.", | |
| "BROADSPREADING": "Spreading widely.", | |
| "FUSS": "To be overbusy or unduly anxious about trifles; to make abustle or ado. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "REPARTEE": "A smart, ready, and witty reply.Cupid was as bad as he; Hear but the youngster's repartee. Prior.", | |
| "EXTRAMISSION": "A sending out; emission. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ANGULOSE": "Angulous. [R.]", | |
| "TRUSTILY": "In a trusty manner.", | |
| "ANNULLER": "One who annuls. [R.]", | |
| "ERYSIPELOUS": "Erysipelatous.", | |
| "REPROVINGLY": "In a reproving manner.", | |
| "GEEZ": "The original native name for the ancient Ethiopic language orpeople. See Ethiopic.", | |
| "MISTRUSTLESS": "Having no mistrust or suspicion.The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.", | |
| "EXTRUCTION": "A building up; construction. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "CONFLATION": "A blowing together, as of many instruments in a concert, or ofmany fires in a foundry. [R.] Bacon.", | |
| "SEA": "A great brazen laver in the temple at Jerusalem; -- so calledfrom its size.He made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round incompass, and five cubits the height thereof. 2 Chron. iv. 2.", | |
| "BERBE": "An African genet (Genetta pardina). See Genet.", | |
| "TITRATED": "Standardized; determined or analyzed by titration; as, titratedsolutions.", | |
| "TRAMONTANA": "A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.", | |
| "JAPANNISH": "After the manner of the Japanese; resembling japanned articles.Carlyle.", | |
| "GRUNTLING": "A young hog.", | |
| "CONCAUSE": "A joint cause. Fotherby.", | |
| "ABJUDICATION": "Rejection by judicial sentence. [R.] Knowles.", | |
| "ANTIPYRESIS": "The condition or state of being free from fever.", | |
| "RICINOLEIN": "The glycerin salt of ricinoleic acid, occuring as acharacteristic constituent of castor oil; -- formerly called palmin.", | |
| "COHERER": "Any device in which an imperfectly conducting contact betweenpieces of metal or other conductors loosely resting against eachother is materially improved in conductivity by the influence ofHertzian waves; -- so called by Sir O. J. Lodge in 1894 on theassumption that the impact of the electic waves caused the looselyconnected parts to cohere, or weld together, a condition easilydestroyed by tapping. A common form of coherer as used in wirelesstelegraphy consists of a tube containing filings (usually a pinch ofnickel and silver filings in equal parts) between terminal wires orplugs (called conductor plugs).", | |
| "YELLOW": "Being of a bright saffronlike color; of the color of gold orbrass; having the hue of that part of the rainbow, or of the solarspectrum, which is between the orange and the green.Her yellow hair was browded [braided] in a tress. Chaucer.A sweaty reaper from his tillage brought First fruits, the green earand the yellow sheaf. Milton.The line of yellow light dies fast away. Keble.Yellow atrophy (Med.), a fatal affection of the liver, in which itundergoes fatty degeneration, and becomes rapidly smaller and of adeep yellow tinge. The marked symptoms are black vomit, delirium,convulsions, coma, and jaundice.-- Yellow bark, calisaya bark.-- Yellow bass (Zo\u00f6l.), a North American fresh-water bass (Moroneinterrupta) native of the lower parts of the Mississippi and itstributaries. It is yellow, with several more or less broken blackstripes or bars. Called also barfish.-- Yellow berry. (Bot.) Same as Persian berry, under Persian.-- Yellow boy, a gold coin, as a guinea. [Slang] Arbuthnot.-- Yellow brier. (Bot.) See under Brier.-- Yellow bugle (Bot.), a European labiate plant (Ajuga Cham\u00e6pitys).-- Yellow bunting (Zo\u00f6l.), the European yellow-hammer.-- Yellow cat (Zo\u00f6l.), a yellow catfish; especially, the bashaw.-- Yellow copperas (Min.), a hydrous sulphate of iron; -- calledalso copiapite.-- Yellow copper ore, a sulphide of copper and iron; copper pyrites.See Chalcopyrite.-- Yellow cress (Bot.), a yellow-flowered, cruciferous plant(Barbarea pr\u00e6cox), sometimes grown as a salad plant.-- Yellow dock. (Bot.) See the Note under Dock.-- Yellow earth, a yellowish clay, colored by iron, sometimes usedas a yellow pigment.-- Yellow fever (Med.), a malignant, contagious, febrile disease ofwarm climates, attended with jaundice, producing a yellow color ofthe skin, and with the black vomit. See Black vomit, in theVocabulary.-- Yellow flag, the quarantine flag. See under Quarantine, and 3dFlag.-- Yellow jack. (a) The yellow fever. See under 2d Jack. (b) Thequarantine flag. See under Quarantine.-- Yellow jacket (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of several species of Americansocial wasps of the genus Vespa, in which the color of the body ispartly bright yellow. These wasps are noted for their irritability,and for their painful stings.-- Yellow lead ore (Min.), wulfenite.-- Yellow lemur (Zo\u00f6l.), the kinkajou.-- Yellow macauco (Zo\u00f6l.), the kinkajou.-- Yellow mackerel (Zo\u00f6l.), the jurel.-- Yellow metal. Same as Muntz metal, under Metal.-- Yellow ocher (Min.), an impure, earthy variety of brown iron ore,which is used as a pigment.-- Yellow oxeye (Bot.), a yellow-flowered plant (Chrysanthemumsegetum) closely related to the oxeye daisy.-- Yellow perch (Zo\u00f6l.), the common American perch. See Perch.-- Yellow pike (Zo\u00f6l.), the wall-eye.-- Yellow pine (Bot.), any of several kinds of pine; also, theiryellowish and generally durable timber. Among the most common arevaluable species are Pinus mitis and P. palustris of the Eastern andSouthern States, and P. ponderosa and P. Arizonica of the RockyMountains and Pacific States.-- Yellow plover (Zo\u00f6l.), the golden plover.-- Yellow precipitate (Med. Chem.), an oxide of mercury which isthrown down as an amorphous yellow powder on adding corrosivesublimate to limewater.-- Yellow puccoon. (Bot.) Same as Orangeroot.-- Yellow rail (Zo\u00f6l.), a small American rail (PorzanaNoveboracensis) in which the lower parts are dull yellow, darkest onthe breast. The back is streaked with brownish yellow and with black,and spotted with white. Called also yellow crake.-- Yellow rattle, Yellow rocket. (Bot.) See under Rattle, andRocket.-- Yellow Sally (Zo\u00f6l.), a greenish or yellowish European stone flyof the genus Chloroperla; -- so called by anglers.-- Yellow sculpin (Zo\u00f6l.), the dragonet.-- Yellow snake (Zo\u00f6l.), a West Indian boa (Chilobothrus inornatus)common in Jamaica. It becomes from eight to ten long. The body isyellowish or yellowish green, mixed with black, and anteriorly withblack lines.-- Yellow spot. (a) (Anat.) A small yellowish spot with a centralpit, the fovea centralis, in the center of the retina where vision ismost accurate. See Eye. (b) (Zo\u00f6l.) A small American butterfly(Polites Peckius) of the Skipper family. Its wings are brownish, witha large, irregular, bright yellow spot on each of the hind wings,most conspicuous beneath. Called also Peck's skipper. See Illust.under Skipper, n., 5.-- Yellow tit (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of several species of crested titmiceof the genus Machlolophus, native of India. The predominating colorsof the plumage are yellow and green.-- Yellow viper (Zo\u00f6l.), the fer-de-lance.-- Yellow warbler (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of several species of Americanwarblers of the genus Dendroica in which the predominant color isyellow, especially D. \u00e6stiva, which is a very abundant and familiarspecies; -- called also garden warbler, golden warbler, summeryellowbird, summer warbler, and yellow-poll warbler.-- Yellow wash (Pharm.), yellow oxide of mercury suspended in water,-- a mixture prepared by adding corrosive sublimate to limewater.-- Yellow wren (Zo\u00f6l.) (a) The European willow warbler. (b) TheEuropean wood warbler.", | |
| "DRABBLER": "A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail,to give it a greater depth, or more drop.", | |
| "ICILY": "In an icy manner; coldly.Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, Dead perfection,no more. Tennyson.", | |
| "ANTE": "Each player's stake, which is put into the pool before (ante)the game begins.", | |
| "ON-HANGER": "A hanger-on.", | |
| "PERSALT": "A term formerly given to the salts supposed to be formedrespectively by neutralizing acids with certain peroxides. [Obsoles.]", | |
| "BONIFY": "To convert into, or make, good.To bonify evils, or tincture them with good. Cudworth.", | |
| "OVERSHADE": "To cover with shade; to render dark or gloomy; to overshadow.Shak.", | |
| "YAMMA": "The llama.", | |
| "TAWER": "One who taws; a dresser of white leather.", | |
| "LIMONIN": "A bitter, white, crystalline substance found in orange andlemon seeds.", | |
| "CYMOPHANE": "See Chrysoberyl.", | |
| "BIPOLARITY": "Bipolar quality.", | |
| "SACCHOLACTATE": "A salt of saccholactactic acid; -- formerly called alsosaccholate. [Obs.] See Mucate.", | |
| "ALACRIOUSNESS": "Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.", | |
| "BITSTOCK": "A stock or handle for holding and rotating a bit; a brace.", | |
| "PLATYRHINE": "Having the nose broad; -- opposed to Ant: leptorhine.-- n. (Zo\u00f6l.)", | |
| "PIG": "A piggin. [Written also pigg.]", | |
| "PREFIDENCE": "The quality or state of being prefident. [Obs.] Baxter.", | |
| "EVERYTHING": "Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; allthings.More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.", | |
| "LIGNIFORM": "Like wood.", | |
| "COPRA": "The dried meat of the cocoanut, from which cocoanut oil isexpressed. [Written also cobra, copperah, coppra.]", | |
| "PINKNESS": "Quality or state of being pink.", | |
| "ACUTELY": "In an acute manner; sharply; keenly; with nice discrimination.", | |
| "COMPOS-MENTIS": "One who is compos mentis. [Colloq.]", | |
| "ANTENICENE": "Of or in the Christian church or era, anterior to the firstcouncil of Nice, held a. d. 325; as, antenicene faith.", | |
| "EXPLORING": "Employed in, or designed for, exploration. \"Exploring parties.\"Bancroft.", | |
| "NARRATE": "To tell, rehearse, or recite, as a story; to relate theparticulars of; to go through with in detail, as an incident ortransaction; to give an account of.", | |
| "DOGATE": "The office or dignity of a doge.", | |
| "KNOUT": "A kind of whip for flogging criminals, formerly much used inRussia. The last is a tapering bundle of leather thongs twisted withwire and hardened, so that it mangles the flesh.", | |
| "SAFE": "A place for keeping things in safety. Specifically:(a) A strong and fireproof receptacle (as a movable chest of steel,etc., or a closet or vault of brickwork) for money, valuable papers,or the like.(b) A ventilated or refrigerated chest or closet for securingprovisions from noxious animals or insects.", | |
| "YTTRIA": "The oxide, Y2O3, or earth, of yttrium.", | |
| "ATOLE": "A porridge or gruel of maize meal and water, milk, or the like.[Sp. Amer.]", | |
| "EYSELL": "Same as Eisel. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "MANUFACTORY": "Pertaining to manufacturing.", | |
| "TIMAL": "The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "CHELIDONIC": "Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the celandine. Cheidonicacid, a weak acid extracted fron the celandine (Chelidonium majus),as a white crystalline substance.", | |
| "PANSHON": "An earthen vessel wider at the top than at the bottom, -- usedfor holding milk and for various other purposes. [Prov. Eng.]Halliwell.", | |
| "WATERCOURSE": "One of the holes in floor or other plates to permit water toflow through.", | |
| "CONTROVERSARY": "Controversial. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "SICH": "Such. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.", | |
| "INFUSER": "One who, or that which, infuses.", | |
| "SUBDULCID": "Somewhat sweet; sweetish. [R.]", | |
| "ESTER": "An ethereal salt, or compound ether, consisting of an organicradical united with the residue of any oxygen acid, organic orinorganic; thus the natural fats are esters of glycerin and the fattyacids, oleic, etc.", | |
| "ARSENICISM": "A diseased condition produced by slow poisoning with arsenic.", | |
| "OVERSPAN": "To reach or extend over.", | |
| "ANTIPATHIC": "Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic.", | |
| "HEURISTIC": "Serving to discover or find out.", | |
| "BACTERICIDE": "Same as Germicide.", | |
| "LENGTHY": "Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; --said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. \"Lengthyperiods.\" Washington. \"Some lengthy additions.\" Byron. \"These wouldbe details too lengthy.\" Jefferson. \"To cut short lengthyexplanations.\" Trench.", | |
| "EMERSED": "Standing out of, or rising above, water. Gray.", | |
| "SYNGENESIA": "A Linn\u00e6an class of plants in which the stamens are united bythe anthers.", | |
| "VEILLESS": "Having no veil. Tennyson.", | |
| "EXPUGN": "To take by assault; to storm; to overcome; to vanquish; as, toexpugn cities; to expugn a person by arguments.", | |
| "RETTERY": "A place or establishment where flax is retted. See Ret. Ure.", | |
| "EXPULSE": "To drive out; to expel. [Obs.]If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.", | |
| "OYSTERING": "Gathering, or dredging for, oysters.", | |
| "PARALYTIC": "A person affected with paralysis.", | |
| "PESTIFEROUSLY": "In a pestiferuos manner.", | |
| "HEARTSICK": "Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.", | |
| "DINGY": "Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty.\"Scraps of dingy paper.\" Macaulay.", | |
| "EIGHT": "An island in a river; an ait. [Obs.] \"Osiers on their eights.\"Evelyn.", | |
| "FIRELESS": "Destitute of fire.", | |
| "DISVALUATION": "Disesteem; depreciation; disrepute. Bacon.", | |
| "FOLIATE": "Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk. Foliatecurve. (Geom.) Same as Folium.", | |
| "AROMATOUS": "Aromatic. [Obs.] Caxton.", | |
| "EVOLVE": "To become open, disclosed, or developed; to pass through aprocess of evolution. Prior.", | |
| "LIGSAM": "Same as Ligan. Brande & C.", | |
| "CORSEPRESENT": "An offering made to the church at the interment of a dead body.Blackstone.", | |
| "LINEARY": "Linear. Holland.", | |
| "CONCH": "A name applied to various marine univalve shells; esp. to thoseof the genus Strombus, which are of large size. S. gigas is the largepink West Indian conch. The large king, queen, and cameo conchs areof the genus Cassis. See Cameo.", | |
| "BAROSCOPE": "Any instrument showing the changes in the weight of theatmosphere; also, less appropriately, any instrument that indicates -or foreshadows changes of the weather, as a deep vial of liquidholding in suspension some substance which rises and falls withatmospheric changes.", | |
| "TRUNK STEAMER": "A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almostcontinuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.", | |
| "MACROCHIRES": "A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. Socalled from the length of the distal part of the wing.", | |
| "RETIPED": "A bird having small polygonal scales covering the tarsi.", | |
| "CERTIFICATION": "The act of certifying.", | |
| "TINSMITH": "One who works in tin; a tinner.", | |
| "MISPLEAD": "To err in pleading.", | |
| "WATER BLACKBIRD": "The European water ousel, or dipper.", | |
| "WORNIL": "See Wormil.", | |
| "PENCILED": "Marked with parallel or radiating lines.", | |
| "HERBALIST": "One skilled in the knowledge of plants; a collector of, ordealer in, herbs, especially medicinal herbs.", | |
| "COAITA": "The native name of certain South American monkeys of the genusAteles, esp. A. paniscus. The black-faced coaita is Ateles ater. SeeIllustration in Appendix.", | |
| "NIPPING": "Biting; pinching; painful; destructive; as, a nipping frost; anipping wind.", | |
| "ZOUNDS": "An exclamation formerly used as an oath, and an expression ofanger or wonder.", | |
| "STELLIONATE": "Any fraud not distinguished by a more special name; -- chieflyapplied to sales of the same property to two different persons, orselling that for one's own which belongs to another, etc. Erskine.", | |
| "SPORTINGLY": "In sport; sportively.The question you there put, you do it, I suppose, but sportingly.Hammond.", | |
| "VERMICULE": "A small worm or insect larva; also, a wormlike body. [R.]Derham.", | |
| "FLUTIST": "A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby.", | |
| "JETTY": "Made of jet, or like jet in color.The people . . . are of a jetty. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "TRANSPECIATE": "To change from one species to another; to transform. [Obs.]Power to transpeciate a man into a horse. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "VAINGLORY": "Excessive vanity excited by one's own performances; emptypride; undue elation of mind; vain show; boastfulness.He had nothing of vainglory. Bacon.The man's undone forever; for if Hector break not his neck i' thecombat, he'll break't himself in vainglory. Shak.", | |
| "SPELICANS": "See Spilikin.", | |
| "TORRENS SYSTEM": "A system of registration of titles to land (as distinct fromregistration of deeds) introduced into South Australia by the RealProperty (or Torrens) Act (act 15 of 1857-58), drafted by Sir RobertTorrens (1814-84). Its essential feature is the guaranty by thegovernment of properly registered titles. The system has beengenerally adopted in Australia and British Columbia, and in itsoriginal or a modified form in some other countries, including someStates of the United States. Hence Torrens title, etc.", | |
| "MORO": "A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry.Dunglison.", | |
| "WHETILE": "The green woodpecker, or yaffle. See Yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "DISINCLOSE": "To free from being inclosed.", | |
| "FULMINURIC": "Pertaining to fulminic and cyanuric acids, and designating anacid so called. Fulminuric acid (Chem.), a white, crystalline,explosive subatance, H3C3N3O3, forming well known salts, and obtainedfrom the fulnunates. It is isomeric with cyanuric acid, and hence isalso called isocyanuric acid.", | |
| "STRATIGRAPHY": "That branch of geology which treats of the arrangement andsuccession of strata.", | |
| "MODERN": "A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient. Pope.", | |
| "REMORDENCY": "Remorse; compunction; compassion. [Obs.] Killingbeck.", | |
| "PAMPHLETEER": "A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler. Dryden. Macaulay.", | |
| "UNDERLOCK": "A lock of wool hanging under the belly of a sheep.", | |
| "RECLINED": "Falling or turned downward; reclinate.", | |
| "NAKEDNESS": "The privy parts; the genitals.Ham ... saw the nakedness of his father. Gen. ix. 22.", | |
| "EXTEMPORIZER": "One who extemporizes.", | |
| "PRUDENTIALIST": "One who is governed by, or acts from, prudential motives. [R.]Coleridge.", | |
| "INACTUATE": "To put in action. [Obs.]", | |
| "SEA DRAKE": "The pewit gull.", | |
| "INTERMEMBRANOUS": "Within or beneath a membrane; as, intermembranous ossification.", | |
| "SUMMIT": "The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in whichthe hinge is situated. Summit level, the highest level of a canal, arailroad, or the like, in surmounting an ascent.", | |
| "INTERMUNDIAN": "Intermundane. [Obs.]", | |
| "RHOMBUS": "Same as Rhomb, 1.", | |
| "CIVILIZATION": "Rendering a criminal process civil. [Obs.]", | |
| "COSTAL-NERVED": "Having the nerves spring from the midrib.", | |
| "BRISTLE-SHAPED": "Resembling a bristle in form; as, a bristle-shaped leaf.", | |
| "IMPROPERIA": "A series of antiphons and responses, expressing the sorrowfulremonstrance of our Lord with his people; -- sung on the morning ofthe Good Friday in place of the usual daily Mass of the Roman ritual.Grove.", | |
| "SQUALIDITY": "The quality or state of being squalid; foulness; filthiness.", | |
| "SCUTIPED": "Having the anterior surface of the tarsus covered withscutella, or transverse scales, in the form of incomplete bandsterminating at a groove on each side; -- said of certain birds.", | |
| "PHARMACIST": "One skilled in pharmacy; a pharmaceutist; a druggist.", | |
| "ELEVATED": "Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevatedthoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raisedconsiderably above the ground, especially a city railway above theline of street travel.", | |
| "FIGUREHEAD": "The figure, statue, or bust, on the prow of a ship.", | |
| "CREBROUS": "Frequent; numerous. [Obs.] Goodwin.", | |
| "PROGENY": "Descendants of the human kind, or offspring of other animals;children; offspring; race, lineage. \" Issued from the progeny ofkings.\" Shak.", | |
| "JEWRY": "Judea; also, a district inhabited by Jews; a Jews' quarter.Chaucer.Teaching throughout all Jewry. Luke xxiii. 5.", | |
| "INKLE": "A kind of tape or braid. Shak.", | |
| "CROUPY": "Of or pertaining to croup; resembling or indicating croup; as,a croupy cough.", | |
| "DISSUADER": "One who dissuades; a dehorter.", | |
| "DISTRAIT": "Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.", | |
| "MOSTE": "of Mote. Chaucer.", | |
| "PSEUDONYMOUS": "Bearing a false or fictitious name; as, a pseudonymous work.-- Pseu*don\"y*mous*ly, adv.-- Pseu*don\"y*mous*ness, n.", | |
| "TREMOLANDO": "Same as Tremando.", | |
| "REPETITIVE": "Containing repetition; repeating. [R.]", | |
| "FERRETTO": "Copper sulphide, used to color glass. Hebert.", | |
| "HEALINGLY": "So as to heal or cure.", | |
| "TETTISH": "Captious; testy. [Written also teatish.] [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "UNBELIEVED": "Not believed; disbelieved.", | |
| "WARP KNITTING": "A kind of knitting in which a number of threads areinterchained each with one or more contiguous threads on either side.", | |
| "WREAK": "To reck; to care. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "REVELER": "One who revels. \"Moonshine revelers.\" Shak.", | |
| "PRESIGNIFICATION": "The act of signifying or showing beforehand.", | |
| "HYPOGYN": "An hypogynous plant.", | |
| "DISIMPASSIONED": "Free from warmth of passion or feeling.", | |
| "OYSTER-GREEN": "A green membranous seaweed (Ulva) often found growing onoysters but common on stones, piles, etc.", | |
| "SCAZON": "A choliamb.", | |
| "INTELLECTIVELY": "In an intellective manner. [R.] \"Not intellectivelly to write.\"Warner.", | |
| "INSHEATHE": "To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.", | |
| "DISCALCEATE": "To pull off shoes or sandals from. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "TETRARCH": "A Roman governor of the fourth part of a province; hence, anysubordinate or dependent prince; also, a petty king or sovereign.", | |
| "ABREPTION": "A snatching away. [Obs.]", | |
| "SCOTTERING": "The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.[Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "ALTERCATION": "Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat oranger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest. \"Stormy altercations.\"Macaulay.", | |
| "BLACK FRIAR": "A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant andpreaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.", | |
| "ARRACK": "A name in the East Indies and the Indian islands for all ardentspirits. Arrack is often distilled from a fermented mixture of rice,molasses, and palm wine of the cocoanut tree or the date palm, etc.", | |
| "ASCEND": "To go or move upward upon or along; to climb; to mount; to goup the top of; as, to ascend a hill, a ladder, a tree, a river, athrone.", | |
| "SHEELING": "A hut or small cottage in an expessed or a retired place (as ona mountain or at the seaside) such as is used by shepherds,fishermen, sportsmen, etc.; a summer cottage; also, a shed. [Writtenalso sheel, shealing, sheiling, etc.] [Scot.]", | |
| "CISSOID": "A curve invented by Diocles, for the purpose of solving twocelebrated problems of the higher geometry; viz., to trisect a planeangle, and to construct two geometrical means between two givenstraight lines.", | |
| "POSTAXIAL": "Situated behind any transverse axis in the body of an animal;caudal; posterior; especially, behind, or on the caudal or posterior(that is, ulnar or fibular) side of, the axis of a vertebrate limb.", | |
| "TREN": "A fish spear. [Obs.] Ainsworth.", | |
| "MODISTE": "A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion,especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who givesdirection to the style or mode of dress.", | |
| "MACHINAL": "Of or pertaining to machines.", | |
| "METHEGLIN": "A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead. Gay.", | |
| "TALLOW-FACED": "Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.", | |
| "INTERMUNDANE": "Being, between worlds or orbs. [R.] \"Intermundane spaces.\"Locke.", | |
| "EASEFUL": "Full of ease; suitable for affording ease or rest; quiet;comfortable; restful. Shak.-- Ease\"ful*ly, adv.-- Ease\"ful*ness, n.", | |
| "WEBEYE": "See Web, n., 8.", | |
| "DISAPPROPRIATION": "The act of disappropriating.", | |
| "SLOVENRY": "Slovenliness. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "BRUNONIAN": "Pertaining to, or invented by, Brown; -- a term applied to asystem of medicine promulgated in the 18th century by John Brown, ofScotland, the fundamental doctrine of which was, that life is a stateof excitation produced by the normal action of external agents uponthe body, and that disease consists in excess or deficiency ofexcitation.", | |
| "SUBINGRESSION": "Secret entrance. [R.] Boyle.", | |
| "-MENT": "A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process;the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment,that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken,segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement,adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.", | |
| "KREATIN": "See Creatin.", | |
| "CHANCELLOR": "A judicial court of chancery, which in England and in theUnited States is distinctively a court with equity jurisdiction.", | |
| "CYSTIDEAN": "One of the Cystidea.", | |
| "INTERCROP": "To cultivate by planting simultaneous crops in alternate rows;as, to intercrop an orchard. Also, to use for catch crops at seasonswhen the ground is not covered by crops of the regular rotation.", | |
| "SEMIOCCASIONALLY": "Once in a while; on rare occasions. [Colloq. U. S.]", | |
| "GRANITIFORM": "Resembling granite in structure or shape.", | |
| "REBURY": "To bury again. Ashmole.", | |
| "REPRESS": "To press again.", | |
| "REZ-DE-CHAUSSEE": "The ground story of a building, either on a level with thestreet or raised slightly above it; -- said esp. of buildings on thecontinent of Europe.", | |
| "APRICATE": "To bask in the sun. Boyle.", | |
| "SPICILY": "In a spicy manner.", | |
| "INEQUAL": "Unequal; uneven; various. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "MESOTHORAX": "The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. ofColeoptera.", | |
| "PINGSTER": "See Pinkster.", | |
| "FROM": "Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to;leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used wheneverdeparture, setting out, commencement of action, being, state,occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc.,are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the pointof space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded assetting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, thecause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- thearitithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles fromBoston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; lightproceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; menhave all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and frombad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle fromwhich it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, orfrom testimony.Experience from the time past to the time present. Bacon.The song began from Jove. Drpden.From high M\u00e6onia's rocky shores I came. Addison.If the wind blow any way from shore. Shak.", | |
| "CHIDE": "A continuous noise or murmur.The chide of streams. Thomson.", | |
| "AUGITIC": "Pertaining to, or like, augite; containing augite as aprincipal constituent; as, augitic rocks.", | |
| "CASSIOPEIA": "A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated betweenCapheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, afabuolous king of Ethiopia. Cassiopeia's Chair, a group of six stars,in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.", | |
| "CROSS-ARMED": "With arms crossed.", | |
| "BREAST-HIGH": "High as the breast.", | |
| "AGIST": "To take to graze or pasture, at a certain sum; -- usedoriginally of the feeding of cattle in the king's forests, andcollecting the money for the same. Blackstone.", | |
| "RHYMER": "One who makes rhymes; a versifier; -- generally in contempt; apoor poet; a poetaster.This would make them soon perceive what despicaple creatures ourcommon rhymers and playwriters be. Milton.", | |
| "BOORT": "See Bort.", | |
| "MONOTOCOUS": "Bearing fruit but once; monocarpic.", | |
| "JUDEAN": "Of or pertaining to Judea.-- n.", | |
| "BELAY": "To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it rounda pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.", | |
| "INVINCIBLE": "Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued;unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.Lead forth to battle these my sons Invincible. Milton.-- In*vin\"ci*ble*ness, n.-- In*vin\"ci*bly, adv.", | |
| "PADNAG": "An ambling nag. \"An easy padnag.\" Macaulay.", | |
| "CHILDISHLY": "In the manner of a child; in a trifling way; in a weak orfoolish manner.", | |
| "FINNISH": "Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to theirlanguage.-- n.", | |
| "FLEXILE": "Flexible; pliant; pliable; easily bent; plastic; tractable.Wordsworth.", | |
| "HELMINTHIC": "Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms.-- n.", | |
| "FRINGE TREE": "A small oleaceous tree (Chionanthus virginica), of the southernUnited States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals.It is often cultivated.", | |
| "UNIFLAGELLATE": "Having but one flagellum; as, uniflagellate organisms.", | |
| "FLINT GLASS": "A soft, heavy, brilliant glass, consisting essentially of asilicate of lead and potassium. It is used for tableware, and foroptical instruments, as prisms, its density giving a high degree ofdispersive power; -- so called, because formerly the silica wasobtained from pulverized flints. Called also crystal glass. Cf.Glass.", | |
| "PRIGGISH": "Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.-- Prig\"gish*ly, adv.-- Prig\"gish-ness, n.", | |
| "KILN-DRY": "To dry in a kiln; as, to kiln-dry meal or grain. Mortimer.", | |
| "OUTVOTE": "To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.South.", | |
| "ENDASPIDEAN": "Having the anterior scutes extending around the tarsus on theinner side; -- said of certain birds.", | |
| "AVAUNT": "Begone; depart; -- a word of contempt or abhorrence, equivalentto the phrase \"Get thee gone.\"", | |
| "SANITARY": "Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preservehealth; relating to the preservation or restoration of health;hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory.Sanitary Commission. See under Commission.", | |
| "EXCOMMUNICABLE": "Liable or deserving to be excommunicated; makingexcommunication possible or proper. \"Persons excommunicable .\" Bp.Hall.What offenses are excommunicable Kenle.", | |
| "SOLVABLENESS": "Quality of being solvable.", | |
| "UNDULANT": "Undulating. [R.]", | |
| "OCCASIONALLY": "In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as conveniencerequires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart.The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, hissubject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.", | |
| "IN TRANSITU": "In transit; during passage; as, goods in transitu.", | |
| "POLYSPAST": "A machine consisting of many pulleys; specifically, anapparatus formerly used for reducing luxations.", | |
| "FROST SIGNAL": "A signal consisting of a white flag with a black center, usedby the United States Weather Bureau to indicate that a local frost isexpected. It is used only in Florida and along the coasts of thePacific and the Gulf Mexico.", | |
| "TURBINE": "A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, butusually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against whichthe water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outwardfrom a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from abovedownward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel.", | |
| "EXUNDATION": "An overflow, or overflowing abundance. [R.] Ray.", | |
| "CONFECT": "A comfit; a confection. [Obs.]At supper eat a pippin roasted and sweetened with sugar of roses andcaraway confects. Harvey.", | |
| "RHEUMATISMOID": "Of or resembling rheum or rheumatism.", | |
| "ALTISONANT": "High-sounding; lofty or pompous. Skelton.", | |
| "GLYCIDE": "A colorless liquid, obtained from certain derivatives ofglycerin, and regarded as a partially dehydrated glycerin; -- calledalso glycidic alcohol.", | |
| "SIGH-BORN": "Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] \"Sigh-born thoughts.\" De Quincey.", | |
| "CAPRATE": "A salt of capric acid.", | |
| "MISAPPROPRIATE": "To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.", | |
| "PARAMORPHOUS": "Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.", | |
| "TURFING": "The act or process of providing or covering with turf. Turfingiron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off,turf.", | |
| "BUTTRESS": "A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust ofan arch, or for ornament and symmetry.", | |
| "DEOXYGENATE": "To deoxidize. [Obs.]", | |
| "PRENATAL": "Being or happening before birth.", | |
| "OPIFEROUS": "Bringing help. [R.]", | |
| "BURSTER": "One that bursts.", | |
| "KAKOXENE": "See Cacoxene.", | |
| "SAIMIR": "The squirrel monkey.", | |
| "GROATS": "Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; inhigh milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits. Embdengroats, crushed oats.", | |
| "KIRSCHWASSER": "An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juiceof the small black cherry.", | |
| "TRISAGION": "An ancient anthem, -- usually known by its Latin nametersanctus.See Tersanctus.", | |
| "MESTEE": "The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called inthe West Indies. [Written also mustee.]", | |
| "CAMMAS": "See Camass.", | |
| "EXSUFFLATION": "A kind of exorcism by blowing with the breath. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "SEXENNIAL": "Lasting six years, or happening once in six years.-- n.", | |
| "SPORTABILITY": "Sportiveness. [Obs.]", | |
| "AEROLOGIST": "One versed in a\u00ebrology.", | |
| "PENTACRINITE": "Any species of Pentacrinus.", | |
| "DENDRIFORM": "Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.", | |
| "LARVE": "A larva.", | |
| "GENIAN": "Of or pertaining to the chin; mental; as, the genianprominence.", | |
| "BRAINY": "Having an active or vigorous mind. [Colloq.]", | |
| "UNCORD": "To release from cords; to loosen the cord or cords of; tounfasten or unbind; as, to uncord a package.", | |
| "FRIGHTMENT": "Fear; terror. [Obs.]", | |
| "BARTHOLOMEW TIDE": "Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.", | |
| "CEDULE": "A scroll; a writing; a schedule. [Obs.]", | |
| "WEARIFUL": "Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome.-- Wea\"ri*ful*ly, adv.", | |
| "QUINOLOGIST": "One who is versed in quinology.", | |
| "GATEWISE": "In the manner of a gate.Three circles of stones set up gatewise. Fuller.", | |
| "BUILT": "Shape; build; form of structure; as, the built of a ship.[Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "RIPELY": "Maturely; at the fit time. Shak.", | |
| "INCONVENIENTLY": "In an inconvenient manner; incommodiously; unsuitably;unseasonably.", | |
| "FLANGED": "Having a flange or flanges; as, a flanged wheel.", | |
| "DEPLANTATION": "Act of taking up plants from beds.", | |
| "REFERRER": "One who refers.", | |
| "TAILED": "Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; --chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.Snouted and tailed like a boar. Grew.", | |
| "VISIONARINESS": "The quality or state of being visionary.", | |
| "DOMAIN": "Ownership of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in hisown right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership.Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the generalgovernment; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used byanyone wihout restriction.-- Right of eminent domain, that superior dominion of the sovereignpower over all the property within the state, including thatpreviously granted by itself, which authorizes it to appropriate anypart thereof to a necessary public use, reasonable compensation beingmade.", | |
| "MISCONCEPTION": "Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.Harvey.", | |
| "DIFFINITIVE": "Definitive; determinate; final. [Obs.] Sir H. Wotton.", | |
| "NEZ PERCES": "A tribe of Indians, mostly inhabiting Idaho.", | |
| "KILOVOLT": "A unit of electromotive force equal to one thousand volts.", | |
| "SABBATHLESS": "Without Sabbath, or intermission of labor; hence, withoutrespite or rest. Bacon.", | |
| "PALEOLITH": "A relic of the Paleolithic era.", | |
| "GAMOGENESIS": "The production of offspring by the union of parents ofdifferent sexes; sexual reproduction; -- the opposite ofagamogenesis.", | |
| "STAFFISH": "Stiff; harsh. [Obs.] Ascham.", | |
| "PREOCULAR": "Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antenn\u00e6 of certaininsects.-- n.", | |
| "UPSHOOT": "To shoot upward. \"Trees upshooting high.\" Spenser.", | |
| "CATENATE": "To connect, in a series of links or ties; to chain. E. Darwin.", | |
| "RECONSOLIDATION": "The act or process of reconsolidating; the state of beingreconsolidated.", | |
| "KEYSEAT": "To form a key seat, as by cutting. See Key seat, under Key.", | |
| "SHONDE": "Harm; disgrace; shame. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FRAGMENTIST": "A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenb\u00fcttel.[R.]", | |
| "UNSURETY": "Want of surety; uncertainty; insecurity; doubt. [Obs.] Sir T.More.", | |
| "DITION": "Dominion; rule. [Obs.] Evelyn.", | |
| "FLUE": "An inclosed passage way for establishing and directing acurrent of air, gases, etc.; an air passage; esp.:(a) A compartment or division of a chimney for conveying flame andsmoke to the outer air.(b) A passage way for conducting a current of fresh, foul, or heatedair from one place to another.(c) (Steam Boiler) A pipe or passage for conveying flame and hotgases through surrounding water in a boiler; -- distinguished from atube which holds water and is surrounded by fire. Small flues arecalled fire tubes or simply tubes. Flue boiler. See under Boiler.-- Flue bridge, the separating low wall between the flues and thelaboratory of a reverberatory furnace.-- Flue plate (Steam Boiler), a plate to which the ends of the fluesare fastened; -- called also flue sheet, tube sheet, and tube plate.-- Flue surface (Steam Boiler), the aggregate surface of fluesexposed to flame or the hot gases.", | |
| "PROSODIAN": "A prosodist. Rush.", | |
| "INCHWORM": "The larva of any geometrid moth. See Geometrid.", | |
| "DISINFECT": "To free from infectious or contagious matter; to destroyputrefaction; to purify; to make innocuous.When the infectious matter and the infectious matter and theodoriferous matter are one . . . then to deodorize is to disinfect.Ure.", | |
| "BOTTOM FERMENTATION": "A slow alcoholic fermentation during which the yeast cellscollect at the bottom of the fermenting liquid. It takes place at atemperature of 4\u00ba - 10\u00ba C. (39\u00ba - 50\u00baF.). It is used in making lagerbeer and wines of low alcohol content but fine bouquet.", | |
| "CALORIFERE": "An apparatus for conveying and distributing heat, especially bymeans of hot water circulating in tubes.", | |
| "CARBURIZATION": "The act, process, or result of carburizing.", | |
| "PALAEO-": "See Paleo-.", | |
| "PHALANGIOUS": "Of or pertaining to Phalangoidea.", | |
| "GAILLIARDE": "A lively French and Italian dance.", | |
| "FLOWERAGE": "State of flowers; flowers, collectively or in general.Tennyson.", | |
| "WRETCHEDLY": "In a wretched manner; miserably; despicable.", | |
| "ALOIN": "A bitter purgative principle in aloes.", | |
| "BUT-THORN": "The common European starfish (Asterias rubens).", | |
| "APPROVING": "Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile.-- Ap*prov\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "GALATIAN": "Of or pertaining to Galatia or its inhabitants.-- A native or inhabitant of Galatia, in Asia Minor; a descendant ofthe Gauls who settled in Asia Minor.", | |
| "LACTAM": "One of a series of anhydrides of an amido type, analogous tothe lactones, as oxindol.", | |
| "CRABBY": "Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing. \"Persius is crabby, becauseancient.\" Marston.", | |
| "SITFAST": "Fixed; stationary; immovable. [R.]'T is good, when you have crossed the sea and back, To find thesitfast acres where you left them. Emerson.", | |
| "DISSOCIAL": "Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocialfeelings.", | |
| "REVELRY": "The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling.And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.", | |
| "DEMOCRATIST": "A democrat. [R.] Burke.", | |
| "CORNIST": "A performer on the cornet or horn.", | |
| "GUSHER": "One who gushes. [Colloq.]", | |
| "CATARACTOUS": "Of the nature of a cataract in the eye; affected with cataract.", | |
| "PECTIZE": "To congeal; to change into a gelatinous mass. [R.] H. Spencer.", | |
| "INDUCTIONAL": "Pertaining to, or proceeding by, induction; inductive.", | |
| "COUNTERACTIVE": "Tending to counteract.", | |
| "FOOT VALVE": "A suction valve or check valve at the lower end of a pipe;esp., such a valve in a steam-engine condenser opening to the airpump.", | |
| "TEMPESTIVE": "Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. [Obs.] Heywood.-- Tem*pes\"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]", | |
| "NEGLIGENT": "Apt to neglect; customarily neglectful; characterized bynegligence; careless; heedless; culpably careless; showing lack ofattention; as, disposed in negligent order. \"Be thou negligent offame.\" Swift.He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from beingpoor. Rambler.", | |
| "COOPERING": "Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks,etc.; the business of a cooper.", | |
| "STRICK": "A bunch of hackled flax prepared for drawing into slivers.Knight.", | |
| "PEDICELED": "Pedicellate.", | |
| "CATECHUIC": "Of or pertaining to catechu or its derivatives. See catechin.", | |
| "EMBOSSER": "One who embosses.", | |
| "MAUNDERER": "One who maunders.", | |
| "WHITNEYITE": "an arsenide of copper from Lake Superior.", | |
| "PALIFORM": "Resembling a palus; as, the paliform lobes of the septa incorals.", | |
| "TREAT": "To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use ofremedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or apatient.", | |
| "INEQUATION": "An inequality.", | |
| "POTICHE": "A vase with a separate cover, the body usually rounded orpolygonal in plan with nearly vertical sides, a neck of smaller size,and a rounded shoulder.", | |
| "COMMANDRY": "See Commandery.", | |
| "INEFFACEABLY": "So as not to be effaceable.", | |
| "OSTEAL": "Osseous.", | |
| "GULES": "The tincture red, indicated in seals and engraved figures ofescutcheons by parallel vertical lines. Hence, used poetically for ared color or that which is red.His sev'n-fold targe a field of gules did stain In which two swordshe bore; his word, \"Divide and reign.\" P. Fletcher.Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules.Shak.Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "WHORTLE": "The whortleberry, or bilberry.[He] looked ahead of him from behind a tump of whortles. R. D.Blackmore.", | |
| "JUSTLE": "To run or strike against each other; to encounter; to clash; tojostle. Shak.The chariots shall rage in the streets; they shall justle one againstanother in the broad ways. Nahum ii. 4.", | |
| "OVERREAD": "To read over, or peruse. Shak.", | |
| "LEMMING": "Any one of several species of small arctic rodents of thegenera Myodes and Cuniculus, resembling the meadow mice in form. Theyare found in both hemispheres.", | |
| "CALUMNIATION": "False accusation of crime or offense, or a malicious and falserepresentation of the words or actions of another, with a view toinjure his good name.The calumniation of her principal counselors. Bacon.", | |
| "TRANSVERBERATE": "To beat or strike through. [Obs.]", | |
| "PROVISORSHIP": "The office or position of a provisor. [R.] J. Webster.", | |
| "ARBITRABLE": "Capable of being decided by arbitration; determinable.[Archaic] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "LIGEANCE": "The connection between sovereign and subject by which they weremutually bound, the former to protection and the securing of justice,the latter to faithful service; allegiance. [Written also ligeancyand liegance.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ZONE": "One of the five great divisions of the earth, with respect tolatitude and temperature.", | |
| "AIDLESS": "Helpless; without aid. Milton.", | |
| "ZOANTHARIA": "Same as Anthozoa.", | |
| "BENGALESE": "Of or pertaining to Bengal.-- n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Bengal.", | |
| "YESTY": "See Yeasty. Shak.", | |
| "DICEBOX": "A box from which dice are thrown in gaming. Thackeray.", | |
| "BALD-FACED": "Having a white face or a white mark on the face, as a stag.", | |
| "MOMENT": "An infinitesimal change in a varying quantity; an increment ordecrement. [Obs.]", | |
| "DOOMSTER": "Same as Dempster. [Scot.]", | |
| "STICHOMANCY": "Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.", | |
| "NEAR-LEGGED": "Having the feet so near together that they interfere intraveling. Shak.", | |
| "OWEN": "Own. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CACODOXICAL": "Heretical.", | |
| "EJECT": "To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants froman estate.", | |
| "PERMUTER": "One who permutes.", | |
| "TENSE": "One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by addingauxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or eventsignified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication oftime.", | |
| "EPICORACOID": "A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in theshoulder girdle of some vertebrates.", | |
| "BOLOMETER": "An instrument for measuring minute quantities of radiant heat,especially in different parts of the spectrum; -- called also actinicbalance, thermic balance. S. P. Langley.", | |
| "PRIMITIVENESS": "The quality or state of being primitive; conformity toprimitive style or practice.", | |
| "CAPTAIN": "To act as captain of; to lead. [R.]Men who captained or accompanied the exodus from existing forms.Lowell.", | |
| "MASTED": "Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as,a three-masted schooner.", | |
| "COVEY": "To brood; to incubate. [Obs.][Tortoises] covey a whole year before they hatch. Holland.", | |
| "SULPHURINE": "Sulphureous. [R.]", | |
| "BUTT": "To strike by thrusting the head against; to strike with thehead.Two harmless lambs are butting one the other. Sir H. Wotton.", | |
| "JAG": "A cleft or division. Jag bolt, a bolt with a nicked or barbedshank which resists retraction, as when leaded into stone.", | |
| "SARCENET": "A species of fine thin silk fabric, used for linings, etc.[Written also sarsenet.]Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. Shak.", | |
| "CARPOPHORE": "A slender prolongation of the receptacle as an axis between thecarpels, as in Geranium and many umbelliferous plants.", | |
| "BRAWL": "A noisy quarrel; loud, angry contention; a wrangle; a tumult;as, a drunken brawl.His sports were hindered by the brawls. Shak.", | |
| "AMORETTE": "An amoret. [Obs.] Rom. of R.", | |
| "MATRIARCHATE": "The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal formof government.", | |
| "TUMMALS": "A great quantity or heap. Weale.", | |
| "FLATBOAT": "A boat with a flat bottom and square ends; -- used for thetransportation of bulky freight, especially in shallow waters.", | |
| "BROWNSTONE": "A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.", | |
| "PORTOISE": "The gunwale of a ship. To lower the yards a-portoise, to lowerthem to the gunwale.-- To ride a portoise, to ride an anchor with the lower yards andtopmasts struck or lowered, as in a gale of wind.", | |
| "STEGNOTIC": "Tending to render costive, or to diminish excretions ordischarges generally.-- n.", | |
| "TOIL": "A net or snare; any thread, web, or string spread for takingprey; -- usually in the plural.As a Numidian lion, when first caught, Endures the toil that holdshim. Denham.Then toils for beasts, and lime for birds, were found. Dryden.", | |
| "TRITICUM": "A genus of grasses including the various species of wheat.", | |
| "PATHOS": "That quality or property of anything which touches the feelingsor excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tenderemotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth offeeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of apicture, of a poem, or of a cry.The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T.Warton.", | |
| "PORTANCE": "See Port, carriage, demeanor. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.", | |
| "CARNAUBA": "The Brazilian wax palm. See Wax palm.", | |
| "HYDROSTATICIAN": "One who is versed or skilled in hydrostatics. [R.]", | |
| "OINOMANIA": "See oenomania.", | |
| "GENET": "A small-sized, well-proportioned, Spanish horse; a jennet.Shak.", | |
| "COLCHICUM": "A genus of bulbous-rooted plants found in many parts of Europe,including the meadow saffron.", | |
| "AUCTIONEER": "A person who sells by auction; a person whose business it is todispose of goods or lands by public sale to the highest or bestbidder.", | |
| "EXSICCATE": "To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "MESOXALIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtainedfrom amido malonic acid.", | |
| "PENTREMITE": "Any species of Pentremites.", | |
| "GAULT": "A series of beds of clay and marl in the South of England,between the upper and lower greensand of the Cretaceous period.", | |
| "BROWNBACK": "The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.", | |
| "PECK": "A quick, sharp stroke, as with the beak of a bird or a pointedinstrument.", | |
| "AGENTSHIP": "Agency. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "AUTOGENEAL": "Self-produced; autogenous.", | |
| "AGROSTIS": "A genus of grasses, including species called in common languagebent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuablepasture grasses.", | |
| "SHEEPSHANK": "A hitch by which a rope may be temporarily shortened.", | |
| "SOVEREIGNIZE": "To exercise supreme authority. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "VIDAME": "One of a class of temporal officers who originally representedthe bishops, but later erected their offices into fiefs, and becamefeudal nobles.", | |
| "RAMBLE": "A bed of shale over the seam. Raymond.", | |
| "CEPHALOTRIBE": "An obstetrical instrument for performing cephalotripsy.", | |
| "PROSPECTIVELY": "In a prospective manner.", | |
| "DECLINAL": "Declining; sloping.", | |
| "DEBACCHATION": "Wild raving or debauchery. [R.] Prynne.", | |
| "TAURINE": "Of or pertaining to the genus Taurus, or cattle.", | |
| "HARMOTOME": "A hydrous silicate of alumina and baryta, occurring usually inwhite cruciform crystals; cross-stone.", | |
| "OVIFEROUS": "Egg-bearing; -- applied particularly to certain receptacles, asin Crustacea, that retain the eggs after they have been excluded fromthe formative organs, until they are hatched.", | |
| "AFTER-WITTED": "Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.", | |
| "TRICHOGYNE": "The slender, hairlike cell which receives the fertilizingparticles, or antherozoids, in red seaweeds.-- Trich`o*gyn\"ic, a.", | |
| "INSULARLY": "In an insular manner.", | |
| "ESTREPEMENT": "A destructive kind of waste, committed by a tenant for life, inlands, woods, or houses. Cowell.", | |
| "CHUB-FACED": "Having a plump, short face.", | |
| "ANARCHIST": "An anarch; one who advocates anarchy of aims at the overthrowof civil government.", | |
| "SURVIEW": "To survey; to make a survey of. [Obs.] \"To surview his ground.\"Spenser.", | |
| "PLIOCENE": "Of, pertaining to, or characterizing, the most recent divisionof the Tertiary age.", | |
| "SHAKO": "A kind of military cap or headress.", | |
| "MISADVENTURED": "Unfortunate. [Obs.]", | |
| "CEROTE": "See Cerate.", | |
| "DEKASTERE": "Same as Decastere.", | |
| "LOBE-FOOTED": "Lobiped.", | |
| "PHLEUM": "A genus of grasses, including the timothy (Phleum pratense),which is highly valued for hay; cat's-tail grass. Gray.", | |
| "DIFFLUENT": "Flowing apart or off; dissolving; not fixed. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "EFFUME": "To breathe or puff out. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "ROUP": "To cry or shout; hence, to sell by auction. [Scot.] Jamieson.", | |
| "APACHES": "A group of nomadic North American Indians including severaltribes native of Arizona, New Mexico, etc.", | |
| "HECK": "An apparatus for separating the threads of warps into sets, asthey are wound upon the reel from the bobbins, in a warping machine.", | |
| "INDAZOL": "A nitrogenous compound, C7H6N2, analogous to indol, andproduced from a diazo derivative or cinnamic acid.", | |
| "THEINE": "See Caffeine. Called also theina.", | |
| "CANAKIN": "A little can or cup. \"And let me the canakin clink.\" Shak.", | |
| "MYELITIS": "Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.", | |
| "CHAIN TIE": "A tie consisting of a series of connected iron bars or rods.", | |
| "INHUMANITY": "The quality or state of being inhuman; cruelty; barbarity.Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. Burns.", | |
| "DANK": "Damp; moist; humid; wet.Now that the fields are dank and ways are mire. Milton.Cheerless watches on the cold, dank ground. Trench.", | |
| "INTERNE": "That which is within; the interior. [Poetic] Mrs. Browning.", | |
| "PLENIPOTENT": "Possessing full power. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "DEMOCRATY": "Democracy. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "DERMOSKELETON": "See Exoskeleton.", | |
| "NORTHEASTERLY": "Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or comingfrom the northeast.", | |
| "SAMP": "An article of food consisting of maize broken or bruised, whichis cooked by by boiling, and usually eaten with milk; coarse hominy.", | |
| "LOOL": "A vessel used to receive the washings of ores of metals.", | |
| "LACERATE": "To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, tolacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to laceratethe heart.", | |
| "TRICHINOSIS": "The disease produced by the presence of trichin\u00e6 in the musclesand intestinal track. It is marked by fever, muscular pains, andsymptoms resembling those of typhoid fever, and is frequently fatal.", | |
| "FORBEARER": "One who forbears. Tusser.", | |
| "WARP": "To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp, attached toa buoy, anchor, or other fixed object.", | |
| "DEMOGRAPHY": "The study of races, as to births, marriages, mortality, health,etc.-- Dem`o*graph\"ic, a.", | |
| "FROSTBITE": "The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of thebody, as the ears or nose. Kane.", | |
| "CILL": "See Sill., n. a foundation.", | |
| "DEFENSIBLENESS": "Capability of being defended; defensibility. Priestley.", | |
| "RESPLENDENT": "Shining with brilliant luster; very bright.-- Re*splen\"dent*ly, adv.With royal arras and resplendent gold. Spenser.", | |
| "HORNSNAKE": "A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the SouthernUnited States. The color is bluish black above, red below.", | |
| "MOLYBDENITE": "A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses orscales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.", | |
| "EMPAWN": "To put in pawn; to pledge; to impawn.To sell, empawn, and alienate the estates. Milman.", | |
| "PACA": "A small South American rodent (Cologenys paca), having blackishbrown fur, with four parallel rows of white spots along its sides;the spotted cavy. It is nearly allied to the agouti and the Guineapig.", | |
| "DIRECTORY": "Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.", | |
| "ELECTREPETER": "An instrument used to change the direction of electriccurrents; a commutator. [R.]", | |
| "VICKERS-MAXIM AUTOMATIC MACHINE GUN": "An automatic machine gun in which the mechanism is worked bythe recoil, assisted by the pressure of gases from the muzzle, whichexpand in a gas chamber against a disk attached to the end of thebarrel, thus moving the latter to the rear with increased recoil, andagainst the front wall of the gas chamber, checking the recoil of thesystem.", | |
| "AEROYACHT": "A form of hydro-a\u00ebroplane; a flying boat.", | |
| "STERLET": "A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Seaand its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finestcaviare is made from its roe.", | |
| "THOROUGHPIN": "A disease of the hock (sometimes of the knee) of a horse,caused by inflammation of the synovial membrane and a consequentexcessive secretion of the synovial fluid; -- probably so calledbecause there is usually an oval swelling on each side of the leg,appearing somewhat as if a pin had been thrust through.", | |
| "CAROMEL": "See Caramel.", | |
| "ROADSTER": "A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage toanother by means of the tides. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "SHALT": "2d per. sing. of Shall.", | |
| "LEPROSY": "A cutaneous disease which first appears as blebs or as reddish,shining, slightly prominent spots, with spreading edges. These areoften followed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules,frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease,an\u00e6sthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there maybe wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, anddistortion of the hands and feet with destruction of the bones andjoints. It is incurable, and is probably contagious.Mycobacteriumleprae, curable in most cases by therapy with a combination ofantibiotics, but cases resistant to therapy are increasing.", | |
| "SUPERCURIOUS": "Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.", | |
| "QUATRAIN": "A stanza of four lines rhyming alternately. Dryden.", | |
| "ASSOCIATIONISM": "The doctrine or theory held by associationists.", | |
| "CENTROLINEAD": "An instrument for drawing lines through a point, or linesconverging to a center.", | |
| "HERBARIST": "A herbalist. [Obs.]", | |
| "QUINDECYLIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the fatty acidseries, containing fifteen atoms of carbon; called also pentadecylicacid.", | |
| "TARRY": "Consisting of, or covered with, tar; like tar.", | |
| "DEADS": "The substances which inclose the ore on every side.", | |
| "ELAIODIC": "Derived from castor oil; ricinoleic; as, elaiodic acid. [R.]", | |
| "CYSTOTOMY": "The act or practice of opening cysts; esp., the operation ofcutting into the bladder, as for the extraction of a calculus.", | |
| "ANTECURSOR": "A forerunner; a precursor. [Obs.]", | |
| "FABLER": "A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths orfalsehoods. Br. Hall.", | |
| "OBSTETRICIOUS": "Serving to assist childbirth; obstetric; hence, facilitatingany bringing forth or deliverance. [Obs.]Yet is all human teaching but maieutical, or obstetricious. Cudworth.", | |
| "STRUSE": "A Russian river craft used for transporting freight.", | |
| "FAUBOURG": "A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city,but formerly without its walls.", | |
| "HALVED": "Appearing as if one side, or one half, were cut away;dimidiate.", | |
| "HAUYNITE": "A blue isometric mineral, characteristic of some volcani", | |
| "LYENCEPHALOUS": "Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.", | |
| "BYSTANDER": "One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern withthe business transacting.He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them.Palfrey.", | |
| "QUINDECEMVIRATE": "The body or office of the quindecemviri.", | |
| "REMOULD": "See Remold.", | |
| "IDOLOUS": "Idolatrous. [Obs.] Bale.", | |
| "SPARROWGRASS": "Asparagus. [Colloq.] See the Note under Asparagus.", | |
| "APERCU": "A first view or glance, or the perception or estimation soobtained; an immediate apprehension or insight, appreciative ratherthan analytic.", | |
| "AU FAIT": "Expert; skillful; well instructed.", | |
| "BRANCHIOPODA": "An order of Entomostraca; -- so named from the feet ofbranchiopods having been supposed to perform the function of gills.It includes the fresh-water genera Branchipus, Apus, and Limnadia,and the genus Artemia found in salt lakes. It is also calledPhyllopoda. See Phyllopoda, Cladocera. It is sometimes used in abroader sense.", | |
| "ALANTIN": "See Inulin.", | |
| "SUBSTANTIALIZE": "To make substantial.", | |
| "SALTIREWISE": "In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoningof a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend anda bend sinister, and crossing at the center.", | |
| "NAPPE": "Sheet; surface; all that portion of a surface that iscontinuous in such a way that it is possible to pass from any onepoint of the portion to any other point of the portion withoutleaving the surface. Thus, some hyperboloids have one nappe, and somehave two.", | |
| "MIDDLE-AGED": "Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30and 50 years old.", | |
| "ORTHOCLASE": "Common or potash feldspar crystallizing in the monoclinicsystem and having two cleavages at right angles to each other. SeeFeldspar.", | |
| "NOTOTHERIUM": "An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found inthe Pliocene formation of Australia.", | |
| "HAIRLESS": "Destitute of hair. Shak.", | |
| "WOODMEIL": "See Wadmol.", | |
| "ENDMOST": "Farthest; remotest; at the very end. Tylor.", | |
| "PAVIIN": "A glucoside found in species of the genus Pavia of the Horse-chestnut family.", | |
| "YEARNINGLY": "With yearning.", | |
| "WEALDEN": "Of or pertaining to the lowest division of the Cretaceousformation in England and on the Continent, which overlies the O\u00f6liticseries.", | |
| "RELAXATIVE": "Having the quality of relaxing; laxative.-- n.", | |
| "AMBULATORIAL": "Ambulatory; fitted for walking. Verrill.", | |
| "CIRCUMSTANTIALITY": "The state, characteristic, or quality of being circumstantial;particularity or minuteness of detail. \"I will endeavor to describewith sufficient circumstantiality.\" De Quincey.", | |
| "BESHUT": "To shut up or out. [Obs.]", | |
| "COMPACTER": "One who makes a compact.", | |
| "MARMORATUM OPUS": "A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Parisand marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.", | |
| "DIBBLER": "One who, or that which, dibbles, or makes holes in the groundfor seed.", | |
| "TELOOGOO": "See Telugu. D. O. Allen.", | |
| "HATEL": "Hateful; detestable. [Obs.]", | |
| "MEGACOSM": "See Macrocosm. Croft.", | |
| "PARTED": "Cleft so that the divisions reach nearly, but not quite, to themidrib, or the base of the blade; -- said of a leaf, and used chieflyin composition; as, three-parted, five-parted, etc. Gray.", | |
| "BLANKET STITCH": "A buttonhole stitch worked wide apart on the edge of material,as blankets, too thick to hem.", | |
| "LOCHIAL": "Of or pertaining to the lochia.", | |
| "WATER MONITOR": "A very large lizard (Varanaus salvator) native of India. Itfrequents the borders of streams and swims actively. It becomes fiveor six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. Thename is also applied to other aquatic monitors.", | |
| "QUADRATE": "A plane surface with four equal sides and four right angles; asquare; hence, figuratively, anything having the outline of a square.At which command, the powers militant That stood for heaven, inmighty quadrate joined. Milton.", | |
| "DELTAFICATION": "The formation of a delta or of deltas. [R.]", | |
| "MOELLON": "Rubble masonry.", | |
| "WATER ALOE": "See Water soldier.", | |
| "POSTPOSIT": "To postpone. [Obs.] Feltham.", | |
| "REPOSE": "A rest; a pause.", | |
| "RULE-MONGER": "A stickler for rules; a slave of rules [R.] Hare.", | |
| "MANUBRIUM": "A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of thesternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.", | |
| "DOS--DOS": "Back to back; as, to sit dos-\u00e0-dos in a dogcart; to dance dos-\u00e0-dos, or so that two dancers move forward and pass back to back.", | |
| "FORMALIST": "One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp.,one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly theoutward forms of worship, without possessing the life and spirit ofreligion.As far a formalist from wisdom sits, In judging eyes, as libertinesfrom wits. Young.", | |
| "REPENTANT": "One who repents, especially one who repents of sin; a penitent.", | |
| "SWILLER": "One who swills.", | |
| "CAROUSE": "To drink deeply or freely in compliment; to take in a carousal;to engage in drunken revels.He had been aboard, carousing to his mates. Shak.", | |
| "CYSTID": "One of the Cystidea.", | |
| "UNIFIC": "Making one or unity; unifying.", | |
| "ASTRAEAN": "Pertaining to the genus Astr\u00e6a or the family Astr\u00e6id\u00e6.-- n.", | |
| "QUADRATIC": "Tetragonal.", | |
| "GAZEEBO": "A summerhouse so situated as to command an extensive prospect.[Colloq.]", | |
| "NERVOMUSCULAR": "Of or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature ofnerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.", | |
| "FORLORNLY": "In a forlorn manner. Pollok.", | |
| "UNSYMMETRICAL": "Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of aflower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or whenthe parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry.", | |
| "MICROGRAPHY": "The description of microscopic objects.", | |
| "IRRECOVERABLE": "Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied;irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury.That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon.", | |
| "COMMODATE": "A gratuitous loan.", | |
| "BLASTMENT": "A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.[Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "PRONELY": "In a prone manner or position.", | |
| "DARTINGLY": "Like a dart; rapidly.", | |
| "PRAETORIAN": "See Pretorian.", | |
| "FEATNESS": "Skill; adroitness. [Archaic] Johnson.", | |
| "CERRIAL": "Of or pertaining to the cerris.Chaplets green of cerrial oak. Dryden.", | |
| "DOCK-CRESS": "Nipplewort.", | |
| "UNDENIABLY": "In an undeniable manner.", | |
| "EJULATION": "A wailing; lamentation. [Obs.] \"Ejulation in the pangs ofdeath.\" Philips.", | |
| "BLOBBER-LIPPED": "Having thick lips. \"A blobber-lipped shell.\" Grew.", | |
| "INFORMALLY": "In an informal manner.", | |
| "HIPHALT": "Lame in the hip. [R.] Gower.", | |
| "WANT": "A depression in coal strata, hollowed out before the subsequentdeposition took place. [Eng.]", | |
| "CANDLELIGHT": "The light of a candle.Never went by candlelight to bed. Dryden.", | |
| "KARAGANE": "A species of gray fox found in Russia.", | |
| "HOMOSYSTEMIC": "Developing, in the case of multicellular organisms, from thesame embryonic systems into which the secondary unit (gastrula orplant enbryo) differentiates.", | |
| "BROOM": "A plant having twigs suitable for making brooms to sweep withwhen bound together; esp., the Cytisus scoparius of Western Europe,which is a low shrub with long, straight, green, angular branches,mintue leaves, and large yellow flowers.No gypsy cowered o'er fires of furze and broom. Wordsworth.", | |
| "UNPURE": "Not pure; impure.-- Un*pure\"ly, adv.-- Un*pure\"ness, n.", | |
| "BARBRE": "Barbarian. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "DAMSEL": "An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hoppe", | |
| "SERENITUDE": "Serenity. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNSINCERE": "Not sincere or pure; insincere. [Obs.] Dryden.-- Un`sin*cere\"ness, n. [Obs.]", | |
| "BEDAGAT": "The sacred books of the Buddhists in Burmah. Malcom.", | |
| "BDELLOMETER": "A cupping glass to which are attached a scarificator and anexhausting syringe. Dunglison.", | |
| "CHAJA": "The crested screamer of Brazil (Palamedea, or Chauna,chavaria), so called in imitation of its notes; -- called alsochauna, and faithful kamichi. It is often domesticated and is usefulin guarding other poultry. See Kamichi.", | |
| "UNPOISON": "To remove or expel poison from. [Obs.] South.", | |
| "CHARTERER": "One who charters; esp. one who hires a ship for a voyage.", | |
| "STATEMONGER": "One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs.", | |
| "ALVEUS": "The channel of a river. Weate.", | |
| "ALISH": "Like ale; as, an alish taste.", | |
| "NEBULAR": "Of or pertaining to nebul\u00e6; of the nature of, or resembling, anebula. Nebular hypothesis, an hypothesis to explain the process offormation of the stars and planets, presented in various forms byKant, Herschel, Laplace, and others. As formed by Laplace, itsupposed the matter of the solar system to have existed originally inthe form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, graduallycooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical andphysical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, bythe same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, andother bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate any hypothesisaccording to which the stars or the bodies of the solar system havebeen evolved from a widely diffused nebulous form of matter.", | |
| "REQUISITIONIST": "One who makes or signs a requisition.", | |
| "RELENT": "Stay; stop; delay. [Obs.]Nor rested till she came without relent Unto the land of Amazona.Spenser.", | |
| "AMOUR PROPRE": "Self-love; self-esteem.", | |
| "DECUPLE": "Tenfold. [R.]", | |
| "SERE": "Dry; withered. Same as Sear.But with its sound it shook the sails That were so thin and sere.Coleridge.", | |
| "GOVERNABLENESS": "The quality of being governable; manageableness.", | |
| "BROWNISM": "The views or teachings of Robert Brown of the Brownists.Milton.", | |
| "DROCK": "A water course. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "CONNOTE": "To imply as an attribute.The word \"white\" denotes all white things, as snow, paper, the foamof the sea, etc., and ipmlies, or as it was termed by the schoolmen,connotes, the attribute \"whiteness.\" J. S. Mill.", | |
| "LITERALISM": "The tendency or disposition to represent objects faithfully,without abstraction, conventionalities, or idealization.", | |
| "LODGMENT": "The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besiegingparty; an instrument thrown up in a captured position; as, to effecta lodgment.", | |
| "THYSANOPTERA": "A division of insects, considered by some writers a distinctorder, but regarded by others as belonging to the Hemiptera. They areall of small size, and have narrow, broadly fringed wings withrudimentary nervures. Most of the species feed upon the juices ofplants, and some, as those which attack grain, are very injurious tocrops. Called also Physopoda. See Thrips.", | |
| "NIOBIC": "Same as Columbic.", | |
| "DEEP": "To a great depth; with depth; far down; profoundly; deeply.Deep-versed in books, and shallow in himself. Milton.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring. Pope.", | |
| "MESATICEPHALIC": "Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium amedium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.", | |
| "PAROCHIAN": "Parochial. [Obs.] \"Parochian churches.\" Bacon.", | |
| "DRAVE": ", old imp. of Drive. [Obs.]", | |
| "ACCEDENCE": "The act of acceding.", | |
| "PRIMARILY": "In a primary manner; in the first place; in the first place; inthe first intention; originally.", | |
| "SOLENOCONCHA": "Same as Scaphopoda.", | |
| "HYGIEIST": "A hygienist.", | |
| "RECALL": "A call on the trumpet, bugle, or drum, by which soldiers arerecalled from duty, labor, etc. Wilhelm.", | |
| "BOARD": "The stage in a theater; as, to go upon the boards, to enterupon the theatrical profession.", | |
| "ALIMENTAL": "Supplying food; having the quality of nourishing; furnishingthe materials for natural growth; as, alimental sap.", | |
| "TRACERY": "Ornamental work with rambled lines. Especially: --(a) The decorative head of a Gothic window.", | |
| "VERBALIST": "A literal adherent to, or a minute critic of, words; aliteralist.", | |
| "INTERMAXILLARY": "An intermaxilla.", | |
| "HYPERTHYRION": "That part of the architrave which is over a door or window.", | |
| "INFUMATION": "Act of drying in smoke.", | |
| "GLASS": "Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and aconchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion.", | |
| "SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT": "A staff department of the United States army charged, under thesupervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing tothe army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies,for authorized sales, certain articles of food and other minorstores. It is commanded by any officer of the rank of brigadiergeneral, called commissary general, and the department is popularlycalled the Commissary Department.", | |
| "AUTOMORPHIC": "Patterned after one's self.The conception which any one frames of another's mind is more or lessafter the pattern of his own mind, -- is automorphic. H. Spenser.", | |
| "FULL-SAILED": "Having all its sails set,; hence, without restriction orreservation. Massinger.", | |
| "TREAD": "The upper horizontal part of a step, on which the foot isplaced.", | |
| "STIAN": "A sty on the eye. See Styan.", | |
| "HELIACAL": "Emerging from the light of the sun, or passing into it; risingor setting at the same, or nearly the same, time as the sun. Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "KROOMAN": "One of a negro tribe of Liberia and the adjacent coast, whosemembers are much employed on shipboard.", | |
| "PHOTOTROPIC": "Same as Heliotropic.", | |
| "BULRUSH": "A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.", | |
| "CICATRICIAL": "Relating to, or having the character of, a cicatrix. Dunglison.", | |
| "SAXIFRAGE": "Any plant of the genus Saxifraga, mostly perennial herbsgrowing in crevices of rocks in mountainous regions. Burnetsaxifrage, a European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga).-- Golden saxifrage, a low half-sacculent herb (Chrysospleniumoppositifolium) growing in rivulets in Europe; also, C. Americanum,common in the United States. See also under Golden.-- Meadow saxifrage, or Pepper saxifrage. See under Meadow.", | |
| "GESTURELESS": "Free from gestures.", | |
| "SCUTAGE": "Shield money; commutation of service for a sum of money. SeeEscuage.", | |
| "HYGIENIST": "One versed in hygiene.", | |
| "DIRKNESS": "Darkness. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FERIER": ", compar. of Fere, fierce. [Obs.]Rhenus ferier than the cataract. Marston.", | |
| "XENOGAMY": "Cross fertilization.", | |
| "ABSTRACTEDLY": "In an abstracted manner; separately; with absence of mind.", | |
| "XYLOCOPA": "A genus of hymenopterous insects including the carpenter. SeeCarpenter bee, under Carpenter.-- Xy*loc\"o*pine, a.", | |
| "SILICIC": "Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, silica;specifically, designating compounds of silicon; as, silicic acid.Silicic acid (Chem.), an amorphous gelatinous substance, Si(HO)4,very unstable and easily dried to silica, but forming many stablesalts; -- called also orthosilicic, or normal silicic, acid.", | |
| "TITAN": "Titanic.The Titan physical difficulties of his enterprise. I. Taylor.", | |
| "DISENTWINE": "To free from being entwined or twisted. Shelley.", | |
| "SUPERINTEND": "To have or exercise the charge and oversight of; to overseewith the power of direction; to take care of with authority; tosupervise; as, an officer superintends the building of a ship or theconstruction of a fort.The king may appoint a council, who may superintend the works of thisnature. Bacon.", | |
| "INCREDIBLY": "In an incredible manner.", | |
| "PERMANGANATE": "A salt of permanganic acid. Potassium permanganate. (Chem.) SeePotassium permanganate, under Potassium.", | |
| "LITHIC": "Pertaining to the formation of uric-acid concretions (stone) inthe bladder and other parts of the body; as, lithic diathesis. LIthicacid (Old Med. Chem.), uric acid. See Uric acid, under Uric.", | |
| "CALIDUCT": "A pipe or duct used to convey hot air or steam.Subterranean caliducts have been introduced. Evelyn.", | |
| "PENOCK": "See Pend.", | |
| "INTANGLE": "See Entangle.", | |
| "PLEIOCENE": "See Pliocene.", | |
| "WHIPPER": "A kind of simple willow.", | |
| "MONOPERSONAL": "Having but one person, or form of existence.", | |
| "SEERESS": "A female seer; a prophetess.", | |
| "PYCNOGONID": "One of the Pycnogonida.", | |
| "LOOCH": "See 2d Loch.", | |
| "DIFFIDE": "To be distrustful. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "MERCENARINESS": "The quality or state of being mercenary; venality. Boyle.", | |
| "SPASMODIC": "Of or pertaining to spasm; consisting in spasm; occuring in, orcharacterized by, spasms; as, a spasmodic asthma.", | |
| "TRIBUNATE": "The state or office of a tribune; tribuneship.", | |
| "LAMENT": "To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.Jeremiah lamented for Josiah. 2 Chron. xxxv. 25.Ye shall weep and lament, but the world shall rejoice. John xvi. 20.", | |
| "ENLACE": "To bind or encircle with lace, or as with lace; to lace; toencircle; to enfold; hence, to entangle.Ropes of pearl her neck and breast enlace. P. Fletcher.", | |
| "MINIMIZE": "To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; toreduce to a minimum. Bentham.", | |
| "PETIOLE": "A leafstalk; the footstalk of a leaf, connecting the blade withthe stem. See Illust. of Leaf.", | |
| "BOW": "An inclination of the head, or a bending of the body, in tokenof reverence, respect, civility, or submission; an obeisance; as, abow of deep humility.", | |
| "MISBELIEF": "Erroneous or false belief.", | |
| "HIGHBINDER": "A ruffian; one who hounds, or spies upon, another; app. esp. tothe members of certain alleged societies among the Chinese. [U. S.]", | |
| "ECHOMETER": "A graduated scale for measuring the duration of sounds, anddetermining their different, and the relation of their intervals. J.J. Rousseau.", | |
| "INSISTENTLY": "In an insistent manner.", | |
| "CATEGORICALLY": "Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirmcategorically.", | |
| "COFFER": "A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, orportico; a caisson.", | |
| "URBICOLOUS": "Of or pertaining to a city; urban. [R.]", | |
| "IMPARTER": "One who imparts.", | |
| "DOWST": "A dowse. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "ETTIN": "A giant. [Obs.] Beau & Fl.", | |
| "WEAKFISH": "Any fish of the genus Cynoscion; a squeteague; -- so calledfrom its tender mouth. See Squeteague. Spotted weakfish (Zo\u00f6l.), thespotted squeteague.", | |
| "CONCERTANTE": "A concert for two or more principal instruments, withorchestral accompaniment. Also adjectively; as, concertante parts.", | |
| "ERRABUND": "Erratic. \"Errabund guesses.\" Southey.", | |
| "OENANTHOL": "An oily substance obtained by the distillation of castor oil,recognized as the aldehyde of oenanthylic acid, and hence called alsooenanthaldehyde.", | |
| "UNTONGUE": "To deprive of a tongue, or of voice. [Obs.] Fuller.", | |
| "DAYFLOWER": "A genus consisting mostly of tropical perennial herbs(Commelina), having ephemeral flowers.", | |
| "PLURIFARIOUS": "Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.", | |
| "OUTFLING": "A gibe; a contemptuous remark.", | |
| "GASCONADER": "A great boaster; a blusterer.", | |
| "ARCHY": "Arched; as, archy brows.", | |
| "ENERGUMEN": "One possessed by an evil spirit; a demoniac.", | |
| "PINTSCH GAS": "A kind of oil gas extensively used for lighting railroad cars,which carry it in compressed form.", | |
| "PORTABLENESS": "The quality or state of being portable; portability.", | |
| "PAT": "To strike gently with the fingers or hand; to stroke lightly;to tap; as, to pat a dog.Gay pats my shoulder, and you vanish quite. Pope.", | |
| "RUBBISH": "Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff;trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallenbuildings; ruins; d\u00e9bris.What rubbish and what offal! Shak.he saw the town's one half in rubbish lie. Dryden.Rubbish pulley. See Gin block, under Gin.", | |
| "FORBIDDENLY": "In a forbidden or unlawful manner. Shak.", | |
| "CONTRADISTINCT": "Distinguished by opposite qualities. J. Goodwin.", | |
| "EMULSIFY": "To convert into an emulsion; to form an emulsion; to reducefrom an oily substance to a milky fluid in which the fat globules arein a very finely divided state, giving it the semblance of solution;as, the pancreatic juice emulsifies the oily part of food.", | |
| "ROLLER COASTER": "An amusement railroad in which cars coast by gravity over along winding track, with steep pitches and ascents.", | |
| "QUIRKISH": ", Consisting of quirks; resembling a quirk. Barrow.", | |
| "BILAND": "A byland. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "GLEE": "An unaccompanied part song for three or more solo voices. It isnot necessarily gleesome.", | |
| "BLEAREYEDNESS": "The state of being blear-eyed.", | |
| "BOER": "A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.", | |
| "PIPERIDINE": "An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery,ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by thedecomposition of piperine.", | |
| "ACCOMPLISHER": "One who accomplishes.", | |
| "TALCUM": "Same as Talc.", | |
| "SATISFIER": "One who satisfies.", | |
| "IMPREGN": "To impregnate; to make fruitful. [Obs.]His perniciousss words, impregned With reason. Milton.Semele doth Bacchus bear Impregned of Jove. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "ACIDIFICATION": "The act or process of acidifying, or changing into an acid.", | |
| "PRUDENCY": "Prudence. [Obs.] Hakluyt.", | |
| "YEAN": "To bring forth young, as a goat or a sheep; to ean. Shak.", | |
| "KECKSY": "The hollow stalk of an umbelliferous plant, such as the cowparsnip or the hemlock. [Written also kex, and in pl., kecks, kaxes.]Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs.Shak.", | |
| "PHLORETIN": "A bitter white crystalline substance obtained by thedecomposition of phlorizin, and formerly used to some extent as asubstitute for quinine.", | |
| "RESOURCEFUL": "Full of resources.", | |
| "ELIMINATION": "the act of discharging or excreting waste products or foreignsubstances through the various emunctories.", | |
| "PITYROID": "Having the form of, or resembling, bran. Smart.", | |
| "ENCALENDAR": "To register in a calendar; to calendar. Drayton.", | |
| "REFLEX": "Of, pertaining to, or produced by, stimulus or excitationwithout the necessary intervention of consciousness. Reflex action(Physiol.), any action performed involuntarily in consequence of animpulse or impression transmitted along afferent nerves to a nervecenter, from which it is reflected to an efferent nerve, and so callsinto action certain muscles, organs, or cells.-- Reflex nerve (Physiol.), an excito-motory nerve. See Exito-motory.", | |
| "JOURNEYER": "One who journeys.", | |
| "TONED": "Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned. Toned paper, paper having a slight tint, indistinction from paper which is quite white.", | |
| "WITCH": "A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or otherfat, and used as a taper. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "EQUIVALUE": "To put an equal value upon; to put (something) on a par withanother thing. W. Taylor.", | |
| "PUN": "To pound. [Obs.]He would pun thee into shivers with his fist. Shak.", | |
| "NALE": "Ale; also, an alehouse. [Obs.]Great feasts at the nale. Chaucer.", | |
| "COMIC": "A comedian. [Obs.] Steele.", | |
| "MICKLE": "Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. &Scot.] \"A man of mickle might.\" Spenser.", | |
| "RELIQUIDATION": "A second or renewed liquidation; a renewed adjustment. A.Hamilton.", | |
| "GLABRATE": "Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.", | |
| "REMBLAI": "Earth or materials made into a bank after having beenexcavated.", | |
| "NARIFORM": "Formed like the nose.", | |
| "OSTEOGENETIC": "Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone;producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer ofthe periosteum.", | |
| "RHIPIPTERAN": "Same as Rhipipter.", | |
| "AIRMANSHIP": "Art, skill, or ability in the practice of a\u00ebrial navigation.", | |
| "CONVOLVE": "To roll or wind together; to roll or twist one part on another.Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and fro convolved.Milton.", | |
| "BRYOLOGIST": "One versed in bryology.", | |
| "BUSHELAGE": "A duty payable on commodities by the bushel. [Eng.]", | |
| "DETAILER": "One who details.", | |
| "METTE": "of Mete, to dream. Chaucer.", | |
| "ENTASIA": "Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any diseasecharacterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.", | |
| "EVACUANT": "Emptying; evacuative; purgative; cathartic.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "SOONEE": "See Sunnite.", | |
| "CHRISTLY": "Christlike. H. Bushnell.", | |
| "ADENOTOMIC": "Pertaining to adenotomy.", | |
| "DRAGONLIKE": "Like a dragon. Shak.", | |
| "ERGAL": "Potential energy; negative value of the force function.", | |
| "HOURLY": "Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent;often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.In hourly expectation of a martyrdom. Sharp.", | |
| "OPPUGNER": "One who opposes or attacks; that which opposes. Selden.", | |
| "POOLER": "A stick for stirring a tan vat.", | |
| "LEVULOSAN": "An unfermentable carbohydrate obtained by gently heatinglevulose.", | |
| "UNJOINTED": "Having no joint or articulation; as, an unjointed stem.", | |
| "GENTILIZE": "To render gentile or gentlemanly; as, to gentilize yourunworthy sones. [R.] Sylvester.", | |
| "DURANTE": "During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito,during pleasure.", | |
| "MELANOSCOPE": "An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses suchthat they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors,as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used forviewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium,etc., by the red light which they emit.", | |
| "RED": ". imp. & p. p. of Read. Spenser.", | |
| "OBLECTATION": "The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased;delight. [R.] Feltham.", | |
| "MUSCOVADO": "Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar,obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and drainingoff the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render itdark colored and moist.", | |
| "PROTHALLUS": "The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and otherPteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the o\u00f6phoricgeneration of ferns, etc.", | |
| "ANTIHEMORRHAGIC": "Tending to stop hemorrhage.-- n.", | |
| "REEMBARK": "To put, or go, on board a vessel again; to embark again.", | |
| "BARDLING": "An inferior bard. J. Cunningham.", | |
| "CENTIARE": "See centare.", | |
| "MAXILLO-PALATINE": "Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull;as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.", | |
| "SUPERIMPREGNATION": "The act of impregnating, or the state of being impregnated, inaddition to a prior impregnation; superfetation.", | |
| "SEVENTEENTH": "An interval of two octaves and a third.", | |
| "AURICLED": "Having ear-shaped appendages or lobes; auriculate; as, auricledleaves.", | |
| "BRID": "A bird. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PREASE": "To press; to crowd. [Obs.] -- n.", | |
| "FOCAL": "Belonging to,or concerning, a focus; as, a focal point. Focaldistance, or length,of a lens or mirror (Opt.), the distance of thefocus from the surface of the lens or mirror, or more exactly, in thecase of a lens, from its optical center. --Focal distance of atelescope, the distance of the image of an object from the objectglass.", | |
| "OPUS": "A work; specif. (Mus.), a musical composition.", | |
| "DEFINITIVENESS": "The quality of being definitive.", | |
| "PLUMBIC": "Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, lead; -- usedspecifically to designate those compounds in which it has a highervalence as contrasted with plumbous compounds; as, plumbic oxide.", | |
| "GRAIN": "See Groan. [Obs.]", | |
| "HYDROSULPHURETED": "Combined with hydrogen sulphide.", | |
| "WRECKING": "a. & n. from Wreck, v. Wrecking car (Railway), a car fitted upwith apparatus and implements for removing the wreck occasioned by anaccident, as by a collision.-- Wrecking pump, a pump especially adapted for pumping water fromthe hull of a wrecked vessel.", | |
| "AGATY": "Of the nature of agate, or containing agate.", | |
| "ASPIRATOR": "An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certainliquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means ofsuction.", | |
| "SAND-BLIND": "Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.", | |
| "CORRESPONDENT": "Suitable; adapted; fit; corresponding; congruous; conformable;in accord or agreement; obedient; willing.Action correspondent or repugnant unto the law. Hooker.As fast the correspondent passions rise. Thomson.I will be correspondent to command. Shak.", | |
| "PERVICACY": "Pervicacity. [Obs.]", | |
| "AVENS": "A plant of the genus Geum, esp. Geum urbanum, or herb bennet.", | |
| "ENCHONDROMA": "A cartilaginous tumor growing from the interior of a bone.Quain.", | |
| "DIGNIFIED": "Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.", | |
| "LIBERTY": "A curve or arch in a bit to afford room for the tongue of thehorse.", | |
| "ALLEGIANT": "Loyal. Shak.", | |
| "BECHANCE": "By chance; by accident. [Obs.] Grafton.", | |
| "HYDRIODATE": "Same as Hydriodide.", | |
| "INEFFABLY": "In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably. Milton.", | |
| "ENTOTHORAX": "See Endothorax.", | |
| "AFFINE": "To refine. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "MISKNOW": "To have a mistaken notion of or about. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "GLISSETTE": "The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slipscontinuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having norotation at any instant.", | |
| "AUTOECIOUS": "Passing through all its stages on one host, as certainparasitic fungi; -- contrasted with heterocious.", | |
| "PHOTODROME": "An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, whichwhen turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes oflight passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timingthe succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to bemotionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.", | |
| "PELOTA": "A Basque, Spanish, and Spanish-American game played in a court,in which a ball is struck with a wickerwork racket.", | |
| "GRIL": "Harah; hard; severe; stern; rough. [Obs.] Rom. of R.", | |
| "AIR DRILL": "A drill driven by the elastic pressure of condensed air; apneumatic drill. Knight.", | |
| "PATELA": "A large flat-bottomed trading boat peculiar to the riverGanges; -- called also puteli.", | |
| "HYPEROARTIA": "An order of marsipobranchs including the lampreys. Thesuckerlike moth contains numerous teeth; the nasal opening is in themiddle of the head above, but it does not connect with the mouth. SeeCyclostoma, and Lamprey.", | |
| "PHOCINE": "Of or pertaining to the seal tribe; phocal.", | |
| "THUSSOCK": "See Tussock. [Obs.]", | |
| "VULCAN": "The god of fire, who presided over the working of metals; --answering to the Greek Heph\u00e6stus.", | |
| "INTERAXAL": "Situated in an interaxis. Gwilt.", | |
| "DARTER": "The snakebird, a water bird of the genus Plotus; -- so calledbecause it darts out its long, snakelike neck at its prey. SeeSnakebird.", | |
| "ASSISTIVE": "Lending aid, helping.", | |
| "EMANCIPATE": "To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) Toset free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate achild. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit;as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.Brasidas . . . declaring that he was sent to emancipate Hellas.Jowett (Thucyd. ).", | |
| "MONARCHIZER": "One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist.", | |
| "SELF-COMMAND": "Control over one's own feelings, temper, etc.; self-control.", | |
| "ANNUNCIATE": "To announce.", | |
| "OVERFRIEZE": "To cover with a frieze, or as with a frieze. E. Hall.", | |
| "REGLE": "To rule; to govern. [Obs.] \"To regle their lives.\" Fuller.", | |
| "MONGOLIAN": "Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.-- n.", | |
| "ORTHOEPIST": "One who is skilled in ortho\u00ebpy.", | |
| "PEROXIDATION": "Act, process, or result of peroxidizing; oxidation to aperoxide.", | |
| "EXUNDATE": "To overflow; to inundate. [Obs.] Bailey.", | |
| "ILE": "Ear of corn. [Obs.] Ainsworth.", | |
| "STOPLESS": "Not to be stopped. Davenant.", | |
| "ADJUSTAGE": "Adjustment. [R.]", | |
| "WHUR": "A humming or whirring sound, like that of a body moving throughthe air with velocity; a whir.", | |
| "OSTEOPLASTY": "An operation or process by which the total or partial loss of abone is remedied. Dunglison.", | |
| "CHEERFULLY": "In a cheerful manner, gladly.", | |
| "GUEPARDE": "The cheetah.", | |
| "ATMOLOGY": "That branch of science which treats of the laws and phenomenaof aqueous vapor. Whewell.", | |
| "GROSSBEAK": "See Grosbeak.", | |
| "ACERVAL": "Pertaining to a heap. [Obs.]", | |
| "COARSELY": "In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly;meanly.", | |
| "CHIMNEY": "A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward ina vein. Raymond. Chimney board, a board or screen used to close afireplace; a fireboard.-- Chimney cap, a device to improve the draught of a chimney, bypresenting an exit aperture always to leeward.-- Chimney corner, the space between the sides of the fireplace andthe fire; hence, the fireside.-- Chimney hook, a hook for holding pats and kettles over a fire, --Chimney money, hearth money, a duty formerly paid in England for eachchimney.-- Chimney pot (Arch.), a cylinder of earthenware or sheet metalplaced at the top of a chimney which rises above the roof.-- Chimney swallow. (Zo\u00f6l.) (a) An American swift (Ch\u00e6turepelasgica) which lives in chimneys. (b) In England, the commonswallow (Hirundo rustica).-- Chimney sweep, Chimney sweeper, one who cleans chimneys of soot;esp. a boy who climbs the flue, and brushes off the soot.", | |
| "WHITEWALL": "The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color ofthe under parts. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "ELATERITE": "A mineral resin, of a blackish brown color, occurring in soft,flexible masses; -- called also mineral caoutchouc, and elasticbitumen.", | |
| "EMBALL": "To encircle or embrace. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "ENSLAVER": "One who enslaves. Swift.", | |
| "ASTRONOMIZE": "To study or to talk astronomy. [R.]They astronomized in caves. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "MECHANICIAN": "One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; amachinist. Boyle.", | |
| "TELESCOPY": "The art or practice of using or making telescopes.", | |
| "AWAKE": "To cease to sleep; to come out of a state of natural sleep;and, figuratively, out of a state resembling sleep, as inaction ordeath.The national spirit again awoke. Freeman.Awake to righteousness, and sin not. 1 Cor. xv. 34.", | |
| "MALACODERM": "One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft andflexible body, as the fireflies.", | |
| "ZAREBA": "An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes,etc. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt]\"Ah,\" he moralizes, \"what wonderful instinct on the part of thislittle creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troopsafter Osman Digma.\" R. Jefferies.", | |
| "ARTLESSLY": "In an artless manner; without art, skill, or guile;unaffectedly. Pope.", | |
| "CIRCUMVALLATE": "To surround with a rampart or wall. Johnson.", | |
| "NON-PROS": "To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (saidof a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails toprosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.", | |
| "PORTFIRE": "A case of strong paper filled with a composition of niter,sulphur, and mealed powder, -- used principally to ignite the primingin proving guns, and as an incendiary material in shells.", | |
| "PADOW": "A paddock, or toad. Padow pipe. (Bot.) See Paddock pipe, underPaddock.", | |
| "MACROSPORANGIUM": "A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; --opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella,Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.", | |
| "BOSKAGE": "Same as Boscage.Thridding the somber boskage of the wood. Tennyson.", | |
| "FLUSHNESS": "The state of being flush; abundance.", | |
| "PROSPHYSIS": "A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion ofthe eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.", | |
| "CUNCTATIVE": "Slow; tardy; dilatory; causing delay.", | |
| "SUZERAIN": "A superior lord, to whom fealty is due; a feudal lord; a lordparamount.", | |
| "LARINE": "Of or pertaining to the Gull family (Larid\u00e6).", | |
| "THIOTOLENE": "A colorless oily liquid, C4H3S.CH3, analogous to, andresembling, toluene; -- called also methyl thiophene.", | |
| "INCONCOCT": "Inconcocted. [Obs.]", | |
| "COMMENT": "To make remarks, observations, or criticism; especially, towrite notes on the works of an author, with a view to illustrate hismeaning, or to explain particular passages; to write annotations; --often followed by on or upon.A physician to comment on your malady. Shak.Critics . . . proceed to comment on him. Dryden.I must translate and comment. Pope.", | |
| "TRELLIS": "A structure or frame of crossbarred work, or latticework, usedfor various purposes, as for screens or for supporting plants.", | |
| "HYPOSULPHURIC": "Pertaining to, or containing, sulphur in a lower state ofoxidation than in the sulphuric compounds; as, hyposulphuric acid.Hyposulphuric acid, an acid, H2S2O6, obtained by the action ofmanganese dioxide on sulphur dioxide, and known only in a waterysolution and in its salts; -- called also dithionic acid. SeeDithionic.", | |
| "BERGOMASK": "A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo,in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.", | |
| "ODORATE": "Odorous. [Obos.] Bacon.", | |
| "FORMICATE": "Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.", | |
| "FRUSTRATION": "The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, thefrustration of one's designs", | |
| "CIRCUMFUSE": "To pour round; to spread round.His army circumfused on either wing. Milton.", | |
| "TRASS": "A white to gray volcanic tufa, formed of decomposed trachyticcinders; -- sometimes used as a cement. Hence, a coarse sort ofplaster or mortar, durable in water, and used to line cisterns andother reservoirs of water. [Formerly written also tarras, tarrace,terras.]", | |
| "UNGUICULAR": "Of or pertaining to a claw or a nail; ungual.", | |
| "SICKLEMAN": "One who uses a sickle; a reaper.You sunburned sicklemen, of August weary. Shak.", | |
| "ANNOYER": "One who, or that which, annoys.", | |
| "TAPHRENCHYMA": "Same as Bothrenchyma.", | |
| "MACKINAW BOAT": "A flat-bottomed boat with a pointed prow and square stern,using oars or sails or both, used esp. on the upper Great Lakes andtheir tributaries.", | |
| "CHAFFER": "One who chaffs.", | |
| "MORCEAU": "A bit; a morsel.", | |
| "HEPTARCHY": "A government by seven persons; also, a country under sevenrulers.", | |
| "DISSIPATIVITY": "The rate at which palpable energy is dissipated away into otherforms of energy.", | |
| "PRESTRICTION": "Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "OSSUARY": "A place where the bones of the dead are deposited; a charnelhouse. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "LAKAO": "Sap green. [China]", | |
| "SHRIEVALTY": "The office, or sphere of jurisdiction, of a sheriff;sheriffalty.It was ordained by 28 Edward I that the people shall have election ofsheriff in every shire where the shrievalty is not of inheritance.Blackstone.", | |
| "SUBSILICATE": "A basic silicate.", | |
| "CATACROTIC": "Designating, pertaining to, or characterized by, that form ofpulse tracing, or sphygmogram, in which the descending portion of thecurve is marked by secondary elevations due to two or more expansionsof the artery in the same beat. -- Ca*tac\"rotism (#), n.", | |
| "PREEXISTENTISM": "The theory of a pre\u00ebxistence of souls before their associationwith human bodies. Emerson.", | |
| "SPARKFUL": "Lively; brisk; gay. [Obs.] \"Our sparkful youth.\" Camden.", | |
| "POETASTRY": "The works of a poetaster. [R.]", | |
| "ROSELLE": "a malvaceous plant (Hibiscus Sabdariffa) cultivated in the eastand West Indies for its fleshy calyxes, which are used for makingtarts and jelly and an acid drink.", | |
| "OBUMBRATION": "Act of darkening or obscuring. [R.] Sir T. More.", | |
| "EXCEPTIVE": "That excepts; including an exception; as, an exceptiveproposition. I. Watts.A particular and exceptive law. Milton.", | |
| "SURREBUT": "To reply, as a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.", | |
| "CHALDAIC": "Of or pertaining to Chaldes.-- n.", | |
| "PODICEPS": "See Grebe.", | |
| "HOMOEOMERIA": "The state or quality of being homogeneous in elements or firstprinciples; likeness or identity of parts.", | |
| "OLIVASTER": "Of the color of the olive; tawny. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "CADENCY": "Descent of related families; distinction between the members ofa family according to their ages. Marks of cadency (Her.), bearingsindicating the position of the bearer as older or younger son, or asa descendant of an older or younger son. See Difference (Her.).", | |
| "BRAGGET": "A liquor made of ale and honey fermented, with spices, etc.[Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "UNLAWED": "Not having the claws and balls of the forefeet cut off; -- saidof dogs.", | |
| "HYPOSKELETAL": "Beneath the endoskeleton; hypaxial; as, the hyposkeletalmuscles; -- opposed to episkeletal.", | |
| "RETROCEDE": "To cede or grant back; as, to retrocede a territory to a formerproprietor.", | |
| "UNMISTAKABLE": "Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain;obvious; evident.-- Un`mis*tak\"a*bly, adv.", | |
| "UPHEAVE": "To heave or lift up from beneath; to raise. Milton.", | |
| "VIOLOUS": "Violent. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.", | |
| "IODIZE": "To treat or impregnate with iodine or its compounds; as, toiodize a plate for photography. R. Hunt.", | |
| "MUTTONY": "Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.", | |
| "PEDIATRIC": "Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children.[Webster 1913 Suppl.]", | |
| "COINHERITOR": "A coheir.", | |
| "INDO-ENGLISH": "Of or relating to the English who are born or reside in India;Anglo-Indian.", | |
| "CARCINOLOGICAL": "Of or pertaining to carcinology.", | |
| "DUMFOUNDER": "To dumfound; to confound. [Written also dumbfounder.]", | |
| "MAGNIFICATE": "To magnify or extol. [Obs.] Marston.", | |
| "ACCOMBINATION": "A combining together. [R.]", | |
| "SAPIENTLY": "In a sapient manner.", | |
| "MYODYNAMIOMETER": "A myodynamometer.", | |
| "NARRABLE": "Capable of being narrated or told. [Obs.]", | |
| "PLATINIC": "Of, pertaining to, or containing, platinum; -- usedspecifically to designate those compounds in which the element has ahigher valence, as contrasted with the platinous compounds; as,platinic chloride (PtCl4).", | |
| "SKIPJACK": "An elater; a snap bug, or snapping beetle.", | |
| "MICROCOUSTIC": "Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fittedto assist hearing.", | |
| "REMAIN": "To await; to be left to. [Archaic]The easier conquest now remains thee. Milton.", | |
| "RAUCOUS": "Hoarse; harsh; rough; as, a raucous, thick tone. \"His voiceslightly raucous.\" Aytoun.-- Rau\"cous*ly, adv.", | |
| "SIPHORHINIAN": "A siphorhinal bird.", | |
| "CONSTITUTIONIST": "One who adheres to the constitution of the country.Bolingbroke.", | |
| "RESISTIBLE": "Capable of being resisted; as, a resistible force. Sir M. Hale.-- Re*sist\"i*ble*ness, n.-- Re*sist\"i*bly, adv.", | |
| "SLUNK": "imp. & p. p. of Slink.", | |
| "AZOTOUS": ": Nitrous; as, azotous acid. [R.]", | |
| "SHOTGUN": "A light, smooth-bored gun, often double-barreled, especiallydesigned for firing small shot at short range, and killing smallgame.", | |
| "SPECIFICATE": "To show, mark, or designate the species, or the distinguishingparticulars of; to specify. [Obs.] ir M. Hale.", | |
| "EQUIPAGED": "Furnished with equipage.Well dressed, well bred. Well equipaged, is ticket good enough.Cowper.", | |
| "SPORIDIFEROUS": "Bearing sporidia.", | |
| "AUTOCHRONOGRAPH": "An instrument for the instantaneous self-recording or printingof time. Knight.", | |
| "PESTEROUS": "Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome.[Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "ADFLUXION": "See Affluxion.", | |
| "FRINGILLA": "A genus of birds, with a short, conical, pointed bill. Itformerly included all the sparrows and finches, but is now restrictedto certain European finches, like the chaffinch and brambling.", | |
| "ROUNDER": "An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, anotherEnglish game resembling the game of fives, but played with afootball.Now we play rounders, and then we played prisoner's base. Bagehot.", | |
| "YODE": "Went; walked; proceeded. [Written also yede.] See Yede.Quer [whether] they rade [rode] or yoke. Cursor Mundi.Then into Cornhill anon I yode. Lydgate.", | |
| "MONOTHELITIC": "Of or pertaining to the Monothelites, or their doctrine.", | |
| "SAPINDUS": "A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leavesand panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead ofsoap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.", | |
| "WATER BREATHER": "Any arthropod that breathes by means of gills.", | |
| "SUBNUVOLAR": "Under the clouds; attended or partly covered or obscured byclouds; somewhat cloudy. [R. & Poetic]Subnuvolar lights of evening sharply slant. Milnes.", | |
| "SCRAFFLE": "To scramble or struggle; to wrangle; also, to be industrious.[Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.", | |
| "BATTOLOGIZE": "To keep repeating needlessly; to iterate. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "UNSWAYABLE": "Not capable of being swayed. Shak.", | |
| "PALLADIAN": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revivedclassic style of architecture, founded on the works of AndreaPalladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.", | |
| "STEAMSHIP": "A ship or seagoing vessel propelled by the power of steam; asteamer.", | |
| "CIRCULATOR": "One who, or that which, circulates.", | |
| "SCLAVIC": "Same as Slavic.", | |
| "HEMIHEDRAL": "Having half of the similar parts of a crystals, instead of all;consisting of half the planes which full symmetry would require, aswhen a cube has planes only on half of its eight solid angles, or oneplane out of a pair on each of its edges; or as in the case of atetrahedron, which is hemihedral to an octahedron, it being containedunder four of the planes of an octahedron.-- Hem`i*he\"dral*ly, adv.", | |
| "UPLEAD": "To lead upward. [Obs.]", | |
| "REECHY": "Smoky; reeky; hence, begrimed with dirt. [Obs.]", | |
| "TOTALIZATOR": "A machine for registering and indicating the number and natureof bets made on horse races, as in Australia and South Africa. Calledalso totalizer.", | |
| "INTENSIVENESS": "The quality or state of being intensive; intensity. Sir M.Hale.", | |
| "PETROLINE": "A paraffin obtained from petroleum from Rangoon in India, andpractically identical with ordinary paraffin.", | |
| "POLISHABLE": "Capable of being polished.", | |
| "COSTAGE": "Expense; cost. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "EXOSMOTIC": "Pertaining to exosmose.", | |
| "INTRODUCTORY": "Serving to introduce something else; leading to the mainsubject or business; preliminary; prefatory; as, introductoryproceedings; an introductory discourse.", | |
| "VICTOR": "Victorious. \"The victor Greeks.\" Pope.", | |
| "CERBERUS": "A monster, in the shape, of a three-headed dog, guarding theentrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian orguardian, esp. if surly.", | |
| "AMOEBIAN": "One of the Amoebea.", | |
| "AREFACTION": "The act of drying, or the state of growing dry.The arefaction of the earth. Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "DISCRETELY": "Separately; disjunctively.", | |
| "SANTONINATE": "A salt of santoninic acid.", | |
| "PERIVERTEBRAL": "Surrounding the vertebr\u00e6.", | |
| "TETRAONID": "A bird belonging to the tribe of which the genus Tetrao is thetype, as the grouse, partridge, quail, and the like. Used alsoadjectively.", | |
| "EPIGRAPHICS": "The science or study of epigraphs.", | |
| "WARKLOOM": "A tool; an implement. [Scot.]", | |
| "HOGO": "High flavor; strong scent. [Obs.] Halliwell.", | |
| "DIMINUENDO": "In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone;decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or thesign.", | |
| "HYDROGURET": "A hydride. [Obs.]", | |
| "NUTGALL": "A more or less round gall resembling a nut, esp. one of thoseproduced on the oak and used in the arts. See Gall, Gallnut.", | |
| "AZIMUTHAL": "Of or pertaining to the azimuth; in a horizontal circle.Azimuthal error of a transit instrument, its deviation in azimuthfrom the plane of the meridian.", | |
| "PELLETED": "Made of, or like, pellets; furnished with pellets. [R.] \"Thispelleted storm.\" Shak.", | |
| "SCALABLE": "Capable of being scaled.", | |
| "PANORPID": "Any neuropterous insect of the genus Panorpa, and alliedgenera. The larv\u00e6 feed on plant lice.", | |
| "CANGUE": "A very broad and heavy wooden collar which certain offenders inChina are compelled to wear as a punishment.", | |
| "DRUGGER": "A druggist. [Obs.] Burton.", | |
| "SCREECHY": "Like a screech; shrill and harsh.", | |
| "SWEEPINGS": "Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of astreet.", | |
| "UMBRACULIFEROUS": "Bearing something like an open umbrella.", | |
| "FAECES": "Excrement; ordure; also, settlings; sediment after infusion ordistillation. [Written also feces.]", | |
| "WYVERN": "Same as Wiver.", | |
| "RENOMEE": "Renown. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "UNCIAL": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of lettersused in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. Theletters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokesusually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as earlyas the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th centurya. d., being superseded by the cursive style.", | |
| "REFRANGIBLE": "Capable of being refracted, or turned out of a direct course,in passing from one medium to another, as rays of light.-- Re*fran\"gi*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "STUMBLING-BLOCK": "Any cause of stumbling, perplexity, or error.We preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumbling-block, and untothe Greeks foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 23.", | |
| "ULTRAZODIACAL": "Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that ismore than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets,that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond thezodiac.", | |
| "FRIGATOON": "A Venetian vessel, with a square stern, having only a mainmast,jigger mast, and bowsprit; also a sloop of war ship-rigged.", | |
| "ICKLE": "An icicle. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "ENROCKMENT": "A mass of large stones thrown into water at random to formbases of piers, breakwaters, etc.", | |
| "BESNUFF": "To befoul with snuff. Young.", | |
| "GUILLEMET": "A quotation mark. [R.]", | |
| "PHOLAS": "Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of thegenus Pholas, or family Pholadid\u00e6. They bore holes for themselves inclay, peat, and soft rocks.", | |
| "PRESUPPOSE": "To suppose beforehand; to imply as antecedent; to take forgranted; to assume; as, creation presupposes a creator.Each [kind of knowledge] presupposes many necessary things learned inother sciences, and known beforehand. Hooker.", | |
| "VELLICATION": "A local twitching, or convulsive motion, of a muscular fiber,especially of the face.", | |
| "DETRACTINGLY": "In a detracting manner.", | |
| "QUINTAN": "Occurring as the fifth, after four others also, occurring everyfifth day, reckoning inclusively; as, a quintan fever.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "CICATROSE": "Full of scars. Craig.", | |
| "SOUTERLY": "Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler;hence, vulgar; low. [Obs.]", | |
| "DASYURINE": "Pertaining to, or like, the dasyures.", | |
| "MARS": "The god of war and husbandry.", | |
| "MANDUCABLE": "Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.]Any manducable creature. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "MATTER-OF-FACT": "Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities;not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.", | |
| "BELIKE": "It is likely or probably; perhaps. [Obs. or Archaic] --Be*like\"ly, adv.Belike, boy, then you are in love. Shak.", | |
| "RAVENOUS": "A fine quality of sailcloth. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "RICK": "A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air,usually protected from wet with thatching.Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond thehedgerows. G. Eliot.", | |
| "DOPPER": "An Anabaptist or Baptist. [Contemptuous] B. Jonson.", | |
| "GROBIAN": "A rude or clownish person; boor; lout.", | |
| "EXPOSTULATOR": "One who expostulates. Lamb.", | |
| "CHARLOTTE": "A kind of pie or pudding made by lining a dish with slices ofbread, and filling it with bread soaked in milk, and baked. CharlotteRusse (, or Charlotte \u00e0 la russe Etym: [F., lit., Russian charlotte](Cookery), a dish composed of custard or whipped cream, inclosed insponge cake.", | |
| "TRIVALENCE": "The quality or state of being trivalent.", | |
| "NEW": "Newly; recently. Chaucer.", | |
| "ETIOLIN": "A yellowish coloring matter found in plants grown in darkness,which is supposed to be an antecedent condition of chlorophyll.Encyc. Brit.", | |
| "DRY": "Of certain morbid conditions, in which there is entire orcomparative absence of moisture; as, dry gangrene; dry catarrh.", | |
| "PRAD": "A horse. [Colloq. Eng.]", | |
| "MOHAMMEDAN ERA": "The era in use in Mohammedan countries. See Mohammedan year,below.", | |
| "SCYLLITE": "A white crystalline substance of a sweetish taste, resemblinginosite and metameric with dextrose. It is extracted from the kidneyof the dogfish (of the genus Scylium), the shark, and the skate.", | |
| "REINFECT": "To infect again.", | |
| "CONCERN": "To be of importance. [Obs.]Which to deny concerns more than avails. Shak.", | |
| "INTEGRALLY": "In an integral manner; wholly; completely; also, byintegration.", | |
| "PUNCHIN": "See Puncheon.", | |
| "ROMPINGLY": "In a romping manner.", | |
| "MICROCYTE": "One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are muchsmaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeablein disease, as in an\u00e6mia.", | |
| "INTERMENT": "The act or ceremony of depositing a dead body in the earth;burial; sepulture; inhumation. T. Warton.", | |
| "FORWORN": "Much worn. [Obs.]A silly man, in simple weeds forworn. Spenser.", | |
| "ENDYMA": "See Ependyma.", | |
| "MISINTERPRETATION": "The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.", | |
| "CONCENTRATIVENESS": "The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentratingthe intellectual the intellectual powers. Combe.", | |
| "QUINIA": "Quinine.", | |
| "VILLAN": "A villain. [R.]", | |
| "OSTRICH": "A large bird of the genus Struthio, of which Struthio camelusof Africa is the best known species. It has long and very stronglegs, adapted for rapid running; only two toes; a long neck, nearlybare of feathers; and short wings incapable of flight. The adult maleis about eight feet high.", | |
| "NUTMEG": "The kernel of the fruit of the nutmeg tree (Myristicafragrans), a native of the Molucca Islands, but cultivated elsewherein the tropics.", | |
| "HUNK": "A large lump or piece; a hunch; as, a hunk of bread. [Colloq.]", | |
| "DEPHLEGMEDNESS": "A state of being freed from water. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "HOMOTAXIA": "Same as Homotaxis.", | |
| "DIGIT": "One of the terminal divisions of a limb appendage; a finger ortoe.The ruminants have the \"cloven foot,\" i. e., two hoofed digits oneach foot. Owen.", | |
| "TRANSPORTANT": "Transporting; as, transportant love. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "TORCHWORT": "The common mullein, the stalks of which, dipped in suet,anciently served for torches. Called also torch, and hig-taper.", | |
| "IGNOBLENESS": "State or quality of being ignoble.", | |
| "INFRANGIBLENESS": "The state or quality of being infrangible; infrangibility.", | |
| "STEADING": "The brans, stables, cattle-yards, etc., of a farm; -- calledalso onstead, farmstead, farm offices, or farmery. [Prov. Eng. &Scot.]", | |
| "TROYOUNCE": "See Troy ounce, under Troy weight, above, and under Ounce.", | |
| "GRITH": "Peace; security; agreement. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "LIVERY STABLE": ". A stable where horses are kept for hire, and where stablingis provided. See Livery, n., 3 (e) (f) & (g).", | |
| "DRESSING": "An application (a remedy, bandage, etc.) to a sore or wound.Wiseman.", | |
| "GUARDIAN": "One who has, or is entitled to, the custody of the person orproperty of an infant, a minor without living parents, or a personincapable of managing his own affairs.Of the several species of guardians, the first are guardians bynature.-- viz., the father and (in some cases) the mother of the child.Blockstone.Guardian ad litem ( (Law), a guardian appointed by a court of justiceto conduct a particular suit.-- Guardians of the poor, the members of a board appointed orelected to care for the relief of the poor within a township, ordistrict.", | |
| "PEDICULOUS": "Pedicular.", | |
| "FROTHINESS": "State or quality of being frothy.", | |
| "MISTROW": "To think wrongly. [Obs.]", | |
| "MINISTERIALLY": "In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of aminister.", | |
| "RESTINGUISH": "To quench or extinguish. [Obs.] R. Field.", | |
| "VERATROL": "A liquid hydrocarbon obtained by the decomposition of veratricacid, and constituting the dimethyl ether of pyrocatechin.", | |
| "GANGLIONIC": "Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, ganglia organglion cells; as, a ganglionic artery; the ganglionic columns ofthe spinal cord.", | |
| "ACQUIET": "To quiet. [Obs.]Acquiet his mind from stirring you against your own peace. Sir A.Sherley.", | |
| "PSEUDOGRAPH": "A false writing; a spurious document; a forgery.", | |
| "FORWHY": "Wherefore; because. [Obs.]", | |
| "HEXOIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, hexane; as, hexoic acid.", | |
| "HANDBOOK": "A book of reference, to be carried in the hand; a manual; aguidebook.", | |
| "KERCHER": "A kerchief. [Obs.]He became . . . white as a kercher. Sir T. North.", | |
| "OUTLAY": "To lay out; to spread out; to display. [R.] Drayton.", | |
| "SEA EGG": "A sea urchin.", | |
| "ZONA": "A zone or band; a layer. Zona pellucida. Etym: [NL.] (Biol.)(a) The outer transparent layer, or envelope, of the ovum. It is amore or less elastic membrane with radiating stri\u00e6, and correspondsto the cell wall of an ordinary cell. See Ovum, and Illust. ofMicroscope. (b) The zona radiata.-- Zona radiata Etym: [NL.] (Biol.), a radiately striated membranesituated next the yolk of an ovum, or separated from it by a verydelicate membrane only.", | |
| "UNTOWARD": "Toward. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "LUXIVE": "Given to luxury; voluptuous. [Obs.]", | |
| "SIPHONIFER": "Any cephalopod having a siphonate shell.", | |
| "SEARCHLESS": "Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.", | |
| "TOMORN": "To-morrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PROOF": "A trial impression, as from type, taken for correction orexamination; -- called also proof sheet.", | |
| "TYRANT": "Any one of numerous species of American clamatorial birdsbelonging to the family Tyrannid\u00e6; -- called also tyrant bird.", | |
| "CONTEMPORANEITY": "The state of being contemporaneous.The lines of contemporaneity in the o\u00f6litic system. J. Philips.", | |
| "WAXY": "Resembling wax in appearance or consistency; viscid; adhesive;soft; hence, yielding; pliable; impressible. \"Waxy to persuasion.\"Bp. Hall. Waxy degeneration (Med.), amyloid degeneration. See underAmyloid.-- Waxy kidney, Waxy liver, etc. (Med.), a kidney or liver affectedby waxy degeneration.", | |
| "POSTSCRIPTED": "Having a postscript; added in a postscript. [R.] J. Q. Adams.", | |
| "ATTASTE": "To taste or cause to taste. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "COMPACTIBLE": "That may be compacted.", | |
| "BAFT": "Same as Bafta.", | |
| "COUNTERFLORY": "Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided thatthe tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said ofany ordinary.", | |
| "DRUIDESS": "A female Druid; a prophetess.", | |
| "INEXPLICABLENESS": "A state of being inexplicable; inexplicability.", | |
| "PURSUER": "A plaintiff; a prosecutor.", | |
| "ECTETHMOID": "External to the ethmoid; prefrontal.", | |
| "REASONER": "One who reasons or argues; as, a fair reasoner; a closereasoner; a logical reasoner.", | |
| "GALLEOT": "See Galiot.", | |
| "HAIRPIN": "A pin, usually forked, or of bent wire, for fastening the hairin place, -- used by women.", | |
| "SICKLED": "Furnished with a sickle.", | |
| "SHIPMASTER": "The captain, master, or commander of a ship. Jonah i. 6.", | |
| "SHEEPBITER": "One who practices petty thefts. [Obs.] Shak.There are political sheepbiters as well as pastoral; betrayers ofpublic trusts as well as of private. L'Estrange.", | |
| "TRIPLOBLASTIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, that condition of the ovumin which there are three primary germinal layers, or in which theblastoderm splits into three layers.", | |
| "VOLTAGE": "Electric potential or potential difference, expressed in volts.", | |
| "LIMPKIN": "Either one of two species of wading birds of the genus Aramus,intermediate between the cranes and rails. The limpkins areremarkable for the great length of the toes. One species (A.giganteus) inhabits Florida and the West Indies; the other (A.scolopaceus) is found in South America. Called also courlan, andcrying bird.", | |
| "ENVASSAL": "To make a vassal of. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEOPPILATIVE": "Deobstruent; aperient. [Obs.] Harvey.", | |
| "BRAZEN-BROWED": "Shamelessly impudent. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "IMMUND": "Unclean. [R.] Burton.", | |
| "BROMAL": "An oily, colorless fluid, CBr", | |
| "MISMETER": "To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. [R.]Chaucer.", | |
| "BIMASTISM": "The condition of having two mamm\u00e6 or teats.", | |
| "OBSTRUCTER": "One who obstructs or hinders.", | |
| "WUNG-OUT": "Having the sails set in the manner called wing-and-wing.[Sailors' slang]", | |
| "BRITANNIC": "Of or pertaining to Great Britain; British; as, her BritannicMajesty.", | |
| "CONDUCENT": "Conducive; tending.Conducent to the good success of this business. Abp. Laud.", | |
| "HEADSHAKE": "A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal ofdenial. Shak.", | |
| "SAFE-KEEPING": "The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or fromescape; care; custody.", | |
| "THAMYN": "An Asiatic deer (Rucervus Eldi) resembling the swamp deer; --called also Eld's deer.", | |
| "DIGLADIATION": "Act of digladiating. [Obs.] \"Sore digladiations and contest.\"Evelyn.", | |
| "AUTOTOXICATION": "Same as Auto-intoxication.", | |
| "CROSS-EXAMINATION": "The interrogating or questioning of a witness by the partyagainst whom he has been called and examined. See Examination.", | |
| "GOODWIFE": "The mistress of a house. [Archaic] Robynson (More's Utopia).", | |
| "UNKNOWLEDGED": "Not acknowledged or recognized. [Obs.]For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.", | |
| "CHORUS": "A band of singers and dancers.The Grecian tragedy was at first nothing but a chorus of singers.Dryden.", | |
| "HAEMATOGENOUS": "Originating in the blood.", | |
| "LIFE-WEARY": "Weary of living. Shak.", | |
| "CONNIVENCY": "Connivance. [Obs.]", | |
| "LAPIDIFY": "To convert into stone or stony material; to petrify.", | |
| "COCUS WOOD": "A West Indian wood, used for making flutes and other musicalinstruments.", | |
| "INELIGIBILITY": "The state or quality of being ineligible.", | |
| "NOBEL PRIZES": "Prizes for the encouragement of men and women who work for theinterests of humanity, established by the will of A. B. Nobel (1833-96), the Swedish inventor of dynamite, who left his entire estate forthis purpose. They are awarded yearly for what is regarded as themost important work during the year in physics, chemistry, medicineor physiology, idealistic literature, and service in the interest ofpeace. The prizes, averaging $40,000 each, were first awarded in1901.", | |
| "EVIL": "In an evil manner; not well; ill; badly; unhappily;injuriously; unkindly. Shak.It went evil with his house. 1 Chron. vii. 23.The Egyptians evil entreated us, and affected us. Deut. xxvi. 6.", | |
| "DIVERBERATION": "A sounding through.", | |
| "RIGHT-MINDED": "Having a right or honest mind.-- Right\"-mind`ed*ness, n.", | |
| "BUTTON": "To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will notbutton.", | |
| "INGENERABLY": "In an ingenerable manner.", | |
| "TOPER": "One who topes, or drinks frequently or to excess; a drunkard; asot.", | |
| "ORDINABILITY": "Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.", | |
| "WATER QUALM": "See Water brash, under Brash.", | |
| "NASEBERRY": "A tropical fruit. See Sapodilla. [Written also nisberry.]", | |
| "HIGH-SWELLING": "Inflated; boastful.", | |
| "MOLY": "A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; --called also golden garlic.", | |
| "UPSNATCH": "To snatch up. [R.]", | |
| "SPRAIN": "To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden andexcessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretchinjuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.", | |
| "PRODD": "A crossbow. See Prod, 3.", | |
| "SUBSTITUTIONAL": "Of or pertaining to substitution; standing in the place ofanother; substituted.-- Sub`sti*tu\"tion*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "MILKMAID": "A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.", | |
| "THUNDERPROOF": "Secure against the effects of thunder or lightning.", | |
| "UNPEERABLE": "Incapable of having a peer, or equal.", | |
| "COLOPHANY": "See Colophony.", | |
| "ARRIVE": "Arrival. [Obs.] Chaucer.How should I joy of thy arrive to hear! Drayton.", | |
| "HAUNT": "To persist in staying or visiting.I've charged thee not to haunt about my doors. Shak.", | |
| "DEJEUNE": "A d\u00e9jeuner.Take a d\u00e9jeun\u00e9 of muskadel and eggs. B. Jonson.", | |
| "PRUINOUS": "Frosty; pruinose.", | |
| "INTERCENTRAL": "Between centers. Intercentral nerves (Physiol.), those nerveswhich transmit impulses between nerve centers, as opposed toperipheral fibers, which convey impulses between peripheral parts andnerve centers.", | |
| "VERRUCOSE": "Covered with wartlike elevations; tuberculate; warty;verrucous; as, a verrucose capsule.", | |
| "BRANCHIA": "A gill; a respiratory organ for breathing the air contained inwater, such as many aquatic and semiaquatic animals have.", | |
| "WITENAGEMOTE": "A meeting of wise men; the national council, or legislature, ofEngland in the days of the Anglo-Saxons, before the Norman Conquest.", | |
| "FURFUROUS": "Made of bran; furfuraceous. [R.] \"Furfurous bread.\" SydneySmith.", | |
| "PANTOPODA": "Same as Pycnogonida.", | |
| "GARDEN": "To lay out or cultivate a garden; to labor in a garden; topractice horticulture.", | |
| "PRIEST": "A presbyter elder; a minister; specifically:(a) (R. C. Ch. & Gr. Ch.) One who is authorized to consecrate thehost and to say Mass; but especially, one of the lowest orderpossessing this power. Murdock. (b) (Ch. of Eng. & Prot. Epis. Ch.)", | |
| "DOLMEN": "A cromlech. See Cromlech. [Written also tolmen.]", | |
| "SIFFLEMENT": "The act of whistling or hissing; a whistling sound; sibilation.[Obs.] A. Brewer.", | |
| "DOVISH": "Like a dove; harmless; innocent. \"Joined with dovishsimplicity.\" Latimer.", | |
| "PERFECTLY": "In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely;wholly; throughly; faultlessly. \"Perfectly divine.\" Milton.As many as touched were made perfectly whole. Matt. xiv. 36.", | |
| "ZULU-KAFFIR": "A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and theKaffirs.", | |
| "LEVY": "A name formerly given in Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginiato the Spanish real of one eight of a dollar (or 12", | |
| "PENDULATE": "To swing as a pendulum. [R.]", | |
| "EPHEMERIC": "Ephemeral.", | |
| "BIGOTED": "Obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinionpractice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, andilliberal toward the opinions of others. \"Bigoted to strife.\" Byron.", | |
| "COLLYRIUM": "An application to the eye, usually an eyewater.", | |
| "JUBATE": "Fringed with long, pendent hair.", | |
| "LARK": "A frolic; a jolly time. [Colloq.] Dickens.", | |
| "ZIRCON LIGHT": "A light, similar to the calcium light, produced by incandescentzirconia.", | |
| "UPCOUNTRY": "In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. [Colloq.]", | |
| "CORDELING": "Twisting.", | |
| "LAXATION": "The act of loosening or slackening, or the state of beingloosened or slackened.", | |
| "MISGET": "To get wrongfully. [Obs.]", | |
| "MINEVER": "Same as Miniver.", | |
| "RIBAUDY": "Ribaldry. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FLAVIN": "A yellow, vegetable dyestuff, resembling quercitron.", | |
| "BATFOWLER": "One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.", | |
| "MORALISM": "A maxim or saying embodying a moral truth. Farrar.", | |
| "BOUGHT": "imp. & p. p. of Buy.", | |
| "INCAPABLE": "Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man underthirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office ofpresident of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment isthereby made incapable of holding an office of profit or honor underthe government.", | |
| "ESCHEWER": "One who eschews.", | |
| "RUT": "Sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various othermammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists.", | |
| "UNREALITY": "The quality or state of being unreal; want of reality.", | |
| "PETUNIA": "A genus of solanaceous herbs with funnelform or salver-shapedcorollas. Two species are common in cultivation, Petunia violacera,with reddish purple flowers, and P. nyctaginiflora, with whiteflowers. There are also many hybrid forms with variegated corollas.", | |
| "DISCOHERENT": "Incoherent. [R.]", | |
| "MARTELLO TOWER": "A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected onthe seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversingplatform, so as to be fired in any direction.", | |
| "BROADPIECE": "An old English gold coin, broader than a guinea, as a Carolusor Jacobus.", | |
| "AESCULAPIAN": "Pertaining to \u00c6sculapius or to the healing art; medical;medicinal.", | |
| "POLLUCITE": "A colorless transparent mineral, resembling quartz, occurringwith castor or castorite on the island of Elba. It is a silicate ofalumina and c\u00e6sia. Called also pollux.", | |
| "BULGY": "Bulged; bulging; bending, or tending to bend, outward.[Colloq.]", | |
| "PUDENDA": "The external organs of generation.", | |
| "PARALLELLY": "In a parallel manner; with parallelism. [R.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "OLIGOTOKOUS": "Producing few young.", | |
| "WARPATH": "The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlikeexpedition. Schoolcraft. On the warpath, on a hostile expedition;hence, colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.", | |
| "CHEEP": "To chirp, as a young bird.", | |
| "PERIVASCULAR": "Around the blood vessels; as, perivascular lymphatics.", | |
| "REOPPOSE": "To oppose again.", | |
| "CERVUS": "A genus of ruminants, including the red deer and other alliedspecies.", | |
| "MARYOLATRY": "Mariolatry.", | |
| "UNPICK": "To pick out; to undo by picking.", | |
| "IDIOTIZE": "To become stupid. [R.]", | |
| "NOSOPHEN": "An iodine compound obtained as a yellowish gray, odorless,tasteless powder by the action of iodine on phenolphthalein.", | |
| "SECURELY": "In a secure manner; without fear or apprehension; withoutdanger; safely.His daring foe . . . securely him defied. Milton.", | |
| "EMPIRISTIC": "Relating to, or resulting from, experience, or experiment;following from empirical methods or data; -- opposed to nativistic.", | |
| "GLADIOLE": "A lilylike plant, of the genus Gladiolus; -- called also cornflag.", | |
| "HYSTEROTOMY": "The C\u00e6sarean section. See under C\u00e6sarean.", | |
| "PITY": "To be compassionate; to show pity.I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. Jer. xiii. 14.", | |
| "DESERVING": "Desert; merit.A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.", | |
| "SHRIVEL": "To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and formcorrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivelswith age; -- often with up.", | |
| "CORPOREAL": "Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material bodyor substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.His omnipotence That to corporeal substance could add Speed almostspiritual. Milton.Corporeal property, such as may be seen and handled (as opposed toincorporeal, which can not be seen or handled, and exists only incontemplation). Mozley & W.", | |
| "INSECTARY": "A place for keeping living insects.-- In`sec*ta\"ri*um, n. Etym: [L.]", | |
| "PHARMACOSIDERITE": "A hydrous arsenate of iron occurring in green or yellowishgreen cubic crystals; cube ore.", | |
| "DEVASTATION": "Waste of the goods of the deceased by an executor oradministrator. Blackstone.", | |
| "ACADEMICALLY": "In an academical manner.", | |
| "WELT": "A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending aroundthe ends. Welt joint, a joint, as of plates, made with a welt,instead of by overlapping the edges. See Weld, n., 1 (d).", | |
| "FOOTNOTE": "A note of reference or comment at the foot of a page.", | |
| "PARORCHIS": "The part of the epididymis; or the corresponding part of theexcretory duct of the testicle, which is derived from the Wolffianbody.", | |
| "REASSIMILATE": "To assimilate again.-- Re`as*sim`i*la\"tion, n.", | |
| "DECADAL": "Pertaining to ten; consisting of tens.", | |
| "DESERTER": "One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or anyone to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman whoabandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.", | |
| "POLIVE": "A pulley. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "OBLATE": "Flattened or depressed at the poles; as, the earth is an oblatespheroid.", | |
| "MONOPHONIC": "Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophoniccomposition; -- opposed to Ant: polyphonic.", | |
| "VESICO-": "A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with,or relation to, the bla; as in vesicoprostatic, vesicovaginal.", | |
| "DISSEVERANCE": "The act of disserving; separation.", | |
| "FRIPPERER": "A fripper. [Obs.] Johnson.", | |
| "CROPFUL": "Having a full crop or belly; satiated. Milton.", | |
| "SIFILET": "The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, underParadise.", | |
| "PROGRESSION": "Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease ofnumbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, orharmonic.", | |
| "THIOCYANATE": "Same as Sulphocyanate.", | |
| "POLYACID": "Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, severalmolecules of a monobasic acid; having more than one hydrogen atomcapable of being replaced by acid radicals; -- said of certain bases;as, calcium hydrate and glycerin are polyacid bases.", | |
| "HESPERID": "Same as 3d Hesperian.", | |
| "CONCERT": "To act in harmony or conjunction; to form combined plans.The ministers of Denmark were appointed to concert with Talbot. Bp.Burnet", | |
| "DISLOCATE": "To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of abone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone;to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; as, todislocate your bones. Shak.After some time the strata on all sides of the globe were dislocated.Woodward.And thus the archbishop's see, dislocated or out of joint for a time,was by the hands of his holiness set right again. Fuller.", | |
| "PANDORA": "A beautiful woman (all-gifted), whom Jupiter caused Vulcan tomake out of clay in order to punish the human race, becausePrometheus had stolen the fire from heaven. Jupiter gave Pandora abox containing all human ills, which, when the box was opened,escaped and spread over the earth. Hope alone remained in the box.Another version makes the box contain all the blessings of the gods,which were lost to men when Pandora opened it.", | |
| "MINIMUM THERMOMETER": ", a thermometer for recording the lowest temperature since itslast adjustment.", | |
| "CHUFA": "A sedgelike plant (Cyperus esculentus) producing edible tubers,native about the Mediterranean, now cultivated in many regions; theearth almond.", | |
| "REEXPERIENCE": "A renewed or repeated experience.", | |
| "ALLIUM": "A genus of plants, including the onion, garlic, leek, chive,etc.", | |
| "NOYER": "An annoyer. [Obs.] Tusser.", | |
| "MICROVOLT": "A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of onevolt.", | |
| "SCRUZE": "To squeeze, compress, crush, or bruise. [Obs. or Low] Spenser.", | |
| "ACCLIMATATION": "Acclimatization.", | |
| "TROCO": "An old English game; -- called also lawn billiards.", | |
| "ACROCEPHALY": "Loftiness of skull.", | |
| "SMATTERER": "One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.", | |
| "VIVERRA": "A genus of carnivores which comprises the civets.", | |
| "NEEDLE-POINTED": "Pointed as needles.", | |
| "DESPOILER": "One who despoils.", | |
| "INADVISABLE": "Not advisable.-- In`ad*vis\"a*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "BENTHAL": "Relating to the deepest zone or region of the ocean.", | |
| "MISINCLINE": "To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affectwrongly.", | |
| "CONFESSANT": "One who confesses to a priest. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "CONSOUND": "A name applied loosely to several plants of different genera,esp. the comfrey.", | |
| "INSPECTIVE": "Engaged in inspection; inspecting; involving inspection.", | |
| "REDISPOSE": "To dispose anew or again; to readjust; to rearrange. A. Baxter.", | |
| "ITACONIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, C5H6O4, which isobtained as a white crystalline substance by decomposing aconitic andother organic acids.", | |
| "SELF-RESPECT": "Respect for one's self; regard for one's character; laudableself-esteem.", | |
| "ABUNDANCE": "An overflowing fullness; ample sufficiency; great plenty;profusion; copious supply; superfluity; wealth: -- strictlyapplicable to quantity only, but sometimes used of number.It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath beenshed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.", | |
| "TRUNCH": "A stake; a small post. [Obs.]", | |
| "HOLOSTRACA": "A division of phyllopod Crustacea, including those that areentirely covered by a bivalve shell.", | |
| "ANGOLA": "A fabric made from the wool of the Angora goat.", | |
| "INSURE": "To underwrite; to make insurance; as, a company insures atthree per cent.", | |
| "SOLARIZATION": "Injury of a photographic picture caused by exposing it for toolong a time to the sun's light in the camera; burning; excessiveinsolation.", | |
| "STAR STEREOGRAM": "A view of the universe of brighter stars as it would appear toan observer transported into space outside or beyond our universe ofstars.", | |
| "HEBDOMADALLY": "In periods of seven days; weekly. Lowell.", | |
| "DEIST": "One who believes in the existence of a God, but denies revealedreligion; a freethinker.", | |
| "OVERGIVE": "To give over; to surrender; to yield. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "SENSUISM": "Sensualism.", | |
| "RUSHED": "Abounding or covered with rushes.", | |
| "PRECIPITANTLY": "With rash or foolish haste; in headlong manner. Milton.", | |
| "GRADING": "The act or method of arranging in or by grade, or of bringing,as the surface of land or a road, to the desired level or grade.", | |
| "ZWIEBACK": "A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwardscut and toasted.", | |
| "APOTHECIUM": "The ascigerous fructification of lichens, forming masses ofvarious shapes.", | |
| "MELCHITE": "One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledgesthe authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremoniesof the Eastern Church.", | |
| "NOME": "See Term.", | |
| "CLEANLILY": "In a cleanly manner.", | |
| "CEDARN": "Of or pertaining to the cedar or its wood. [R.]", | |
| "EYGHT": "An island. See Eyot.", | |
| "TERRITORIAL WATERS": "The waters under the territorial jurisdiction of a state;specif., the belt (often called the marine belt or territorial sea)of sea subject to such jurisdiction, and subject only to the right ofinnocent passage by the vessels of other states.", | |
| "AEDILESHIP": "The office of an \u00e6dile. T. Arnold.", | |
| "KEN": "A house; esp., one which is a resort for thieves. [Slang, Eng.]", | |
| "NEGROHEAD": "An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up intoround masses.", | |
| "WIGLESS": "Having or wearing no wig.", | |
| "EMPANOPLIED": "Completely armed; panoplied. Tennyson.", | |
| "ASSIST": "To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time ofdistress; to help; to aid; to succor.Assist me, knight. I am undone! Shak.", | |
| "FORBLACK": "Very black. [Obs.]As any raven's feathers it shone forblack. Chaucer.", | |
| "BASBLEU": "A bluestocking; a literary woman. [Somewhat derisive]", | |
| "COCKSHEAD": "(Bot.) A leguminous herb (Onobrychis Caput-galli), having smallspiny-crested pods.", | |
| "RESIDENCE": "The residing of an incumbent on his benefice; -- opposed tononresidence.", | |
| "COSMORAMA": "An exhibition in which a series of views in various parts ofthe world is seen reflected by mirrors through a series of lenses,with such illumination, etc., as will make the views most closelyrepresent reality.", | |
| "INQUIETNESS": "Unquietness. [Obs.] Joye.", | |
| "LUTE": "A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance forsealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, orfor coating the bodies of retorts, etc., when exposed to heat; --called also luting.", | |
| "SHADINESS": ", n. Quality or state of being shady.", | |
| "VARICES": "See Varix.", | |
| "RUSTFUL": "Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. \"Rustfulsloth.\" Quarles.", | |
| "WADDLER": "One who, or that which, waddles.", | |
| "SWELT": "imp. of Swell.", | |
| "SINAPINE": "An alkaloid occuring in the seeds of mustard. It is extracted,in combination with sulphocyanic acid, as a white crystallinesubstance, having a hot, bitter taste. When sinapine is isolated itis unstable and undergoes decomposition.", | |
| "ARCHIEREY": "The higher order of clergy in Russia, including metropolitans,archbishops, and bishops. Pinkerton.", | |
| "THAROS": "A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the uppersurface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outermargins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearlcrescent.", | |
| "LEPAL": "A sterile transformed stamen.", | |
| "THRID": "Third. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SHIMMY": "A chemise. [Colloq.]", | |
| "DISSOLVENT": "Having power to dissolve power to dissolve a solid body; as,the dissolvent juices of the stomach. Ray.", | |
| "VERBALISM": "Something expressed verbally; a verbal remark or expression.", | |
| "SIEVA": "A small variety of the Lima bean (Phaseolus lunatus).", | |
| "GREY": "See Gray (the correct orthography).", | |
| "AMPHITROCHA": "A kind of annelid larva having both a dorsal and a ventralcircle of special cilia.", | |
| "HIERONYMITE": "See Jeronymite.", | |
| "VENTRICULITE": "Any one of numerous species of siliceous fossil spongesbelonging to Ventriculites and allied genera, characteristic of theCretaceous period.", | |
| "TETRICITY": "Crabbedness; perverseness. [Obs.]", | |
| "DISSIDENCE": "Disagreement; dissent; separation from the establishedreligion. I. Taylor.It is the dissidence of dissent. Burke.", | |
| "BEGGARLINESS": "The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness.", | |
| "TANDEM CART": "A kind of two-wheeled vehicle with seats back to back, thefront one somewhat elevated.", | |
| "INCREPATION": "A chiding; rebuke; reproof. [Obs.] Hammond.", | |
| "LAMEL": "See Lamella.", | |
| "ASCARIASIS": "A disease, usually accompanied by colicky pains and diarrhea,caused by the presence of ascarids in the gastrointestinal canal.", | |
| "INCOMPOSITE": "Not composite; uncompounded; simple. Incomposite numbers. SeePrime numbers, under Prime.", | |
| "ENDOGAMY": "Marriage only within the tribe; a custom restricting a man inhis choice of a wife to the tribe to which he belongs; -- opposed toexogamy.", | |
| "TOOTHING": "Bricks alternately projecting at the end of a wall, in orderthat they may be bonded into a continuation of it when the remainderis carried up. Toothing plane, a plane of which the iron is formedinto a series of small teeth, for the purpose of roughening surfaces,as of veneers.", | |
| "DIATOMOUS": "Having a single, distinct, diagonal cleavage; -- said ofcrystals. Mohs.", | |
| "STACKING": "from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope usedin binding thatch or straw upon a stack.-- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.", | |
| "OPPILATE": "To crowd together; to fill with obstructions; to block up.[Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "POTHEEN": "See Poteen.", | |
| "ECSTASY": "A state which consists in total suspension of sensibility, ofvoluntary motion, and largely of mental power. The body is erect andinflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.", | |
| "REGRANT": "To grant back; to grant again or anew. Ayliffe.", | |
| "TAR": "A sailor; a seaman. [Colloq.] Swift.", | |
| "ERYTHRISM": "A condition of excessive redness. See Erythrochroism.", | |
| "TRIACLE": "See Treacle. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "TRUDGEN STROKE": "A racing stroke in which a double over-arm motion is used; --so called from its use by an amateur named Trudgen, but oftenerroneously written trudgeon.", | |
| "BILITERALISM": "The property or state of being biliteral.", | |
| "DISRANGE": "To disarrange. [Obs.] Wood.", | |
| "DURRA": "A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introducedinto the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- calledalso Indian millet, and Guinea corn. [Written also dhoorra, dhurra,doura, etc.]", | |
| "VESICULATE": "Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.", | |
| "LUPULINE": "An alkaloid extracted from hops as a colorless volatile liquid.", | |
| "PROXIMIOUS": "Proximate. [Obs.]", | |
| "TIRWIT": "The lapwing. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "FILIATION": "The assignment of a bastard child to some one as its ather;affiliation. Smart.", | |
| "WASHDISH": "Same as Washerwoman, 2. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "IRRECORDABLE": "Not fit or possible to be recorded.", | |
| "ACCENTOR": "One who sings the leading part; the director or leader. [Obs.]", | |
| "DISTENSION": "Same as Distention.", | |
| "VEGETE": "Lively; active; sprightly; vigorous. [Obs.]Even her body was made airy and vegete. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "SCISSORS-TAILED": "Having the outer feathers much the longest, the othersdecreasing regularly to the median ones.", | |
| "EXCESSIVE": "Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch.Excessive grief [is] the enemy to the living. Shak.", | |
| "ACCURATENESS": "The state or quality of being accurate; accuracy; exactness;nicety; precision.", | |
| "KNOWLECHE": "See Knowl, edge.We consider and knowleche that we have offended. Chaucer.", | |
| "WATER GOD": "A fabulous deity supposed to dwell in, and preside over, somebody of water.", | |
| "OLEIC": "Pertaining to, derived from, or contained in, oil; as, oleicacid, an acid of the acrylic acid series found combined with glycerylin the form of olein in certain animal and vegetable fats and oils,such as sperm oil, olive oil, etc. At low temperatures the acid iscrystalline, but melts to an oily liquid above 14", | |
| "ANNALIST": "A writer of annals.The monks . . . were the only annalists in those ages. Hume.", | |
| "TILIACEOUS": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants(Tiliace\u00e6) of which the linden (Tilia) is the type. The orderincludes many plants which furnish a valuable fiber, as the jute.", | |
| "CONTEX": "To context. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "WEATHER-BIT": "A turn of the cable about the end of the windlass, without thebits.", | |
| "TISICKY": "Consumptive, phthisical.", | |
| "RESHIPPER": "One who reships.", | |
| "YIDDISHER": "A Yid. [Slang]", | |
| "CAMWOOD": "See Barwood.", | |
| "RACEMULOSE": "Growing in very small racemes.", | |
| "SPIRITUALLY": "In a spiritual manner; with purity of spirit; like a spirit.", | |
| "CRASTINATION": "Procrastination; a putting off till to-morrow. [Obs.]", | |
| "GONIATITE": "One of an extinct genus of fossil cephalopods, allied to theAmmonites. The earliest forms are found in the Devonian formation,the latest, in the Triassic.", | |
| "TRIBUTER": "One who works for a certain portion of the ore, or its value.[Eng.]", | |
| "ORANGEROOT": "An American ranunculaceous plant (Hidrastis Canadensis), havinga yellow tuberous root; -- also called yellowroot, golden seal, etc.", | |
| "CINCHONACEOUS": "Allied or pertaining to cinchona, or to the plants that produceit.", | |
| "URITE": "One of the segments of the abdomen or post-abdomen ofarthropods.", | |
| "MEGRIM": "A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes byunconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mildform of apoplexy. Youatt.", | |
| "LOSEL": "One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel.[Archaic] Spenser.One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.", | |
| "DECACUMINATED": "Having the point or top cut off. [Obs.] Bailey.", | |
| "OUPHEN": "Elfish. [Obs.]", | |
| "TREASONOUS": "Treasonable. Shak.The treasonous book of the Court of King James. Pepys.", | |
| "AIR SAC": "One of the spaces in different parts. of the bodies of birds,which are filled with air and connected with the air passages of thelungs; an air cell.", | |
| "BETEELA": "An East India muslin, formerly used for cravats, veils, etc.[Obs.]", | |
| "GIESECKITE": "A mineral occurring in greenish gray six-sided prisms, having agreasy luster. It is probably a pseudomorph after el\u00e6olite.", | |
| "MONADARIA": "The Infusoria.", | |
| "RANDOM": "The direction of a rake-vein. Raymond.", | |
| "PLECTOSPONDYLI": "An extensive suborder of fresh-water physostomous fishes havingthe anterior vertebr\u00e6 united and much modified; the Eventognathi.", | |
| "OXYGENATE": "To unite, or cause to combine, with oxygen; to treat withoxygen; to oxidize; as, oxygenated water (hydrogen dioxide).", | |
| "ZYMOME": "A glutinous substance, insoluble in alcohol, resemblinglegumin; -- now called vegetable fibrin, vegetable albumin, or glutencasein.", | |
| "LAGOMORPHA": "A group of rodents, including the hares. They have fourincisors in the upper jaw. Called also Duplicidentata.", | |
| "AMATORY": "Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as,amatory potions.", | |
| "FORESEE": "To have or exercise foresight. [Obs.]", | |
| "OFFENSIBLE": "That may give offense. [Obs.]", | |
| "REPUTABLE": "Having, or worthy of, good repute; held in esteem; honorable;praiseworthy; as, a reputable man or character; reputable conduct.In the article of danger, it is as reputable to elude an enemy asdefeat one. Broome.", | |
| "MAYFLOWER": "In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus(see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.", | |
| "SUBLIEUTENANT": "An inferior or second lieutenant; in the British service, acommissioned officer of the lowest rank.", | |
| "VOLITIONAL": "Belonging or relating to volition. \"The volitional impulse.\"Bacon.", | |
| "OVERNEAT": "Excessively neat. Spectator.", | |
| "SEORITA": "A Spanish title of courtesy given to a young lady; Miss; also,a young lady.", | |
| "NEONISM": "Neologism.", | |
| "GNOMICAL": "Gnomonical. Boyle.", | |
| "STOMATITIS": "Inflammation of the mouth.", | |
| "PROTERVITY": "Peevishness; petulance. [Obs.] Fuller.", | |
| "BONUS": "A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilegegranted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.Bouvier.", | |
| "REAMPUTATION": "The second of two amputations performed upon the same member.", | |
| "PRESIGNIFY": "To intimate or signify beforehand; to presage.", | |
| "SHANTY": "Jaunty; showy. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "WADMOL": "A coarse, hairy, woolen cloth, formerly used for garments bythe poor, and for various other purposes. [Spelled also wadmal,wadmeal, wadmoll, wadmel, etc.] Beck (Draper's Dict.). Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "HEPTAGONAL": "Having seven angles or sides. Heptagonal numbers (Arith.), thenumbers of the series 1, 7, 18, 34, 55, etc., being figurate numbersformed by adding successively the terms of the arithmetical series 1,6, 11, 16, 21, etc.", | |
| "EXHAUSTION": "An ancient geometrical method in which an exhaustive processwas employed. It was nearly equivalent to the modern method oflimits.", | |
| "ORTHODOXALLY": "Orthodoxly. [R.] Milton", | |
| "PIONEER": "A soldier detailed or employed to form roads, dig trenches, andmake bridges, as an army advances.", | |
| "SEMAEOSTOMATA": "A division of Discophora having large free mouth lobes. Itincludes Aurelia, and Pelagia. Called also Semeostoma. See Illustr.under Discophora, and Medusa.", | |
| "COMMENSURABILITY": "The quality of being commersurable. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "COURSER": "A grallatorial bird of Europe (Cursorius cursor), remarkablefor its speed in running. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied torunning birds of the Ostrich family.", | |
| "LUKEWARM": "Moderately warm; neither cold nor hot; tepid; not ardent; notzealous; cool; indifferent. \" Lukewarm blood.\" Spenser. \" Lukewarmpatriots.\" Addison.An obedience so lukewarm and languishing that it merits not the nameof passion. Dryden.-- Luce\"warm`ly, adv.-- Luce\"warm`ness, n.", | |
| "BELAMY": "Good friend; dear friend. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GOOSE-RUMPED": "Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharplyfrom the croup; -- said of certain horses.", | |
| "MATRONHOOD": "The state of being a matron.", | |
| "HASLET": "The edible viscera, as the heart, liver, etc., of a beast, esp.of a hog. [Written also harslet.]", | |
| "LOREN": "of Lose. Chaucer.", | |
| "FELLOW": "To suit with; to pair with; to match. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "CHOREIC": "Of the nature of, or pertaining to, chorea; convulsive.", | |
| "DAYMARE": "A kind of incubus which occurs during wakefulness, attended bythe peculiar pressure on the chest which characterizes nightmare.Dunglison.", | |
| "ICEBOUND": "Totally surrounded with ice, so as to be incapable ofadvancing; as, an icebound vessel; also, surrounded by or fringedwith ice so as to hinder easy access; as, an icebound coast.", | |
| "PALLAS": "Pallas Athene, the Grecian goddess of wisdom, called alsoAthene, and identified, at a later period, with the Roman Minerva.", | |
| "REHYPOTHECATE": "To hypothecate again.-- Re`hy*poth`e*ca\"tion, n.", | |
| "SCANTLET": "A small pattern; a small quantity. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "UNMOOR": "To weigh anchor. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "YAWL": "A small ship's boat, usually rowed by four or six oars.[Written also yaul.]", | |
| "TOLUTATION": "A pacing or ambling. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ENCASEMENT": "An old theory of generation similar to emboOvulist.", | |
| "BONTEBOK": "The pied antelope of South Africa (Alcelaphus pygarga). Itsface and rump are white. Called also nunni.", | |
| "PROGNOSTIC": "Indicating something future by signs or symptoms; foreshowing;aiding in prognosis; as, the prognostic symptoms of a disease;prognostic signs.", | |
| "VAS": "A vessel; a duct. Vas deferens; pl. Vasa deferentia. Etym: [L.vas vessel + deferens carrying down.] (Anat.) The excretory duct of atesticle; a spermatic duct.", | |
| "TOWERY": "Having towers; adorned or defended by towers. [R.] \"Towerycities.\" Pope.", | |
| "TRISTITIATE": "To make sad. [Obs.] Feltham.", | |
| "TRIBBLE": "A frame on which paper is dried. Knight.", | |
| "ACCRUE": "Something that accrues; advantage accruing. [Obs.]", | |
| "FORGIVABLE": "Capable of being forgiven; pardonable; venial. Sherwood.", | |
| "PERMANGANIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, one of the higher acids ofmanganese, HMnO4, which forms salts called permanganates.", | |
| "PHOSPHOR-BRONZE": "A variety of bronze possessing great hardness, elasticity, andtoughness, obtained by melting copper with tin phosphide. It containsone or two per cent of phosphorus and from five to fifteen per centof tin.", | |
| "DISTITLE": "To deprive of title or right. [R.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "TERREPLEIN": "The top, platform, or horizontal surface, of a rampart, onwhich the cannon are placed. See Illust. of Casemate.", | |
| "MONOTREMATA": "A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts ofthe urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds.The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, andEchidna.", | |
| "BRIDE": "To make a bride of. [Obs.]", | |
| "COMMENTATOR": "One who writes a commentary or comments; an expositor; anannotator.The commentator's professed object is to explain, to enforce, toillustrate doctrines claimed as true. Whewell.", | |
| "FIGURINE": "A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially,one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette,which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.", | |
| "NATURALNESS": "The state or quality of being natural; conformity to nature.", | |
| "ANGELAGE": "Existence or state of angels.", | |
| "ANACARDIUM": "A genus of plants including the cashew tree. See Cashew.", | |
| "MOISTY": "Moist. [Obs.]", | |
| "OMNIPREVALENT": "Prevalent everywhere or in all things. Fuller.", | |
| "ECHAUGUETTE": "A small chamber or place of protection for a sentinel, usuallyin the form of a projecting turret, or the like. See Castle.", | |
| "WEISMANNISM": "The theories and teachings in regard to heredity propounded bythe German biologist August Weismann, esp. in regard to germ plasm asthe basis of heredity and the impossibility of transmitting acquiredcharacteristics; -- often called neo-Darwinism.", | |
| "FERROUS": "Pertaining to, or derived from, iron; -- especially used ofcompounds of iron in which the iron has its lower valence; as,ferrous sulphate.", | |
| "HENEN": "Hence. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SEA BUTTERFLY": "A pteropod.", | |
| "PETRESCENCE": "The process of changing into stone; petrification.", | |
| "UNDERSOIL": "The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.", | |
| "MARANATHA": "\"Our Lord cometh;\" -- an expression used by St. Paul at theconclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). Thisword has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; asmuch as to say, \"May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thycrimes.\" See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.", | |
| "BARBADIAN": "Of or pertaining to Barbados.-- n.", | |
| "DOWVE": "A dove. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PENTADECATOIC": "Of, pertaining to, or derived from, pentadecane, or designatingan acid related to it.", | |
| "INLAY": "To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry,choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; toform an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insertions.Look,how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of brightgold. Shak.But these things are . . . borrowed by the monks to inlay theirstory. Milton.", | |
| "IOD-": "See Iodo-.", | |
| "VAGARIOUS": "Given to, or characterized by, vagaries; capricious; whimsical;crochety.", | |
| "ALMESSE": "See Alms. [Obs.]", | |
| "POLICE POWER": "The inherent power of a government to regulate its policeaffairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. Inthe earlier cases in the United States it was used as including thewhole power of internal government, or the powers of governmentinherent in every sovereignty to the extent of its dominions (11Peters (U. S.) 102). The later cases have excepted from its domainthe development and administration of private law. Modern politicalscience defines the power as a branch of internal administration inthe exercise of which the executive should move within the lines ofgeneral principles prescribed by the constitution or the legislature,and in the exercise of which the most local governmentalorganizations should participate as far as possible (Burgess). Underthis limitation the police power, as affecting persons, is the powerof the state to protect the public against the abuse of individualliberty, that is, to restrain the individual in the exercise of hisrights when such exercise becomes a danger to the community. Thetendency of judicial and popular usage is towards this narrowerdefinition.", | |
| "AD VALOREM": "A term used to denote a duty or charge laid upon goods, at acertain rate per cent upon their value, as stated in their invoice, -- in opposition to a specific sum upon a given quantity or number;as, an ad valorem duty of twenty per cent.", | |
| "RIE": "See Rye. [Obs.] Holland. Rie grass. (Bot.) (a) A kind of wildbarley (Hordeum pratense). Dr. Prior. (b) Ray grass. Dr. Prior.", | |
| "PROKE": "To poke; to thrust. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "ADEMPT": "Takes away. [Obs.]Without any sinister suspicion of anything being added or adempt.Latimn.", | |
| "NIGGERHEAD": "A strong black chewing tobacco, usually in twisted plug form;negro head.", | |
| "SPOTTY": "Full of spots; marked with spots.", | |
| "DISFORESTATION": "The act of clearing land of forests. Daniel.", | |
| "TOADISH": "Like a toad. [Obs.] A. Stafford.", | |
| "CHOLECYSTOTOMY": "The operation of making an opening in the gall bladder, as forthe removal of a gallstone.", | |
| "FILCHINGLY": "By pilfering or petty stealing.", | |
| "SUPERINSPECT": "To over see; to superintend by inspection. [R.] Maydman.", | |
| "HALTER": "One who halts or limps", | |
| "UNDERLOAD SWITCH": "A switch which opens a circuit when the current falls below acertain predetermined value, used to protect certain types of motorsfrom running at excessive speed upon decrease of load.", | |
| "ACTUALIZE": "To make actual; to realize in action. [R.] Coleridge.", | |
| "BARRIO": "In Spain and countries colonized by Spain, a village, ward, ordistrict outside a town or city to whose jurisdiction it belongs.", | |
| "UNNOTIFY": "To retract or withdraw a notice of. Walpole.", | |
| "INBIND": "To inclose. [Obs.] Fairfax.", | |
| "TWEEL": "See Twill.", | |
| "AROMATIZER": "One who, or that which, aromatizes or renders aromatic. Evelyn.", | |
| "GODSHIP": "The rank or character of a god; deity; divinity; a god orgoddess.O'er hills and dales their godships came. Prior.", | |
| "FLAG": "An aquatic plant, with long, ensiform leaves, belonging toeither of the genera Iris and Acorus. Cooper's flag, the cat-tail(Typha latifolia), the long leaves of which are placed between thestaves of barrels to make the latter water-tight.-- Corn flag. See under 2d Corn.-- Flag broom, a coarse of broom, originally made of flags orrushes.-- Flag root, the root of the sweet flag.-- Sweet flag. See Calamus, n., 2.", | |
| "TONIC": "Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system;obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions.Tononic spasm. (Med.) See the Note under Spasm.", | |
| "INFUMED": "Dried in smoke; smoked.", | |
| "CHOREPISCOPAL": "Pertaining to a chorepiscopus or his change or authority.", | |
| "HITTITE": "A member of an ancient people (or perhaps group of peoples)whose settlements extended from Armenia westward into Asia Minor andsouthward into Palestine. They are known to have been met along theOrontes as early as 1500 b. c., and were often at war with theEgyptians and Assyrians. Especially in the north they developed aconsiderable civilization, of which numerous monuments andinscriptions are extant. Authorities are not agreed as to their race.While several attempts have been made to decipher the Hittitecharacters, little progress has yet been made.", | |
| "FROLIC": "Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full ofpranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.The frolic wind that breathes the spring. Milton.The gay, the frolic, and the loud. Waller.", | |
| "GALVANOMETRY": "The art or process of measuring the force of electric currents.", | |
| "FILIBEG": "Same as Kilt. [Written also philibeg.]", | |
| "EREMITISH": "Eremitic. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "MISEASED": "Having discomfort or misery; troubled. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "COMPRESSOR": "Anything which serves to compress; as:(a) (Anat.) A muscle that compresses certain parts.(b) (Surg.) An instrument for compressing an artery (esp., thefemoral artery) or other part.(c) An apparatus for confining or flattening between glass plates anobject to be examined with the microscope; -- called alsocompressorium.(d) (Mach.) A machine for compressing gases; especially, an aircompressor.", | |
| "CELEBRANT": "One who performs a public religious rite; -- appliedparticularly to an officiating priest in the Roman Catholic Church,as distinguished from his assistants.", | |
| "FRANKFORT BLACK": ". A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared byburning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.", | |
| "AUDIOMETER": "An instrument by which the power of hearing can be gauged andrecorded on a scale.", | |
| "WAREFULNESS": "Wariness; cautiousness. [Obs.] \"Full of warefulness.\" Sir P.Sidney.", | |
| "FISSILINGUIA": "A group of Lacertilia having the tongue forked, including thecommon lizards. [Written also Fissilingues.]", | |
| "VOIR DIRE": "An oath administered to a witness, usually before being swornin chief, requiring him to speak the truth, or make true answers inreference to matters inquired of, to ascertain his competency to giveevidence. Greenleaf. Ld. Abinger.", | |
| "AMYLATE": "A compound of the radical amyl with oxygen and a positive atomor radical.", | |
| "BATEMENT": "Abatement; diminution. Moxon. Batement light (Arch.), a windowor one division of a window having vertical sides, but with the sillnot horizontal, as where it follows the rake of a staircase.", | |
| "EXTIRP": "To extirpate. [Obs.]It is impossible to extirp it quite, friar. Shak.", | |
| "PEERDOM": "Peerage; also, a lordship. [Obs.]", | |
| "REMEANT": "Coming back; returning. [R.] \"Like the remeant sun.\" C.Kingsley.", | |
| "PICENE": "A hydrocarbon (C", | |
| "LICENSURE": "A licensing. [R.]", | |
| "AGRICULTURIST": "One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman.The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a meretheorist. Crabb.", | |
| "VACILLATORY": "Inclined to vacillate; wavering; irresolute. Hawthorne.", | |
| "WINDBORE": "The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine.Ansted.", | |
| "EMBRYOLOGIST": "One skilled in embryology.", | |
| "GUIDEBOOK": "A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists,etc.", | |
| "RAMOON": "A small West Indian tree (Trophis Americana) of the Mulberryfamily, whose leaves and twigs are used as fodder for cattle.", | |
| "HIGHWAYMAN": "One who robs on the public road; a highway robber.", | |
| "LEMURES": "Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton.", | |
| "ADMIRALSHIP": "The office or position oaf an admiral; also, the naval skill ofan admiral.", | |
| "COUSINRY": "A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of personswho stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.", | |
| "STRINGENT": "Binding strongly; making strict requirements; restrictive;rigid; severe; as, stringent rules.They must be subject to a sharper penal code, and to a more stringentcode of procedure. Macaulay.-- Strin\"gent*ly, adv.-- Strin\"gent*ness, n.", | |
| "GUE": "A sharper; a rogue. [Obs.] J. Webstar.", | |
| "CARIBE": "A south American fresh water fish of the genus Serrasalmo ofmany species, remakable for its voracity. When numerous they attackman or beast, often with fatal results.", | |
| "GYPSE": "See Gypsum. [Obs.] Pococke.", | |
| "MISCOUNSEL": "To counsel or advise wrongly.", | |
| "HIGH-SOUNDING": "Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words ortitles.", | |
| "CALMNESS": "The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity;self-repose.The gentle calmness of the flood. Denham.Hes calmness was the repose of conscious power. E. Everett.", | |
| "INCOMMODATION": "The state of being incommoded; inconvenience. [Obs.]", | |
| "ORTYGAN": "One of several species of East Indian birds of the generaOrtygis and Hemipodius. They resemble quails, but lack the hind toe.See Turnix.", | |
| "COCHINEAL": "A dyestuff consisting of the dried bodies of females of theCoccus cacti, an insect native in Mexico, Central America, etc., andfound on several species of cactus, esp. Opuntia cochinellifera.", | |
| "HAMLETED": "Confined to a hamlet. Feltham.", | |
| "NONMEDULLATED": "Not medullated; (Anat.) without a medulla or marrow, or withouta medullary sheath; as, a nonmedullated nerve fiber.", | |
| "BLASTEMAL": "Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.", | |
| "OSSEIN": "The organic basis of bone tissue; the residue after removal ofthe mineral matters from bone by dilute acid; in embryonic tissue,the substance in which the mineral salts are deposited to form bone;-- called also ostein. Chemically it is the same as collagen.", | |
| "SUCKANHOCK": "A kind of seawan. See Note under Seawan.", | |
| "UNFORTUNATE": "Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attendedwith misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; anunfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business.-- n.", | |
| "TRANSVERT": "To cause to turn across; to transverse. [Obs.] Craft of Lovers(1448).", | |
| "SUBTEGULANEOUS": "Under the roof or eaves; within doors. [R.]", | |
| "BEEVES": "; plural of Beef, the animal.", | |
| "STAMP": "A picture cut in wood or metal, or made by impression; a cut; aplate. [Obs.]At Venice they put out very curious stamps of the several edificeswhich are most famous for their beauty and magnificence. Addison.", | |
| "LENTICELLE": "Lenticel.", | |
| "ASTERNAL": "Not sternal; -- said of ribs which do not join the sternum.", | |
| "FUMILY": "Smokily; with fume.", | |
| "NICAGUA": "The laughing falcon. See under laughing.", | |
| "IGNORE": "To throw out or reject as false or ungrounded; -- said of abill rejected by a grand jury for want of evidence. See Ignoramus.", | |
| "SQUIRREL": "Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to thegenus Sciurus and several allied genera of the famly Sciurid\u00e6.Squirrels generally have a bushy tail, large erect ears, and stronghind legs. They are commonly arboreal in their habits, but manyspecies live in burrows.", | |
| "ICELANDER": "A native, or one of the Scandinavian people, of Iceland.", | |
| "UVULATOMY": "The operation of removing the uvula.", | |
| "EBON": "Ebony. [Poetic] \"Framed of ebon and ivory.\" Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "ALMONDINE": "See Almandine", | |
| "RIDGELING": "A half-castrated male animal.", | |
| "VALERONE": "A ketone of valeric acid obtained as an oily liquid.", | |
| "RIGHT-HANDEDNESS": "The state or quality of being right-handed; hence, skill;dexterity.", | |
| "TAGUAN": "A large flying squirrel (Pteromys petuarista). Its body becomestwo feet long, with a large bushy tail nearly as long.", | |
| "PELEGRINE": "See Peregrine. [Obs.]", | |
| "FRIGEFACTION": "The act of making cold. [Obs.]", | |
| "TITULARLY": "In a titular manner; nominally; by title only.", | |
| "CALCEDON": "A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.", | |
| "INDIADEM": "To place or set in a diadem, as a gem or gems.", | |
| "AITCH": "The letter h or H.", | |
| "REFLEXIVE": "Bending or turned backward; reflective; having respect tosomething past.Assurance reflexive can not be a divine faith. Hammond.", | |
| "PHLEGMATICALLY": "In a phlegmatic manner.", | |
| "SYNAPTICULA": "One of numerous calcareous processes which extend between, andunite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of thefungian corals.", | |
| "ABACTOR": "One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds ordroves. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEMOTICS": "The department of knowledge relative to the care and culture ofthe people; sociology in its broadest sense; -- in librarycataloguing.", | |
| "COOKROOM": "A room for cookery; a kitchen; the galley or caboose of a ship.Sir W. Raleigh.", | |
| "LUTING": "See Lute, a cement.", | |
| "SCULPTURAL": "Of or pertaining to sculpture. G. Eliot.", | |
| "PONDERATE": "To consider; to ponder. [R.]", | |
| "PROLUSION": "A trial before the principal performance; a prelude; hence, anintroductory essay or exercise. \"Domestic prolusions.\" Thackeray.Her presence was in some measure a restraint on the worthy divine,whose prolusion lasted. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "NUT": "The fruit of certain trees and shrubs (as of the almond,walnut, hickory, beech, filbert, etc.), consisting of a hard andindehiscent shell inclosing a kernel.", | |
| "DISLODGE": "To go from a place of rest. [R.]Where Light and Darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge byturns. Milton.", | |
| "FARNESS": "The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] Grew.", | |
| "BOLTHEAD": "A long, straightnecked, glass vessel for chemicaldistillations; -- called also a matrass or receiver.", | |
| "WELL-MEANING": "Having a good intention.", | |
| "MAGNIFICENTLY": "In a Magnificent manner.", | |
| "EN ROUTE": "On the way or road.", | |
| "POSITIVELY": "In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; withcertainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed tonegatively.Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evilcomparatively, and positively simply. Bacon.Give me some breath, some little pause, my lord, Before I positivelyspeak herein. Shak.I would ask . . . whether . . . the divine law does not positivelyrequire humility and meekness. Sprat.Positively charged or electrified (Elec.), having a charge ofpositive electricity; -- opposed to Ant: negatively electrified.", | |
| "DIRK": "A kind of dagger or poniard; -- formerly much used by theScottish Highlander. Dirk knife, a clasp knife having a large,dirklike blade.", | |
| "DULCINESS": "See Dulceness. [Obs.]", | |
| "KEEVE": "A vat or tub in which the mash is made; a mash tub. Ure.", | |
| "NEGLECTER": "One who neglects. South.", | |
| "MAVERICK": "In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock orheifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- saidto be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas whonaglected to brand his cattle.", | |
| "SEXTONSHIP": "The office of a sexton. Swift.", | |
| "COMPARER": "One who compares.", | |
| "PROCOELIAN": "Concave in front; as, procoelian vertebr\u00e6, which have theanterior end of the centra concave and the posterior convex.", | |
| "DISERTITUDE": "Eloquence. [Obs.]", | |
| "INTERPENETRATE": "To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually.It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley.", | |
| "UNFIT": "To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength,skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate;to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin unfits us forthe society of holy beings.", | |
| "PINAX": "A tablet; a register; hence, a list or scheme inscribed on atablet. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "BELL JAR": "A glass vessel, varying in size, open at the bottom and closedat the top like a bell, and having a knob or handle at the top forlifting it. It is used for a great variety of purposes; as, with theair pump, and for holding gases, also for keeping the dust fromarticles exposed to view.", | |
| "DECLINATORY": "Containing or involving a declination or refusal, as ofsubmission to a charge or sentence. Blackstone. Declinatory plea (O.Eng. Law), the plea of sanctuary or of benefit of clergy, beforetrial or conviction; -- now abolished.", | |
| "CYCLOPEDIC": "Belonging to the circle of the sciences, or to a cyclopedia; ofthe nature of a cyclopedia; hence, of great range, extent, or amount;as, a man of cyclopedic knowledge.", | |
| "INSTROKE": "An inward stroke; specif., in a steam or other engine, a strokein which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposedto outstroke.", | |
| "PICEOUS": "Of or pertaining to pitch; resembling pitch in color orquality; pitchy.", | |
| "DAYSMAN": "An umpire or arbiter; a mediator.Neither is there any daysman betwixt us. Job ix. 33.", | |
| "ANTASTHMATIC": "Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma.-- n.", | |
| "LACTUCIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, the juice of the Lactucavirosa; -- said of certain acids.", | |
| "HYETOGRAPHIC": "Of or pertaining to to hyetography.", | |
| "DISPERMOUS": "Containing only two seeds; two-seeded.", | |
| "GARRUPA": "One of several species of California market fishes, of thegenus Sebastichthys; -- called also rockfish. See Rockfish.", | |
| "INVISCERATE": "To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.", | |
| "LOCUST TREE": "A large North American tree of the genus Robinia (R.Pseudacacia), producing large slender racemes of white, fragrant,papilionaceous flowers, and often cultivated as an ornamental tree.In England it is called acacia.", | |
| "GABLET": "A small gable, or gable-shaped canopy, formed over atabernacle, niche, etc.", | |
| "VALKYRIA": "One of the maidens of Odin, represented as awful and beautiful,who presided over battle and marked out those who were to be slain,and who also ministered at the feasts of heroes in Valhalla. [Writtenalso Valkyr, and Walkyr.]", | |
| "FRAY": "Affray; broil; contest; combat.Who began this bloody fray Shak.", | |
| "IMPEDITE": "Hindered; obstructed. [R.] Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "SHOCK": "A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in someBaltic ports to loose goods.", | |
| "PALMETTO STATE": "South California; -- a nickname alluding to the State Arms,which contain a representation of a palmetto tree.", | |
| "CONSCIOUSLY": "In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mentaloperations or actions.", | |
| "DIVERSIVOLENT": "Desiring different things. [Obs.] Webster (White Devil).", | |
| "TRISTFULLY": "In a tristful manner; sadly.", | |
| "CONDEMNABLE": "Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.", | |
| "CATCH": "Passing opportunities seized; snatches.It has been writ by catches with many intervals. Locke.", | |
| "TORTOISE": "Any one of numerous species of reptiles of the orderTestudinata.", | |
| "KEY FRUIT": "A samara.", | |
| "LIMBEC": "An alembic; a still. [Obs.] Spenser. Shak.", | |
| "SUCCEEDANT": "Succeeding one another; following.", | |
| "MEERKAT": "A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to theichneumons.", | |
| "CONVALLARIA": "The lily of the valley.", | |
| "OMITTANCE": "The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted;forbearance; neglect. Shak.", | |
| "DISPITEOUS": "Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser.-- Dis*pit\"e*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]", | |
| "ONE-HAND": "Employing one hand; as, the one-hand alphabet. See Dactylology.", | |
| "POPULICIDE": "Slaughter of the people. [R.]", | |
| "METALLOCHROME": "A coloring produced by the deposition of some metalliccompound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing afilm of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.", | |
| "UNMONEYED": "Destitute of money; not rich. [Written also unmonied.]Shenstone.", | |
| "POSITION": "A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; --called also the rule of trial and error. Angle of position (Astron.),the angle which any line (as that joining two stars) makes withanother fixed line, specifically with a circle of declination.-- Double position (Arith.), the method of solving problems byproceeding with each of two assumed numbers, according to theconditions of the problem, and by comparing the difference of theresults with those of the numbers, deducing the correction to beapplied to one of them to obtain the true result.-- Guns of position (Mil.), heavy fieldpieces, not designed forquick movements.-- Position finder (Mil.), a range finder. See under Range.-- Position micrometer, a micrometer applied to the tube of anastronomical telescope for measuring angles of position in the fieldof view.-- Single position (Arith.), the method of solving problems, inwhich the result obtained by operating with an assumed number is tothe true result as the number assumed is to the number required.-- Strategic position (Mil.), a position taken up by an army or alarge detachment of troops for the purpose of checking or observingan opposing force.", | |
| "METALLURGY": "The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process ofseparating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining,and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process ofextracting metals from their ores.", | |
| "HYPERION": "The god of the sun; in the later mythology identified withApollo, and distinguished for his beauty.So excellent a king; that was, to this, Hyperion to a satyr. Shak.", | |
| "INCLINING": "Same as Inclined, 3.", | |
| "DAMSON": "A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety ofthe Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.", | |
| "SLEETINESS": "The state of being sleety.", | |
| "PSEUDOSTELLA": "Any starlike meteor or phenomenon. [R.]", | |
| "SECTARISM": "Sectarianism. [Obs.]", | |
| "WEATHER-FEND": "To defend from the weather; to shelter. Shak.[We] barked the white spruce to weather-fend the roof. Emerson.", | |
| "PERADVENTURE": "By chance; perhaps; it may be; if; supposing. \"If peradventurehe speak against me.\" Shak.Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city. Gen. xviii.24.", | |
| "MOCKINGLY": "By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.", | |
| "RIGHTEOUSNESS": "The state of being right with God; justification; the work ofChrist, which is the ground justification.There are two kinds of Christian righteousness: the one without us,which we have by imputation; the other in us, which consisteth offaith, hope, and charity, and other Christian virtues. Hooker.Only for the righteousness of Christ imputed to us, and received byfaith alone. Westminster Catechism.", | |
| "WISDOM LITERATURE": "The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectivelywith general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from theprophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It iscomprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs, Ecclesiasticus,Ecclesiastes, and Wisdom of Solomon. The \"wisdom\" (Hokhmah) of thesewritings consists in detached sage utterances on concrete issues oflife, without the effort at philosophical system that appeared in thelater Hellenistic reflective writing beginning with Philo Jud\u00e6us.", | |
| "ELD": "Old. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SWOONING": "from Swoon, v.-- Swoon\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "DUNNER": "One employed in soliciting the payment of debts.", | |
| "DAMASCENE": "Of or relating to Damascus.", | |
| "OREOGRAPHIC": "Of or pertaining to oreography.", | |
| "OVERWREST": "To wrest or force from the natural or proper position. Shak.", | |
| "EXSTROPHY": "The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its innersurface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.", | |
| "PERSICO": "= Persicot.", | |
| "OCCUPATE": "To occupy. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "IGNIFEROUS": "Producing fire. [R.] Blount.", | |
| "REGELATE": "To freeze together again; to undergo regelation, as ice.", | |
| "COLIC": "A severe paroxysmal pain in the abdomen, due to spasm,obstruction, or distention of some one of the hollow viscera. Hepaticcolic, the severe pain produced by the passage of a gallstone fromthe liver or gall bladder through the bile duct.-- Intestinal colic, or Ordinary colic, pain due to distention ofthe intestines by gas.-- Lead colic, Painter's colic, a violent form of intestinal colic,associated with obstinate constipation, produced by chronic leadpoisoning.-- Renal colic, the severe pain produced by the passage of acalculus from the kidney through the ureter.-- Wind colic. See Intestinal colic, above.", | |
| "XANTHOPUCCINE": "One of three alkaloids found in the root of the yellow puccoon(Hydrastis Canadensis). It is a yellow crystalline substance, andresembles berberine.", | |
| "CONFABULATION": "Familiar talk; easy, unrestrained, unceremonious conversation.Friends' confabulations are comfortable at all times, as fire inwinter. Burton.", | |
| "QUADROON": "The offspring of a mulatto and a white person; a personquarter-blooded. [Written also quarteron, quarteroon, and quateron.]", | |
| "TOISE": "An old measure of length in France, containing six French feet,or about 6.3946 French feet.", | |
| "PRINTERY": "A place where cloth is printed; print works; also, a printingoffice. [R.]", | |
| "STACKET": "A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "ENTERDEAL": "Mutual dealings; intercourse. [Obs.]The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.", | |
| "REGALE": "A prerogative of royalty. [R.] Johnson.", | |
| "SEPTUAGESIMA": "The third Sunday before Lent; -- so called because it is aboutseventy days before Easter.", | |
| "FELLOW-CREATURE": "One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator.Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, thebrutes. I. Watts.", | |
| "GYNANDRIA": "A class of plants in the Linnaean system, whose stamens growout of, or are united with, the pistil.", | |
| "HARRE": "A hinge. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SECLUSIVE": "Tending to seclude; keeping in seclusion; secluding;sequestering.", | |
| "VOLUTION": "A whorl of a spiral shell.", | |
| "SEMI-PELAGIAN": "A follower of John Cassianus, a French monk (died about 448),who modified the doctrines of Pelagius, by denying human merit, andmaintaining the necessity of the Spirit's influence, while, on theother hand, he rejected the Augustinian doctrines of election, theinability of man to do good, and the certain perseverance of thesaints.", | |
| "JARBLE": "To wet; to bemire. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.", | |
| "SOAKING": "Wetting thoroughly; drenching; as, a soaking rain.-- Soak\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "OUNCE": "The twelfth part of a troy pound.", | |
| "PERIOSTEAL": "Situated around bone; of or pertaining to the periosteum.", | |
| "MASTITIS": "Inflammation of the breast.", | |
| "GROMMET": "A ring of rope used as a wad to hold a cannon ball in place.", | |
| "CLOISTERER": "One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.", | |
| "VAGABONDRY": "Vagabondage.", | |
| "COMBATIVENESS": "A cranial development supposed to indicate a combativedisposition.", | |
| "IMBED": "To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosingmass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.", | |
| "MUTUARY": "One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed byhim, and which he is to return or repay in kind. Bouvier.", | |
| "IRREVOKABLE": "Irrevocable. [R.]", | |
| "DISSIMULE": "To dissemble. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "COMPLY": "To infold; to embrace. [Obs.]Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie. Herrick.", | |
| "DURANCY": "Duration. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "ERUBESCITE": "See Bornite.", | |
| "OBTURATOR": "An apparatus designed to close an unnatural opening, as afissure of the palate.", | |
| "TETANIC": "Of or pertaining to tetanus; having the character of tetanus;as, a tetanic state; tetanic contraction.This condition of muscle, this fusion of a number of simple spasmsinto an apparently smooth, continuous effort, is known as tetanus, ortetanic contraction. Foster.", | |
| "CONVERGING": "Tending to one point; approaching each other; convergent; as,converging lines. Whewell. Converging rays(Opt.), rays of light,which, proceeding from different points of an object, tend toward asingle point.-- Converging series (Math.), a series in which if an indefinitelygreat number of terms be taken, their sum will become indefinitelynear in value to a fixed quantity, which is called the sum of theseries; -- opposed to a diverging series.", | |
| "EXTERNALIZE": "To make external; to manifest by outward form.Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.", | |
| "THERMOELECTRICITY": "Electricity developed in the action of heat. See the Note underElectricity.", | |
| "REDINGOTE": "A long plain double-breasted outside coat for women.", | |
| "GUIDEBOARD": "A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions orinformation as to the road. Lowell.", | |
| "MONOGYNIAN": "Pertaining to the Monogynia; monogynous.-- n.", | |
| "GELT": "Trubute, tax. [Obs.]All these the king granted unto them . . . free from all gelts andpayments, in a most full and ample manner. Fuller.", | |
| "IRREPARABLENESS": "Quality of being irreparable.", | |
| "TREPANG": "Any one of several species of large holothurians, some of whichare dried and extensively used as food in China; -- called also b\u00eachede mer, sea cucumber, and sea slug. [Written also tripang.]", | |
| "DROLL": "Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity;amusing and strange.", | |
| "RETINOPHORA": "One of group of two to four united cells which occupy the axialpart of the ocelli, or ommatidia, of the eyes of invertebrates, andcontain the terminal nerve fibrill\u00e6. See Illust. under Ommatidium.", | |
| "GREEN-STALL": "A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed forsale.", | |
| "DEMICADENCE": "An imperfect or half cadence, falling on the dominant insteadof on the key note.", | |
| "ALARMING": "Exciting, or calculated to excite, alarm; causing apprehensionof danger; as, an alarming crisis or report.-- A*larm\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "LUNGE": "A sudden thrust or pass, as with a sword.", | |
| "UNDERTOOK": "imp. of Undertake.", | |
| "FENESTRATED": "Having windows; characterized by windows.", | |
| "PUER": "The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.Simmonds.", | |
| "NEBULATED": "Clouded with indistinct color markings, as an animal.", | |
| "SYPHILIZE": "To inoculate with syphilis.", | |
| "AEROGRAPHER": "One versed in a\u00ebography: an a\u00ebrologist.", | |
| "COMBATIVE": "(", | |
| "PLAUSIBLENESS": "Quality of being plausible.", | |
| "KOPECK": "A small Russian coin. One hundred kopecks make a rouble, worthabout sixty cents. [Written also kopek, copec, and copeck.]", | |
| "UNDYING": "Not dying; imperishable; unending; immortal; as, the undyingsouls of men.", | |
| "SUBVENTITIOUS": "Helping; aiding; supporting. Urquhart.", | |
| "ERETHISTIC": "Relating to erethism.", | |
| "PYROLITHIC": "Same as Pyrouric, or Cyanuric.", | |
| "DISCONTINUITY": "Want of continuity or cohesion; disunion of parts.\"Discontinuity of surface.\" Boyle.", | |
| "NECROMANCY": "The art of revealing future events by means of a pretendedcommunication with the dead; the black art; hence, magic in general;conjuration; enchantment. See Black art.This palace standeth in the air, By necromancy plac\u00e8d there. Drayton.", | |
| "OLIGOCLASE": "A triclinic soda-lime feldspar. See Feldspar.", | |
| "PLANISPHERE": "The representation of the circles of the sphere upon a plane;especially, a representation of the celestial sphere upon a planewith adjustable circles, or other appendages, for showing theposition of the heavens, the time of rising and setting of stars,etc., for any given date or hour.", | |
| "DECRY": "To cry down; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; toclamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage.For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden.Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturallydecried by the other. Addison.", | |
| "MAWKISHNESS": "The quality or state of being mawkish. J. H. Newman.", | |
| "PULVEROUS": "Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.", | |
| "BIMETALLISM": "The legalized use of two metals (as gold and silver) in thecurrency of a country, at a fixed relative value; -- in opposition tomonometallism.", | |
| "ELEGIAST": "One who composes elegies. Goldsmith.", | |
| "SUMMUM BONUM": "The supreme or highest good, -- referring to the object ofhuman life.", | |
| "SURF": "The swell of the sea which breaks upon the shore, esp. upon asloping beach. Surf bird (Zo\u00f6l.), a ploverlike bird of the genusAphriza, allied to the turnstone.-- Surf clam (Zo\u00f6l.), a large clam living on the open coast,especially Mactra, or Spisula, solidissima. See Mactra.-- Surf duck (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of several species of sea ducks of thegenus Oidemia, especially O. percpicillata; -- called also surfscoter. See the Note under Scoter.-- Surf fish (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of numerous species of Californiaembiotocoid fishes. See Embiotocoid.-- Surf smelt. (Zo\u00f6l.) See Smelt.-- Surf whiting. (Zo\u00f6l.) See under Whiting.", | |
| "PRAETORES": "A division of butterflies including the satyrs.", | |
| "BOHEA": "Bohea tea, an inferior kind of black tea. See under Tea.", | |
| "THEREUNTO": "Unto that or this; thereto; besides. Shak.", | |
| "DUCK-BILLED": "Having a bill like that of a duck..", | |
| "MALIC": "Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid. Malicacid, a hydroxy acid obtained as a substance which is sirupy orcrystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sourtaste. It occurs in many fruits, as in green apples, currants, etc.It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature andconcentration. An artificial variety is a derivative of succinicacid, but has no action on polarized light, and thus malic acid is aremarkable case of physical isomerism.", | |
| "CONSOLIDATION": "To organic cohesion of different circled in a flower; adnation.", | |
| "ETERMINABLE": "Interminable. [Obs.] Skelton.", | |
| "CASEOUS": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, cheese; having the qualitiesof cheese; cheesy. Caseous degeneration, a morbid process, inscrofulous or consumptive persons, in which the products ofinflammation are converted into a cheesy substance which is neitherabsorbed nor organized.", | |
| "TUTORSHIP": "The office, duty, or care of a tutor; guardianship; tutelage.Hooker.", | |
| "POTEEN": "Whisky; especially, whisky illicitly distilled by the Irishpeasantry. [Written also potheen, and potteen.]", | |
| "FASHIONABLE": "A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in theplural.", | |
| "LITURGIOLOGIST": "One versed in liturgiology.", | |
| "WAGE": "To give security for the performance of. Burrill. To wagebattle (O. Eng. Law), to give gage, or security, for joining in theduellum, or combat. See Wager of battel, under Wager, n. Burrill.-- To wage one's law (Law), to give security to make one's law. SeeWager of law, under Wager, n.", | |
| "AZOTED": "Nitrogenized; nitrogenous.", | |
| "PROFANATE": "To profane. [Obs.]", | |
| "SAMARA": "A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as thatof the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.", | |
| "SOCOME": "A custom of tenants to grind corn at the lord's mill. Cowell.", | |
| "PETTYCHAPS": "Any one of several species of small European singing birds ofthe subfamily Sylviin\u00e6, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, andthe golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).", | |
| "INHERITRESS": "A heiress. Milman.", | |
| "YESTER": "Last; last past; next before; of or pertaining to yesterday.[An enemy] whom yester sun beheld Mustering her charms. Dryden.", | |
| "HOUSELESSNESS": "The state of being houseless.", | |
| "DANSKER": "A Dane. [Obs.]Inquire me first what Danskers are in Paris. Shak.", | |
| "REBUKEFUL": "Containing rebuke; of the nature of rebuke. [Obs.] --Re*buke\"ful*ly, adv. [Obs.]", | |
| "PENNY": "Denoting pound weight for one thousand; -- used in combination,with respect to nails; as, tenpenny nails, nails of which onethousand weight ten pounds.", | |
| "SIXPENCE": "An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half ashilling, or about twelve cents.", | |
| "TAMABILITY": "The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.", | |
| "CHLOROMETRY": "The process of testing the bleaching power of any combinationof chlorine.", | |
| "TRAWLERMAN": "A fisherman who used unlawful arts and engines to catch fish.[Obs.] Cowell.", | |
| "PANPRESBYTERIAN": "Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterianviews in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.", | |
| "PREVISION": "Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer.", | |
| "COSENAGE": "See Cozenage.", | |
| "UNFELLOWED": "Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.", | |
| "MONOGRAMMIC": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.", | |
| "ULLMANNITE": "A brittle mineral of a steel-gray color and metallic luster,containing antimony, arsenic, sulphur, and nickel.", | |
| "ATTORNEY-GENERAL": "The chief law officer of the state, empowered to act in alllitigation in which the law-executing power is a party, and to advisethis supreme executive whenever required. Wharton.", | |
| "TONNE": "A tun. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CAPACITY": "Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character,etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, formarrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right;competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing heat.Substances differ in the amount of heat requisite to raise them agiven number of thermometric degrees, and this difference is themeasure of, or depends upon, whzt is called their capacity for heat.See Specific heat, under Heat.", | |
| "FEDERATE": "United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joinedin confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.", | |
| "UNINUCLEATED": "Possessed of but a single nucleus; as, a uninucleated cell.", | |
| "EXHILARANT": "Exciting joy, mirth, or pleasure.-- n.", | |
| "RESPECTANT": "Placed so as to face one another; -- said of animals.", | |
| "RIDICULE": "To laugh at mockingly or disparagingly; to awaken ridiculetoward or respecting.I 've known the young, who ridiculed his rage. Goldsmith.", | |
| "OXIDIZE": "To combine with oxygen, or subject to the action of oxygen, orof an oxidizing agent. Specifically:(a) To combine with oxygen or with more oxygen; to add oxygen to; as,to oxidize nitrous acid so as to form nitric acid.(b) To remove hydrogen from (anything), as by the action of oxygen;as, to oxidize alcohol so as to form aldehyde.(c) To subject to the action of oxygen or of an oxidizing agent, soas to bring to a higher grade, as an -ous compound to an -iccompound; as, to oxidize mercurous chloride to mercuric chloride.", | |
| "CAATINGA": "A forest composed of stunted trees and thorny bushes, found inareas of small rainfall in Brazil.", | |
| "TEREBILENIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a complex acid, C7H8O4,obtained as a white crystalline substance by a modified oxidation ofterebic acid.", | |
| "PLOCE": "A figure in which a word is separated or repeated by way ofemphasis, so as not only to signify the individual thing denoted byit, but also its peculiar attribute or quality; as, \"His wife's awife indeed.\" Bailey.", | |
| "SUBSANNATION": "Derision; mockery. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "EMIGRE": "One of the natives of France who were opposed to the firstRevolution, and who left their country in consequence.", | |
| "DUNCIFY": "To make stupid in intellect. [R.] Bp. Warburton.", | |
| "MARGINATED": "Same as Marginate, a.", | |
| "NEAP": "The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by twoanimals. [U.S.]", | |
| "PHASSACHATE": "The lead-colored agate; -- so called in reference to its color.", | |
| "PECTOSIC": "Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, pectose;specifically, designating an acid supposed to constitute largelyordinary pectin or vegetable jelly.", | |
| "HALCYONOID": "See Alcyonoid.", | |
| "FEVERWORT": "See Fever root, under Fever.", | |
| "OXYGENATION": "The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen;oxidation.", | |
| "KNIGHT MARSHAL": "An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who hascognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge,and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one ofthe parties. Wharton.", | |
| "PHYSICO-": "A combining form, denoting relation to, or dependence upon,natural causes, or the science of physics.", | |
| "ANTIHYPNOTIC": "Tending to prevent sleep.-- n.", | |
| "UNLIKEN": "To make unlike; to dissimilate. [Obs.] Wyclif.", | |
| "IMPROBABILITY": "The quality or state of being improbable; unlikelihood; also,that which is improbable; an improbable event or result.", | |
| "DILUVIUM": "A deposit of superficial loam, sand, gravel, stones, etc.,caused by former action of flowing waters, or the melting of glacialice.", | |
| "METROPOLITAN": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or thepresiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or hisdignity; as, metropolitan authority. \"Bishops metropolitan.\" Sir T.More.", | |
| "ENFEEBLER": "One who, or that which, weakens or makes feeble.", | |
| "COLLUDER": "One who conspires in a fraud.", | |
| "FELONIOUS": "Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous;traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commita crime; as, felonious homicide.O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, Inthy dark lantern thus close up the stars Milton.-- Fe*lo\"ni`ous*ly, adv.-- Fe*lo\"ni`ous*ness, n.", | |
| "OSTEND": "To exhibit; to manifest. [Obs.]Mercy to mean offenders we'll ostend. J. Webster.", | |
| "SAULT": "A rapid in some rivers; as, the Sault Ste. Marie. [U.S.]Bartlett.", | |
| "ICHNOLOGY": "The branch of science which treats of fossil footprints.", | |
| "MEGALETHOSCOPE": "An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through alarge lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with thestereoscope.", | |
| "PLOTINIAN": "Of pertaining to the Plotinists or their doctrines.", | |
| "AVOSET": "Same as Avocet.", | |
| "STRONGYLOID": "Like, or pertaining to, Strongylus, a genus of parasiticnematode worms of which many species infest domestic animals. Some ofthe species, especially those living in the kidneys, lungs, andbronchial tubes, are often very injurious.-- n.", | |
| "UPPROP": "To prop up. Donne.", | |
| "UNMATERIAL": "Not material; immaterial. [Obs.] Daniel.", | |
| "HOMOOUSIAN": "One of those, in the 4th century, who accepted the Nicenecreed, and maintained that the Son had the same essence or substancewith the Father; -- opposed to homoiousian.", | |
| "ORTHODOXAL": "Pertaining to, or evincing, orthodoxy; orthodox. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "SENTENCER": "One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.", | |
| "ADVOCATE": "To plead in favor of; to defend by argument, before a tribunalor the public; to support, vindicate, or recommend publicly.To advocate the cause of thy client. Bp. Sanderson (1624).This is the only thing distinct and sensible, that has beenadvocated. Burke.Eminent orators were engaged to advocate his cause. Mitford.", | |
| "ICHORHAEMIA": "Infection of the blood with ichorous or putrid substances.", | |
| "DEINORNIS": "See Dinornis.", | |
| "GENESIAL": "Of or relating to generation.", | |
| "TETRAPLA": "A Bible consisting of four different Greek versions arranged infour columns by Origen; hence, any version in four languages or fourcolumns.", | |
| "EPICEDE": "A funeral song or discourse; an elegy. [R.] Donne.", | |
| "SCUT": "The tail of a hare, or of a deer, or other animal whose tail isshort, sp. when carried erect; hence, sometimes, the animal itself.\"He ran like a scut.\" Skelton.How the Indian hare came to have a long tail, wheras that part inothers attains no higher than a scut. Sir T. Browne.My doe with the black scut. Shak.", | |
| "CARRIER": "That which drives or carries; as: (a) A piece whichcommunicates to an object in a lathe the motion of the face plate; alathe dog. (b) A spool holder or bobbin holder in a braiding machine.(c) A movable piece in magazine guns which transfers the cartridge toa position from which it can be thrust into the barrel. Carrierpigeon (Zo\u00f6l.), a variety of the domestic pigeon used to conveyletters from a distant point to to its home.-- Carrier shell (Zo\u00f6l.), a univalve shell of the genus Phorus; --so called because it fastens bits of stones and broken shells to itsown shell, to such an extent as almost to conceal it.-- Common carrier (Law.) See under Common, a.", | |
| "BLUEBOTTLE": "A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. Itreceives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.", | |
| "GAILY": "Merrily; showily. See gaily.", | |
| "JAVELINIER": "A soldier armed with a javelin. Holland.", | |
| "RE-COLLECT": "To collect again; to gather what has been scattered; as, to re-collect routed troops.God will one day raise the dead, re-collecting our scattered dust.Barrow.", | |
| "FOREDATE": "To date before the true time; to antendate.", | |
| "SCHOOLFELLOW": "One bred at the same school; an associate in school.", | |
| "VITUPERATOR": "One who vituperates, or censures abusively.", | |
| "RESINATE": "Any one of the salts the resinic acids.", | |
| "JUGLANDIN": "An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucksof the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as analterative, and also as a black hair dye.", | |
| "PYROELECTRIC": "Pertaining to, or dependent on, pyroelectricity; receivingelectric polarity when heated.", | |
| "SPONGINESS": "The quality or state of being spongy. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "CREMATIONIST": "One who advocates the practice of cremation.", | |
| "INEQUABLE": "Unequable. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "LAKELET": "A little lake. Southey.", | |
| "CONSUMABLE": "Capable of being consumed; that may be destroyed, dissipated,wasted, or spent. \"Consumable commodities.\" Locke.", | |
| "FLAKINESS": "The state of being flaky.", | |
| "LEVIGABLE": "Capable of being levigated.", | |
| "EPHOR": "A magistrate; one of a body of five magistrates chosen by thepeople of ancient Sparta. They exercised control even over the king.", | |
| "MATRASS": "A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.", | |
| "OLFACTORY": "Of, pertaining to, or connected with, the sense of smell; as,the olfactory nerves; the olfactory cells. Olfactory organ (Anat.),an organ for smelling. In vertebrates the olfactory organs are moreor less complicated sacs, situated in the front part of the head andlined with epithelium innervated by the olfactory (or first cranial)nerves, and sensitive to odoriferous particles conveyed to it in theair or in water.", | |
| "SECTARIAN": "Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect;bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as,sectarian principles or prejudices.", | |
| "HARUSPICY": "The art or practices of haruspices. See Aruspicy.", | |
| "WAXINESS": "Quality or state of being waxy.", | |
| "EXPUGNER": "One who expugns.", | |
| "GLOSSOLOGIST": "One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed inglossology.", | |
| "OTOSTEAL": "An auditory ossicle. R. Owen.", | |
| "COUNTERIRRITATE": "To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbidprocess for the purpose of curing another.", | |
| "PICADOR": "A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives thefirst attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him withoutattempting to kill him.", | |
| "TANTALUS": "A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises. Tantalus'scup (Physics), a philosophical toy, consisting of a cup, within whichis the figure of a man, and within the figure a siphon, the longerarm of which passes down through the bottom of the cup, and allowsthe escape of any liquid that may be poured in, when it reaches ashigh as the bend of the siphon, which is just below the level of themouth of the figure in the cup.", | |
| "QUIRINAL": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis,now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modernroyal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.", | |
| "CLAVIS": "A key; a glossary.", | |
| "OVERMORROW": "The day after or following to-morrow. [Obs.] Bible (1551).", | |
| "TRICHOMATOSE": "Affected with a disease which causes agglutination and mattingtogether; -- said of the hair when affected with plica. See Plica, 1.", | |
| "EXOTICISM": "The state of being exotic; also, anything foreign, as a word oridiom; an exotic.", | |
| "ABDERIAN": "Given to laughter; inclined to foolish or incessant merriment.", | |
| "ANTILYSSIC": "Antihydrophobic.", | |
| "CHARLATANISM": "Charlatanry.", | |
| "TARRIER": "One who, or that which, tarries.", | |
| "BELK": "To vomit. [Obs.]", | |
| "GORMANDISM": "Gluttony.", | |
| "REFUTAL": "Act of refuting; refutation.", | |
| "RUMEN": "The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. SeeIllust. below.", | |
| "DEFUSE": "To disorder; to make shapeless. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "LEPID": "Pleasant; jocose. [R.]The joyous and lepid consul. Sydney Smith.", | |
| "MANNIDE": "A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained bydehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into,mannitan.", | |
| "SPOILABLE": "Capable of being spoiled.", | |
| "BARBARY": "The countries on the north coast of Africa from Egypt to theAtlantic. Hence: A Barbary horse; a barb. [Obs.] Also, a kind ofpigeon. Barbary ape (Zo\u00f6l.), an ape (Macacus innus) of north Africaand Gibraltar Rock, being the only monkey inhabiting Europe. It isvery commonly trained by showmen.", | |
| "TICKLENBURG": "A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the WestIndies.", | |
| "NITRYL": "A name sometimes given to the nitro group or radical.", | |
| "SERVILENESS": "Quality of being servile; servility.", | |
| "CULPA": "Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit,fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect ofintellect, dolus to defect of heart. Wharton.", | |
| "HEMATIN": "A bluish black, amorphous substance containing iron andobtained from blood. It exists the red blood corpuscles united withglobulin, and the form of hemoglobin or oxyhemoglobin gives to theblood its red color.", | |
| "PROBATE": "Of or belonging to a probate, or court of probate; as, aprobate record. Probate Court, or Court of Probate, a court for theprobate of wills.-- Probate duty, a government tax on property passing by will.[Eng.]", | |
| "LENTICULA": "A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.", | |
| "VALINCH": "A tube for drawing liquors from a cask by the bunghole.[Written also velinche.]", | |
| "INTREASURE": "To lay up, as in a treasury; to hoard. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "FONLY": "Foolishly; fondly. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "CODETTA": "A short passage connecting two sections, but not forming partof either; a short coda.", | |
| "PACHACAMAC": "A divinity worshiped by the ancient Peruvians as the creator ofthe universe.", | |
| "FANTASTICALITY": "Fantastically. [Obs.]", | |
| "FAVOSITES": "A genus of fossil corals abundant in the Silurian and Devonianrocks, having polygonal cells with perforated walls.", | |
| "QUOTA": "A proportional part or share; the share or proportion assignedto each in a division. \"Quota of troops and money.\" Motley.", | |
| "EMETIC": "Inducing to vomit; exciting the stomach to discharge itscontents by the mouth.-- n.", | |
| "AMNESTY": "To grant amnesty to.", | |
| "STEREOSCOPE": "An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance ofsolid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bendingof the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose from pointsof view a little way apart. It is furnished with two eyeglasses, andby refraction or reflection the pictures are superimposed, so as toappear as one to the observer.", | |
| "BOOTLESS": "Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage orsuccess. Chaucer.I'll follow him no more with bootless prayers. Shak.-- Boot\"less*ly, adv.-- Boot\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "INCANTON": "To unite to, or form into, a canton or separate community.Addison.", | |
| "WITE": "To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.[Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer.There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I youpray. Chaucer.", | |
| "QUAINTNESS": "The quality of being quaint. Pope.", | |
| "ROUGHDRAW": "To draw or delineate rapidly and by way of a first sketch.", | |
| "BAWD": "A person who keeps a house of prostitution, or procures womenfor a lewd purpose; a procurer or procuress; a lewd person; --usually applied to a woman.", | |
| "IMPRECISION": "Want of precision. [R.]", | |
| "GRINDLET": "A small drain.", | |
| "SARCOSEPTUM": "One of the mesenteries of an anthozoan.", | |
| "EROTEME": "A mark indicating a question; a note of interrogation.", | |
| "DISCOURTSHIP": "Want of courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "EPISCOPALIANISM": "The doctrine and usages of Episcopalians; episcopacy.", | |
| "FRETT": "The worn side of the bank of a river. See 4th Fret, n., 4.", | |
| "BRANKURSINE": "Bear's-breech, or Acanthus.", | |
| "TRANSUMPT": "A copy or exemplification of a record. [Obs.] Lord Herbert.", | |
| "NAZIRITE": "A Nazarite.", | |
| "OVIDUCT": "A tube, or duct, for the passage of ova from the ovary to theexterior of the animal or to the part where further development takesplace. In mammals the oviducts are also called Fallopian tubes.", | |
| "POCULIFORM": "Having the shape of a goblet or drinking cup.", | |
| "CARNIFY": "To form flesh; to become like flesh. Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "PROFLIGATION": "Defeat; rout; overthrow. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "HOMAXONIAL": "Relating to that kind of homology or symmetry, the mathematicalconception of organic form, in which all axes are equal. See underPromorphology.", | |
| "SWINGLE": "A wooden instrument like a large knife, about two feet long,with one thin edge, used for beating and cleaning flax; a scutcher; -- called also swingling knife, swingling staff, and swingling wand.", | |
| "MEMORABILIA": "Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also,the record of them.", | |
| "AFFRANCHISEMENT": "The act of making free; enfranchisement. [R.]", | |
| "PARCEL": "A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is partand parcel of another piece.", | |
| "ARRECT": "To impute. [Obs.] Sir T. More.", | |
| "SUNFLOWER STATE": "Kansas; a nickname.", | |
| "TRICKERY": "The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.", | |
| "ADJECT": "To add or annex; to join. Leland.", | |
| "INQUISITORIALLY": "In an inquisitorial manner.", | |
| "DISCOMMENDABLE": "Deserving, disapprobation or blame.-- Dis`com*mend\"a*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "PYROLATRY": "The worship of fire. Young.", | |
| "TACKET": "A small, broad-headed nail. [Scot.] Jamieson.", | |
| "JOVE": "The planet Jupiter. [R.] Pope.", | |
| "CONTINENTAL SYSTEM": "The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude Englandfrom commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree,which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring theBritish Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British subjects,property, and merchandise subject to capture, and excluding Britishships from all parts of Europe under French dominion. The retaliatorymeasures of England were followed by the Milan decree, issued byNapoleon from Milan Dec. 17, 1807, imposing further restrictions, anddeclaring every ship going to or from a port of England or hercolonies to be lawful prize.", | |
| "CALLOT": "A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte. B. Jonson.", | |
| "CARMINIC": "Of or pertaining to, or derived from, carmine. Carminic acid.Same as Carmine, 3.", | |
| "MANGUE": "The kusimanse.", | |
| "RINGBILL": "The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billedblackhead. See Scaup.", | |
| "CAROLIN": "A former gold coin of Germany worth nearly five dollars; also,a gold coin of Sweden worth nearly five dollars.", | |
| "POLYPIER": "A polypidom.", | |
| "CONTROVERSE": "Controversy. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "HUFFINGLY": "Blusteringly; arrogantly. [R.]And huffingly doth this bonny Scot ride. Old Ballad.", | |
| "LODGEMENT": "See Lodgment.", | |
| "CATSUP": "Same as Catchup, and Ketchup.", | |
| "CLASTIC": "Fragmental; made up of brokas, sandstone is a clastic rock.", | |
| "PREPOSITURE": "The office or dignity of a provost; a provostship. Lowth.", | |
| "SHARP-WITTED": "Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.", | |
| "THRIST": "Thrist. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "CODEINE": "One of the opium alkaloids; a white crystalline substance,C18H21NO3, similar to and regarded as a derivative of morphine, butmuch feebler in its action; -- called also codeia.", | |
| "BROMPICRIN": "A pungent colorless explosive liquid, CNO2Br3, analogous to andresembling chlorpicrin. [Spelt also brompikrin.]", | |
| "MARJORAM": "A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromaticand fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europeand America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.", | |
| "EARDRUM": "The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.", | |
| "SEA DOG": "The dogfish.(b) The common seal.", | |
| "TORQUE": "That which tends to produce torsion; a couple of forces. J.Thomson.", | |
| "WATER DOCK": "A tall, coarse dock growing in wet places. The American waterdock is Rumex orbiculatus, the European is R. Hydrolapathum.", | |
| "UNCUNNING": "Ignorant. [Obs.]I am young and uncunning, as thou wost [knowest]. Chaucer.", | |
| "LIME": "A thong by which a dog is led; a leash. Halliwell.", | |
| "TURBILLION": "A whirl; a vortex. Spectator.", | |
| "SEA GOOSE": "A phalarope.", | |
| "SPHAGNUM": "A genus of mosses having white leaves slightly tinged with redor green and found growing in marshy places; bog moss; peat moss.", | |
| "FLOW": "imp. sing. of Fly, v. i. Chaucer.", | |
| "ERATO": "The Muse who presided over lyric and amatory poetry.", | |
| "CLOSEHAULED": "Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the directionfrom which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.", | |
| "OBLONGATAL": "Of or pertaining to the medulla oblongata; medullar.", | |
| "VOWELISH": "Of the nature of a vowel. [R.] \"The power [of w] is alwaysvowelish.\" B. Jonson.", | |
| "BEFORETIME": "Formerly; aforetime.[They] dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.", | |
| "UNPOLLED": "Not polled. Specifically:(a) Not enumerated or registered; as, an unpolled vote or voter.(b) Not plundered. [Obs.] \"Unpoll'd Arabian wealth.\" Fanshawe.", | |
| "APOLOGIZE": "To defend. [Obs.]The Christians . . . were apologized by Plinie. Dr. G. Benson.", | |
| "REPOUR": "To pour again.", | |
| "FETCH": "To bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetchabout; to fetch to windward. Totten. To fetch away (Naut.), to breakloose; to roll slide to leeward.-- To fetch and carry, to serve obsequiously, like a trainedspaniel.", | |
| "VILEYNS": "Villainous. [Obs.] \"Vileyns sinful deeds make a churl.\"Chaucer.", | |
| "OFFSHOOT": "That which shoots off or separates from a main stem, channel,family, race, etc.; as, the offshoots of a tree.", | |
| "WADDLE": "To walk with short steps, swaying the body from one side to theother, like a duck or very fat person; to move clumsily andtotteringly along; to toddle; to stumble; as, a child waddles when hebegins to walk; a goose waddles. Shak.She drawls her words, and waddles in her pace. Young.", | |
| "HORMOGONIUM": "A chain of small cells in certain alg\u00e6, by which the plant ispropogated.", | |
| "AMYLOGEN": "That part of the starch granule or granulose which is solublein water.", | |
| "OPOLCHENIE": "See Army organization, above.", | |
| "SUICIDAL": "Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.-- Su\"i*ci`dal*ly, adv.", | |
| "WATER MINT": "A kind of mint (Mentha aquatica) growing in wet places, andsometimes having a perfume resembling bergamot.", | |
| "CYNOSURAL": "Of or pertaining to a cynosure.", | |
| "LISTER": "One who makes a list or roll.", | |
| "CROWN WHEEL": "A wheel with cogs or teeth set at right angles to its plane; --called also a contrate wheel or face wheel.", | |
| "BREN": "Bran. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "LITERACY": "State of being literate.", | |
| "FLAVICOMOUS": "Having yellow hair. [R.]", | |
| "NIDUS": "A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; abreeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or thegerms of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.", | |
| "ALLEGORIZER": "One who allegorizes, or turns things into allegory; anallegorist.", | |
| "HAIRCLOTH": "Stuff or cloth made wholly or in part of hair.", | |
| "APPRECATION": "Earnest prayer; devout wish. [Obs.]A solemn apprecation of good success. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "SAXON": "Of or pertaining to the Saxons, their country, or theirlanguage.(b) Anglo-Saxon.(c) Of or pertaining to Saxony or its inhabitants. Saxon blue(Dyeing), a deep blue liquid used in dyeing, and obtained bydissolving indigo in concentrated sulphuric acid. Brande & C.-- Saxon green (Dyeing), a green color produced by dyeing withyellow upon a ground of Saxon blue.", | |
| "PRETERNATURALNESS": "The quality or state of being preternatural.", | |
| "HYPOGEAN": "Hypogeous. [Written also hypog\u00e6an.]", | |
| "AFFORMATIVE": "An affix.", | |
| "CUPULATE": "Having or bearing cupeles; cupuliferous.", | |
| "CAOUTCHOUCIN": "See Caoutchin.", | |
| "PRACTIVE": "Doing; active. [Obs.] Sylvester.-- Prac\"tive*ly, adv. [Obs.]The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.", | |
| "OCULO-": "A combining form from L. oculus the eye.", | |
| "SULPHANTIMONIOUS": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid ofantimony (called also thioantimonious acid) analogous tosulpharsenious acid.", | |
| "CULLENDER": "A strainer. See Colander.", | |
| "ICH": "I. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "OVINE": "Of or pertaining to sheep; consisting of sheep.", | |
| "CLUSTER": "To grow in clusters or assemble in groups; to gather or unitein a cluster or clusters.His sunny hair Cluster'd about his temples, like a god's. Tennyson.The princes of the country clustering together. Foxe.", | |
| "WEZAND": "See Weasand. [Obs.]", | |
| "FRIARY": "Like a friar; pertaining to friars or to a convent. [Obs.]Camden.", | |
| "ACTIVATE": "To make active. [Obs.]", | |
| "PIGNORATIVE": "Pledging, pawning. [R.]", | |
| "IGNEOUS": "Resulting from, or produced by, the action of fire; as, lavasand basalt are igneous rocks.", | |
| "WALD": "A forest; -- used as a termination of names. See Weald.", | |
| "GALLEY-WORM": "A chilognath myriapod of the genus Iulus, and allied genera,having numerous short legs along the sides; a milliped or \"thousandlegs.\" See Chilognatha.", | |
| "QUASHEE": "A negro of the West Indies.", | |
| "DESPECIFICATE": "To discriminate; to separate according to specificsignification or qualities; to specificate; to desynonymize. [R.]Inaptitude and ineptitude have been usefully despecificated. Fitzed.Hall.", | |
| "ARENACEOUS": "Sandy or consisting largely of sand; of the nature of sand;easily disintegrating into sand; friable; as, arenaceous limestone.", | |
| "SEMICOLUMN": "A half column; a column bisected longitudinally, or along itsaxis.", | |
| "NENIA": "A funeral song; an elegy.", | |
| "APPELLATIVE": "Common, as opposed to proper; denominative of a class.", | |
| "GLOXINIA": "American genus of herbaceous plants with very handsome bell-shaped blossoms; -- named after B. P. Gloxin, a German botanist.", | |
| "APTEROUS": "Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.", | |
| "SHINPLASTER": "Formerly, a jocose term for a bank note greatly depreciated invalue; also, for paper money of a denomination less than a dollar.[U. S.]", | |
| "PERCENTAGE": "A certain rate per cent; the allowance, duty, rate of interest,discount, or commission, on a hundred.", | |
| "SCABLING": "A fragment or chip of stone. [Written also scabline.]", | |
| "AGGRAVATIVE": "Tending to aggravate. Ag*gres\"sive*ly, adv.-- Ag*gres\"sive*ness, n.No aggressive movement was made. Macaulay.", | |
| "RAWBONE": "Rawboned. [Obs.] Spencer.", | |
| "BIGGIN": "A child's cap; a hood, or something worn on the head.An old woman's biggin for a nightcap. Massinger.", | |
| "COVERER": "One who, or that which, covers.", | |
| "EXAGGERATOR": "One who exaggerates; one addicted to exaggeration. L. Horner.", | |
| "MOSEY": "To go, or move (in a certain manner); -- usually with out, off,along, etc. [Colloq.] E. N. Wescott.", | |
| "ESEXUAL": "Sexless; asexual.", | |
| "POCOCURANTE": "A careless person; a trifler. [R.]", | |
| "NOOSE": "A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it isdrawn.", | |
| "PATROLE": "See Patrol, n. & v.", | |
| "INCULPATE": "To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve orimplicate in guilt.That risk could only exculpate her and not inculpate them -- theprobabilities protected them so perfectly. H. James.", | |
| "AGLIMMER": "In a glimmering state. Hawthorne.", | |
| "OVERTREAD": "To tread over or upon.", | |
| "LARYNGEAL": "Of or pertaining to the larynx; adapted to operations on thelarynx; as, laryngeal forceps.", | |
| "SUPRAVAGINAL": "Situated above or outside a sheath or vaginal membrane.", | |
| "ALSATIAN": "Pertaining to Alsatia.", | |
| "EQUANGULAR": "Having equal angles; equiangular. [R.] Johnson.", | |
| "AMNESIA": "Forgetfulness; also, a defect of speech, from cerebral disease,in which the patient substitutes wrong words or names in the place ofthose he wishes to employ. Quian.", | |
| "PETTINESS": "The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness;meanness.", | |
| "ROPEDANCER": "One who dances, walks, or performs acrobatic feats, on a ropeextended through the air at some height.-- Rope\"dan`cing, n.", | |
| "SACHEMSHIP": "Office or condition of a sachem.", | |
| "MADRILENIAN": "Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants.-- n.", | |
| "ACADIAN": "Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. \"Acadian farmers.\"Longfellow.-- n.", | |
| "SIBILANT": "Making a hissing sound; uttered with a hissing sound; hissing;as, s, z, sh, and zh, are sibilant elementary sounds.-- n.", | |
| "TRANSITORINESS": "The quality or state of being transitory; speedy passage ordeparture.", | |
| "IMMIGRANT": "One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purposeof permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant.", | |
| "SEMINYMPH": "The pupa of insects which undergo only a slight change inpassing to the imago state.", | |
| "INTERJACULATE": "To ejaculate parenthetically. [R.] Thackeray.", | |
| "LITHAEMIA": "A condition in which uric (lithic) acid is present in theblood.", | |
| "FORETASTER": "One who tastes beforehand, or before another.", | |
| "ASSASSINOUS": "Murderous. Milton.", | |
| "FASCICULE": "A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers,hairs, or spines.", | |
| "NEUROPORE": "An opening at either end of the embryonic neural canal.", | |
| "MENTICULTURAL": "Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve orstrengthen the mind. [R.]", | |
| "SPIRING": "Shooting up in a spire or spires. \"The spiring grass.\" Dryton.", | |
| "ENERGIZE": "To use strength in action; to act or operate with force orvigor; to act in producing an effect.Of all men it is true that they feel and energize first, they reflectand judge afterwards. J. C. Shairp.", | |
| "UNTRESSED": "Not tied up in tresses; unarranged; -- said of the hair.Chaucer.", | |
| "BRAND-NEW": "Quite new; bright as if fresh from the forge.", | |
| "CONGLOBULATE": "To gather into a small round mass.", | |
| "ROUTE": "The course or way which is traveled or passed, or is to bepassed; a passing; a course; a road or path; a march.Wide through the furzy field their route they take. Gay.", | |
| "ASTROLITHOLOGY": "The science of a\u00ebrolites.", | |
| "EVEN": "Evening. See Eve, n. 1. [Poetic.] Shak.", | |
| "FLOODER": "One who floods anything.", | |
| "SCHOOLING": "Collecting or running in schools or shoals.Schooling species like the herring and menhaden. G. B. Goode.", | |
| "MULTILOBAR": "Consisting of, or having, many lobes.", | |
| "KIPSKIN": "Leather prepared from the skin of young or small cattle,intermediate in grade between calfskin and cowhide.", | |
| "POSTMARK": "The mark, or stamp, of a post office on a letter, giving theplace and date of mailing or of arrival.", | |
| "BLACKMAIL": "Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, aopposed to \"white rent\", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, toextort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.", | |
| "SIPHONAL": "Of or pertaining to a siphon; resembling a siphon. Siphonalstomach (Zo\u00f6l.), a stomach which is tubular and bent back uponitself, like a siphon, as in the salmon.", | |
| "HEDGEHOG": "A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europ\u00e6us), and otherallied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper partof its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itselfinto a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction.It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.", | |
| "SCALER": "One who, or that which, scales; specifically, a dentist'sinstrument for removing tartar from the teeth.", | |
| "PACKET": "To ply with a packet or dispatch boat.", | |
| "HAIL-FELLOW": "An intimate companion.Hail-fellow well met. Lyly.", | |
| "UTILE": "Profitable; useful. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEOPERCULATE": "Having the lid removed; -- said of the capsules of mosses.", | |
| "PERIDOTITE": "An eruptive rock characterized by the presence of chrysolite(peridot). It also usually contains pyroxene, enstatite, chromite,etc. It is often altered to serpentine.", | |
| "ACETYL": "A complex, hypothetical radical, composed of two parts ofcarbon to three of hydrogen and one of oxygen. Its hydroxide isacetic acid.", | |
| "SLOTTED": "Having a slot.", | |
| "INBURNING": "Burning within.Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser.", | |
| "SETON": "A few silk threads or horsehairs, or a strip of linen or thelike, introduced beneath the skin by a knife or needle, so as to forman issue; also, the issue so formed.", | |
| "PIECELY": "In pieces; piecemeal. [Obs.]", | |
| "NOVUM": "A game at dice, properly called novem quinque (L., nine five),the two principal throws being nine and five. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "LINNE": "Flax. See Linen. [Obs.]", | |
| "QUIRKY": "Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.", | |
| "XANTHOCHROID": "Having a yellowish or fair complexion. -- n.", | |
| "OPHIDIAN": "One of the Ophidia; a snake or serpent.", | |
| "SELF-INVOLUTION": "Involution in one's self; hence, abstraction of thought;reverie.", | |
| "MANNITAN": "A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by thepartial dehydration of mannite.", | |
| "UPDIVE": "To spring upward; to rise. [R.] Davies (Microcosmos).", | |
| "FUDDER": "See Fodder, a weight.", | |
| "ARTHRODESIS": "Surgical fixation of joints.", | |
| "TINTERNELL": "A certain old dance. [Obs.] Halliwell.", | |
| "GONIMIA": "Bluish green granules which occur in certain lichens, asCollema, Peltigera, etc., and which replace the more usual gonidia.", | |
| "OURANOGRAPHY": "See Uranography.", | |
| "PASS": "To be conveyed or transferred by will, deed, or otherinstrument of conveyance; as, an estate passes by a certain clause ina deed. Mozley & W.", | |
| "AMPHIBIAN": "Of or pertaining to the Amphibia; as, amphibian reptiles.", | |
| "INTRATHORACIC": "Within the thora", | |
| "BOILED": "Dressed or cooked by boiling; subjected to the action of aboiling liquid; as, boiled meat; a boiled dinner; boiled clothes.", | |
| "GLOBULOUS": "Globular; spherical; orbicular.-- Glob\"u*lous*ness, n.", | |
| "CONCRETENESS": "The quality of being concrete.", | |
| "EMPYESIS": "An eruption of pustules.", | |
| "TARSIER": "See Tarsius.", | |
| "TYPHLITIS": "Inflammation of the c\u00e6cum.", | |
| "TURRET DECK": "A narrow superstructure running from stem to stern on the upperdeck of a steam cargo vessel having a rounded gunwale and sidescurved inward convexly.", | |
| "KIBBLE": "To bruise; to grind coarsely; as, kibbled oats. [Prov.Eng.]Halliwell.", | |
| "CYCLONOSCOPE": "An apparatus to assist in locating the center of a cyclone.", | |
| "CALIFORNIAN": "Of or pertaining to California.-- n.", | |
| "ACCESSIBILITY": "The quality of being accessible, or of admitting approach;receptibility. Langhorne.", | |
| "COLOPHON": "An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place anddate of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on thelast page of a book.The colophon, or final description, fell into disuse, and . . . thetitle page had become the principal direct means of identifying thebook. De Morgan.The book was uninjured from title page to colophon. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "PAMPRE": "An ornament, composed of vine leaves and bunches of grapes,used for decorating spiral columns.", | |
| "PREPAY": "To pay in advance, or beforehand; as, to prepay postage.", | |
| "UNEXCEPTIONABLE": "Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable;faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionablecharacter.-- Un`ex*cep\"tion*a*ble*ness, n.-- Un`ex*cep\"tion*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "PARAGUAYAN": "Of or pertaining to Paraguay.-- n.", | |
| "CALEFACIENT": "Making warm; heating. [R.]", | |
| "APPLIEDLY": "By application. [R.]", | |
| "INTEREPIMERAL": "Between the epimeral plates of insects and crustaceans.", | |
| "JOUISSANCE": "Jollity; merriment. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "ODONTORNITHES": "A group of Mesozoic birds having the jaws armed with teeth, asin most other vertebrates. They have been divided into three orders:Odontolc\u00e6, Odontotorm\u00e6, and Saurur\u00e6.", | |
| "TOUCHY": "Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire.[Colloq.]It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personalattacks. Saintsbury.", | |
| "REGIME": "The condition of a river with respect to the rate of its flow,as measured by the volume of water passing different cross sectionsin a given time, uniform r\u00e9gime being the condition when the flow isequal and uniform at all the cross sections. The ancient r\u00e9gime, orAncien r\u00e9gime Etym: [F.], the former political and social system, asdistinguished from the modern; especially, the political and socialsystem existing in France before the Revolution of 1789.", | |
| "TURMALINE": "See Tourmaline.", | |
| "ANAMORPHOSCOPE": "An instrument for restoring a picture or image distorted byanamorphosis to its normal proportions. It usually consists of acylindrical mirror.", | |
| "HEREDITABLY": "By inheritance. W. Tooke.", | |
| "KONITE": "See Conite.", | |
| "WONDERER": "One who wonders.", | |
| "ANTISEPTICALLY": "By means of antiseptics.", | |
| "VOLUNTEER NAVY": "A navy of vessels fitted out and manned by volunteers who sailunder the flag of the regular navy and subject to naval discipline.Prussia in 1870, in the Franco-German war, organized such a navy,which was commanded by merchant seamen with temporary commissions,with the claim (in which England acquiesced) that it did not comewithin the meaning of the term privateer.", | |
| "DEFACE": "To destroy; to make null. [Obs.][Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion.Bacon.For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.", | |
| "BOTELESS": "Unavailing; in vain. See Bootless.", | |
| "TEENFUL": "Full of teen; harmful; grievous; grieving; afflicted. [Obs.]Piers Plowman.", | |
| "DIVIDE": "To subject to arithmetical division.", | |
| "WINY": "Having the taste or qualities of wine; vinous; as, grapes of awiny taste. Dampier.", | |
| "DISPLACER": "The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement.", | |
| "LIENO-INTESTINAL": "Of or pertaining to the spleen and intestine; as, the lieno-intestinal vein of the frog.", | |
| "PEJORATIVE": "Implying or imputing evil; depreciatory; disparaging;unfavorable.", | |
| "SPINED": "Furnished with spines; spiny.", | |
| "AESTIVATE": "To pass the summer in a state of torpor. [Spelt also estivate.]", | |
| "EMACULATE": "To clear from spots or stains, or from any imperfection. [Obs.]Hales.", | |
| "ESCAMBIO": "A license formerly required for the making over a bill ofexchange to another over sea. Cowell.", | |
| "GORDIACEA": "A division of nematoid worms, including the hairworms or haireels (Gordius and Mermis). See Gordius, and Illustration in Appendix.", | |
| "LAMPOON": "A personal satire in writing; usually, malicious and abusivecensure written only to reproach and distress.Like her who missed her name in a lampoon, And grieved to findherself decayed so soon. Dryden.", | |
| "UNOFTEN": "Not often. [Obs.]", | |
| "OVERMELLOW": "Too mellow; overripe.", | |
| "UPTEAR": "To tear up. Milton.", | |
| "BALLOON": "A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St.Paul's, in London. [R.]", | |
| "UNDERCHARGE": "A charge that is less than is usual or suitable.", | |
| "EARTHMAD": "The earthworm. [Obs.]The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes.Holland.", | |
| "NIGHT-EYED": "Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. \"Your night-eyedTiberius.\" B. Jonson.", | |
| "LOIN": "That part of a human being or quadruped, which extends oneither side of the spinal column between the hip bone and the falseribs. In human beings the loins are also called the reins. SeeIllust. of Beef.", | |
| "ANTAPHRODITIC": "An antaphroditic medicine.", | |
| "INTERCONVERTIBLE": "Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes areinterconvertible.", | |
| "DEPOSITARY": "One to whom goods are bailed, to be kept for the bailor withouta recompense. Kent.", | |
| "PTILOPTERI": "An order of birds including only the penguins.", | |
| "BRELOQUE": "A seal or charm for a watch chain. \"His chains and breloques.\"Thackeray.", | |
| "HONORIFIC": "Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.", | |
| "SERPENT-TONGUED": "Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.", | |
| "AVIS": "Advice; opinion; deliberation. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "LINGER": "To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow orreluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be insuspense; to hesitate.Nor cast one longing, lingering look behind. Gray.Perhaps thou linger'st, in deep thoughts detained. Milton.", | |
| "KNOCK-KNEED": "Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.[Written also knack-kneed.]", | |
| "WHITSON": "See Whitsun. [Obs.]", | |
| "HAEMORRHOIDAL": "Same as Hemorrhoidal.", | |
| "URANOLITE": "A meteorite or a\u00ebrolite. [Obs.] Hutton.", | |
| "VERBIAGE": "The use of many words without necessity, or with little sense;a superabundance of words; verbosity; wordiness.Verbiage may indicate observation, but not thinking. W. Irving.This barren verbiage current among men. Tennyson.", | |
| "NOMADIZE": "To lead the life of a nomad; to wander with flocks and herdsfor the sake of finding pasturage.The Vogules nomadize chiefly about the Rivers Irtish, Obi, Kama, andVolga. W. Tooke.", | |
| "RECOMMENDER": "One who recommends.", | |
| "ESTUATE": "To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon.", | |
| "COSTIVELY": "In a costive manner.", | |
| "CONCISELY": "In a concise manner; briefly.", | |
| "DRAWN": "See Draw, v. t. & i. Drawn butter, butter melter and preparedto be used as a sort of gravy.-- Drawn fowl, an eviscerated fowl.-- Drawn game or battle, one in which neither party wins; oneequally contested.-- Drawn fox, one driven from cover. Shak.-- Drawn work, ornamental work made by drawing out threads from finecloth, and uniting the cross threads, to form a pattern.", | |
| "EXOSCULATE": "To kiss; especially, to kiss repeatedly or fondly. [Obs.]", | |
| "RUBAIYAT": "Quatrians; as, the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Sometimes in pl.construed as sing., a poem in such stanzas.", | |
| "SPECULATORIAL": "Speculatory; speculative. [Obs.]", | |
| "BARKEEPER": "One who keeps or tends a bar for the sale of liquors.", | |
| "EUHEMERISM": "The theory, held by Euhemerus, that the gods of mythology werebut deified mortals, and their deeds only the amplification inimagination of human acts.", | |
| "CATER": "A provider; a purveyor; a caterer. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "YOUNG": "The offspring of animals, either a single animal or offspringcollectively.[The egg] bursting with kindly rupture, forth disclosed Their callowyoung. Milton.With young, with child; pregnant.", | |
| "PANICUM": "A genus of grasses, including several hundred species, some ofwhich are valuable; panic grass.", | |
| "IMMARTIAL": "Not martial; unwarlike. [Obs.]", | |
| "TIPCAT": "A game in which a small piece of wood pointed at both ends,called a cat, is tipped, or struck with a stick or bat, so as to flyinto the air.In the middle of a game at tipcat, he paused, and stood staringwildly upward with his stick in his hand. Macaulay.", | |
| "LICKPENNY": "A devourer or absorber of money. \"Law is a lickpenny.\" Sir W.Scott.", | |
| "SORTILEGE": "The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawinglots.A woman infamous for sortileges and witcheries. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "QUANNET": "A flat file having the handle at one side, so as to be usedlike a plane.", | |
| "GALVANOLOGY": "A treatise on galvanism, or a description of its phenomena.", | |
| "LIVE-FOREVER": "A plant (Sedum Telephium) with fleshy leaves, which has extremepowers of resisting drought; garden ox-pine.", | |
| "FORCEFUL": "Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty.-- Force\"ful*ly, adv.Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.", | |
| "SEPSIS": "The poisoning of the system by the introduction of putrescentmaterial into the blood.", | |
| "SURETY": "One who is bound with and for another who is primarily liable,and who is called the principal; one who engages to answer foranother's appearance in court, or for his payment of a debt, or forperformance of some act; a bondsman; a bail.He that is surety for a stranger shall smart for it. Prov. xi. 15.", | |
| "PLACATE": "Same as Placard, 4 & 5.", | |
| "SLOKE": "See Sloakan.", | |
| "DAWDLE": "To waste time in trifling employment; to trifle; to saunter.Come some evening and dawdle over a dish of tea with me. Johnson.We . . . dawdle up and down Pall Mall. Thackeray.", | |
| "VOCIFERATE": "To cry out with vehemence; to exclaim; to bawl; to clamor.Cowper.", | |
| "DELATE": "To dilate. [Obs.] Goodwin.", | |
| "BANK DISCOUNT": "A sum equal to the interest at a given rate on the principal(face) of a bill or note from the time of discounting until itbecomes due.", | |
| "SPILLWAY": "A sluiceway or passage for superfluous water in a reservoir, toprevent too great pressure on the dam.", | |
| "DRECCHE": "To delay. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "MIDWIVE": "To midwife. [Obs.]", | |
| "INCORRUPTIBLY": "In an incorruptible manner.", | |
| "FIXIDITY": "Fixedness. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "UNHOSED": "Without hose.", | |
| "FOOTGLOVE": "A kind of stocking. [Obs.]", | |
| "OSSIFRAGOUS": "Serving to break bones; bone-breaking.", | |
| "RYTH": "A ford. [Obs.]", | |
| "STAYMAKER": "One whose occupation is to make stays.", | |
| "GRAFTER": "An instrument by which grafting is facilitated.", | |
| "ARGILLITE": "Argillaceous schist or slate; clay slate. Its colors is bluishor blackish gray, sometimes greenish gray, brownish red, etc.-- Ar`gil*lit\"ic, a.", | |
| "MELIC GRASS": "A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.", | |
| "LEASY": "Flimsy; vague; deceptive. [Obs.] Ascham.", | |
| "PROTOSULPHURET": "A protosulphide. [Obs.]", | |
| "VIVARIUM": "A place artificially arranged for keeping or raising livinganimals, as a park, a pond, an aquarium, a warren, etc.", | |
| "NEPHROSTOME": "The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.", | |
| "PUMPER": "One who pumps; the instrument or machine used in pumping.Boyle.", | |
| "ARAEOSTYLE": "See Intercolumniation.", | |
| "TUBICORN": "Any ruminant having horns composed of a bony axis covered witha horny sheath; a hollow-horned ruminant.", | |
| "SOOTHSAYER": "A mantis.", | |
| "PYROXENITE": "A rock consisting essentially of pyroxene.", | |
| "GRIPMAN": "The man who manipulates a grip.", | |
| "MAGISTER": "Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a personin authority, or to one having a license from a university to teachphilosophy and the liberal arts.", | |
| "IRRESOLVEDLY": "Without settled determination; in a hesitating manner;doubtfully. [R.]", | |
| "IMMERITED": "Unmerited. [Obs.] Charles I.", | |
| "WATERSHOOT": "That which serves to guard from falling water; a drip ordripstone.", | |
| "CONJECT": "To throw together, or to throw. [Obs.] Bp. Montagu.", | |
| "GAMASHES": "High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes orriding trousers, worn over the other clothing.", | |
| "FYTTE": "See Fit a song. [Archaic]", | |
| "MALEFICIENT": "Doing evil, harm, or mischief.", | |
| "TABER": "Same as Tabor. Nahum ii. 7.", | |
| "CERATOSAURUS": "A carnivorous American Jurassic dinosaur allied to the EuropeanMegalosaurus. The animal was nearly twenty feet in length, and theskull bears a bony horn core on the united nasal bones. SeeIllustration in Appendix.", | |
| "DESIDERATION": "Act of desiderating; also, the thing desired. [R.] Jeffrey.", | |
| "KNOBBING": "Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.", | |
| "OPPUGN": "To fight against; to attack; to be in conflict with; to oppose;to resist.They said the manner of their impeachment they could not but conceivedid oppugn the rights of Parliament. Clarendon.", | |
| "GUSTOSO": "Tasteful; in a tasteful, agreeable manner.", | |
| "HETEROGRAPHIC": "Employing the same letters to represent different sounds indifferent words or syllables; -- said of methods of spelling; as, theordinary English orthography is heterographic.", | |
| "ESPECIALLY": "In an especial manner; chiefly; particularly; peculiarly; in anuncommon degree.", | |
| "PERERRATION": "A wandering, or rambling, through various places. [R.] Howell.", | |
| "PHOTOCERAMICS": "Art or process of decorating pottery with photographicallyprepared designs. -- Pho`to*ce*ram\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "THERAPEUTIC": "One of the Therapeut\u00e6.", | |
| "PHENOGAMIA": "Same as Ph\u00e6nogamia.", | |
| "YELTING": "The Florida and West Indian red snapper (Lutianus aya); also,sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis.", | |
| "SMELTER": "One who, or that which, smelts.", | |
| "OUT-PATIENT": "A patient who is outside a hospital, but receives medical aidfrom it.", | |
| "CLANG": "To strike together so as to produce a ringing metallic sound.The fierce Caretes . . . clanged their sounding arms. Prior.", | |
| "PHOSPHORICAL": "Phosphoric.", | |
| "SLUTTISH": "Like a slut; untidy; indecently negligent of cleanliness;disorderly; as, a sluttish woman.Why is thy lord so slutish, I thee pray. Chaucer.An air of liberal, though sluttish, plenty, indicated the wealthyfarmer. Sir W. Scott.-- Slut\"tish*ly, adv.-- Slut\"tish*ness, n.", | |
| "ZENITHAL": "Of or pertaining to the zenith. \"The deep zenithal blue.\"Tyndall.", | |
| "VANITY BOX": "A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on achain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toiletarticles for a woman.", | |
| "UNINTERESSED": "Uninterested; unaffected. [Obs.] Glanvill.", | |
| "FLORAN": "Tin ore scarcely perceptible in the stone; tin ore stamped veryfine. Pryce.", | |
| "ACUTE-ANGLED": "Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a trianglewith every one of its angles less than a right angle.", | |
| "NOUMENAL": "Of or pertaining to the noumenon; real; -- opposed tophenomenal. G. H. Lewes.", | |
| "BENIGNLY": "In a benign manner.", | |
| "ACTUATOR": "One who actuates, or puts into action. [R.] Melville.", | |
| "THORNSET": "Set with thorns. Dyer.", | |
| "INDEFEISIBLE": "Indefeasible. [Obs.]", | |
| "S": "the nineteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a consonanat,and is often called a sibilant, in allusion to its hissing sound. Ithas two principal sounds; one a more hissing, as in sack, this; theother a vocal hissing (the same as that of z), as in is, wise.Besides these it sometimes has the sounds of sh and zh, as in sure,measure. It generally has its hissing sound at the beginning ofwords, but in the middle and at the end of words its sound isdetermined by usage. In a few words it is silent, as in isle, d\u00e9bris.With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide topronunciation, t\\'c5 255-261.", | |
| "DIGITATION": "A division into fingers or fingerlike processes; also, afingerlike process.", | |
| "ENTOZOA": "Pertaining to, or consisting of, the Entozoa.", | |
| "POLYCYSTIDEA": "A division of Gregarin\u00e6 including those that have two or moreinternal divisions of the body.", | |
| "RONGEUR": "An instrument for removing small rough portions of bone.", | |
| "FISTULARIA": "A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged into a tube, withthe mouth at the extremity.", | |
| "SCARLET": "A deep bright red tinged with orange or yellow, -- of manytints and shades; a vivid or bright red color.", | |
| "VANISH": "The brief terminal part of vowel or vocal element, differingmore or less in quality from the main part; as, a as in aleordinarily ends with a vanish of i as in ill, o as in old with avanish of oo as in foot. Rush.", | |
| "INSULTMENT": "Insolent treatment; insult. [Obs.] \"My speech of insultmentended.\" Shak.", | |
| "SPHEROSOME": "The body wall of any radiate animal.", | |
| "INVAGINATION": "The condition of an invaginated organ or part.", | |
| "PERISTYLE": "A range of columns with their entablature, etc.; specifically,a complete system of columns, whether on all sides of a court, orsurrounding a building, such as the cella of a temple. Used in theformer sense, it gives name to the larger and inner court of a Romandwelling, the peristyle. See Colonnade.", | |
| "CREBRICOSTATE": "Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.", | |
| "COULEE": "A stream; (Geol.)", | |
| "WHISTLEFISH": "A gossat, or rockling; -- called also whistler, three-beardedrockling, sea loach, and sorghe.", | |
| "SUNDRYMAN": "One who deals in sundries, or a variety of articles.", | |
| "PLANGENCY": "The quality or state of being plangent; a beating sound. [R.]", | |
| "PLEOMORPHIC": "Pertaining to pleomorphism; as, the pleomorphic character ofbacteria.", | |
| "KIVE": "A mash vat. See Keeve. [Obs.]", | |
| "DROWNER": "One who, or that which, drowns.", | |
| "HERONER": "A hawk used in hunting the heron. \"Heroner and falcon.\"Chaucer.", | |
| "HARDWAREMAN": "One who makes, or deals in, hardware.", | |
| "OCHRY": "See Ochery.", | |
| "PYROMANCY": "Divination by means of fire.", | |
| "DIURNA": "A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- socalled because they fly only in the daytime.", | |
| "INTOLERANCY": "Intolerance. Bailey.", | |
| "DRIE": "To endure. [Obs.]So causeless such drede for to drie. Chaucer.", | |
| "AVIADO": "One who works a mine with means provided by another. [Sp. Amer.& Southwestern U. S.]", | |
| "ACCUMULATOR": "An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored,such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulicelevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating theenergy of electrical charges, etc.", | |
| "INDEPENDENT": "Belonging or pertaining to, or holding to the doctrines ormethods of, the Independents.", | |
| "POSTCOMMUNION": "The concluding portion of the communion service.", | |
| "CAMIS": "A light, loose dress or robe. [Also written camus.] [Obs.]All in a camis light of purple silk. Spenser.", | |
| "ASTEROIDAL": "Of or pertaining to an asteroid, or to the asteroids.", | |
| "BAPTISMALLY": "In a baptismal manner.", | |
| "DISTRIBUTIVE": "Assigning the species of a general term.", | |
| "APPRECIABLE": "Capable of being appreciated or estimated; large enough to beestimated; perceptible; as, an appreciable quantity.-- Ap*pre\"ci*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "CHAPS": "The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap. \"Open yourchaps again.\" Shak.", | |
| "MEGAVOLT": "One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amountingto one million volts.", | |
| "CALEFACTOR": "A heater; one who, or that which, makes hot, as a stove, etc.", | |
| "SHOWROOM": "A room or apartment where a show is exhibited.", | |
| "UNDEFEASIBLE": "Indefeasible. [Obs.]", | |
| "LITHELY": "In a lithe, pliant, or flexible manner.", | |
| "RAREFACTION": "The act or process of rarefying; the state of being rarefied; -- opposed to condensation; as, the rarefaction of air.", | |
| "SALUTATION": "The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by thecustomary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing goodwill or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting orgreeting.In all public meetings or private addresses, use those forms ofsalutation, reverence, and decency usual amongst the most soberpersons. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "FORLORNNESS": "State of being forlorn. Boyle.", | |
| "ASSIMILABILITY": "The quality of being assimilable. [R.] Coleridge.", | |
| "HEAVY-ARMED": "Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.", | |
| "CORNUTOR": "A cuckold maker. [R.] Jordan.", | |
| "LILYWORT": "Any plant of the Lily family or order. Lindley.", | |
| "HYDROBROMIC": "Composed of hydrogen and bromine; as, hydrobromic acid.Hydrobromic acid (Chem.), a colorless, pungent, corrosive gas, HBr,usually collected as a solution in water. It resembles hydrochloricacid, but is weaker and less stable. Called also hydrogen bromide.", | |
| "WEEVILED": "Infested by weevils; as, weeviled grain. [Written alsoweevilled.]", | |
| "XANTHIAN": "Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; --applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and nowin the British Museum.", | |
| "DROUTH": "Same as Drought. Sandys.Another ill accident is drouth at the spindling of corn. Bacon.One whose drouth [thirst], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the currentstream. Milton.In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.", | |
| "SMILT": "To melt. [Obs.] Mortimer.", | |
| "HAULER": "One who hauls.", | |
| "DESTROYER": "One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.", | |
| "ENFOLD": "To infold. See Infold.", | |
| "ERYSIPELATOID": "Resembling erysipelas.", | |
| "INIA": "A South American freshwater dolphin (Inia Boliviensis). It isten or twelve feet long, and has a hairy snout.", | |
| "ALGIDNESS": "Algidity. [Obs.]", | |
| "IMPERATIVE": "Expressive of commund, entreaty, advice, or exhortation; as,the imperative mood.", | |
| "POWDER-POSTED": "Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot,under Dry. [U.S.]", | |
| "INVOLUTION": "The insertion of one or more clauses between the subject andthe verb, in a way that involves or complicates the construction.", | |
| "QUADRIPENNATE": "Having four wings; -- said of insects.", | |
| "STUPOSE": "Composed of, or having, tufted or matted filaments like tow;stupeous.", | |
| "FLAMMIVOMOUS": "Vomiting flames, as a volcano. W. Thompson. (1745).", | |
| "KALSOMINE": "Same as Calcimine.", | |
| "BENTING TIME": "The season when pigeons are said to feed on bents, before peasare ripe.Bare benting times . . . may come. Dryden.", | |
| "POLITURE": "Polish; gloss. [Obs.] Donne.", | |
| "DAY-LABOR": "Labor hired or performed by the day. Milton.", | |
| "OVERSKIRT": "An upper skirt, shorter than the dress, and usually draped.", | |
| "SUPERPOSABLE": "Capable of being superposed, as one figure upon another.", | |
| "MACROCOSM": "The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior toman; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.", | |
| "COLD-SHUT": "Closed while too cold to become thoroughly welded; -- said of aforging or casting.-- n.", | |
| "UNNOBLE": "Ignoble. Shak.", | |
| "STARMONGER": "A fortune teller; an astrologer; -- used in contempt. B.Jonson.", | |
| "RESPLENDISHANT": "Resplendent; brilliant. [R. & Obs.] Fabyan.", | |
| "SPEECHMAKER": "One who makes speeches; one accustomed to speak in a publicassembly.", | |
| "APLUSTRE": "An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usuallyspreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.", | |
| "STRENGTHING": "A stronghold. [Obs.]", | |
| "BLANCHER": "One who, or that which, blanches or whitens; esp., one whoanneals and cleanses money; also, a chemical preparation for thispurpose.", | |
| "RHEUMATISM": "A general disease characterized by painful, often multiple,local inflammations, usually affecting the joints and muscles, butalso extending sometimes to the deeper organs, as the heart.Inflammatory rheumatism (Med.), acute rheumatism attended with fever,and attacking usually the larger joints, which become swollen, hot,and very painful.-- Rheumatism root. (Bot.) See Twinleaf.", | |
| "BACKJOINT": "A rebate or chase in masonry left to receive a permanent slabor other filling.", | |
| "WINDLE": "The redwing. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PASSIONARY": "A book in which are described the sufferings of saints andmartyrs. T. Warton.", | |
| "DYSNOMY": "Bad legislation; the enactment of bad laws. Cockeram.", | |
| "EARSHRIFT": "A nickname for auricular confession; shrift. [Obs.] Cartwright.", | |
| "IMPEND": "To pay. [Obs.] Fabyan.", | |
| "CHIH TAI": "A Chinese governor general; a tsung tu (which see).", | |
| "SYMBAL": "See Cimbal. [Obs.]", | |
| "CERASIN": "A white amorphous substance, the insoluble part of cherry gum;-- called also meta-arabinic acid.", | |
| "KASACK": "Same as Cossack.", | |
| "REELER": "The grasshopper warbler; -- so called from its note. [Prov.Eng.]", | |
| "FREEBOOTY": "Freebootery. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEHORN": "To deprive of horns; to prevent the growth or the horns of(cattle) by burning their ends soon after they start. See Dishorn.\"Dehorning cattle.\" Farm Journal (1886).", | |
| "POLACK": "A Polander. Shak.", | |
| "RECLINANT": "Bending or leaning backward.", | |
| "SCHERIF": "See Sherif.", | |
| "TRIST": "To trust. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "EEL": "An elongated fish of many genera and species. The common eelsof Europe and America belong to the genus Anguilla. The electricaleel is a species of Gymnotus. The so called vinegar eel is a minutenematode worm. See Conger eel, Electric eel, and Gymnotus.", | |
| "IMAGINOUS": "Imaginative. [R.] Chapman.", | |
| "VERDIN": "A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of LowerCalifornia, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.", | |
| "HYPERBOLIST": "One who uses hyperboles.", | |
| "BRISURE": "Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from thegeneral direction.", | |
| "MERCENARIAN": "A mercenary. [Obs.]", | |
| "DILUVIALIST": "One who explains geological phenomena by the Noachian deluge.Lyell.", | |
| "DORSE": "The Baltic or variable cod (Gadus callarias), by some believedto be the young of the common codfish.", | |
| "INEXPECTEDLY": "Unexpectedly. [Obs.]", | |
| "WIND SIGNAL": "In general, any signal announcing information concerning winds,and esp. the expected approach of winds whose direction and force aredangerous to shipping, etc. The wind-signal system of the UnitedStates Weather Bureau consists of storm, information, hurricane, hotwind, and inland storm signals.", | |
| "MUEZZIN": "A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer. [Written alsomouezzin, mueddin, and muwazzin.]", | |
| "DISSENTANY": "Dissentaneous; inconsistent. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "CAUTERY": "A burning or searing, as of morbid flesh, with a hot iron, orby application of a caustic that will burn, corrode, or destroyanimal tissue.", | |
| "PANACEA": "The herb allheal.", | |
| "FOREORDAIN": "To ordain or appoint beforehand; to preordain; to predestinate;to predetermine. Hooker.", | |
| "MIDDLEMAN": "The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.", | |
| "HIST": "Hush; be silent; -- a signal for silence. Milton.", | |
| "DELTAIC": "Relating to, or like, a delta.", | |
| "KINESIPATHY": "See Kinesiatrics.", | |
| "SOPORATE": "To lay or put to sleep; to stupefy. [Obs.] Cudworth.", | |
| "KNIGHTLY": "Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous;as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit.For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser.[Excuses] full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.", | |
| "TOPSAIL": "In a square-rigged vessel, the sail next above the lowermostsail on a mast. This sail is the one most frequently reefed or furledin working the ship. In a fore-and-aft rigged vessel, the sail setupon and above the gaff. See Cutter, Schooner, Sail, and Ship.Topsail schooner. (Naut.) See Schooner, and Illustration in Appendix.", | |
| "MOLECULAR": "Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of,molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.Molecular attraction (Phys.), attraction acting between the moleculesof bodies, and at insensible distances.-- Molecular weight (Chem.), the weight of a molecule of any gas orvapor as compared with the hydrogen atom as a standard; the sum ofthe atomic weights of the constituents of a molecule; thus, themolecular weight of water (H2O) is 18.", | |
| "DATABLE": "That may be dated; having a known or ascertainable date.\"Datable almost to a year.\" The Century.", | |
| "HIEROGRAMMATIST": "A writer of hierograms; also, one skilled in hieroglyphics.Greenhill.", | |
| "STEAPSIN": "An unorganized ferment or enzyme present in pancreatic juice.It decomposes neutral fats into glycerin and fatty acids.", | |
| "DECORATOR": "One who decorates, adorns, or embellishes; specifically, anartisan whose business is the decoration of houses, esp. theirinterior decoration.", | |
| "HUMMOCKING": "The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice.Kane.", | |
| "PREEN": "A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.", | |
| "POEBIRD": "The parson bird.", | |
| "UNBOTTOMED": "Deprived of a bottom.", | |
| "CAST-OFF": "Cast or laid aside; as, cast-off clothes.", | |
| "EXUPERANT": "Surpassing; exceeding; surmounting. [Obs.]", | |
| "CONVERSATIONAL": "Pertaining to conversation; in the manner of one conversing;as, a conversational style. Thackeray.", | |
| "AFFRICATE": "A combination of a stop, or explosive, with an immediatelyfollowing fricative or spirant of corresponding organic position, aspf in german Pfeffer, pepper, z (= ts) in German Zeit, time.", | |
| "OVULIST": "A believer in the theory (called encasement theory), currentduring the last century, that the egg was the real animal germ, andthat at the time of fecundation the spermatozoa simply gave theimpetus which caused the unfolding of the egg, in which allgenerations were inclosed one within the other. Also called ovist.", | |
| "SUBDEAN": "An under dean; the deputy or substitute of a dean. Ayliffe.", | |
| "ALULAR": "Pertaining to the alula.", | |
| "CRINITE": "Bearded or tufted with hairs. Gray.", | |
| "GRECIAN": "Of or pertaining to Greece; Greek. Grecian bend, among women,an affected carriage of the body, the upper part being inclinedforward. [Collog.] -- Grecian fire. See Greek fire, under Greek.", | |
| "HAEMODYNAMETER": "Same as Hemadynamics.", | |
| "MUGGARD": "Sullen; displeased. [Obs.]", | |
| "RUDBECKIA": "A genus of composite plants, the coneflowers, consisting ofperennial herbs with showy pedunculate heads, having a hemisphericalinvolucre, sterile ray flowers, and a conical chaffy receptacle.There are about thirty species, exclusively North American. Rudbeckiahirta, the black-eyed Susan, is a common weed in meadows.", | |
| "CLAWBACK": "A flatterer or sycophant. [Obs.] \"Take heed of theseclawbacks.\" Latimer.", | |
| "RECLAIM": "To claim back; to demand the return of as a right; to attemptto recover possession of.A tract of land [Holland] snatched from an element perpetuallyreclaiming its prior occupancy. W. Coxe.", | |
| "PRENOTION": "A notice or notion which precedes something else in time;previous notion or thought; foreknowledge. Bacon.", | |
| "GADBEE": "The gadfly.", | |
| "ABHORRENCE": "Extreme hatred or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike.", | |
| "PRANKER": "One who dresses showily; a prinker. \"A pranker or a dancer.\"Burton.", | |
| "ICHNOLITHOLOGY": "Same as Ichnology. Hitchcock.", | |
| "DOUBLEMINDED": "Having different minds at different times; unsettled;undetermined.A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. Jas. i. 8.", | |
| "PITUITE": "Mucus, phlegm.", | |
| "ACROBATIC": "Pertaining to an acrobat.-- Ac`ro*bat\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "BROWNY": "Brown or, somewhat brown. \"Browny locks.\" Shak.", | |
| "CHAD": "See Shad. [Obs.]", | |
| "ULTRAIST": "One who pushes a principle or measure to extremes; anextremist; a radical; an ultra.", | |
| "OFT": "Often; frequently; not rarely; many times. [Poetic] Chaucer.Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Pope.", | |
| "TORTA": "a flat heap of moist, crushed silver ore, prepared for thepatio process.", | |
| "COMMUTABLENESS": "The quality of being commutable; interchangeableness.", | |
| "UVULAR": "Of or pertaining to a uvula.", | |
| "OPINIATE": "To hold or maintain persistently. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "RAIN-TIGHT": "So tight as to exclude rain as, a rain-tight roof.", | |
| "UNTOMB": "To take from the tomb; to exhume; to disinter. Fuller.", | |
| "GLOAR": "To squint; to stare. [Obs.]", | |
| "ECHINODERMATOUS": "Relating to Echinodermata; echinodermal.", | |
| "LAMPLIGHT": "Light from a lamp.This world's artificial lamplights. Owen Meredith.", | |
| "POLYSEPALOUS": "Having the sepals separate from each other.", | |
| "SATYRION": "Any one of several kinds of orchids. [Obs.]", | |
| "DECURY": "A set or squad of ten men under a decurion. Sir W. Raleigh.", | |
| "MUM-CHANCE": "Silent and idle. [Colloq.]Boys can't sit mum-chance always. J. H. Ewing.", | |
| "PERAMBULATE": "To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for thepurpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing;specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a townor parish, by walking over the whole line.", | |
| "SPLIT WHEEL": "= Split pulley.", | |
| "SUPERHEATER": "An apparatus for superheating steam.", | |
| "LEXIGRAPHIC": "Of or pertaining to lexigraphy.", | |
| "WEKAU": "A small New Zealand owl (Sceloglaux albifacies). It has shortwings and long legs, and lives chiefly on the ground.", | |
| "COWQUAKE": "A genus of plants (Briza); quaking grass.", | |
| "BENT": "imp. & p. p. of Bend.", | |
| "MAGNETO-": "A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some wayconnected with, magnetism.", | |
| "APROCTOUS": "Without an anal office.", | |
| "AUXANOMETER": "An instrument to measure the growth of plants. Goodale.", | |
| "RENEGAT": "A renegade. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "OFFPRINT": "A reprint or excerpt.", | |
| "AMENDER": "One who amends.", | |
| "CAPILLOSE": "Having much hair; hairy. [R.]", | |
| "BEZ-ANTLER": "The second branch of a stag's horn.", | |
| "STRANG": "Strong. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Halliwell.", | |
| "BENEME": "To deprive (of), or take away (from). [Obs.]", | |
| "HYPOSULPHATE": "A salt of hyposulphuric acid.", | |
| "TENTATIVE": "Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.\"A slow, tentative manner.\" Carlyle.-- Ten*ta\"tive*ly, adv.", | |
| "YAKUT": "The Turkish language of the Yakuts, a Mongolian people ofnortheastern Siberia, which is lingua franca over much of easternSiberia.", | |
| "BONEACHE": "Pain in the bones. Shak.", | |
| "INFINITIVAL": "Pertaining to the infinite mood. \"Infinitival stems.\" Fitzed.Hall.", | |
| "CABBLER": "One who works at cabbling.", | |
| "INCRUENTAL": "Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice.[Obs.] Brevint.", | |
| "APOSTEMATION": "The formation of an aposteme; the process of suppuration.[Written corruptly imposthumation.] Wiseman.", | |
| "MALAY": "One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the MalayPeninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.", | |
| "SLIMY": "Of or pertaining to slime; resembling slime; of the nature ofslime; viscous; glutinous; also, covered or daubed with slime;yielding, or abounding in, slime.Slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. Coleridge.", | |
| "APPOINTABLE": "Capable of being appointed or constituted.", | |
| "INADHERENT": "Free; not connected with the other organs.", | |
| "TRANSMUTE": "To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; totransform.The caresses of parents and the blandishments of friends transmute usinto idols. Buckminster.Transmuting sorrow into golden joy Free from alloy. H. Smith.", | |
| "LIGHT-HEARTED": "Free from grief or anxiety; gay; cheerful; merry.-- Light\"-heart`ed*ly, adv.-- Light\"-heart\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "SULPHOPHOSPHORIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid ofphosphorus, analogous to phosphoric acid, and known in its salts.", | |
| "HILTED": "Having a hilt; -- used in composition; as, basket-hilted,cross-hilted.", | |
| "SMOKELESS": "Making or having no smoke. \"Smokeless towers.\" Pope.", | |
| "ENWRAPMENT": "Act of enwrapping; a wrapping or an envelope. Shuckford.", | |
| "GIGANTEAN": "Like a giant; mighty; gigantic. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "OVERDRY": "To dry too much. Burton.", | |
| "PINCERS": "See Pinchers.", | |
| "DETENEBRATE": "To remove darkness from. [Obs.] Ash.", | |
| "HEMISPHERULE": "A half spherule.", | |
| "INVITER": "One who, or that which, invites.", | |
| "DOTY": "Half-rotten; as, doty timber. [Local, U. S.]", | |
| "ROSETTE": "An ornament in the form of a rose or roundel, -much used indecoration.", | |
| "INERRINGLY": "Without error, mistake, or deviation; unerringly. Glanvill.", | |
| "HEMATHERMAL": "Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]", | |
| "ROOFING": "The wedging, as of a horse or car, against the top of anunderground passage. Raymond.", | |
| "BLOWN": "Opened; in blossom or having blossomed, as a flower. Shak.", | |
| "FLOWINGLY": "In a flowing manner.", | |
| "CRACKSMAN": "A burglar. [Slang]", | |
| "ADRAGANT": "Gum tragacanth. Brande & C.", | |
| "UPPISH": "Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.[Colloq.] T. Brown.-- Up\"pish*ly, adv. [Colloq.] -- Up\"pish*ness, n. [Colloq.]", | |
| "BASIL": "The slope or angle to which the cutting edge of a tool, as aplane, is ground. Grier.", | |
| "AMBREIC": "Of or pertaining to ambrein; -- said of a certain acid producedby digesting ambrein in nitric acid.", | |
| "EQUIVOCATORY": "Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.", | |
| "CROPPER": "A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron,or for facing cloth.", | |
| "MISDIET": "Improper. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "BEGUILER": "One who, or that which, beguiles.", | |
| "MONOPTERAL": "Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring ofcolumns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.", | |
| "MELITOSE": "A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cottonseeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certainspecies of Eucalyptus).", | |
| "GORHEN": "The female of the gorcock.", | |
| "MULTICELLULAR": "Consisting of, or having, many cells or more than one cell.", | |
| "OPERCULIFEROUS": "Bearing an operculum.", | |
| "SEESAW": "Same as Crossruff.", | |
| "AUTODIDACT": "One who is self-taught; an automath.", | |
| "DISINFECTOR": "One who, or that which, disinfects; an apparatus for applyingdisinfectants.", | |
| "TELESM": "A kind of amulet or magical charm. [Obs.] J. Gregory.", | |
| "GLOSSARIAL": "Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing aglossary.", | |
| "PLACITORY": "Of or pertaining to pleas or pleading, in courts of law. [Obs.]Clayton.", | |
| "THANATOLOGY": "A description, or the doctrine, of death. Dunglison.", | |
| "UNREPRIEVABLE": "Not capable of being reprieved. Shak.", | |
| "ANLACE": "A broad dagger formerly worn at the girdle. [Written alsoanelace.]", | |
| "DELPHINIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, the dolphin; phocenic.Delphinic acid. (Chem.) See Valeric acid, under Valeric. [Obs.]", | |
| "INVICT": "Invincible. [Obs.] Joye.", | |
| "PROBATIONAL": "Probationary.", | |
| "FAIR-MINDED": "Unprejudiced; just; judicial; honest.-- Fair\"*mind`ed*ness, n.", | |
| "BURGLARER": "A burglar. [Obs.]", | |
| "TERMINER": "A determining; as, in oyer and terminer. See Oyer.", | |
| "DIAMOND": "A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used forornament in lines or groups.", | |
| "KNAPSACK": "A case of canvas or leather, for carrying on the back asoldier's necessaries, or the clothing, etc., of a traveler.And each one fills his knapsack or his scrip With some rare thingthat on the field is found. Drayton.", | |
| "CHECKLESS": "That can not be checked or restrained.", | |
| "EPHIALTES": "The nightmare. Brande & C.", | |
| "SCARRY": "Bearing scars or marks of wounds.", | |
| "VENERACEA": "An extensive tribe of bivalve mollusks of which the genus Venusis the type. The shells are usually oval, or somewhat heartshaped,with a conspicuous lunule. See Venus.", | |
| "XENOGENETIC": "Of or pertaining to xenogenesis; as, the xenogenetic origin ofmicrozymes. Huxley.", | |
| "MUDSUCKER": "A woodcock.", | |
| "ELOIN": "See Eloign.", | |
| "CROWDER": "One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. [Obs.] \"Some blindcrowder.\" Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "PITTA": "Any one of a large group of bright-colored clamatorial birdsbelonging to Pitta, and allied genera of the family Pittid\u00e6. Most ofthe species are varied with three or more colors, such as blue,green, crimson, yellow, purple, and black. They are called alsoground thrushes, and Old World ant thrushes; but they are not relatedto the true thrushes.", | |
| "BUMMER": "An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means ofsupport; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]", | |
| "INSALIVATION": "The mixing of the food with the saliva and other secretions ofthe mouth in eating.", | |
| "CLUCK": "To make the noise, or utter the call, of a brooding hen. Ray.", | |
| "TECHINESS": "The quality or state of being techy.", | |
| "MANIGLION": "Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.", | |
| "CHALAZOGAMY": "A process of fecundation in which the pollen tube penetrates tothe embryosac through the tissue of the chalaza, instead of enteringthrough the micropyle. It was originally discovered by Treub inCasuarina, and has since been found to occur regularly in thefamilies Betulace\u00e6 and Juglandace\u00e6. Partial chalazogamy is found inUlmus, the tube here penetrating the nucleus midway between thechalaza and micropyle. --Chal`a*zo*gam\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "NUNCHION": "A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between fullmeals; a luncheon. [Written also noonshun.] Hudibras.", | |
| "ASILUS": "A genus of large and voracious two-winged flies, including thebee killer and robber fly.", | |
| "PORPHYRIZE": "To cause to resemble porphyry; to make spotted in composition,like porphyry.", | |
| "DORSALLY": "On, or toward, the dorsum, or back; on the dorsal side of;dorsad.", | |
| "INTERWISH": "To wish mutually in regarded to each other. [Obs.] Donne.", | |
| "SERAI": "A palace; a seraglio; also, in the East, a place for theaccommodation of travelers; a caravansary, or rest house.", | |
| "PROVEDORE": "A proveditor; a purveyor.Busied with the duties of a provedore. W. Irving.", | |
| "OVATO-ACUMINATE": "Same as Ovate-acuminate.", | |
| "SPASMODICAL": "Same as Spasmodic, a.-- Spas*mod\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "CAPISTRATE": "Hooded; cowled.", | |
| "PRORATE": "To divide or distribute proportionally; to assess pro rata.[U.S.]", | |
| "CINEMATOGRAPHER": "One who exhibits moving pictures or who takes chronophotographsby the cinematograph. -- Cin`e*mat`o*graph\"ic (#), a. --Cin`e*mat`o*graph\"ic*al*ly (#), adv.", | |
| "JERKIN": "A jacket or short coat; a close waistcoat. Shak.", | |
| "SPUME": "Frothy matter raised on liquids by boiling, effervescence, oragitation; froth; foam; scum.Materials dark and crude, Of spiritous and fiery spume. Milton.", | |
| "OPULENCY": "See Opulence. Shak.", | |
| "MELANCHOLIOUS": "Melancholy. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "BUCCINAL": "Shaped or sounding like a trumpet; trumpetlike.", | |
| "OREODON": "A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in theTertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less relatedto the camel, hog, and deer.", | |
| "DOBCHICK": "See Dabchick.", | |
| "HAEMATACHOMETRY": "The measurement of the velocity of the blood.", | |
| "ADENOMA": "A benign tumor of a glandlike structure; morbid enlargement ofa gland. -- Ad`e*nom\"a*tous, a.", | |
| "CHYLIFACTION": "The act or process by which chyle is formed from food in animalbodies; chylification, -- a digestive process.", | |
| "SPINDLE-SHAPED": "Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; --applied chiefly to roots.", | |
| "NINEFOLD": "Nine times repeated.", | |
| "SERASKIER": "A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire;especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war.", | |
| "AUNTROUS": "Adventurous. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GASIFY": "To convert into gas, or an a\u00ebriform fluid, as by theapplication of heat, or by chemical processes.", | |
| "DEPLOREDLY": "Lamentably.", | |
| "LOLIGO": "A genus of cephalopods, including numerous species of squids,common on the coasts of America and Europe. They are much used forfish bait.", | |
| "DISSIMULER": "A dissembler. [Obs.]", | |
| "LOW-STUDDED": "Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house orroom.", | |
| "NOTOBRANCHIATE": "Of or pertaining to the Notobranchiata.", | |
| "DROSSEL": "A slut; a hussy; a drazel. [Obs.] Warner.", | |
| "MARKEE": "See Marquee.", | |
| "SUCCESSARY": "Succession. [Obs.]My peculiar honors, not derived From successary, but purchased withmy blood. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "UNENDLY": "Unending; endless. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "SWINEPIPE": "The European redwing. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "CIRRIFEROUS": "Bearing cirri, as many plants and animals.", | |
| "HOMIFORM": "In human form. [Obs.] Cudworth.", | |
| "ACTINOID": "Having the form of rays; radiated, as an actinia.", | |
| "STOCCADO": "A stab; a thrust with a rapier. Shak.", | |
| "NONNUCLEATED": "Without a nucleus.", | |
| "BURBOLT": "A birdbolt. [Obs.] Ford.", | |
| "PROMISCUOUSNESS": "The quality or state of being promiscuous.", | |
| "HUCKSTERER": "A huckster. Gladstone.Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.", | |
| "CLIVITY": "Inclination; ascent or descent; a gradient. [R.]", | |
| "BREAK-UP": "Disruption; a separation and dispersion of the parts ormembers; as, a break-up of an assembly or dinner party; a break-up ofthe government.", | |
| "EMBOLDEN": "To give boldness or courage to; to encourage. Shak.The self-conceit which emboldened him to undertake this dangerousoffice. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "YESTERYEAR": "The year last past; last year.", | |
| "EXSICCANT": "Having the quality of drying up; causing a drying up.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "BAGREEF": "The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef oftopsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "BEPRAISE": "To praise greatly or extravagantly. Goldsmith.", | |
| "STRAGULUM": "The mantle, or pallium, of a bird.", | |
| "INSANABLY": "In an incurable manner.", | |
| "PROCURABLE": "Capable of being procured; obtainable. Boyle.", | |
| "SPESSARTITE": "A manganesian variety of garnet.", | |
| "TRUNCATION": "The replacement of an edge or solid angle by a plane,especially when the plane is equally inclined to the adjoining faces.", | |
| "KECK": "To heave or to retch, as in an effort to vomit. [R.] Swift.", | |
| "FATBACK": "The menhaden.", | |
| "COULTERNEB": "The puffin.", | |
| "ROUET": "A small wheel formerly fixed to the pan of firelocks fordischarging them. Crabb.", | |
| "STATURE": "The natural height of an animal body; -- generally used of thehuman body.Foreign men of mighty stature came. Dryden.", | |
| "AEROGUN": "A cannon capable of being trained at very high angles for useagainst aircraft.", | |
| "TRONATOR": "An officer in London whose duty was to weigh wool. [Obs.]", | |
| "BULBULE": "A small bulb; a bulblet.", | |
| "DUMB-WAITER": "A framework on which dishes, food, etc., are passed from oneroom or story of a house to another; a lift for dishes, etc.; also, apiece of furniture with movable or revolving shelves.", | |
| "ANTHRACOSIS": "A chronic lung disease, common among coal miners, due to theinhalation of coal dust; -- called also collier's lung and miner'sphthisis.", | |
| "NONANE": "One of a group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffinseries; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in themolecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredientof ordinary kerosene.", | |
| "PULMONIBRANCHIATE": "Same as Pulmonate.", | |
| "SPINNERULE": "One of the numerous small spinning tubes on the spinnerets ofspiders.", | |
| "IRIDIOSCOPE": "A kind of ophthalmoscope.", | |
| "CONGENITAL": "Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one frombirth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, acongenital deformity. See Connate.", | |
| "SKUE": "See Skew.", | |
| "SEA MONK": "See Monk seal, under Monk.", | |
| "PHENACITE": "A glassy colorless mineral occurring in rhombohedral crystals,sometimes used as a gem. It is a silicate of glucina, and receivesits name from its deceptive similarity to quartz.", | |
| "PLUVIOUS": "Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "CLOUDILY": "In a cloudy manner; darkly; obscurely. Dryden.", | |
| "OVERDRINK": "To drink to excess.", | |
| "UNDERVEST": "An undershirt.", | |
| "GIBBSITE": "A hydrate of alumina.", | |
| "AUDITA QUERELA": "A writ which lies for a party against whom judgment isrecovered, but to whom good matter of discharge has subsequentlyaccrued which could not have been availed of to prevent suchjudgment. Wharton.", | |
| "SHAMANISM": "The type of religion which once prevalied among all the Ural-Altaic peoples (Tungusic, Mongol, and Turkish), and which stillsurvives in various parts of Northern Asia. The Shaman, or wizardpriest, deals with good as well as with evil spirits, especially thegood spirits of ancestors. Encyc. Brit.", | |
| "TRIBUNE": "An officer or magistrate chosen by the people, to protect themfrom the oppression of the patricians, or nobles, and to defend theirliberties against any attempts that might be made upon them by thesenate and consuls.", | |
| "LIGHTWOOD": "Pine wood abounding in pitch, used for torches in the SouthernUnited States; pine knots, dry sticks, and the like, for kindling afire quickly or making a blaze.", | |
| "OVERGREATNESS": "Excessive greatness.", | |
| "PUDDLE-BALL": "The lump of pasty wrought iron as taken from the puddlingfurnace to be hammered or rolled.", | |
| "BEET RADISH": "Same as Beetrave.", | |
| "MOVABLENESS": "The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibilityof motion.", | |
| "CAMPANILE": "A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.Many of the campaniles od Italy are lofty and magnificent atructures.Swift.", | |
| "CONDESCENT": "An act of condescension. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "MENDICANCY": "The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.", | |
| "BRAVINGLY": "In a defiant manner.", | |
| "GREENING": "A greenish apple, of several varieties, among which the RhodeIsland greening is the best known for its fine-grained acid flesh andits excellent keeping quality.", | |
| "POLYTHALAMIA": "A division of Foraminifera including those having amanychambered shell.", | |
| "GRANTABLE": "Capable of being granted.", | |
| "DECLAMATOR": "A declaimer. [R.] Sir T. Elyot.", | |
| "JUDGER": "One who judges. Sir K. Digby.", | |
| "PAIR": "In a mechanism, two elements, or bodies, which are so appliedto each other as to mutually constrain relative motion.", | |
| "INTUITIONAL": "Pertaining to, or derived from, intuition; characterized byintuition; perceived by intuition; intuitive.", | |
| "GREENBACKER": "One of those who supported greenback or paper money, andopposed the resumption of specie payments. [Colloq. U. S.]", | |
| "ARTERIOGRAPHY": "A systematic description of the arteries.", | |
| "HYRST": "A wood. See Hurst.", | |
| "MNEMONICS": "The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended toassist the memory; artificial memory.", | |
| "INCOGNITO": "Without being known; in disguise; in an assumed character, orunder an assumed title; -- said esp. of great personages whosometimes adopt a disguise or an assumed character in order to avoidnotice.'T was long ago Since gods come down incognito. Prior.The prince royal of Persia came thither incognito. Tatler.", | |
| "SMOCKLESS": "Wanting a smock. Chaucer.", | |
| "ELEUTHERO-PETALOUS": "Having the petals free, that is, entirely separate from eachother; -- said of both plant and flower.", | |
| "APOPHYSIS": "A marked prominence or process on any part of a bone.", | |
| "SULLEVATE": "To rouse; to excite. [Obs.] Daniel.", | |
| "CROSS-FERTILIZE": "To fertilize, as the stigmas of a flower or plant, with thepollen from another individual of the same species.", | |
| "MOUILLATION": "The act of uttering the sound of a mouill\u00e9 letter.", | |
| "WARMFUL": "Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmfulgarment. [R.] Chapman.", | |
| "FRITINANCY": "A chirping or creaking, as of a cricket. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "MASTIFF": "A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There arevarious strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic ofdifferent countries. Mastiff bat (Zo\u00f6l.) , any bat of the genusMolossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles that of amastiff.", | |
| "CERISE": "Cherry-colored; a light bright red; --- applied to textilefabrics, especially silk.", | |
| "PSYCHOMANCY": "Necromancy.", | |
| "KEIR": "See Kier.", | |
| "AUSTRO-HUNGARIAN": "Of or pertaining to the monarchy composed of Austria andHungary.", | |
| "PATACA": "The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon. [Obs.]", | |
| "STRIATURE": "A stria.", | |
| "FOURDRINIER": "A machine used in making paper; -- so named from an earlyinventor of improvements in this class of machinery.", | |
| "SEPHARDIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Jews (the Sephardim,also called Spanish or Portuguese Jews) descended from Jewishfamilies driven from Spain by the Inquisition.", | |
| "QUINZE": "A game at cards in which the object is to make fifteen points.", | |
| "NUMERIST": "One who deals in numbers. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ULTERIOR": "Ulterior side or part. [R.] Coleridge.", | |
| "RHOMBOIDAL": "Having, or approaching, the shape of a rhomboid.", | |
| "TRACHELOBRANCHIATE": "Having the gills situated upon the neck; -- said of certainmollusks.", | |
| "PROSPER": "To favor; to render successful. \"Prosper thou our handiwork.\"Bk. of Common Prayer.All things concur toprosper our design. Dryden.", | |
| "ELDERLY": "Somewhat old; advanced beyond middle age; bordering on old age;as, elderly people.", | |
| "AXMINSTER": "An Axminster carpet, an imitation Turkey carpet, noted for itsthick and soft pile; -- so called from Axminster, Eng.", | |
| "TRIUMPHANTLY": "In a triumphant manner.", | |
| "SCOMFIT": "Discomfit. [Obs.]", | |
| "ODONTALGIC": "Of or pertaining to odontalgia.-- n.", | |
| "PUCKA": "Good of its kind; -- variously used as implying substantial,real, fixed, sure, etc., and specif., of buildings, made of brick andmortar. [India]", | |
| "SACCULATED": "Furnished with little sacs.", | |
| "STOLA": "A long garment, descending to the ankles, worn by Roman women.The stola was not allowed to be worn by courtesans, or by women whohad been divorced from their husbands. Fairholt.", | |
| "STREPSIPTEROUS": "Of or pertaining to Strepsiptera.", | |
| "OLIGARCHAL": "Oligarchic. Glover.", | |
| "SEA FIGHT": "An engagement between ships at sea; a naval battle.", | |
| "UNIVALVIA": "Same as Gastropoda.", | |
| "GLEW": "See Glue. [Obs.]", | |
| "IRRIGATION": "The act or process of irrigating, or the state of beingirrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow overlands, for nourishing plants.", | |
| "HOMINY": "Maize hulled and broken, and prepared for food by being boiledin water. [U.S.] [Written also homony.]", | |
| "TITILLATIVE": "Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.", | |
| "PERIPHERAL": "External; away from the center; as, the peripheral portion ofthe nervous system.", | |
| "ESCULIC": "Pertaining to, or obtained from, the horse-chestnut; as,esculic acid.", | |
| "JUBILANT": "Uttering songs of triumph; shouting with joy; triumphant;exulting. \"The jubilant age.\" Coleridge.While the bright pomp ascended jubilant. Milton.", | |
| "SPRENT": "p. p. of Sprenge. Sprinkled.All the ground with purple blood was sprent. Spenser.", | |
| "COACHEE": "A coachman [Slang]", | |
| "LIVOR": "Malignity. [P.] Burton.", | |
| "HEADPAN": "The brainpan. [Obs.]", | |
| "DIAGEOTROPIC": "Relating to, or exhibiting, diageotropism.", | |
| "NUDUM PACTUM": "A bare, naked contract, without any consideration. Tomlins.", | |
| "DISDAINOUS": "Disdainful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.", | |
| "SUBERIC": "Of or pertaining to cork; specifically, designating an acid, C", | |
| "DISROOT": "To tear up the roots of, or by the roots; hence, to tear from afoundation; to uproot.A piece of ground disrooted from its situation by subterraneousinundations. Goldsmith.", | |
| "EMPHYTEUTICARY": "One who holds lands by emphyteusis.", | |
| "LEMURIA": "A hypothetical land, or continent, supposed by some to haveexisted formerly in the Indian Ocean, of which Madagascar is aremnant. Herschel.", | |
| "BRAHMA": "The One First Cause; also, one of the triad of Hindoo gods. Thetriad consists of Brahma, the Creator, Vishnu, the Preserver, andSiva, the Destroyer.", | |
| "DESICCATOR": "A short glass jar fitted with an air-tight cover, andcontaining some desiccating agent, as sulphuric acid or calciumchloride, above which is suspended the material to be dried, orpreserved from moisture.", | |
| "IMMIXED": "Unmixed. [Obs.]How pure and immixed the design is. Boyle.", | |
| "NOINT": "To anoint. [Obs.] Sir T. North.", | |
| "METALLOCHROMY": "The art or process of coloring metals.", | |
| "UNSTING": "To disarm of a sting; to remove the sting of. [R.] \"Elegantdissertations on virtue and vice . . . will not unsting calamity.\" J.M. Mason.", | |
| "SIMILITER": "The technical name of the form by which either party, inpleading, accepts the issue tendered by his opponent; -- calledsometimes a joinder in issue.", | |
| "SWINGDEVIL": "The European swift. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "SATINETTE": "One of a breed of fancy frilled pigeons allied to the owls andturbits, having the body white, the shoulders tricolored, and thetail bluish black with a large white spot on each feather.", | |
| "UNBIT": "To remove the turns of (a rope or cable) from the bits; as, tounbit a cable. Totten.", | |
| "STRUCTURELESS": "Without a definite structure, or arrangement of parts; withoutorganization; devoid of cells; homogeneous; as, a structurelessmembrane.", | |
| "CEPHALOUS": "Having a head; -- applied chiefly to the Cephalata, a divisionof mollusks.", | |
| "OSTEOSARCOMA": "A tumor having the structure of a sacroma in which there is adeposit of bone; sarcoma connected with bone.", | |
| "COUCHANT": "Lying down with the head raised, which distinguishes theposture of couchant from that of dormant, or sleeping; -- said of alion or other beast. Couchant and levant (Law), rising up and lyingdown; -- said of beasts, and indicating that they have been longenough on land, not belonging to their owner, to lie down and rise upto feed, -- such time being held to include a day and night at theleast. Blackstone.", | |
| "WALLOP": "To move quickly, but with great effort; to gallop. [Prov. Eng.& Scot.]", | |
| "NATRON": "Native sodium carbonate. [Written also anatron.]", | |
| "PASQUILER": "A lampooner. [R.] Burton.", | |
| "MENILITE": "See Opal.", | |
| "SAMARRA": "See Simar.", | |
| "SKILLING": "A bay of a barn; also, a slight addition to a cottage. [Prov.Eng.]", | |
| "JERBOA": "Any small jumping rodent of the genus Dipus, esp. D. \u00c6gyptius,which is common in Egypt and the adjacent countries. The jerboas havevery long hind legs and a long tail. [Written also gerboa.]", | |
| "SPEEDY": "Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid inmotion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.I will wish her speedy strength. Shak.Darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy ould outfly. Dryden.", | |
| "ROCKET": "To rise straight up; said of birds; usually in the presentparticiple or as an adjective. [Eng.]An old cock pheasant came rocketing over me. H. R. Haggard.", | |
| "MAD": "of Made. Chaucer.", | |
| "TCHAWYTCHA": "The quinnat salmon. [Local, U.S.]", | |
| "UMBELLULE": "An umbellet.", | |
| "PATENT-HAMMERED": "Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head ofwhich consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.", | |
| "UNITEDLY": "In an united manner. Dryden.", | |
| "OVERCARKING": "Too anxious; too full of care. [Archaic] Fuller.", | |
| "SAFFRON": "A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowerswith large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.", | |
| "EPISYLLOGISM": "A syllogism which assumes as one of its premises a propositionwhich was the conclusion of a preceding syllogism, called, inrelation to this, the prosyllogism.", | |
| "PEDANTY": "An assembly or clique of pedants. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "HEAM": "The afterbirth or secundines of a beast.", | |
| "OTTAVA RIMA": "A stanza of eight lines of heroic verse, with three rhymes, thefirst six lines rhyming alternately and the last two forming acouplet. It was used by Byron in \"Don Juan,\" by Keats in \"Isabella,\"by Shelley in \"The Witch of Atlas,\" etc.", | |
| "SURREBUTER": "The reply of a plaintiff to a defendant's rebutter.", | |
| "INEXPRESSIBLE": "Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable;unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief orpleasure. \"Inexpressible grandeur.\" Blair.In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.", | |
| "CATECHETICS": "The science or practice of instructing by questions andanswers.", | |
| "GRASPLESS": "Without a grasp; relaxed.From my graspless hand Drop friendship's precious pearls. Coleridge.", | |
| "MURMUR": "To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds;as, to murmur tales. Shak.The people murmured such things concerning him. John vii. 32.", | |
| "BELLOWS": "An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternateexpansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws inair through a valve and expels it through a tube for variouspurposes, as blowing fires, ventilating mines, or filling the pipesof an organ with wind. Bellows camera, in photography, a form ofcamera, which can be drawn out like an accordion or bellows.-- Hydrostatic bellows. See Hydrostatic.-- A pair of bellows, the ordinary household instrument for blowingfires, consisting of two nearly heart-shaped boards with handles,connected by leather, and having a valve and tube.", | |
| "ROSICRUCIAN": "One who, in the 17th century and the early part of the 18th,claimed to belong to a secret society of philosophers deeply versedin the secrets of nature, -- the alleged society having existed, itwas stated, several hundred years.", | |
| "SCRANNY": "Thin; lean; meager; scrawny; scrannel. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]", | |
| "YOLDEN": "Yielded.", | |
| "BESMEAR": "To smear with any viscous, glutinous matter; to bedaub; tosoil.Besmeared with precious balm. Spenser.", | |
| "PERITRACHEAL": "Surrounding the trache\u00e6.", | |
| "SPINK": "The chaffinch.", | |
| "NASOPHARYNGEAL": "Of or pertaining to both throat and nose; as, a nasopharyngealpolypus.", | |
| "NISUS": "A striving; an effort; a conatus.A nisus or energizing towards a presented object. Hickok.", | |
| "ANTIQUATED": "Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned;as, an antiquated law. \"Antiquated words.\" Dryden.Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant wasdenominated. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "UNLUCKILY": "In an unlucky manner.", | |
| "DASHING": "Bold; spirited; showy.The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T.Campbell.", | |
| "ENGINEERING": "Originally, the art of managing engines; in its modern andextended sense, the art and science by which the mechanicalproperties of matter are made useful to man in structures andmachines; the occupation and work of an engineer.", | |
| "LIVRAISON": "A part of a book or literary composition printed and deliveredby itself; a number; a part.", | |
| "RAMULOUS": "Ramulose.", | |
| "LARCENOUS": "Having the character of larceny; as, a larcenous act;committing larceny. \"The larcenous and burglarious world.\" SydneySmith.-- Lar\"ce*nous*ly, adv.", | |
| "CONCEIVABLE": "Capable of being conceived, imagined, or understood. \"Anyconceivable weight.\" Bp. Wilkins.It is not conceivable that it should be indeed that very person whoseshape and voice it assumed. Atterbury.-- Con*ceiv\"a*ble*ness, n.-- Con*ceiv\"a*bly, adv.", | |
| "CERAUNICS": "That branch of physics which treats of heat and electricity. R.Park.", | |
| "LAAS": "A lace. See Lace. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "QUERENT": "A complainant; a plaintiff.", | |
| "DEFER": "To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay theexecution of; to delay; to withhold.Defer the spoil of the city until night. Shak.God . . . will not long defer To vindicate the glory of his name.Milton.", | |
| "GOEN": "p. p. of Go. [Obs.]", | |
| "SUFFICIENCE": "Sufficiently. [Obs.]", | |
| "MIMETENE": "See Mimetite.", | |
| "PRETEXT": "Ostensible reason or motive assigned or assumed as a color orcover for the real reason or motive; pretense; disguise.They suck the blood of those they depend on, under a pretext ofservice and kindness. L'Estrange.With how much or how little pretext of reason. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "ACARUS": "A genus including many species of small mites.", | |
| "REMEDIABLE": "Capable of being remedied or cured.-- Re*me\"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me\"di*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "DISLADE": "To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.", | |
| "OSTEOGEN": "The soft tissue, or substance, which, in developing bone,ultimately undergoes ossification.", | |
| "PAPIER-MACHE": "A hard and strong substance made of a pulp from paper, mixedwith sise or glue, etc. It is formed into various articles, usuallyby means of molds.", | |
| "PICKEERER": "One who pickeers. [Obs.]", | |
| "CUBATORY": "Lying down; recumbent. [R.]", | |
| "LABOREDLY": "In a labored manner; with labor.", | |
| "PANDARIZE": "To pander. [Obs.]", | |
| "NURSLING": "One who, or that which, is nursed; an infant; a fondling.I was his nursling once, and choice delight. Milton.", | |
| "PLEROME": "The central column of parenchyma in a growing stem or root.", | |
| "CINQUE-PACE": "A lively dance (called also galliard), the steps of which wereregulated by the number five. [Obs.] Nares. Shak.", | |
| "ABOLITIONIST": "A person who favors the abolition of any institution,especially negro slavery.", | |
| "CONTORTUPLICATE": "Plaited lengthwise and twisted in addition, as the bud of themorning-glory. Gray.", | |
| "GUTTLE": "To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; togormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange. Dryden.", | |
| "HORDOCK": "An unidentified plant mentioned by Shakespeare, perhapsequivalent to burdock.", | |
| "STUPE": "Cloth or flax dipped in warm water or medicaments and appliedto a hurt or sore.", | |
| "OUTSPAN": "To unyoke or disengage, as oxen from a wagon. [S. Africa]", | |
| "SELF-INDIGNATION": "Indignation at one's own character or actions. Baxter.", | |
| "PARASANG": "A Persian measure of length, which, according to Herodotus andXenophon, was thirty stadia, or somewhat more than three and a halfmiles. The measure varied in different times and places, and, as nowused, is estimated at from three and a half to four English miles.", | |
| "LIONESS": "A female lion.", | |
| "JAYHAWKER": "A name given to a free-booting, unenlisted, armed man orguerrilla.", | |
| "VASODENTINE": "A modified form of dentine, which is permeated by bloodcapillaries; vascular dentine.", | |
| "MALOBSERVATION": "Erroneous observation. J. S Mill.", | |
| "INVEIGH": "To declaim or rail (against some person or thing); to uttercensorious and bitter language; to attack with harsh criticism orreproach, either spoken or written; to use invectives; -- withagainst; as, to inveigh against character, conduct, manners, customs,morals, a law, an abuse.All men inveighed against him; all men, except court vassals, opposedhim. Milton.The artificial life against which we inveighed. Hawthorne.", | |
| "NONCOINCIDENCE": "Lack of coincidence.", | |
| "MALLEABLE": "Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer,or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron,iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under thehammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.-- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and mademalleable by heating then for several days in the presence of somesubstance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of itscarbon.", | |
| "COMMUTABLE": "Capable of being commuted or interchanged.The predicate and subject are not commutable. Whately.", | |
| "EFFECTIVELY": "With effect; powerfully; completely; thoroughly.", | |
| "GRAVID": "Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, agravid uterus; gravid piety. \" His gravid associate.\" Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "TUPELO": "A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) of the Dogwood family,having brilliant, glossy foliage and acid red berries. The wood iscrossgrained and very difficult to split. Called also black gum, sourgum, and pepperidge. Largo tupelo, or Tupelo gum (Bot.), an Americantree (Nyssa uniflora) with softer wood than the tupelo.-- Sour tupelo (Bot.), the Ogeechee lime.", | |
| "EAVES": "The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, whichoverhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.", | |
| "GENETICAL": "Pertaining to, concerned with, or determined by, the genesis ofanything, or its natural mode of production or development.This historical, genetical method of viewing prior systems ofphilosophy. Hare.", | |
| "HEPTAPHYLLOUS": "Having seven leaves.", | |
| "BIFLAGELLATE": "Having two long, narrow, whiplike appendages.", | |
| "ENDURABLY": "In an endurable manner.", | |
| "REMBLE": "To remove. [Prov.Eng.] Grose. Tennyson.", | |
| "MALIGNIFY": "To make malign or malignant. [R.] \"A strong faith malignified.\"Southey.", | |
| "DISCOURTEOUS": "Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners;uncourteous.-- Dis*cour\"te*ous*ly, adv.-- Dis*cour\"te*ous*ness, n.", | |
| "RECURVATION": "The act of recurving, or the state of being recurved; a bendingor flexure backward.", | |
| "PHOTOTONUS": "A motile condition in plants resulting from exposure to light.-- Pho`to*ton\"ic, a.", | |
| "PAROXYSM": "The fit, attack, or exacerbation, of a disease that occurs atintervals, or has decided remissions or intermissions. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "-DERM": "A suffix or terminal formative, much used in anatomical terms,and signifying skin, integument, covering; as, blastoderm, ectoderm,etc.", | |
| "PROSENCHYMA": "A general term applied to the tissues formed of elongatedcells, especially those with pointed or oblique extremities, as theprincipal cells of ordinary wood.", | |
| "EX PARTE": "Upon or from one side only; one-sided; partial; as, an ex partestatement. Ex parte application, one made without notice oropportunity to oppose.-- Ex parte council, one that assembles at the request of only oneof the parties in dispute.-- Ex parte hearing or evidence (Law), that which is had or taken byone side or party in the absence of the other. Hearings before grandjuries, and affidavits, are ex parte. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.", | |
| "TRANSACTION": "An adjustment of a dispute between parties by mutual agreement.Transaction of a society, the published record of what it has done oraccomplished.", | |
| "PORTMANTEAU": "A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearingapparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.", | |
| "PICROMEL": "A colorless viscous substance having a bitter-sweet taste.", | |
| "CONCERTMEISTER": "The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra;the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master.", | |
| "PRESPHENOIDAL": "Of or pertaining to the presphenoid bone; presphenoid.", | |
| "CEREBRALISM": "The doctrine or theory that psychical phenomena are functionsor products of the brain only.", | |
| "LOOF": "The spongelike fibers of the fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant(Luffa \u00c6gyptiaca); called also vegetable sponge.", | |
| "THALLIOUS": "See Thallous.", | |
| "DIVINING": "That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly ofwitch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend todiscover water or metals under ground.", | |
| "INTERCIDENT": "Falling or coming between; happening accidentally. [Obs.]Boyle.", | |
| "HETEROGENESIS": "Spontaneous generation, so called.", | |
| "IMITATOR": "One who imitates.", | |
| "EQUIVOCALLY": "In an equivocal manner.", | |
| "STELLIFY": "To turn into a star; to cause to appear like a star; to placeamong the stars, or in heaven. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "WORST": "Bad, evil, or pernicious, in the highest degree, whether in aphysical or moral sense. See Worse. \"Heard so oft in worst extremes.\"Milton.I have a wife, the worst that may be. Chaucer.If thou hadst not been born the worst of men, Thou hadst been a knaveand flatterer. Shak.", | |
| "SUMMERLINESS": "The quality or state of being like summer. [R.] Fuller.", | |
| "CATTY": "An East Indian Weight of 11\/3 pounds.", | |
| "MONEY": "To supply with money. [Obs.]", | |
| "ORTHOXYLENE": "That variety of xylene in which the two methyl groups are inthe ortho position; a colorless, liquid, combustible hydrocarbonresembling benzene.", | |
| "SIDERATED": "Planet-struck; blasted. [Obs.]", | |
| "HYGROMETRY": "That branch of physics which relates to the determination ofthe humidity of bodies, particularly of the atmosphere, with thetheory and use of the instruments constructed for this purpose.", | |
| "REFOUND": "imp. & p. p. of Refind, v. t.", | |
| "WINDFLOWER": "The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to openonly when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.", | |
| "TOBACCO": "An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family,much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it isnarcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiarsmell, and an acrid taste.", | |
| "VERTICILLUS": "A whorl; a verticil.", | |
| "MADAM": "A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of addressgiven to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- muchused in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. Thecorresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.", | |
| "MALACOPTERYGIOUS": "Belonging to the Malacopterygii.", | |
| "CASTRAMETATION": "The art or act of encamping; the making or laying out of acamp.", | |
| "SPELTER": "Zinc; -- especially so called in commerce and arts.", | |
| "BEEBREAD": "A brown, bitter substance found in some of the cells ofhoneycomb. It is made chiefly from the pollen of flowers, which iscollected by bees as food for their young.", | |
| "COMPENDIUM": "A brief compilation or composition, containing the principalheads, or general principles, of a larger work or system; anabridgment; an epitome; a compend; a condensed summary.A short system or compendium of a sience. I. Watts.", | |
| "GOBSTICK": "A stick or device for removing the hook from a fish's gullet.", | |
| "WHITE SLAVER": "A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women forunwilling prostitution.", | |
| "DIRECT ACTION": "See Syndicalism, below.", | |
| "OVERBATTLE": "Excessively fertile; bearing rank or noxious growths. [Obs.]\"Overbattle grounds.\" Hooker.", | |
| "RUDDERHOLE": "The hole in the deck through which the rudderpost passes.", | |
| "SUFFOCATIVE": "Tending or able to choke or stifle. \"Suffocative catarrhs.\"Arbuthnot.", | |
| "IDENTICALLY": "In an identical manner; with respect to identity. \"Identicallythe same.\" Bp. Warburton. \"Identically different.\" Ross.", | |
| "COMPLICATION": "A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances orconditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but notnecessarily connected with it.", | |
| "SQUEAK": "A sharp, shrill, disagreeable sound suddenly utered, either ofthe human voice or of any animal or instrument, such as is made bycarriage wheels when dry, by the soles of leather shoes, or by a pipeor reed.", | |
| "CHORDAL": "Of or pertaining to a chord.", | |
| "DEFINITION": "An exact enunciation of the constituents which make up thelogical essence.", | |
| "TACKER": "One who tacks.", | |
| "SURETYSHIP": "The state of being surety; the obligation of a person to answerfor the debt, default, or miscarriage of another. Bouvier.", | |
| "TARO": "A name for several aroid plants (Colocasia antiquorum, var.esculenta, Colocasia macrorhiza, etc.), and their rootstocks. Theyhave large ovate-sagittate leaves and large fleshy rootstocks, whichare cooked and used for food in tropical countries.", | |
| "UNDERMASTED": "Having masts smaller than the usual dimension; -- said ofvessels. Totten.", | |
| "OPTIMIST": "One who holds the opinion that all events are ordered for thebest.", | |
| "ATHANOR": "A digesting furnace, formerly used by alchemists. It was soconstructed as to maintain uniform and durable heat. Chambers.", | |
| "DIVINEMENT": "Divination. [Obs.]", | |
| "EXTERRITORIAL": "Beyond the territorial limits; foreign to, or exempt from, theterritorial jurisdiction.-- Ex*ter`ri*to\"ri*al*ly(#),adv.", | |
| "ANTIPHLOGISTIC": "Opposed to the doctrine of phlogiston.", | |
| "GLOBULARNESS": "Sphericity; globosity.", | |
| "FRAZZLE": "To fray; to wear or pull into tatters or tag ends; to tatter; --used literally and figuratively. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]", | |
| "BRIEFLESS": "Having no brief; without clients; as, a briefless barrister.", | |
| "RIPPLE-MARKED": "HAving ripple marks.", | |
| "DYNAMOGRAPH": "A dynamometer to which is attached a device for automaticallyregistering muscular power.", | |
| "BARTERER": "One who barters.", | |
| "INTERLACEMENT": "The act of interlacing, or the state of being interlaced; also,that which is interlaced.", | |
| "SURCHARGER": "One who surcharges.", | |
| "INTRAVENTRICULAR": "Within or between ventricles.", | |
| "YPSILIFORM": "Resembling the", | |
| "BANDORE": "A musical stringed instrument, similar in form to a guitar; apandore.", | |
| "NIGGARDSHIP": "Niggardliness. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.", | |
| "CYMOID": "Having the form of a cyme.", | |
| "SPARTAN": "of or pertaining to Sparta, especially to ancient Sparta;hence, hardy; undaunted; as, Spartan souls; Spartan bravey.-- n.", | |
| "TIMEFUL": "Seasonable; timely; sufficiently early. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.", | |
| "EXPANSIBILITY": "The capacity of being expanded; as, the expansibility of air.", | |
| "VIRGINAL": "Of or pertaining to a virgin; becoming a virgin; maidenly.\"Chastity and honor virginal.\" Spenser. Virginal generation (Biol.),parthenogenesis.-- Virginal membrane (Anat.), the hymen.", | |
| "CEROTENE": "A white waxy solid obtained from Chinese wax, and by thedistillation of cerotin.", | |
| "UNSIGHTED": "Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with asight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsightedrife or cannon.", | |
| "PEDOTROPHY": "The art of nourishing children properly.", | |
| "REFURNISHMENT": "The act of refurnishing, or state of being refurnished.The refurnishment was in a style richer than before. L. Wallace.", | |
| "PAPAVERACEOUS": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants(Papaverace\u00e6) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodrootare well-known examples.", | |
| "ORIGIN": "The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixedduring contraction; -- in contradistinction to insertion. Origin ofco\u00f6rdinate axes (Math.), the point where the axes intersect. See Noteunder Ordinate.", | |
| "HENHOUSE": "A house or shelter for fowls.", | |
| "NORSE": "Of or pertaining to ancient Scandinavia, or to the languagespoken by its inhabitants.", | |
| "VERSANT": "Familiar; conversant. [R.]Men not versant with courts of justice. Sydney Smith.", | |
| "CHICKAREE": "The American red squirrel (Sciurus Hudsonius); -- so calledfrom its cry.", | |
| "OYLET": "Same as Oillet.", | |
| "WONT": "Using or doing customarily; accustomed; habituated; used. \"Ashe was wont to go.\" Chaucer.If the ox were wont to push with his horn. Ex. xxi. 29.", | |
| "JAWN": "See Yawn. [Obs.] Marston.", | |
| "CORPORALSHIP": "A corporal's office.", | |
| "NIZAM": "The title of the native sovereigns of Hyderabad, in India,since 1719.", | |
| "RIXDALER": "A Dutch silver coin, worth about $1.00.", | |
| "INTEXTINE": "A thin membrane existing in the pollen grains of some plants,and situated between the extine and the intine, as in .", | |
| "CIZE": "Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.", | |
| "PLATNESS": "Flatness. [Obs.] Palsgrave.", | |
| "NULLIBIETY": "The state or condition of being nowhere. [Obs.]", | |
| "LOWER": "Compar. of Low, a.", | |
| "REJECTANEOUS": "Not chosen orr received; rejected. [Obs.] \"Profane,rejectaneous, and reprobate people.\" Barrow.", | |
| "WATER MEADOW": "A meadow, or piece of low, flat land, capable of being kept ina state of fertility by being overflowed with water from someadjoining river or stream.", | |
| "SPHALERITE": "Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena,etc. See Blende (a).", | |
| "CORONER": "An officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire,with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden ormysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the bodyand at the place where the death occurred. [In England formerly alsowritten and pronounced crowner.]", | |
| "OREOSELIN": "A white crystalline substance which is obtained indirectly fromthe root of an umbelliferous plant (Imperatoria Oreoselinum), andyields resorcin on decomposition.", | |
| "TIGERISH": "Like a tiger; tigrish.", | |
| "DROSOMETER": "An instrument for measuring the quantity of dew on the surfaceof a body in the open air. It consists of a balance, having a plateat one end to receive the dew, and at the other a weight protectedfrom the deposit of dew.", | |
| "LUSTRICAL": "Pertaining to, or used for, purification.", | |
| "CULINARILY": "In the manner of a kitchen; in connection with a kitchen orcooking.", | |
| "WOLFFIAN": "Discovered, or first described, by Caspar Friedrich Wolff(1733-1794), the founder of modern embryology. Wolffian body, themesonephros.-- Wolffian duct, the duct from the Wolffian body.", | |
| "RE-DEMPTION": "The act of redeeming, or the state of being redeemed;repurchase; ransom; release; rescue; deliverance; as, the redemptionof prisoners taken in war; the redemption of a ship and cargo.Specifically:(a) (Law) The liberation of an estate from a mortgage, or the takingback of property mortgaged, upon performance of the terms orconditions on which it was conveyed; also, the right of redeeming andre\u00ebntering upon an estate mortgaged. See Equity of redemption, underEquity.(b) (Com.) Performance of the obligation stated in a note, bill,bond, or other evidence of debt, by making payment to the holder.(c) (Theol.) The procuring of God's favor by the sufferings and deathof Christ; the ransom or deliverance of sinners from the bondage ofsin and the penalties of God's violated law.In whom we have redemption through his blood. Eph. i. 7.", | |
| "AMPHIBOLOGICAL": "Of doubtful meaning; ambiguous. \"Amphibological expressions.\"Jer. Taylor.-- Am*phib`o*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "HAIK": "A large piece of woolen or cotton cloth worn by Arabs as anouter garment. [Written also hyke.] Heyse.", | |
| "MICROCRYSTALLINE": "Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting offine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics ismicrocrystalline.", | |
| "CRIMPY": "Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool ofthe Saxony sheep.", | |
| "TURRIBANT": "A turban. [Obs.]With hundred turrets like a turribant. Spenser.", | |
| "DEIS": "See Dais.", | |
| "DECLINE": "To inflect, or rehearse in order the changes of grammaticalform of; as, to decline a noun or an adjective.", | |
| "GALLOPER": "A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, thegun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, alight gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to Britishinfantry regiments.", | |
| "SNEB": "To reprimand; to sneap. [Obs.] \"Scold and sneb the good oak.\"Spenser.", | |
| "MAMMILLOID": "Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.", | |
| "ALNAGER": "A measure by the ell; formerly a sworn officer in England,whose duty was to inspect act measure woolen cloth, and fix upon it aseal.", | |
| "PONTIFICALLY": "In a pontifical manner.", | |
| "MOINEAU": "A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlongcurtain.", | |
| "BOUGET": "A charge representing a leather vessel for carrying water; --also called water bouget.", | |
| "GARGARIZE": "To gargle; to rinse or wash, as the mouth and throat. [Obs.]Bacon.", | |
| "HYEN": "A hyena. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "INSOLUBLENESS": "The quality or state of being insoluble; insolubility. Boyle.", | |
| "INDILATORY": "Not dilatory. [Obs.]", | |
| "MEASLY": "Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.", | |
| "SURREJOINDER": "The answer of a plaintiff to a defendant's rejoinder.", | |
| "DECOLORATION": "The removal or absence of color. Ferrand.", | |
| "LOANABLE": "Such as can be lent; available for lending; as, loanable funds;-- used mostly in financial business and writings.", | |
| "ELISOR": "An elector or chooser; one of two persons appointed by a courtto return a jury or serve a writ when the sheriff and the coronersare disqualified.", | |
| "BULAU": "An East Indian insectivorous mammal (Gymnura Rafflesii),somewhat like a rat in appearance, but allied to the hedgehog.", | |
| "YELLOWFISH": "A rock trout (Pleurogrammus monopterygius) found on the coastof Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.", | |
| "MASKED": "Same as Personate.", | |
| "GALL": "The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder,beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, orbile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.", | |
| "TRACHEARY": "Tracheal; breathing by means of trache\u00e6.-- n. (Zo\u00f6l.)", | |
| "ILLUMINOUS": "Bright; clear. [R.] H. Taylor.", | |
| "MISTIME": "To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.", | |
| "CONSUMEDLY": "Excessively. [Low]He's so consumedly pround of it. Thackeray.", | |
| "ENDEARMENT": "The act of endearing or the state of being endeared; also, thatwhich manifests, excites, or increases, affection. \"The greatendearments of prudent and temperate speech.\" Jer. Taylor.Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.", | |
| "TIRONIAN": "Of or pertaining to Tiro, or a system of shorthand said to havebeen introduced by him into ancient Rome.", | |
| "FILTHY": "Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty;polluted; foul; impure; obscene. \"In the filthy-mantled pool.\" Shak.He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11.", | |
| "CALLID": "Characterized by cunning or shrewdness; crafty. [R.]", | |
| "EAR-SHELL": "A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis; --called also sea-ear. See Abalone.", | |
| "TITTLEBAT": "The three-spined stickleback. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "OZONOUS": "Pertaining to or containing, ozone.", | |
| "SWUM": "imp. & p. p. of Swim.", | |
| "DEPLETION": "the act or process of diminishing the quantity of fluid in thevessels by bloodletting or otherwise; also excessive evacuation, asin severe diarrhea.", | |
| "TYRANNIZE": "To act the tyrant; to exercise arbitrary power; to rule withunjust and oppressive severity; to exercise power others notpermitted by law or required by justice, or with a severity notnecessary to the ends of justice and government; as, a prince willoften tyrannize over his subjects; masters sometimes tyrannize overtheir servants or apprentices.", | |
| "SYSTALTIC": "Capable of, or taking place by, alternate contraction anddilatation; as, the systaltic action of the heart.", | |
| "PORIFERA": "A grand division of the Invertebrata, including the sponges; --called also Spongi\u00e6, Spongida, and Spongiozoa. The principaldivisions are Calcispongi\u00e6, Keratosa or Fibrospongi\u00e6, and Silicea.", | |
| "MONTROSS": "See Matross. [Obs.]", | |
| "COOK": "To make the noise of the cuckoo. [Obs. or R.]Constant cuckoos cook on every side. The Silkworms (1599).", | |
| "RECAPITULATOR": "One who recapitulates.", | |
| "GUANIDINE": "A strongly alkaline base, CN3H5, formed by the oxidation ofguanin, and also obtained combined with methyl in the decompositionof creatin. Boiled with dilute sulphuric acid, it yields urea andammonia.", | |
| "TULIP-EARED": "Having erect, pointed ears; prick-eared; -- said of certaindogs.", | |
| "TONGUE-SHELL": "Any species of Lingula.", | |
| "DIFFUSIBILITY": "The quality of being diffusible; capability of being poured orspread out.", | |
| "INCONSIDERATENESS": "The quality or state of being inconsiderate. Tillotson.", | |
| "OUTBUILDING": "A building separate from, and subordinate to, the main house;an outhouse.", | |
| "SMITHSONIAN": "Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to thenational institution of learning which he endowed at Washington,D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports.-- n.", | |
| "ENTERPLEAD": "Same as Interplead.", | |
| "GOVE": "A mow; a rick for hay. [Obs.] Tusser.", | |
| "MONOCRAT": "One who governs alone.", | |
| "SPUNGE": "A sponge. [Obs.]", | |
| "FALUNS": "A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France,abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocenesubdivision.", | |
| "EMBRASURE": "An embrace. [Obs.] \"Our locked embrasures.\"\" Shak.", | |
| "DACHSHUND": "One of a breed of small dogs with short crooked legs, and longbody; -- called also badger dog. There are two kinds, the rough-haired and the smooth-haired.", | |
| "TEMPEST": "To disturb as by a tempest. [Obs.]Part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, Tempestthe ocean. Milton.", | |
| "OVERSET": "To turn, or to be turned, over; to be upset. Mortimer.", | |
| "TRINKETRY": "Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively.No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.", | |
| "MAXIMIZATION": "The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.Bentham.", | |
| "OVERMATCH": "One superior in power; also, an unequal match; a contest inwhich one of the opponents is overmatched. Milton. D. Webster.", | |
| "VEXILLARY": "A standard bearer. Tennyson.", | |
| "XYLIDINE": "Any one of six metameric hydrocarbons, (CH3)2.C6H3.NH2,resembling aniline, and related to xylene. They are liquids, oreasily fusible crystalline substances, of which three are derivedfrom metaxylene, two from orthoxylene, and one from paraxylene. Theyare called the amido xylenes.", | |
| "ENDEAVOR": "To exert physical or intellectual strength for the attainmentof; to use efforts to effect; to strive to achieve or reach; to try;to attempt.It is our duty to endeavor the recovery of these beneficial subjects.Ld. Chatham.To endeavor one's self, to exert one's self strenuously to thefulfillment of a duty. [Obs.] \"A just man that endeavoreth himself toleave all wickedness.\" Latimer.", | |
| "PIGEONHOLE": "A small compartment in a desk or case for the keeping ofletters, documents, etc.; -- so called from the resemblance of a rowof them to the compartments in a dovecote. Burke.", | |
| "FEMINATE": "Feminine. [Obs.]", | |
| "DISINTERESS": "To deprive or rid of interest in, or regard for; to disengage.[Obs.]", | |
| "HAUT": "Haughty. [Obs.] \"Nations proud and haut.\" Milton.", | |
| "PARISOLOGY": "The use of equivocal or ambiguous words. [R.]", | |
| "ROOMTH": "Room; space. [Obs.] Drayton.", | |
| "CHIRPER": "One who chirps, or is cheerful.", | |
| "BUOYANCY": "The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid,which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight ofa floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.Such are buoyancies or displacements of the different classes of hermajesty's ships. Eng. Cyc.", | |
| "PERSICOT": "A cordial made of the kernels of apricots, nectarines, etc.,with refined spirit.", | |
| "FROND": "The organ formed by the combination or union into one body ofstem and leaf, and often bearing the fructification; as, the frond ofa fern or of a lichen or seaweed; also, the peculiar leaf of a palmtree.", | |
| "SALAL-BERRY": "The edible fruit of the Gaultheria Shallon, an ericaceous shrubfound from California northwards. The berries are about the size of acommon grape and of a dark purple color.", | |
| "PININGLY": "In a pining manner; droopingly. Poe.", | |
| "ARCHDEACONRY": "The district, office, or residence of an archdeacon. SeeBenefice.Every diocese is divided into archdeaconries. Blackstone.", | |
| "OAK": "Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternateleaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. Thefruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or lessinclosed in a scaly involucre called the cup or cupule. There are nowrecognized about three hundred species, of which nearly fifty occurin the United States, the rest in Europe, Asia, and the other partsof North America, a very few barely reaching the northern parts ofSouth America and Africa. Many of the oaks form forest trees of grandproportions and live many centuries. The wood is usually hard andtough, and provided with conspicuous medullary rays, forming thesilver grain.", | |
| "IRREPENTANCE": "Want of repentance; impenitence. Bp. Montagu.", | |
| "DIAPHANOMETER": "An instrument for measuring the transparency of the air.", | |
| "SLAUGHTERHOUSE": "A house where beasts are butchered for the market.", | |
| "COADJUTANT": "Mutually assisting or operating; helping. J. Philips.", | |
| "UNBEAR": "To remove or loose the bearing rein of (a horse).", | |
| "UNGORED": "Not stained with gore; not bloodied. Sylvester.", | |
| "PANCHWAY": "A Bengalese four-oared boat for passengers. [Written alsopanshway and paunchwas.] Malcom.", | |
| "UNANELED": "Not aneled; not having received extreme unction. Shak.", | |
| "CACOSTOMIA": "Diseased or gangrenous condition of the mouth.", | |
| "TRANSPORTINGLY": "So as to transport.", | |
| "SHELLFISH": "Any aquatic animal whose external covering consists of a shell,either testaceous, as in oysters, clams, and other mollusks, orcrustaceous, as in lobsters and crabs.", | |
| "LEIGER": "See Leger, n., 2. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "LOW-CHURCH": "Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations orforms; -- applied especially to Episcopalians, and opposed to high-church. See High Church, under High.", | |
| "ESPRINGAL": "An engine of war used for throwing viretons, large stones, andother missiles; a springal.", | |
| "SEEMLY": "Suited to the object, occasion, purpose, or character;suitable; fit; becoming; comely; decorous.He had a seemly nose. Chaucer.I am a woman, lacking wit To make a seemly answer to such persons.Shak.Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlierfor Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.Hooker.", | |
| "TRIBRACH": "A poetic foot of three short syllables, as, m\u00e8l\u00ec\\'dcs.", | |
| "COVERAGE": "The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract ofinsurance.", | |
| "CATASTROPHISM": "The doctrine that the geological changes in the earth's crusthave been caused by the sudden action of violent physical causes; --opposed to the doctrine of uniformism.", | |
| "ZEEMAN EFFECT": "The widening and duplication, triplication, etc., of spectrallines when the radiations emanate in a strong magnetic field, firstobserved in 1896 by P. Zeeman, a Dutch physicist, and regarded as animportant confirmation of the electromagnetic theory of light.", | |
| "SLEEPILY": "In a sleepy manner; drowsily.", | |
| "TAWDRINESS": "Quality or state of being tawdry.A clumsy person makes his ungracefulness more ungraceful bytawdriness of dress. Richardson.", | |
| "UNDERSIZED": "Of a size less than is common.", | |
| "HAMATED": "Hooked, or set with hooks; hamate. Swift.", | |
| "PILLORY": "A frame of adjustable boards erected on a post, and havingholes through which the head and hands of an offender were thrust soas to be exposed in front of it. Shak.", | |
| "STORIFY": "To form or tell stories of; to narrate or describe in a story.[Obs.]", | |
| "WIRE-DRAWER": "One who draws metal into wire.", | |
| "IMPALLID": "To make pallid; to blanch. [Obs.] Feltham.", | |
| "POKE": "A large North American herb of the genus Phytolacca (P.decandra), bearing dark purple juicy berries; -- called also garget,pigeon berry, pocan, and pokeweed. The root and berries have emeticand purgative properties, and are used in medicine. The young shootsare sometimes eaten as a substitute for asparagus, and the berriesare said to be used in Europe to color wine.", | |
| "FOOTLIGHT": "One of a row of lights in the front of the stage in a theater,etc., and on a level therewith. Before the footlights, upon thestage; -- hence, in the capacity of an actor.", | |
| "NITROHYDROCHLORIC": "Of, pertaining to, or containing, nitric and hydrochloricacids. Nitrohydrochloric acid, a mixture of nitric and hydrochloricacids, usually in the proportion of one part of the former to threeof the latter, and remarkable for its solvent action on gold andplatinum; -- called also nitromuriatic acid, and aqua regia.", | |
| "PERSPIRATORY": "Of, pertaining to, or producing, perspiration; as, theperspiratory ducts.", | |
| "EMBRYONIC": "Of or pertaining to an embryo; embryonal; rudimentary.Embryonic sac or vesicle (Bot.), the vesicle within which the embryois developed in the ovule; -- sometimes called also amnios sac, andembryonal sac.", | |
| "POSIED": "Inscribed with a posy.In poised lockets bribe the fair. Gay.", | |
| "JERUSALEM": "The chief city of Palestine, intimately associated with theglory of the Jewish nation, and the life and death of Jesus Christ.Jerusalem artichoke Etym: [Perh. a corrupt. of It. girasole i.e.,sunflower, or turnsole. See Gyre, Solar.] (Bot.) (a) An Americanplant, a perennial species of sunflower (Helianthus tuberosus), whosetubers are sometimes used as food. (b) One of the tubers themselves.-- Jerusalem cherry (Bot.), the popular name of either of either oftwo species of Solanum (S. Pseudo-capsicum and S. capsicastrum),cultivated as ornamental house plants. They bear bright red berriesof about the size of cherries.-- Jerusalem oak (Bot.), an aromatic goosefoot (Chenopodium Botrys),common about houses and along roadsides.-- Jerusalem sage (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family(Phlomis tuberosa).-- Jerusalem thorn (Bot.), a spiny, leguminous tree (Parkinsoniaaculeata), widely dispersed in warm countries, and used for hedges.-- The New Jerusalem, Heaven; the Celestial City.", | |
| "RIGHT-RUNNING": "Straight; direct.", | |
| "PAL": "A mate; a partner; esp., an accomplice or confederate. [Slang]", | |
| "IMPAINT": "To paint; to adorn with colors. [R.] \"To impaint his cause.\"Shak.", | |
| "LIVER-COLORED": "Having a color like liver; dark reddish brown.", | |
| "LAKKE": "See Lack. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "MEZCAL": "Same as Mescal.", | |
| "MEZQUITA": "A mosque.", | |
| "CADGE": "A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale.", | |
| "FLIMSINESS": "The state or quality of being flimsy.", | |
| "ARGOLIC": "Pertaining to Argolis, a district in the Peloponnesus.", | |
| "MONOPSYCHISM": "The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellectwith which all men are endowed.", | |
| "GIBBOSTITY": "The state of being gibbous or gibbose; gibbousness.", | |
| "ILL-LIVED": "Leading a wicked life. [Obs.]", | |
| "-ARCH": "A suffix meaning a ruler, as in monarch (a sole ruler).", | |
| "POSTCAVA": "The inferior vena cava.-- Post\"ca`val, a. B. G. Wilder.", | |
| "ULTRAVIOLET": "Lying outside the visible spectrum at its violet end; -- saidof rays more refrangible than the extreme violet rays of thespectrum.", | |
| "TICPOLONGA": "A very venomous viper (Daboia Russellii), native of Ceylon andIndia; -- called also cobra monil.", | |
| "TRANSUME": "To change; to convert. [R.] Crashaw.", | |
| "ACOUSTICAL": "Of or pertaining to acoustics.", | |
| "YARROW": "An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium)with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers.It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and issometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called alsomilfoil, and nosebleed.", | |
| "POGAMOGGAN": "An aboriginal weapon consisting of a stone or piece of antlerfastened to the end of a slender wooden handle, used by AmericanIndians from the Great Plains to the Mackenzie River.", | |
| "TURBINATE": "To revolve or spin like a top; to whirl. [R.]", | |
| "LAPWING": "A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus,or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for itsrapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its backis coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the \"plover's eggs\" ofthe London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit,dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea.", | |
| "CAUSATIVELY": "In a causative manner.", | |
| "INFECUNDITY": "Want of fecundity or fruitfulness; barrenness; sterility;unproductiveness.", | |
| "TRIMERA": "A division of Coleoptera including those which have but threejoints in the tarsi.", | |
| "BITING": "That bites; sharp; cutting; sarcastic; caustic. \"A bitingaffliction.\" \"A biting jest.\" Shak.", | |
| "DEGARNISHMENT": "The act of depriving, as of furniture, apparatus, or agarrison. [R.]", | |
| "INFUSCATION": "The act of darkening, or state of being dark; darkness;obscurity. Johnson.", | |
| "PARERGON": "See Parergy.", | |
| "PRAEZYGAPOPHYSIS": "Same as Prezygapophysis.", | |
| "SUBACETATE": "An acetate containing an excess of the basic constituent.", | |
| "EPINEURIUM": "The connective tissue framework and sheath of a nerve whichbind together the nerve bundles, each of which has its own specialsheath, or perineurium.", | |
| "DETESTER": "One who detes", | |
| "UNPRIEST": "To deprive of priesthood; to unfrock. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "HARDOCK": "See Hordock.", | |
| "THERMOSCOPIC": "Of or pertaining to the thermoscope; made by means of thethermoscope; as, thermoscopic observations.", | |
| "PHENYLENE": "A hypothetic radical (C6H4) occurring in certain derivatives ofbenzene; as, phenylene diamine.", | |
| "VESPERTINAL": "Vespertine. Lowell.", | |
| "DRY-STONE": "Constructed of uncemented stone. \"Dry-stone walls.\" Sir W.Scott.", | |
| "HIGH-BRED": "Bred in high life; of pure blood. Byron.", | |
| "CASEOSE": "A soluble product (proteose) formed in the gastric andpancreatic digestion of casein and caseinogen.", | |
| "DESIROUSLY": "With desire; eagerly.", | |
| "ELECAMPANE": "A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellowflowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, andwas formerly of much repute as a stomachic.", | |
| "TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS": "A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor andMaunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. Thesteel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from700\u00ba to 850\u00ba C. in molten lead, further cooled in oil, reheated tobetween 370\u00ba and 670\u00ba C., and cooled in air.", | |
| "CHEESY": "Having the nature, qualities, taste, form, consistency, orappearance of cheese.", | |
| "FALLEN": "Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead.Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.", | |
| "TRANSMISSIONIST": "An adherent of a theory, the transmission theory, that thebrain serves to \"transmit,\" rather than to originate, conclusions,and hence that consciousness may exist independently of the brain.", | |
| "PACIFICATORY": "Tending to make peace; conciliatory. Barrow.", | |
| "PAPILLOSE": "Covered with, or bearing, papill\u00e6; resembling papill\u00e6;papillate; papillar; papillary.", | |
| "HOLLANDISH": "Relating to Holland; Dutch.", | |
| "LUXATE": "Luxated. [Obs.]", | |
| "PINCHERS": "An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws workingon a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawingnails, etc.", | |
| "ZIRCONATE": "A salt of zirconic acid.", | |
| "RADIOMETER": "A forestaff.", | |
| "GASOLIER": "Same as Gasalier.", | |
| "PRETORIAL": "Pretorian. Burke.", | |
| "PEPTONIZE": "To convert into peptone; to digest or dissolve by means of aproteolytic ferment; as, peptonized food.", | |
| "PHARYNGOLARYNGEAL": "Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.", | |
| "LUX": "To put out of joint; to luxate. [Obs.]", | |
| "EBURNINE": "Of or pertaining to ivory. \"[She] read from tablet eburnine.\"Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "CELLIFEROUS": "Bearing or producing cells.", | |
| "LIMMER": "Limber. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "ABASIA": "Inability to co\u00f6rdinate muscular actions properly in walking. -- A*ba\"sic (#), a.", | |
| "SISEL": "The suslik.", | |
| "SPLAYMOUTH": "A wide mouth; a mouth stretched in derision. Dryden.", | |
| "WHIRL": "A whorl. See Whorl.", | |
| "BOWKNOT": "A knot in which a portion of the string is drawn through in theform of a loop or bow, so as to be readily untied.", | |
| "LAVEER": "To beat against the wind; to tack. [Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "ECCLE": "The European green woodpecker; -- also called ecall, eaquall,yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PIC": "A Turkish cloth measure, varying from 18 to 28 inches.", | |
| "DOUBLE-MILLED": "Twice milled or fulled, to render more compact or fine; -- saidof cloth; as, double-milled kerseymere.", | |
| "RARIFICATION": "See Rarefaction. [R.] Am. Chem. Journal.", | |
| "TRANSVERSELY": "In a transverse manner.", | |
| "PREAMBULARY": "Of or pertaining to a preamble; introductory; contained orprovided for in a preamble. \"A preambulary tax.\" [R.] Burke.", | |
| "VISIONLESS": "Destitute of vision; sightless.", | |
| "CUBLESS": "Having no cubs. Byron.", | |
| "SCOTOMA": "Scotomy.", | |
| "SLOOP": "A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of aboom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typicalsloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, whilethose of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloopusually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadthof beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidlyapproximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop maycarry a centerboard. See Cutter, and Illustration in Appendix. Sloopof war, formerly, a vessel of war rigged either as a ship, brig, orschooner, and mounting from ten to thirty-two guns; now, any warvessel larger than a gunboat, and carrying guns on one deck only.", | |
| "JAZEL": "A gem of an azure color. [Obs.]", | |
| "SUBACTION": "The act of reducing to any state, as of mixing two bodiescombletely. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "CHEBEC": "See Chebacco.", | |
| "KALASIE": "A long-tailed monkey of Borneo (Semnopithecus rubicundus). Ithas a tuft of long hair on the head.", | |
| "HONIED": "See Honeyed.", | |
| "MULTIRADIATE": "Having many rays.", | |
| "VADANTES": "An extensive artificial group of birds including the wading,swimming, and cursorial birds.", | |
| "CRUSADER": "One engaged in a crusade; as, the crusaders of the Middle Ages.Azure-eyed and golden-haired, Forth the young crusaders fared.Longfellow.", | |
| "SMOKELESS POWDER": "A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, ifany, smoke.", | |
| "FOREBODEMENT": "The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded.", | |
| "EPROUVETTE": "An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.", | |
| "DISACCUSTOM": "To destroy the force of habit in; to wean from a custom.Johnson.", | |
| "DASTARDIZE": "To make cowardly; to intimidate; to dispirit; as, to dastardizemy courage. Dryden.", | |
| "RIDGEPOLE": "The timber forming the ridge of a roof, into which the raftersare secured.", | |
| "VERILY": "In very truth; beyond doubt or question; in fact; certainly.Bacon.Trust in the Lord and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the verily thoushalt be fed. Ps. xxxvii. 3.", | |
| "PRESCAPULAR": "(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula; supraspinous.", | |
| "PUNKIE": "A minute biting fly of the genus Ceratopogon or allied genus ofthe family Chironomid\u00e6, found in swarms in various densely wooded ormountaneous regions. [U. S.]", | |
| "COTQUEANITY": "The condition, character, or conduct of a cotquean. [Obs.] B.Jonson.", | |
| "GARNISH": "To ornament, as a dish, with something laid about it; as, adish garnished with parsley.", | |
| "NODATED": "Knotted. Nodated hyperbola (Geom.), a certain curve of thethird order having two branches which cross each other, forming anode.", | |
| "OCCIPUT": "The back, or posterior, part of the head or skull; the regionof the occipital bone.", | |
| "VISCID": "Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinousconsistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as,turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.", | |
| "HYPOXANTHIN": "A crystalline, nitrogenous substance, closely related toxanthin and uric acid, widely distributed through the animal body,but especially in muscle tissue; -- called also sarcin, sarkin.", | |
| "BLOCKADER": "A vessel employed in blockading.", | |
| "HABENDUM": "That part of a deed which follows the part called the premises,and determines the extent of the interest or estate granted; -- socalled because it begins with the word Habendum. Kent.", | |
| "PTEROGLOSSAL": "Having the tongue finely notched along the sides, so as to havea featherlike appearance, as the toucans.", | |
| "ROUGE DRAGON": "One of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms.", | |
| "ELEGIOGRAPHER": "An elegist. [Obs.]", | |
| "FLOREAL": "The eight month of the French republican calendar. It beganApril 20, and ended May 19. See Vend\u00e9miare.", | |
| "SOONER": "In the western United States, one who settles on governmentland before it is legally open to settlement in order to gain theprior claim that the law gives to the first settler when the land isopened to settlement; hence, any one who does a thing prematurely oranticipates another in acting in order to gain an unfair advantage.", | |
| "MISDEMEANOR": "A crime less than a felony. Wharton.", | |
| "SWINECRUE": "A hogsty. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "NEOCRITICISM": "The form of Neo-Kantianism developed by French idealists,following C. Renouvier. It rejects the noumena of Kant, restrictingknowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.", | |
| "FOOTSTOOL": "A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.", | |
| "TONGKANG": "A kind of boat or junk used in the seas of the MalayArchipelago.", | |
| "SHUFFLEWING": "The hedg sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "GROSSNESS": "The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence;coarseness; shamefulness.Abhor the swinish grossness that delights to wound the' ear ofdelicacy. Dr. T. Dwight.", | |
| "COAGENT": "An associate in an act; a coworker. Drayton.", | |
| "COVENANTING": "Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the ScotchCovenanters.Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.", | |
| "ATMOSPHERICALLY": "In relation to the atmosphere.", | |
| "ROTATE": "Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped; as,a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla, i.e., a monopetalouscorolla with a flattish border, and no tube or a very short one.", | |
| "BESTIAL": "A domestic animal; also collectively, cattle; as, other kindsof bestial. [Scot.]", | |
| "UNRIOTED": "Free from rioting. [Obs.] \"A chaste, unrioted house.\" May(Lucan).", | |
| "PROVENCAL": "Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.", | |
| "REATTACHMENT": "The act of reattaching; a second attachment.", | |
| "PHOTOSCOPIC": "Of or pertaining to the photoscope or its uses.", | |
| "SILICO-": "A combining form (also used adjectively) denoting the presenceof silicon or its compounds; as, silicobenzoic, silicofluoride, etc.", | |
| "STERILIZATION": "The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also,the state of being sterile.", | |
| "CONFUSEDNESS": "A state of confusion. Norris.", | |
| "TACHYLYTE": "A vitreous form of basalt; -- so called because decompposableby acids and readily fusible.", | |
| "SUPERNATURALITY": "The quality or state of being supernatural.", | |
| "PYOXANTHOSE": "A greenish yellow crystalline coloring matter found withpyocyanin in pus.", | |
| "BAPHOMET": "An idol or symbolical figure which the Templars were accused ofusing in their mysterious rites.", | |
| "TEAR-FALLING": "Shedding tears; tender. [Poetic] \"Tear-falling pity.\" Shak.", | |
| "EARLESS": "Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.", | |
| "FEBRILE": "Pertaining to fever; indicating fever, or derived from it; as,febrile symptoms; febrile action. Dunglison.", | |
| "JOSTLEMENT": "Crowding; hustling.", | |
| "SHOULDER": "The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limbis connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; theprojection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint.", | |
| "MACCO": "A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century. Thackeray.", | |
| "CAVILLATION": "Frivolous or sophistical objection. [Obs.] Hooker.", | |
| "DEGLUTINATION": "The act of ungluing.", | |
| "SUNSQUALL": "Any large jellyfish.", | |
| "VACILLANCY": "The quality or state of being vacillant, or wavering. [R.] Dr.H. More.", | |
| "ROCAMBOLE": "A name of Allium Scorodoprasum and A. Ascalonium, two kinds ofgarlic, the latter of which is also called shallot.", | |
| "AESTUOUS": "Glowing; agitated, as with heat.", | |
| "FERRUGINATED": "Having the color or properties of the rust of iron.", | |
| "LIBERATE": "To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; tofree; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner;to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.", | |
| "RENNETED": "Provided or treated with rennet. [R.] \"Pressed milk renneted.\"Chapman.", | |
| "CAPSULE": "a dry fruit or pod which is made up of several parts orcarpels, and opens to discharge the seeds, as, the capsule of thepoppy, the flax, the lily, etc.", | |
| "DISINTERMENT": "The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth;exhumation.", | |
| "FARTHER": "To help onward. [R.] See Further.", | |
| "IMMEDIACY": "The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium;immediateness. Shak.", | |
| "SANCTUARIZE": "To shelter by means of a sanctuary or sacred privileges. [Obs.]Shak.", | |
| "RETARDATION": "The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord byprolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into theintermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension byresolving upwards instead of downwards.", | |
| "CANOE": "To manage a canoe, or voyage in a canoe.", | |
| "INJUCUNDITY": "Unpleassantness; disagreeableness. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "GIANTESS": "A woman of extraordinary size.", | |
| "MONOPOLISTIC": "Of or pertaining to a monopolist. North Am. Rev.", | |
| "DEBONAIR": "Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; ofgood appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant.Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.", | |
| "TRAITORESS": "A traitress. [Obs.] Rom. of R.", | |
| "VERNAGE": "A kind of sweet wine from Italy. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GOSHAWK": "Any large hawk of the genus Astur, of which many species andvarieties are known. The European (Astur palumbarius) and theAmerican (A. atricapillus) are the best known species. They are notedfor their powerful flight, activity, and courage. The Australiangoshawk (A. Nov\u00e6-Hollandi\u00e6) is pure white.", | |
| "HURRIES": "A staith or framework from which coal is discharged from carsinto vessels.", | |
| "INVERTEBRAL": "Same as Invertebrate.", | |
| "DERNE": "To hide; to skulk. [Scot.]He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H.Miller.", | |
| "APEX": "The end or edge of a vein nearest the surface. [U.S.] Apex ofthe earth's motion (Astron.), that point of the heavens toward whichthe earth is moving in its orbit.", | |
| "ACTINOGRAM": "A record made by the actinograph.", | |
| "OVERRUN": "To extend beyond its due or desired length; as, a line, oradvertisement, overruns.", | |
| "SASHERY": "A collection of sashes; ornamentation by means of sashes. [R.]Distinguished by their sasheries and insignia. Carlyle.", | |
| "SPIKETAIL": "The pintail duck. [Local, U.S.]", | |
| "LUPINE": "A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus,the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. Thecommon species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There aremany species in California.", | |
| "TABETIC": "Of or pertaining to tabes; of the nature of tabes; affectedwith tabes; tabid. -- n.", | |
| "THEORY": "A theosophist.", | |
| "IMPOISON": "To poison; to imbitter; to impair.", | |
| "ENDYSIS": "The act of developing a new coat of hair, a new set offeathers, scales, etc.; -- opposed to ecdysis.", | |
| "ILLATION": "The act or process of inferring from premises or reasons;perception of the connection between ideas; that which is inferred;inference; deduction; conclusion.Fraudulent deductions or inconsequent illations from a falseconception of things. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "PARCENARY": "The holding or occupation of an inheritable estate whichdescends from the ancestor to two or more persons; coheirship.", | |
| "SENESCENCE": "The state of growing old; decay by time.", | |
| "GRANATITE": "See Staurolite.", | |
| "BETHABARA WOOD": "A highly elastic wood, used for fishing rods, etc. The tree isunknown, but it is thought to be East Indian.", | |
| "JOSTLE": "To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; tohustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against. \"Bullies jostledhim.\" Macaulay.Systems of movement, physical, intellectual, and moral, which areperpetually jostling each other. I. Taylor.", | |
| "PEDREGAL": "A lava field. [Mexico & Western U.S.]", | |
| "LIVERING": "A kind of pudding or sausage made of liver or pork. [Obs.]Chapman.", | |
| "GREEDILY": ", adv. In a greedy manner.", | |
| "FACUNDIOUS": "Eloquement; full of words. [Archaic]", | |
| "PRICKMADAM": "A name given to several species of stonecrop, used asingredients of vermifuge medicines. See Stonecrop.", | |
| "RHYNCHOCEPHALA": "An order of reptiles having biconcave vertebr\u00e6, immovablequadrate bones, and many other peculiar osteological characters.Hatteria is the only living genus, but numerous fossil genera areknown, some of which are among the earliest of reptiles. SeeHatteria. Called also Rhynchocephalia.", | |
| "PILULAR": "Of or pertaining to pills; resembling a pill or pills; as, apilular mass.", | |
| "WATER MITE": "Any of numerous species of aquatic mites belonging to Hydrachnaand allied genera of the family Hydrachnid\u00e6, usually having the legsfringed and adapted for swimming. They are often red or red and blackin color, and while young are parasites of fresh-water insects andmussels. Called also water tick, and water spider.", | |
| "CORDONNET": "Doubled and twisted thread, made of coarse silk, and used fortassels, fringes, etc. McElrath.", | |
| "HARD-HANDED": "Having hard hands, as a manual laborer.Hard-handed men that work in Athens here. Shak.", | |
| "SCURFINESS": "Scurf.", | |
| "REENLISTMENT": "A renewed enlistment.", | |
| "BALANCEABLE": "Such as can be balanced.", | |
| "EPISCOPALIAN": "Pertaining to bishops, or government by bishops; episcopal;specifically, of or relating to the Protestant Episcopal Church.", | |
| "TECHNOGRAPHY": "Description of the arts and crafts of tribes and peoples. --Tech`no*graph\"ic, Tech`no*graph\"ic*al (#), a.", | |
| "CONGIUS": "A liquid measure containing about three quarts.", | |
| "KRAMERIA": "A genus of spreading shrubs with many stems, from one speciesof which (K. triandra), found in Peru, rhatany root, used as amedicine, is obtained.", | |
| "VULVITIS": "Inflammation of the vulva.", | |
| "SPINDLE": "The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe ordrilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carriesa tool or center, etc.(b) (Mach.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding millturns.(c) (Founding) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.", | |
| "TEETAN": "A pipit. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "EJOO": "Gomuti fiber. See Gomuti.", | |
| "MOUSSELINE DE SOIE": "A soft thin silk fabric with a weave like that of muslin.", | |
| "MULTIPOLAR": "Having many poles; -- applied especially to those ganglionicnerve cells which have several radiating processes.", | |
| "YEOMANLY": "Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman;yeomanlike. B. Jonson.Well could he dress his tackle yeomanly. Chaucer.", | |
| "PERFIDIOUSLY": "In a perfidious manner.", | |
| "LUDIBRIOUS": "Sportive; ridiculous; wanton. [Obs.] Tooker.", | |
| "PRELATICALLY": "In a prelatical manner; with reference to prelates. Milton.The last Georgic was a good prelude to the \u00c6neis.", | |
| "APPENDICATE": "To append. [Obs.]", | |
| "HATCH-BOAT": "A vessel whose deck consists almost wholly of movable hatches;-- used mostly in the fisheries.", | |
| "TWO-CYCLE": "A two-stroke cycle for an internal-combustion engine. --Two\"-cy`cle, a.", | |
| "BREASTWORK": "A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, ofearth or other material.", | |
| "LIVE": "Imparting power; having motion; as, the live spindle of alathe. Live birth, the condition of being born in such a state thatacts of life are manifested after the extrusion of the whole body.Dunglison.-- Live box, a cell for holding living objects under microscopicalexamination. P. H. Gosse.-- Live feathers, feathers which have been plucked from the livingbird, and are therefore stronger and more elastic.-- Live gang. (Sawing) See under Gang.-- Live grass (Bot.), a grass of the genus Eragrostis.-- Live load (Engin.), a suddenly applied load; a varying load; amoving load; as a moving train of cars on a bridge, or wind pressureon a roof. Live oak (Bot.), a species of oak (Quercus virens),growing in the Southern States, of great durability, and highlyesteemed for ship timber. In California the Q. chrysolepis and someother species are also called live oaks.-- Live ring (Engin.), a circular train of rollers upon which aswing bridge, or turntable, rests, and which travels around acircular track when the bridge or table turns.-- Live steam , steam direct from the boiler, used for any purpose,in distinction from exhaust steam.-- Live stock, horses, cattle, and other domestic animals kept on afarm. whole body.", | |
| "MUNICIPALLY": "In a municipal relation or condition.", | |
| "RUFIOPIN": "A yellowish red crystalline substance related to anthracene,and obtained from opianic acid.", | |
| "RUGOSA": "An extinct tribe of fossil corals, including numerous species,many of them of large size. They are characteristic of the Paleozoicformations. The radiating septs, when present, are usually inmultiples of four. See Cyathophylloid.", | |
| "POONAH PAINTING": "A style of painting, popular in England in the 19th century, inwhich a thick opaque color is applied without background and withscarcely any shading, to thin paper, producing flowers, birds, etc.,in imitation of Oriental work. Hence: Poonah brush, paper, painter,etc.", | |
| "RE-CREATION": "A forming anew; a new creation or formation.", | |
| "XANTHOXYLENE": "A liquid hydrocarbon of the terpene series extracted from theseeds of a Japanese prickly ash (Xanthoxylum pipertium) as anaromatic oil.", | |
| "KNOWLEDGE": "To acknowledge. [Obs.] \"Sinners which knowledge their sins.\"Tyndale.", | |
| "HYDROTIC": "Causing a discharge of water or phlegm.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "MEGALITH": "A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancientbuilding.-- Meg`a*lith\"ic, a.", | |
| "PREEMPTIVE": "Of or pertaining to pre\u00ebmption; having power to pre\u00ebmpt;pre\u00ebmpting.", | |
| "QUINTUPLE": "Multiplied by five; increased to five times the amount;fivefold. Quintuple time (Mus.), a time having five beats in ameasure. It is seldom used.", | |
| "BISECTOR": "One who, or that which, bisects; esp. (Geom.) a straight linewhich bisects an angle.", | |
| "COLEGOOSE": "See Coalgoose.", | |
| "MONKFLOWER": "A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds offlowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to besexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum,etc.).", | |
| "THIMBLEWEED": "Any plant of the composite genus Rudbeckia, coarse herbssomewhat resembling the sunflower; -- so called from their conicalreceptacles.", | |
| "SEA COW": "Any crustacean of the genus Palinurus and allied genera, as theEuropean spiny lobster (P. vulgaris), which is much used as anarticle of food. See Lobster.", | |
| "PORRINGER": "A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat orare fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.", | |
| "CONCINNOUS": "Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.]The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. DeQuiency.", | |
| "FLINGDUST": "One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. [Obs.]Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "PASTEURIAN": "Of or pertaining to Pasteur.", | |
| "MONOLOGIST": "One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation incompany. De Quincey.", | |
| "POREBLIND": "Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "JACTANCY": "A boasting; a bragging. [Obs.]", | |
| "HUMORIZE": "To humor. Marston.", | |
| "VULCANICITY": "Volcanicity.", | |
| "CEREALIN": "A nitrogenous substance closely resembling diastase, obtainedfrom bran, and possessing the power of converting starch intodextrin, sugar, and lactic acid. Watts.", | |
| "WAGENBOOM": "A south African proteaceous tree (Protea grandiflora); also,its tough wood, used for making wagon wheels.", | |
| "OUTSEE": "To see beyond; to excel in cer", | |
| "PREDICATORY": "Affirmative; positive. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "PRIMINE": "The outermost of the two integuments of an ovule.", | |
| "SYSTASIS": "A political union, confederation, or league. [R.] Burke.", | |
| "UNDERPAY": "To pay inadequately.", | |
| "ERRAND": "A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to betold or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbalmessage; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to doan errand. Also, one's purpose in going anywhere.I have a secret errand to thee, O king. Judg. iii. 19.I will not eat till I have told mine errand. Gen. xxiv. 33.mission.", | |
| "DARTLE": "To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: --frequentative of dart.My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.", | |
| "GLYPH": "A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical. See Triglyph.", | |
| "SUPERALTAR": "A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on whichdifferent objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.", | |
| "CONVERSE": ", a. Etym: [L. conversus, p.p. of convertere. See Convert.]Turned about; reversed in order or relation; reciprocal; as, aconverse proposition.", | |
| "EXCLAMATORY": "Containing, expressing, or using exclamation; as, anexclamatory phrase or speaker. South.-- Ex*clam\"a*to*ti*ly, adv.", | |
| "FIDDLEWOOD": "The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genusCitharexylum.", | |
| "INEPTLY": "Unfitly; unsuitably; awkwardly.None of them are made foolishly or ineptly. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "QUARANTINE": "The period of forty days during which the widow had theprivilege of remaining in the mansion house of which her husband diedseized. Quarantine flag, a yellow flag hoisted at the fore of avessel or hung from a building, to give warning of an infectiousdisease; -- called also the yellow jack, and yellow flag.", | |
| "ATTORNEYSHIP": "The office or profession of an attorney; agency for another.Shak.", | |
| "RAPID-FIRE MOUNT": "A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression andtraining of the gun, and fitting with a device for taking up therecoil.", | |
| "XYLONITE": "See Zylonite.", | |
| "SHROUDED": "Provided with a shroud or shrouds. Shrouded gear (Mach.), acogwheel or pinion having flanges which form closed ends to thespaces between the teeth and thus strengthen the teeth by tying themtogether.", | |
| "HEADWORK": "Mental labor.", | |
| "PREPOSSESSING": "Tending to invite favor; attracting confidence, favor, esteem,or love; attractive; as, a prepossessing manner.-- Pre`pos*sess\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "LOWLANDER": "A native or inhabitant of the Lowlands, especially of theLowlands of Scotland, as distinguished from Highlander.", | |
| "NIGUA": "The chigoe.", | |
| "BIBLIOGRAPHER": "One who writes, or is versed in, bibliography.", | |
| "BOUNCINGLY": "With a bounce.", | |
| "PILOSITY": "The quality or state of being pilose; hairiness. Bacon.", | |
| "ALUMINIFORM": "pertaining the form of alumina.", | |
| "APTLY": "In an apt or suitable manner; fitly; properly; pertinently;appropriately; readily.", | |
| "COMPLICANT": "Overlapping, as the elytra of certain beetles.", | |
| "SULPHONE": "Any one of a series of compounds analogous to the ketones, andconsisting of the sulphuryl group united with two hydrocarbonradicals; as, dimethyl sulphone, (CH.SO", | |
| "METAPODIAL": "Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of thelimbs to which they belong.", | |
| "TRUMP": "A wind instrument of music; a trumpet, or sound of a trumpet; -- used chiefly in Scripture and poetry.We shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, atthe last trump. 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52.The wakeful trump of doom. Milton.", | |
| "REPRISTINATION": "Restoration to an original state; renewal of purity. [R.] R.Browning.", | |
| "FIXATIVE": "That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as amordant.", | |
| "SCRUBBY": "Of the nature of scrub; small and mean; stunted in growth; as,a scrubby cur. \"Dense, scrubby woods.\" Duke of Argull.", | |
| "DECLARER": "One who makes known or proclaims; that which exhibits. Udall.", | |
| "FUNDAMENTAL": "Pertaining to the foundation or basis; serving for thefoundation. Hence: Essential, as an element, principle, or law;important; original; elementary; as, a fundamental truth; afundamental axiom.The fundamental reasons of this war. Shak.Some fundamental antithesis in nature. Whewell.Fundamental bass (Mus.), the root note of a chord; a bass formed ofthe roots or fundamental tones of the chords.-- Fundamental chord (Mus.), a chord, the lowest tone of which isits root.-- Fundamental colors, red, green, and violet-blue. See Primarycolors, under Color.", | |
| "PLEURITE": "Same as Pleuron.", | |
| "PREDESIGNATE": "A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositionshaving their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none,etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions ofwhich the quantity is not so indicated.", | |
| "PERPLEXED": "Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled;doubtful; anxious.-- Per*plex\"ed*ly, adv.-- Per*plex\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "WEDDAHS": "See Veddahs.", | |
| "URANUS": "The son or husband of Gaia (Earth), and father of Chronos(Time) and the Titans.", | |
| "SALESWOMAN": "A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.", | |
| "MOUNTANT": "Raised; high. [Obs.]", | |
| "PANTACOSM": "See Cosmolabe.", | |
| "FOGLESS": "Without fog; clear. Kane.", | |
| "TETRARCHICAL": "Of or pertaining to a tetrarch or tetrarchy. Bolingbroke.", | |
| "VICARIAN": "A vicar. [Obs.] Marston.", | |
| "JOCUNDITY": "The state or quality of being jocund; gayety; sportiveness.", | |
| "BIBCOCK": "A cock or faucet having a bent down nozzle. Knight.", | |
| "HUT": "A small house, hivel, or cabin; a mean lodge or dwelling; aslightly built or temporary structure.Death comes on with equal footsteps To the hall and hut. Bp. Coxe.", | |
| "CHIROGYMNAST": "A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of apianist.", | |
| "MICROBAROGRAPH": "An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmosphericpressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.", | |
| "LAUNDRESS": "A woman whose employment is laundering.", | |
| "PROCEEDS": "That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue;product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.", | |
| "SANCTIFICATE": "To sanctify. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "HAWK MOTH": "Any moth of the family Sphingid\u00e6, of which there are numerousgenera and species. They are large, handsome moths, which fly mostlyat twilight and hover about flowers like a humming bird, sucking thehoney by means of a long, slender proboscis. The larv\u00e6 are large,hairless caterpillars ornamented with green and other bright colors,and often with a caudal spine. See Sphinx, also Tobacco worm, andTomato worm. Tobacco Hawk Moth (Macrosila Carolina), and its Larva,the Tobacco Worm.", | |
| "URSA": "Either one of the Bears. See the Phrases below. Ursa MajorEtym: [L.], the Great Bear, one of the most conspicuous of thenorthern constellations. It is situated near the pole, and containsthe stars which form the Dipper, or Charles's Wain, two of which arethe Pointers, or stars which point towards the North Star.-- Ursa Minor Etym: [L.], the Little Bear, the constellation nearestthe north pole. It contains the north star, or polestar, which issituated in the extremity of the tail.", | |
| "TENPINS": "A game resembling ninepins, but played with ten pins. SeeNinepins. [U. S.]", | |
| "NEMERTID": "Nemertean.", | |
| "ADAYS": "By day, or every day; in the daytime. [Obs.] Fielding.", | |
| "VICE": "A kind of instrument for holding work, as in filing. Same asVise.", | |
| "PROSECUTE": "To pursue with the intention of punishing; to accuse of somecrime or breach of law, or to pursue for redress or punishment,before a legal tribunal; to proceed against judicially; as, toprosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot.To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes. Milton.", | |
| "PSEUDHAEMAL": "Pertaining to the vascular system of annelids. Pseudh\u00e6malfluid, the circulatory fluid, or blood, of annelids, analogous to theblood of vertebrates. It is often red, but is sometimes green orcolorless.-- Pseudh\u00e6mal vessels, the blood vessels of annelids.", | |
| "PUZZLEMENT": "The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford.", | |
| "SOCK": "A plowshare. Edin. Encyc.", | |
| "TOURIST": "One who makes a tour, or performs a journey in a circuit.", | |
| "PARISHIONAL": "Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial. [R.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "SPERMIDIUM": "An achenium.", | |
| "CUTWAL": "The chief police officer of a large city. [East Indies]", | |
| "DINAPHTHYL": "A colorless, crystalline hydrocarbon, C20H14, obtained fromnaphthylene, and consisting of a doubled naphthylene radical.", | |
| "CONFIT": "Same as Comfit. [Obs.]", | |
| "BESHROUD": "To cover with, or as with, a shroud; to screen.", | |
| "PICIFORM": "Of or pertaining to Piciformes.", | |
| "AQUA": "Water; -- a word much used in pharmacy and the old chemistry,in various signification, determined by the word or words annexed.Aqua ammoni\u00e6, the aqueous solution of ammonia; liquid ammonia; oftencalled aqua ammonia.-- Aqua marine, or Aqua marina. Same as Aquamarine.-- Aqua regia. Etym: [L., royal water] (Chem.), a very corrosivefuming yellow liquid consisting of nitric and hydrochloric acids. Ithas the power of dissolving gold, the \"royal\" metal.-- Aqua Tofana, a fluid containing arsenic, and used for secretpoisoning, made by an Italian woman named Tofana, in the middle ofthe 17th century, who is said to have poisoned more than 600 persons.Francis.-- Aqua vit\u00e6 Etym: [L., water of life. Cf. Eau de vie, Usquebaugh],a name given to brandy and some other ardent spirits. Shak.", | |
| "STRENGTHENING": "That strengthens; giving or increasing strength.-- Strength\"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster (Med.), a plastercontaining iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.", | |
| "WISTLY": "Attentively; observingly. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "ROCKWEED": "Any coarse seaweed growing on sea-washed rocks, especiallyFucus.", | |
| "BILSTED": "See Sweet gum.", | |
| "POWLDRON": "Same as Pauldron.", | |
| "FORESTAFF": "An instrument formerly used at sea for taking the altitudes ofheavenly bodies, now superseded by the sextant; -- called also cross-staff. Brande & C.", | |
| "CONSERVANT": "Having the power or quality of conservation.", | |
| "GRINDED": "Ground. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "WHITESIDE": "The golden-eye.", | |
| "THEODOLITE": "An instrument used, especially in trigonometrical surveying,for the accurate measurement of horizontal angles, and also usuallyof vertical angles. It is variously constructed.", | |
| "REDUPLICATIVE": "Double; formed by reduplication; reduplicate. I. Watts.", | |
| "TANYARD": "An inclosure where the tanning of leather is carried on; atannery.", | |
| "LEVEROCK": "A lark. [Scot.]", | |
| "SYRIACISM": "A Syrian idiom; a Syrianism.", | |
| "COLLISIVE": "Colliding; clashing. [Obs.]", | |
| "LOOKER": "One who looks. Looker-on, a spectator; one that looks on, buthas no agency or part in an affair.Did not this fatal war affront thy coast, Yet sattest thou an idlelooker-on Fairfax.", | |
| "PERINEOPLASTY": "The act or process of restoring an injured perineum.", | |
| "ANANTHEROUS": "Destitute of anthers. Gray.", | |
| "NUBIGENOUS": "Born of, or produced from, clouds. [R.]", | |
| "CUIRASS": "An armor of bony plates, somewhat resembling a cuirass.", | |
| "FRISKINESS": "State or quality of being frisky.", | |
| "SOFTNESS": "The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to Ant:hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.", | |
| "DASTARDLINESS": "The quality of being dastardly; cowardice; base fear.", | |
| "UNREALLY": "In an unreal manner; ideally.", | |
| "INTENTIONED": "Having designs; -- chiefly used in composition; as, well-intentioned, having good designs; ill-intentioned, having illdesigns.", | |
| "PENICILLATE": "Having the form of a pencil; furnished with a pencil of finehairs; ending in a tuft of hairs like a camel's-hair brush, as thestigmas of some grasses.", | |
| "OMINOUS": "Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting anomen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorableand unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding orforeshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.He had a good ominous name to have made a peace. Bacon.In the heathen worship of God, a sacrifice without a heart wasaccounted ominous. South.-- Om\"i*nous*ly, adv.-- Om\"i*nous*ness, n.", | |
| "POSTPLIOCENE": "Of or pertaining to the period immediately following thePliocene; Pleistocene. Also used as a noun. See Quaternary.", | |
| "EPICARP": "The external or outermost layer of a fructified or ripenedovary. See Illust. under Endocarp.", | |
| "TRIGONOUS": "Same as Trigonal.", | |
| "WHIFFLER": "The golden-eye. [Local, U.S.]", | |
| "HARDIMENT": "Hardihood; boldness; courage; energetic action. [Obs.]Changing hardiment with great Glendower. Shak.", | |
| "VETERAN": "Long exercised in anything, especially in military life and theduties of a soldier; long practiced or experienced; as, a veteranofficer or soldier; veteran skill.The insinuating eloquence and delicate flattery of veterandiplomatists and courtiers. Macaulay.", | |
| "MAINMAST": "The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.", | |
| "OSTEOMANTY": "Divination by means of bones. [R.]", | |
| "AGROTECHNY": "That branch of agriculture dealing with the methods ofconversion of agricultural products into manufactured articles;agricultural technology.", | |
| "PATERFAMILIAS": "The head of a family; in a large sense, the proprietor of anestate; one who is his own master.", | |
| "POLYACOUSTIC": "Multiplying or magnifying sound.-- n.", | |
| "PRAISEWORTHY": "Worthy of praise or applause; commendable; as, praiseworthyaction; he was praiseworthy. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "SPADDLE": "A little spade. [Obs.]", | |
| "HEART-EATING": "Preying on the heart.", | |
| "ISOTROPISM": "Isotropy.", | |
| "DEUTERONOMY": "The fifth book of the Pentateuch, containing the second givingof the law by Moses.", | |
| "BLOW": "To flower; to blossom; to bloom.How blows the citron grove. Milton.", | |
| "ZUMBOORUK": "A small cannon supported by a swiveled rest on the back of acamel, whence it is fired, -- used in the East.", | |
| "CAMPION": "A plant of the Pink family (Cucubalus bacciferus), bearingberries regarded as poisonous. Bladder campion, a plant of the Pinkfamily (Cucubalus Behen or Silene inflata), having a much inflatedcalyx. See Behen.-- Rose campion, a garden plant (Lychnis coronaria) with handsomecrimsome crimson flowers.", | |
| "PUGGER": "To pucker. [Obs.]", | |
| "SQUADRON": "A body of cavarly comparising two companies or troops, andaverging from one hundred and twenty to two hundred men.", | |
| "AREOLET": "A small inclosed area; esp. one of the small spaces on thewings of insects, circumscribed by the veins.", | |
| "PAGINATION": "The act or process of paging a book; also, the characters usedin numbering the pages; page number. Lowndes.", | |
| "LERE": "Learning; lesson; lore. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "PURLING": "The motion of a small stream running among obstructions; also,the murmur it makes in so doing.", | |
| "FEUILLETON": "A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page),devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article ortale itself, thus printed.", | |
| "VACUOUS": "Empty; unfilled; void; vacant.Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude; nor vacuous thespace. Milton.That the few may lead selfish and vacuous days. J. Morley.", | |
| "HILL": "To surround with earth; to heap or draw earth around or upon;as, to hill corn.Showing them how to plant and hill it. Palfrey.", | |
| "SHAPELESS": "Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry ofdimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely.-- Shape\"less*ness, n.The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope.", | |
| "ANOMALOUSNESS": "Quality of being anomalous.", | |
| "PUNCTIFORM": "Having the form of a point.", | |
| "DOUBLE DEALING": "False or deceitful dealing. See Double dealing, under Dealing.Shak.", | |
| "PRAGMATISM": "The quality or state of being pragmatic; in literature, thepragmatic, or philosophical, method.The narration of this apparently trifling circumstance belongs to thepragmatism of the history. A. Murphy.", | |
| "LYME GRASS": "A coarse perennial grass of several species of Elymus, esp. E.Canadensis, and the European E. arenarius.", | |
| "LADYLOVE": "A sweetheart or mistress.", | |
| "INCONSCIOUS": "Unconscious. [Obs.]", | |
| "DISPERSIVE": "Tending to disperse. Dispersive power (Opt.), the relativeeffect of a material in separating the different rays of light byrefraction, as when the substance is formed into a prism.-- Dis*pers\"ive*ness, n.", | |
| "CONTRAINDICATE": "To indicate, as by a symptom, some method of treatment contraryto that which the general tenor of the case would seem to require.Contraindicating symptoms must be observed. Harvey.", | |
| "TINTINNABULOUS": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, the tinkling of a bell;having a tinkling sound; tintinnabular. De Quincey.", | |
| "CANT HOOK": "A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- usedfor canting or turning over heavy logs, etc. [U. S.] Bartlett.", | |
| "SYCEE": "Silver, pounded into ingots of the shape of a shoe, and used ascurrency. The most common weight is about one pound troy. [China]McElrath.", | |
| "RACING": "a. & n. from Race, v. t. & i. Racing crab (Zo\u00f6l.), anocypodian.", | |
| "POLYCONIC": "Pertaining to, or based upon, many cones. Polyconic projection(Map Making), a projection of the earth's surface, or any portionthereof, by which each narrow zone is projected upon a conicalsurface that touches the sphere along this zone, the conical surfacebeing then unrolled. This projection differs from conic projection inthat latter assumes but one cone for the whole map. Polyconicprojection is that in use in the United States coast and geodeticsurvey.", | |
| "DEARTICULATE": "To disjoint.", | |
| "CHONDROPTERYGII": "A group of fishes, characterized by cartilaginous fins andskeleton. It includes both ganoids (sturgeons, etc.) and selachians(sharks), but is now often restricted to the latter. [Written alsoChondropterygia.]", | |
| "WATER POA": "Meadow reed grass. See under Reed.", | |
| "RECIPROCAL": "Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimeslimited to such pronouns as express mutual action.", | |
| "RECURVOUS": "Recurved. Derham.", | |
| "NEEDLER": "One who makes or uses needles; also, a dealer in needles. PiersPlowman.", | |
| "HEWHOLE": "The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.", | |
| "TRUCKLE-BED": "A low bed on wheels, that may be pushed under another bed; atrundle-bed. \"His standing bed and truckle-bed.\" Shak.", | |
| "COGGER": "A flatterer or deceiver; a sharper.", | |
| "FUNERAL": "Per. taining to a funeral; used at the interment of the dead;as, funeral rites, honors, or ceremonies. Shak. Funeral pile, astructure of combustible material, upon which a dead body is placedto be reduced to ashes, as part of a funeral rite; a pyre.-- Fu\"ner*al*ly, adv. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "LOYALLY": "In a loyal manner; faithfully.", | |
| "ALTISSIMO": "The part or notes situated above F in alt.", | |
| "BASS DRUM": "The largest of the different kinds of drums, having two heads,and emitting a deep, grave sound. See Bass, a.", | |
| "THOROUGH-BRACE": "A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attachedto springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.", | |
| "OROLOGICAL": "Of or pertaining to orology.", | |
| "BIOLOGY": "The science of life; that branch of knowledge which treats ofliving matter as distinct from matter which is not living; the studyof living tissue. It has to do with the origin, structure,development, function, and distribution of animals and plants.", | |
| "HAZARD": "Holing a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or theplayer's ball (losing hazard).", | |
| "WOOLENET": "A thin, light fabric of wool. [Written also woollenet,woolenette, and woollenette.]", | |
| "AULETIC": "Of or pertaining to a pipe (flute) or piper. [R.] Ash.", | |
| "DUCAL": "Of or pertaining to a duke.His ducal cap was to be exchanged for a kingly crown. Motley.", | |
| "INFECTION": "Contamination by illegality, as in cases of contraband goods;implication.", | |
| "ASTEROPE": "One of the Pleiades; -- called also Sterope.", | |
| "DIT": "To close up. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "ONERARY": "Fitted for, or carrying, a burden. Johnson.", | |
| "LIBELER": "One who libels. [Written also libeller.] \" Libelers of others.\"Buckkminster.", | |
| "HACKMATACK": "The American larch (Larix Americana), a coniferous tree withslender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber.Called also tamarack.", | |
| "PAUCITY": "The scup. See Porgy, and Scup.", | |
| "REJUDGE": "To judge again; to reRejudge his acts, and dignify disgrace. Pope.", | |
| "PALMAR": "Pertaining to, or corresponding with, the palm of the hand.", | |
| "THERMOTROPISM": "The phenomenon of turning towards a source of warmth, seen inthe growing parts of some plants.", | |
| "TIFFIN": "A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; --originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, andbrought back to England in a special sense.", | |
| "OSTRACION": "A genus of plectognath fishes having the body covered withsolid, immovable, bony plates. It includes the trunkfishes.", | |
| "MARSUPIATE": "Related to or resembling the marsupials; furnished with a pouchfor the young, as the marsupials, and also some fishes and Crustacea.", | |
| "BRAYING": "Making a harsh noise; blaring. \"Braying trumpets.\" Shak.", | |
| "FRONTLESS": "Without face or front; shameless; not diffident; impudent.[Obs.] \"Frontless vice.\" Dryden. \"Frontless flattery.\" Pope.", | |
| "ROOF": "The cover of any building, including the roofing (see Roofing)and all the materials and construction necessary to carry andmaintain the same upon the walls or other uprights. In the case of abuilding with vaulted ceilings protected by an outer roof, somewriters call the vault the roof, and the outer protection the roofmask. It is better, however, to consider the vault as the ceilingonly, in cases where it has farther covering.", | |
| "EXICCATION": "See Exsiccation. [Obs.]", | |
| "STUMBLER": "One who stumbles.", | |
| "STORVEN": "p. p. of Starve. Chaucer.", | |
| "DINE": "To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner.Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak.To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase commonin Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poorgentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb ofHumphrey, Duke of Gloucester, in Old Saint Paul's.", | |
| "HOLOTHURE": "A holothurian.", | |
| "ENFEOFF": "To give a feud, or right in land, to; to invest with a fief orfee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process offeoffment. Mozley & W.", | |
| "POSTLIMINIARY": "Pertaining to, or involving, the right of postliminium.", | |
| "PILER": "One who places things in a pile.", | |
| "TROUPE": "A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in aplay or an opera.", | |
| "SEMPITERNITY": "Future duration without end; the relation or state of beingsempiternal. Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "TETTER": "A vesicular disease of the skin; herpes. See Herpes. Honeycombtetter (Med.), favus.-- Moist tetter (Med.), eczema.-- Scaly tetter (Med.), psoriasis. Tetter berry (Bot.), the whitebryony.", | |
| "SPANIEL": "One of a breed of small dogs having long and thick hair andlarge drooping ears. The legs are usually strongly feathered, and thetail bushy. See Illust. under Clumber, and Cocker.", | |
| "AMPLIATION": "A postponement of the decision of a cause, for furtherconsideration or re-argument.", | |
| "LEPERIZE": "To affect with leprosy.", | |
| "PALELY": "In a pale manner; dimly; wanly; not freshly or ruddily.Thackeray.", | |
| "COON": "A raccoon. See Raccoon.", | |
| "GRIT": "Grain, esp. oats or wheat, hulled and coarsely ground; in highmilling, fragments of cracked wheat smaller than groats.", | |
| "DESPISEMENT": "A despising. [R.] Holland.", | |
| "TURKIS": "Turquois. [Obs.]", | |
| "COVENABLY": "Fitly; suitably. [Obs.] \"Well and covenably.\" Chaucer.", | |
| "EQUILIBRIOUS": "Evenly poised; balanced. Dr. H. More.-- E`qui*lib\"ri*ous*ly, adv.", | |
| "UNSOOT": "Not sweet. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "TUFFOON": "See Typhoon. [R.]", | |
| "ECAUDATE": "Without a tail or spur.", | |
| "BESMIRCH": "To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor;to sully. Shak.", | |
| "COMPRESSIBLE": "Capable of being pressed together or forced into a narrowercompass, as an elastic or spongy substance.", | |
| "INVERTIBLE": "Capable of being changed or converted; as, invertible sugar.", | |
| "TEAZEL": "See Teasel.", | |
| "GOODGEON": "Same as Gudgeon, 5.", | |
| "ADEQUATION": "The act of equalizing; act or result of making adequate; anequivalent. [Obs.] Bp. Barlow.", | |
| "NITRO-": "A combining form (used also adjectively) designating certaincompounds of nitrogen or of its acids, as nitrohydrochloric,nitrocalcite; also, designating the group or radical NO2, or itscompounds, as nitrobenzene. Nitro group, the radical NO2; -- calledalso nitroxyl.", | |
| "GLODE": "imp. of Glide. Chaucer.", | |
| "WAINSCOT": "A wooden lining or boarding of the walls of apartments, usuallymade in panels.", | |
| "CRUCIATE": "Having the leaves or petals arranged in the form of a cross;cruciform.", | |
| "CUERPO": "The body. In cuerpo, without full dress, so that the shape ofthe Body is exposed; hence, naked or uncovered.Exposed in cuerpo to their rage. Hudibras.", | |
| "ULTIMATUM": "A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, thefinal propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of theparties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms anegotiator can offer, the rejection of which usually puts an end tothe hesitation.", | |
| "AMPLIATE": "To enlarge. [R.]To maintain and ampliate the external possessions of your empire.Udall.", | |
| "HYDANTOIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, hydantoin. See Glycoluric.", | |
| "OPSIMATHY": "Education late in life. [R.] Hales.", | |
| "FIBRILLOUS": "Pertaining to, or composed of, fibers.", | |
| "LOBELINE": "A poisonous narcotic alkaloid extracted from the leaves ofIndian tobacco (Lobelia inflata) as a yellow oil, having atobaccolike taste and odor.", | |
| "NIDOROUS": "Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corruptanimal matter. [R.]", | |
| "COMPLICATENESS": "Complexity. Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "MONEYWORT": "A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded oppositeleaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.", | |
| "VEHEMENCY": "Vehemence. [R.]The vehemency of your affection. Shak.", | |
| "MEMORIALIZER": "One who petitions by a memorial. T. Hook.", | |
| "DRASTY": "Filthy; worthless. [Obs.] \"Drasty ryming.\" Chaucer.", | |
| "ORAISON": "See Orison. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "IMPORTUNABLE": "Heavy; insupportable. [Obs.] Sir T. More.", | |
| "ASTARBOARD": "Over to the starboard side; -- said of the tiller.", | |
| "BARRACOON": "A slave warehouse, or an inclosure where slaves are quarteredtemporarily. Du Chaillu.", | |
| "INDISCIPLINABLE": "Not disciplinable; undisciplinable. [R.]", | |
| "PROSODIACALLY": "Prosodically.", | |
| "KICKER": "One who, or that which, kicks.", | |
| "PEDICELLARIA": "A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers uponstarfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, orblades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echiniusually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.", | |
| "RETIRACY": "Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. [U.S.]Bartlett.What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A.Bristed.", | |
| "EQUIVALENCE": "To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. [R.] Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "KRULLER": "See Cruller.", | |
| "HODDY": "See Dun crow, under Dun, a.", | |
| "PROMANATION": "The act of flowing forth; emanation; efflux. [Obs.] Dr. H.More.", | |
| "ACROTELEUTIC": "The end of a verse or psalm, or something added thereto, to besung by the people, by way of a response.", | |
| "DINER-OUT": "One who often takes his dinner away from home, or in company.A brilliant diner-out, though but a curate. Byron.", | |
| "FLUIDNESS": "The state of being flluid; fluidity.", | |
| "SUBCONSTELLATION": "A subordinate constellation. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "WEEPING-RIPE": "Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "CHRYSALIS": "The pupa state of certain insects, esp. of butterflies, fromwhich the perfect insect emerges. See Pupa, and Aurelia (a).", | |
| "PURCHASE": "Acquisition of lands or tenements by other means than descentor inheritance, namely, by one's own act or agreement. Blackstone.Purchase criminal, robbery. [Obs.] Spenser.-- Purchase money, the money paid, or contracted to be paid, foranything bought. Berkeley.-- Worth, or At, [so many] years' purchase, a phrase by which thevalue or cost of a thing is expressed in the length of time requiredfor the income to amount to the purchasing price; as, he bought theestate at a twenty years' purchase. To say one's life is not worth aday's purchase in the same as saying one will not live a day, or isin imminent peril.", | |
| "INEFFICIENTLY": "In an inefficient manner.", | |
| "LINKAGE": "Manner of linking or of being linked; -- said of the union ofatoms or radicals in the molecule.", | |
| "BITUMINOUS": "Having the qualities of bitumen; compounded with bitumen;containing bitumen.Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. Milton.Bituminous coal, a kind of coal which yields, when heated, aconsiderable amount of volatile bituminous matter. It burns with ayellow smoky flame.-- Bituminous limestone, a mineral of a brown or black color,emitting an unpleasant smell when rubbed. That of Dalmatia is socharged with bitumen that it may be cut like soap.-- Bituminous shale, an argillaceous shale impregnated with bitumen,often accompanying coal.", | |
| "CHAT": "To talk in a light and familiar manner; to converse withoutform or ceremony; to gossip. Shak.To chat a while on their adventures. Dryden.", | |
| "APLACENTATA": "Mammals which have no placenta.", | |
| "OOK": "Oak. [Obs.] \"A branched ook.\" Chaucer.", | |
| "OSCULANT": "Adhering closely; embracing; -- applied to certain creepinganimals, as caterpillars.", | |
| "ATONES": "Etym: [See At one.] [Obs.]Down he fell atones as a stone. Chaucer.", | |
| "FROSTWORT": "Same as Frostweed.", | |
| "PRECEDANEOUS": "Preceding; antecedent; previous. [Obs.] Hammond.", | |
| "ERUDIATE": "To instruct; to educate; to teach. [Obs.]The skillful goddess there erudiates these In all she did. Fanshawe.", | |
| "PERIODATE": "A salt of periodic acid.", | |
| "ORNAMENTAL": "Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying;embellishing.Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on theirwrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "QUARTERFOIL": "An ornamental foliation having four lobes, or foils.", | |
| "UNIDIMENSIONAL": "Having but one dimension. See Dimension.", | |
| "CHONDROGENESIS": "The development of cartilage.", | |
| "CLOVEN": "from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal adevilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstandingdisguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolicallyas having cloven hoofs.", | |
| "CALCEOLARIA": "A genus of showy herbaceous or shrubby plant, biought fromSouth America; slipperwort. It has a yellow or purple flower, oftenspotted or striped, the shape of which suggests its name.", | |
| "COUP": "A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a termused in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force. Coupde grace (ke gr Etym: [F.], the stroke of mercy with which anexecutioner ends by death the sufferings of the condemned; hence, adecisive, finishing stroke.-- Coup de main (ke m Etym: [F.] (Mil.), a sudden and unexpectedmovement or attack.-- Coup de soleil (k Etym: [F.] (Med.), a sunstroke. See Sunstroke.-- Coup d'\u00e9tat (k Etym: [F.] (Politics), a sudden, decisive exerciseof power whereby the existing government is subverted without theconsent of the people; an unexpected measure of state, more or lessviolent; a stroke of policy.-- Coup d'oeil (k. Etym: [F.] (a) A single view; a rapid glance ofthe eye; a comprehensive view of a scene; as much as can be seen atone view. (b) The general effect of a picture. (c) (Mil.) The facultyor the act of comprehending at a glance the weakness or strength of amilitary position, of a certain arrangement of troops, the mostadvantageous position for a battlefield, etc.", | |
| "DECIDABLE": "Capable of being decided; determinable.", | |
| "REDBREAST": "The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish.", | |
| "DON": "To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.Should I don this robe and trouble you. Shak.At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn.Emerson.", | |
| "DROGUE": "See Drag, n.,", | |
| "EXPERIENCED": "Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful orwise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experiencedphysician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.", | |
| "ARTHROSPORE": "A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, butnow known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor\"ic(#), Ar*thros\"po*rous (#), a.", | |
| "KNEADABLE": "That may be kneaded; capable of being worked into a mass.", | |
| "ACIDIMETRY": "The measurement of the strength of acids, especially by achemical process based on the law of chemical combinations, or thefact that, to produce a complete reaction, a certain definite weightof reagent is required.-- Ac`id*i*met\"ric*al, a.", | |
| "ADOLESCENCE": "The state of growing up from childhood to manhood or womanhood;youth, or the period of life between puberty and maturity, generallyconsidered to be, in the male sex, from fourteen to twenty-one.Sometimes used with reference to the lower animals.", | |
| "HEPTAD": "An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can betheoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, sevenmonad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Alsoused as an adjective.", | |
| "NUCIFEROUS": "Bearing, or producing, nuts.", | |
| "MISTHOUGHT": "Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "LUNGWORM": "Any one of several species of parasitic nematoid worms whichinfest the lungs and air passages of cattle, sheep, and otheranimals, often proving fatal. The lungworm of cattle (Strongylusmicrurus) and that of sheep (S. filaria) are the best known.", | |
| "BAH": "An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknownto the English public. De Quincey.", | |
| "PIGEONTOED": "Having the toes turned in.", | |
| "TASIMER": "An instrument for detecting or measuring minute extension ormovements of solid bodies. It consists essentially of a small rod,disk, or button of carbon, forming part of an electrical circuit, theresistance of which, being varied by the changes of pressure producedby the movements of the object to be measured, causes variations inthe strength of the current, which variations are indicated by asensitive galvanometer. It is also used for measuring minute changesof temperature. T. A. Edison.", | |
| "AVENTINE": "Pertaining to Mons Aventinus, one of the seven hills on whichRome stood. Bryant.", | |
| "REPATRIATION": "Restoration to one's country.", | |
| "INTERTRANSPICUOUS": "Transpicuous within or between. [R.] Shelley.", | |
| "SUPERSULPHURETED": "Supersulphurized. [Obs.] [Written also -sulphuretted.]", | |
| "ZANDMOLE": "The sand mole.", | |
| "HELL-HAUNTED": "Haunted by devils; hellish. Dryden.", | |
| "MYXOMYCETES": "A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerlyregarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to beplants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They arefound on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist ofnaked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creepvery slowly over the surface and ingest solid food. --Myx`o*my*ce\"tous (#), a.", | |
| "RECLAIMER": "One who reclaims.", | |
| "SEA SNAKE": "Any one of many species of venomous aquatic snakes of thefamily Hydrophid\u00e6, having a flattened tail and living entirely in thesea, especially in the warmer parts of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but somespecies become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.", | |
| "STROND": "Strand; beach. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "PURLOIN": "To take or carry away for one's self; hence, to steal; to takeby theft; to filch.Had from his wakeful custody purloined The guarded gold. Milton.when did the muse from Fletcher scenes purloin Dryden.", | |
| "ENDURING": "Lasting; durable; long-suffering; as, an enduring disposition.\"A better and enduring substance.\" Heb. x. 34.-- En*dur\"ing*ly, adv. T. Arnold.-- En*dur\"ing*ness, n.", | |
| "HUELESS": "Destitute of color. Hudibras.", | |
| "PICI": "A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.", | |
| "PYRAMIDION": "The small pyramid which crowns or completes an obelisk.", | |
| "MYCOPROTEIN": "The protoplasmic matter of which bacteria are composed.", | |
| "DRAWBOLT": "A coupling pin. See under Coupling.", | |
| "CLYDESDALE TERRIER": "One of a breed of small silky-haired terriers related to, butsmaller than, the Skye terrier, having smaller and perfectly erectears.", | |
| "EXHORT": "To incite by words or advice; to animate or urge by arguments,as to a good deed or laudable conduct; to address exhortation to; tourge strongly; hence, to advise, warn, or caution.Examples gross as earth exhort me. Shak.Let me exhort you to take care of yourself. J. D. Forbes.", | |
| "CURARINE": "A deadly alkaloid extracted from the curare poison and from theStrychnos toxifera. It is obtained in crystalline colorless salts.", | |
| "ROMPISH": "Given to rude play; inclined to romp. --- Romp\"ish, adv.-- Romp\"ish*ness, n.", | |
| "BROKING": "Of or pertaining to a broker or brokers, or to brokerage.[Obs.]Redeem from broking pawn the blemished crown. Shak.", | |
| "JEWISE": "Same as Juise. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "MYTHOGRAPHER": "A composer of fables.", | |
| "THONG": "A strap of leather; especially, one used for fasteninganything.And nails for loosened spears, and thongs for shields, provide.Dryden.Thong seal (Zo\u00f6l.), the bearded seal. See the Note under Seal.", | |
| "THAUMATURGICS": "Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances.", | |
| "ISOSULPHOCYANIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, HNCS, isomeric withsulphocyanic acid.", | |
| "ANORTHOPIA": "Distorted vision, in which straight lines appear bent.", | |
| "FEUDALITY": "The state or quality of being feudal; feudal form orconstitution. Burke.", | |
| "PEGOMANCY": "Divination by fountains. [R.]", | |
| "OBSEQUIOUS": "Of or pertaining to obsequies; funereal. [R.] \"To do obsequioussorrow.\" Shak.", | |
| "LIGATE": "To tie with a ligature; to bind around; to bandage.", | |
| "CROUPOUS": "Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with theformation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranouscroup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumoniaattended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air vesicles ofthe lungs; ordinary acute pneumonia.", | |
| "STUKE": "Stucco. [Obs.]", | |
| "TROTHPLIGHT": "To betroth. [Obs.]", | |
| "OVERSTUDIOUS": "Too studious.", | |
| "SUPPERLESS": "Having no supper; deprived of supper; as, to go supperless tobed. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "TIENDA": "In Cuba, Mexico, etc., a booth, stall, or shop wheremerchandise is sold.", | |
| "CAULK": "See Calk.", | |
| "THREATFUL": "Full of threats; having a menacing appearance. Spenser.-- Threat\"ful*ly, adv.", | |
| "INDIGN": "Unworthy; undeserving; disgraceful; degrading. Chaucer.Counts it scorn to draw Comfort indign from any meaner thing. Trench.", | |
| "MUSLINET": "A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.", | |
| "RECHERCHE": "Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance,or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind.", | |
| "RESERATE": "To unlock; to open. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "COMMITTIBLE": "Capable of being committed; liable to be committed. [R.] Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "HENRIETTA CLOTH": "A fine wide wooled fabric much used for women's dresses.", | |
| "CONSILIENCE": "Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.The consilience of inductions takes place when one class of factscoincides with an induction obtained from another different class.Whewell.", | |
| "PLEURA": "pl. of Pleuron.", | |
| "UNDERPROPORTIONED": "Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor.Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.", | |
| "BRICKYARD": "A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.", | |
| "PREZYGAPOPHYSIS": "An anterior zygapophysis.", | |
| "VENENATE": "To poison; to infect with poison. [R.] Harvey.", | |
| "REBUKABLE": "Worthy of rebuke or reprehension; reprehensible. Shak.", | |
| "DIATHERMANOUS": "Having the property of transmitting radiant heat; diathermal; -- opposed to athermanous.", | |
| "MANOSCOPE": "Same as Manometer.", | |
| "DAGON": "The national god of the Philistines, represented with the faceand hands and upper part of a man, and the tail of a fish. W. Smith.This day a solemn feast the people hold To Dagon, their sea idol.Milton.They brought it into the house of Dagon. 1 Sam. v. 2.", | |
| "OVERCOSTLY": "Too costly. Milton.", | |
| "SILICOFLUORIC": "Containing, or composed of, silicon and fluorine; especially,denoting the compounds called silicofluorides. Silicofluoric acid(Chem.), a compound of hydrofluoric acid and silicon fluoride, knownonly in watery solution. It is produced by the action of siliconfluoride on water, and is regarded as an acid, H2SiF6, and the typeand origin of the silicofluorides.", | |
| "DIGESTIBLENESS": "The quality of being digestible; digestibility.", | |
| "SCHEMEFUL": "Full of schemes or plans.", | |
| "EPIDERMOID": "Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.", | |
| "MOVING": "The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changingone's dwelling place or place of business. Moving day, a day when onemoves; esp., a day when a large number of tenants change theirdwelling place.", | |
| "AGUISE": "Dress. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "LEEP": "of Leap. leaped.", | |
| "ORTHOSTICHY": "A longitudinal rank, or row, of leaves along a stem.", | |
| "CASE": "A shallow tray divided into compartments or \"boxes\" for holdingtype.", | |
| "VENDIBLE": "Capable of being vended, or sold; that may be sold; salable.The regulating of prices of things vendible. Bacon.", | |
| "SECUNDATE": "To make prosperous. [R.]", | |
| "TRADESFOLK": "People employed in trade; tradesmen. [R.] Swift.", | |
| "TRANSVASATION": "The act or process of pouring out of one vessel into another.[Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "BREAKABLE": "Capable of being broken.", | |
| "WOON": "Dwelling. See Wone. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNCOIF": "To deprive of the coif or cap. Young.", | |
| "SCURRY": "To hasten away or along; to move rapidly; to hurry; as, therabbit scurried away.", | |
| "SILIGINOSE": "Made of fine wheat. [Obs.] Bailey.", | |
| "FINNIKIN": "A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the maneof a horse. [Written also finikin.]", | |
| "FORE-NIGHT": "The evening between twilight and bedtime. [Scot.]", | |
| "ESSORANT": "Standing, but with the wings spread, as if about to fly; --said of a bird borne as a charge on an escutcheon.", | |
| "ARITHMOMETER": "A calculating machine.", | |
| "CRINICULTURAL": "Relating to the growth of hair. [R.]", | |
| "THINLY": "In a thin manner; in a loose, scattered manner; scantily; notthickly; as, ground thinly planted with trees; a country thinlyinhabited.", | |
| "CRATAEGUS": "A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, muchused for ornamental purposes.", | |
| "POLYGAMIAN": "Polygamous.", | |
| "TALPA": "A genus of small insectivores including the common Europeanmole.", | |
| "ALETHIOLOGY": "The science which treats of the nature of truth and evidence.Sir W. Hamilton.", | |
| "DECAPODA": "The order of Crustacea which includes the shrimps, lobsters,crabs, etc.", | |
| "ILLUMINATING": "Giving or producing light; used for illumination. Illuminatinggas. See Gas, n., 2 (a).", | |
| "MARSEILLES": "A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formedof two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming doublecloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made inMarseilles, France.", | |
| "VITRIFIED": "Converted into glass.", | |
| "DEMPNE": "To damn; to condemn. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CONTRA": "A Latin adverb and preposition, signifying against, contrary,in opposition, etc., entering as a prefix into the composition ofmany English words. Cf. Counter, adv. & pref.", | |
| "HUMANIZE": "To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, tohumanize vaccine lymph.", | |
| "TITMOUSE": "Any one of numerous species of small insectivorous singingbirds belonging to Parus and allied genera; -- called also tit, andtomtit.", | |
| "REI": "A portuguese money of account, in value about one tenth of acent. [Spelt also ree.]", | |
| "SIRE": "To beget; to procreate; -- used of beasts, and especially ofstallions.", | |
| "SEMICRYSTALLINE": "Half crystalline; -- said of certain cruptive rocks composedpartly of crystalline, partly of amorphous matter.", | |
| "DOUBLING": "The lining of the mantle borne about the shield or escutcheon.", | |
| "SEER": "Sore; painful. [Prov. Eng.] Ray.", | |
| "TOFF": "A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.", | |
| "BARYTES": "Barium sulphate, generally called heavy spar or barite. SeeBarite.", | |
| "SELF-INTERESTED": "Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness.", | |
| "HASTEN": "To press; to drive or urge forward; to push on; to precipitate;to accelerate the movement of; to expedite; to hurry.I would hasten my escape from the windy storm. Ps. lv. 8.", | |
| "ARRAIGNMENT": "The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the actof calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to anindictment or complaint.", | |
| "GUANIN": "A crystalline substance (C5H5N5O) contained in guano. It isalso a constituent of the liver, pancreas, and other glands inmammals.", | |
| "CLERONOMY": "Inheritance; heritage.", | |
| "SPARKER": "A spark arrester.", | |
| "CONNASCENT": "Born together; produced at the same time. Craig.", | |
| "SKILL-LESS": "Wanting skill. Shak.", | |
| "TARTRONYL": "A hypothetical radical constituting the characteristic residueof tartronic acid and certain of its derivatives.", | |
| "INOPERATIVE": "Not operative; not active; producing no effects; as, lawsrenderd inoperative by neglect; inoperative remedies or processes.", | |
| "STOCKING": "A close-fitting covering for the foot and leg, usually knit orwoven. Blue stocking. See Bluestocking.-- Stocking frame, a machine for knitting stockings or other hosierygoods.", | |
| "PEDICULAR": "Of or pertaining to lice; having the lousy distemper(phthiriasis); lousy. Southey.", | |
| "SAGELY": "In a sage manner; wisely.", | |
| "OBLONGUM": "A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of anellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid ofrevolution, under Ellipsoid.", | |
| "KITH": "Acquaintance; kindred.And my near kith for sore me shend. W. Browne.The sage of his kith and the hamlet. Longfellow.Kith and kin, kindred more or less remote.", | |
| "STRONTIA": "An earth of a white color resembling lime in appearance, andbaryta in many of its properties. It is an oxide of the metalstrontium.", | |
| "EMBASTARDIZE": "To bastardize. [Obs.]", | |
| "SPECTROLOGICAL": "Of or pertaining to spectrology; as, spectrological studies orexperiments.-- Spec`tro*log\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "INSTAMP": "See Enstamp.", | |
| "SUMMONER": "One who summons; one who cites by authority; specifically, apetty officer formerly employed to summon persons to appear in court;an apparitor.", | |
| "SIROCCO": "An oppressive, relaxing wind from the Libyan deserts, chieflyexperienced in Italy, Malta, and Sicily.", | |
| "HERD": "Haired. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "MERRYMEETING": "A meeting for mirth.", | |
| "ABSCIND": "To cut off. [R.] \"Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest.\"Johnson.", | |
| "CROSSBEAM": "A girder.", | |
| "CHEMIC": "A solution of chloride of line.", | |
| "FLANCONADE": "A thrust in the side.", | |
| "DESTIN": "Destiny. [Obs.] Marston.", | |
| "TAIL-BAY": "One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the otheron a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder ofa floor. Cf. Case-bay.", | |
| "IDIOMORPHIC": "Idiomorphous.", | |
| "BLENDING": "The method of laying on different tints so that they may mingletogether while wet, and shade into each other insensibly. Weale.", | |
| "LACTAGE": "The produce of animals yielding milk; milk and that which ismade from it.", | |
| "FEDITY": "Turpitude; vileness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "ANTIMONATE": "A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.[Written also antimoniate.]", | |
| "AGELESS": "Without old age limits of duration; as, fountains of agelessyouth.", | |
| "CLINOSTAT": "An apparatus consisting of a slowly revolving disk, usuallyregulated by clockwork, by means of wich the action of externalagents, as light and gravity, on growing plants may be regulated oreliminated.", | |
| "ROSOLIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, a complex red dyestuff (calledrosolic acid) which is analogous to rosaniline and aurin. It isproduced by oxidizing a mixture of phenol and cresol, as a dark redamorphous mass, C20H16O3, which forms weak salts with bases, andstable ones with acids. Called also methyl aurin, and, formerly,corallin.", | |
| "SUPREME": "Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, theAlmighty; God.", | |
| "LEVESEL": "A leafy shelter; a place covered with foliage. [Obs.]Behind the mill, under a levesel. Chaucer.", | |
| "ADOPTIONIST": "One of a sect which maintained that Christ was the Son of Godnot by nature but by adoption.", | |
| "HERDIC": "A kind of low-hung cab.", | |
| "BARBITON": "An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.", | |
| "CATHARSIS": "A natural or artificial purgation of any passage, as of themouth, bowels, etc.", | |
| "STALLED": "Put or kept in a stall; hence, fatted. \"A stalled ox.\" Prov.xv. 17.", | |
| "SEAT": "A part or surface on which another part or surface rests; as, avalve seat. Seat worm (Zo\u00f6l.), the pinworm.", | |
| "ARMET": "A kind of helmet worn in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries.", | |
| "INTERSTAPEDIAL": "Pertaining to a part of the columella of the ear, between thestapes and the mediostapedial.-- n.", | |
| "UNBAG": "To pour, or take, or let go, out of a bag or bags.", | |
| "PURPUREO-": "A combining form signifying of a purple or purple-red color.Specif. (Chem.), used in designating certain brilliant purple-redcompounds of cobaltic chloride and ammonia, similar to theroseocobaltic compounds. See Cobaltic.", | |
| "UNPEOPLE": "To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Shak.", | |
| "INFUSORIAN": "One of the Infusoria.", | |
| "POLLINOSE": "Having the surface covered with a fine yellow dust, likepollen.", | |
| "MAGENTA": "An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having agreen bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also,the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to thebattle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Calledalso fuchsine, rose\u00efne, etc.", | |
| "OXYAMMONIA": "Same as Hydroxylamine.", | |
| "HEMIHOLOHEDRAL": "Presenting hemihedral forms, in which half the sectants havethe full number of planes.", | |
| "SURVEILLANT": "One who watches over another; an overseer; a spy; a supervisor.", | |
| "BLUNDERER": "One who is apt to blunder.", | |
| "MISPAY": "To dissatisfy. [Obs.]", | |
| "LOBULE": "A small lobe; a subdivision of a lobe. Lobule of the ear.(Anat.) Same as Lobe of the ear.", | |
| "INCOMMODE": "To give inconvenience or trouble to; to disturb or molest; todiscommode; to worry; to put out; as, we are incommoded by want ofroom.", | |
| "SPARPIECE": "The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.", | |
| "RECIPROCALNESS": "The quality or condition of being reciprocal; mutual return;alternateness.", | |
| "SEMICONSCIOUS": "Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.", | |
| "BOWER BIRD": "An Australian bird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus or holosericeus),allied to the starling, which constructs singular bowers orplayhouses of twigs and decorates them with brightcolored objects;the satin bird.", | |
| "PERCHLORIDE": "A chloride having a higher proportion of chlorine than anyother chloride of the same substance or series.", | |
| "VIFDA": "In the Orkney and Shetland Islands, beef and mutton hung anddried, but not salted. [Scot.] [Written also vivda.] Jamieson.", | |
| "PREPARE": "Preparation. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "ALEMBROTH": "The salt of wisdom of the alchemists, a double salt composed ofthe chlorides of ammonium and mercury. It was formerly used as astimulant. Brande & C.", | |
| "PETROLOGIST": "One who is versed in petrology.", | |
| "CATEGORY": "One of the highest classes to which the objects of knowledge orthought can be reduced, and by which they can be arranged in asystem; an ultimate or undecomposable conception; a predicament.The categories or predicaments -- the former a Greek word, the latterits literal translation in the Latin language -- were intended byAristotle and his followers as an enumeration of all things capableof being named; an enumeration by the summa genera i.e., the mostextensive classes into which things could be distributed. J. S. Mill.", | |
| "LEPADITE": "Same as Lepadoid.", | |
| "LIQUIDLY": "In a liquid manner; flowingly.", | |
| "OECONOMY": "See Economy.", | |
| "REIMPREGNATE": "To impregnate again or anew. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "HUMANITARIANISM": "The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying thedivinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based uponthis view of Christ.", | |
| "PSITTACI": "The order of birds which comprises the parrots.", | |
| "MULTIFARIOUSNESS": "The fault of improperly uniting in one bill distinct andindependent matters, and thereby confounding them. Burrill.", | |
| "GLUMMY": "dark; gloomy; dismal. [Obs.]", | |
| "SPISS": "Thick; crowded; compact; dense. [Obs.]This spiss and . . . copious, yet concise, treatise. Brerewood.", | |
| "SIGILLATED": "Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.", | |
| "DETORT": "To turn form the original or plain meaning; to pervert; towrest. Hammond.", | |
| "TAUTOG": "An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) ofthe Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearlyblack, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Calledalso blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll. [Written alsotautaug.]", | |
| "STROCKLE": "A shovel with a turned-up edge, for frit, sand, etc. [Writtenalso strocal, strocle, strokal.]", | |
| "SWORE": "imp. of Swear.", | |
| "GAZEL": "The black currant; also, the wild plum. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "SAPIENT": "Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.Milton.", | |
| "PILGRIMIZE": "To wander as a pilgrim; to go on a pilgrimage. [Obs.] B.Jonson.", | |
| "HYDRANT": "A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may bedrawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.", | |
| "ACCOMMODATE": "To adapt one's self; to be conformable or adapted. [R.] Boyle.", | |
| "WATER DEVIL": "The rapacious larva of a large water beetle (Hydrophiluspiceus), and of other similar species. See Illust. of Water beetle.", | |
| "PRICKLY": "Full of sharp points or prickles; armed or covered withprickles; as, a prickly shrub. Prickly ash (Bot.), a prickly shrub(Xanthoxylum Americanum) with yellowish flowers appearing with theleaves. All parts of the plant are pungent and aromatic. The southernspecies is X. Carolinianum. Gray.-- Prickly heat (Med.), a noncontagious cutaneous eruption of redpimples, attended with intense itching and tingling of the partsaffected. It is due to inflammation of the sweat glands, and is oftenbrought on by overheating the skin in hot weather.-- Prickly pear (Bot.), a name given to several plants of thecactaceous genus Opuntia, American plants consisting of fleshy,leafless, usually flattened, and often prickly joints inserted uponeach other. The sessile flowers have many petals and numerousstamens. The edible fruit is a large pear-shaped berry containingmany flattish seeds. The common species of the Northern AtlanticStates is Opuntia vulgaris. In the South and West are many others,and in tropical America more than a hundred more. O. vulgaris, O.Ficus-Indica, and O. Tuna are abundantly introduced in theMediterranean region, and O. Dillenii has become common in India.-- Prickly pole (Bot.), a West Indian palm (Bactris Plumierana), theslender trunk of which bears many rings of long black prickles.-- Prickly withe (Bot.), a West Indian cactaceous plant (Cereustriangularis) having prickly, slender, climbing, triangular stems.-- Prickly rat (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of several species of South Americanburrowing rodents belonging to Ctenomys and allied genera. The hairis usually intermingled with sharp spines.", | |
| "MARSH MARIGOLD": ". (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris),growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In theUnited States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. SeeCowslip.", | |
| "LOCULAR": "Of or relating to the cell or compartment of an ovary, etc.; incomposition, having cells; as trilocular. Gray.", | |
| "PHENICIAN": "See Phoenician.", | |
| "GHASTLINESS": "The state of being ghastly; a deathlike look.", | |
| "HAYLOFT": "A loft or scaffold for hay.", | |
| "SOBOLIFEROUS": "Producing soboles. See Illust. of Houseleek.", | |
| "FLUCTUATE": "To cause to move as a wave; to put in motion. [R.]And fluctuate all the still perfume. Tennyson.", | |
| "WORRY": "To feel or express undue care and anxiety; to manifestdisquietude or pain; to be fretful; to chafe; as, the child worries;the horse worries.", | |
| "NOMOTHETE": "A lawgiver. [R.]", | |
| "SCYBALA": "Hardened masses of feces.", | |
| "SUBSTANTIALNESS": "The quality or state of being substantial; as, thesubstantialness of a wall or column.", | |
| "INTERJANGLE": "To make a dissonant, discordant noise one with another; to talkor chatter noisily. [R.] Daniel.", | |
| "KYACK": "A pack sack to be swung on either side of a packsaddle.[Western U. S.]", | |
| "MEDULLA": "The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ orpart; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney;specifically, the medula oblongata.", | |
| "EXOGAMOUS": "Relating to exogamy; marrying outside of the limits of one'sown tribe; -- opposed to endogenous.", | |
| "SPLAYMOUTHED": "Having a splaymouth. T. Brown.", | |
| "INHABILITY": "Unsuitableness; unaptness; unfitness; inability. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "INEBRIETY": "Drunkenness; inebriation. E. Darwin.", | |
| "QUINQUE FOLIOLATE": "Having five leaflets. Gray.", | |
| "CUMENE": "A colorless oily hydrocarbon, C6H5.C3H7, obtained by thedistillation of cuminic acid; -- called also cumol.", | |
| "INDIVISIBLENESS": "The state of being indivisible; indivisibility. W. Montagu.", | |
| "POLYTHALAMOUS": "Many-chambered; -- applied to shells of Foraminifera andcephalopods. See Illust. of Nautilus.", | |
| "UNIVERSITY EXTENSION": "The extension of the advantages of university instruction bymeans of lectures and classes at various centers.", | |
| "ALLFOURS": "A game at cards, called \"High, Low, Jack, and the Game.\"", | |
| "FAINTLING": "Timorous; feeble-minded. [Obs.] \"A fainting, silly creature.\"Arbuthnot.", | |
| "BURROCK": "A small weir or dam in a river to direct the stream to gapswhere fish traps are placed. Knight.", | |
| "ICHTHYOMANCY": "Divination by the heads or the entrails of fishes.", | |
| "INDECIPHERABLE": "Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, orsolved.-- In`de*ci\"pher*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "NOTABLENESS": "The quality of being notable.", | |
| "IGNICOLIST": "A worshiper of fire. [R.]", | |
| "TAMARISK": "Any shrub or tree of the genus Tamarix, the species of whichare European and Asiatic. They have minute scalelike leaves, andsmall flowers in spikes. An Arabian species (T. mannifera) is thesource of one kind of manna. Tamarisk salt tree, an East Indian tree(Tamarix orientalis) which produces an incrustation of salt.", | |
| "UNCONFORM": "Unlike. [Obs.]Not unconform to other shining globes. Milton.", | |
| "STURB": "To disturb. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FIG": "A small fruit tree (Ficus Carica) with large leaves, known fromthe remotest antiquity. It was probably native from Syria westward tothe Canary Islands.", | |
| "LIZARD": "Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to theorder Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of otherorders, as the Hatteria.", | |
| "LARDACEIN": "A peculiar amyloid substance, colored blue by iodine andsulphuric acid, occurring mainly as an abnormal infiltration into thespleen, liver, etc.", | |
| "OPYE": "Opium. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "RHODANIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (commonly calledsulphocyanic acid) which frms a red color with ferric salts.[Obsoles.]", | |
| "SULPHURING": "Exposure to the fumes of burning sulphur, as in bleaching; theprocess of bleaching by exposure to the fumes of sulphur.", | |
| "XANTHORHOEA": "A genus of endogenous plants, native to Australia, having athick, sometimes arborescent, stem, and long grasslike leaves. SeeGrass tree.", | |
| "SMOTHERINGLY": "In a smothering manner.", | |
| "HYDRIODIDE": "A compound of hydriodic acid with a base; -- distinguished froman iodide, in which only the iodine combines with the base.", | |
| "PRANK": "To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank. Spenser.", | |
| "CRUMMABLE": "Capable of being crumbed or broken into small pieces.", | |
| "DEMICULVERIN": "A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from nine tothirteen pounds.", | |
| "EDENTATE": "Belonging to the Edentata.", | |
| "LATINLY": "In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. [Obs.]Heylin.", | |
| "SPATTERDASHED": "Wearing spatterdashes. [Colloq.] Thackeray.", | |
| "INSPERSION": "The act of sprinkling. [Obs.] Chapman.", | |
| "CHAINWORK": "Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitchwork.", | |
| "UNCO": "Unknown; strange, or foreign; unusual, or surprising; distantin manner; reserved. [Scot.]", | |
| "FALLING": "from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fallaway, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i.-- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down overthe doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century.-- Falling sickness (Med.), epilepsy. Shak.-- Falling star. (Astron.) See Shooting star.-- Falling stone, a stone falling through the atmosphere; ameteorite; an a\u00ebrolite.-- Falling tide, the ebb tide.-- Falling weather, a rainy season. [Colloq.] Bartlett.", | |
| "CANINAL": "See Canine, a.", | |
| "SLICER": "One who, or that which, slices; specifically, the circular sawof the lapidary.", | |
| "REPUGNER": "One who repugns.", | |
| "MESOSCAPULAR": "Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.", | |
| "ROTATORY": "Producing rotation of the plane of polarization; as, therotatory power of bodies on light. See the Note under polarization.Nichol.", | |
| "ABORIGINALITY": "The quality of being aboriginal. Westm. Rev.", | |
| "CHARACTERISM": "A distinction of character; a characteristic. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "NOTUM": "The back.", | |
| "INDECISION": "Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness;indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation;hesitation.The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different fromirresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone.Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence. Burke.", | |
| "SANCTIMONIAL": "Sanctimonius. [Obs.]", | |
| "MEDIACY": "The state or quality of being mediate. Sir W. Hamilton.", | |
| "SELF-RELIANT": "Reliant upon one's self; trusting to one's own powers orjudgment.", | |
| "CIRCUMVENT": "To gain advantage over by arts, stratagem, or deception; todecieve; to delude; to get around.I circumvented whom I could not gain. Dryden.", | |
| "REPOSITORY": "A place where things are or may be reposited, or laid up, forsafety or preservation; a depository. Locke.", | |
| "CUIRASSED": "Having a covering of bony plates, resembling a cuirass;- saidof certain fishes.", | |
| "MADREPORA": "A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includesthan one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantlybranched.-- Mad`re*po\"ral, a.", | |
| "LANGUENTE": "In a languishing manner; pathetically.", | |
| "SPERMARY": "An organ in which spermatozoa are developed; a sperm gland; atesticle.", | |
| "SELF-ANNIHILATED": "Annihilated by one's self.", | |
| "HARDENED": "Made hard, or compact; made unfeeling or callous; madeobstinate or obdurate; confirmed in error or vice.", | |
| "BOUNTIFUL": "Goodness; generosity. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "CHELERYTHRINE": "Am alkaloidal principle obtained from the celandine, and namedfrom the red color of its salts, It is a coloriess crystallinesubstance, and acts as an acrid narcotic poison. It is identical withsanguinarine.", | |
| "SPAR": "An old name for a nonmetallic mineral, usually cleavable andsomewhat lustrous; as, calc spar, or calcite, fluor spar, etc. It wasespecially used in the case of the gangue minerals of a metalliferousvein. Blue spar, Cube spar, etc. See under Blue, Cube, etc.", | |
| "SURPLICE": "A white garment worn over another dress by the clergy of theRoman Catholic, Episcopal, and certain other churches, in some oftheir ministrations. Surplice fees (Eccl.), fees paid to the Englishclergy for occasional duties.", | |
| "EFFRONT": "To give assurance to. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "RESAIL": "To sail again; also, to sail back, as to a former port.", | |
| "SCRATCHY": "Characterized by scratches.", | |
| "CHLORINATION": "The act or process of subjecting anything to the action ofchlorine; especially, a process for the extraction of gold byexposure of the auriferous material to chlorine gas.", | |
| "OVER-STORY": "The clearstory, or upper story, of a building.", | |
| "TELEGA": "A rude four-wheeled, springless wagon, used among the Russians.", | |
| "APHAKIAL": "Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.", | |
| "PNEUMONOPHORA": "The division of Siphonophora which includes the Physalia andallied genera; -- called also Pneumatophor\u00e6.", | |
| "STUFF": "A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which themasts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham.Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "WINNINGNESS": "The quality or state of being winning. \"Winningness in style.\"J. Morley.", | |
| "CHOPSTICK": "One of two small sticks of wood, ivory, etc., used by theChinese and Japanese to convey food to the mouth.", | |
| "ACHRONIC": "See Acronyc.", | |
| "PRIMOGENITOR": "The first ancestor; a forefather.", | |
| "MARSHINESS": "The state or condition of being marshy.", | |
| "HIPPOCRENE": "A fountain on Mount Helicon in Boeotia, fabled to have burstforth when the ground was struck by the hoof of Pegasus. Also, itswaters, which were supposed to impart poetic inspiration. Keats.Nor maddening draughts of Hippocrene. Longfellow.", | |
| "IMPLACENTAL": "Without a placenta, as marsupials and monotremes.-- n.", | |
| "IMPETRATION": "The obtaining of benefice from Rome by solicitation, whichbenefice belonged to the disposal of the king or other lay patron ofthe realm.", | |
| "PLUMIGEROUS": "Feathered; having feathers. Bailey", | |
| "DIGRESSIONAL": "Pertaining to, or having the character of, a digression;departing from the main purpose or subject. T. Warton.", | |
| "YTTRO-CERITE": "A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white.It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.", | |
| "PROVER": "One who, or that which, proves.", | |
| "LURCATION": "Gluttony; gormandizing. [Obs.]", | |
| "HUSTLE": "To shake together in confusion; to push, jostle, or crowdrudely; to handle roughly; as, to hustle a person out of a room.Macaulay.", | |
| "NONAPPEARANCE": "Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend;failure to appear.", | |
| "BEQUETHEN": "old p. p. of Bequeath. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "HOAXER": "One who hoaxes.", | |
| "EMISSIVITY": "Tendency to emission; comparative facility of emission, or rateat which emission takes place, as of heat from the surface of aheated body.", | |
| "EXARTICULATION": "Luxation; the dislocation of a joint. Bailey.", | |
| "HOBIT": "A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.", | |
| "REVIVEMENT": "Revival. [R.]", | |
| "MISSET": "To set pr place wrongly.", | |
| "UNBOW": "To unbend. [R.] Fuller.", | |
| "CROUKE": "A crock; a jar. [Obs.] Chauser.", | |
| "ENURE": "See Inure.", | |
| "DEVOTED": "Consecrated to a purpose; strongly attached; zealous; devout;as, a devoted admirer.-- De*vot\"ed*ly, adv.-- De*vot\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "PAPPOSE": "Furnished with a pappus; downy.", | |
| "URCHON": "The urchin, or hedgehog.", | |
| "OVERACTION": "Per", | |
| "FUR": "Articles of clothing made of fur; as, a set of furs for a lady(a collar, tippet, or cape, muff, etc.).Wrapped up in my furs. Lady M. W. Montagu.", | |
| "DIATOM": "One of the Diatomace\u00e6, a family of minute unicellular Alg\u00a8aving a siliceous covering of great delicacy, each individualmultiplying by spontaneous division. By some authors diatoms arecalled Bacillari\u00e6, but this word is not in general use.", | |
| "SHEARING": "The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into aface of coal. Shearing machine. (a) A machine with blades, or rotarydisks, for dividing plates or bars of metal. (b) A machine forshearing cloth.", | |
| "EASEMENT": "A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has inthe estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of thesoil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civillaw calls servitude. Kent.", | |
| "KABOOK": "A clay ironstone found in Ceylon.", | |
| "PATEE": "See Pattee.", | |
| "TENNU": "The tapir.", | |
| "AUCTIONARY": "Of or pertaining to an auction or an auctioneer. [R.]With auctionary hammer in thy hand. Dryden.", | |
| "MORUS": "A genus of trees, some species of which produce edible fruit;the mulberry. See Mulberry.", | |
| "ALTERNACY": "Alternateness; alternation. [R.] Mitford.", | |
| "CROCODILIA": "An order of reptiles including the crocodiles, gavials,alligators, and many extinct kinds.", | |
| "OTOSCOPE": "An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.", | |
| "YUMAN": "Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock ofNorth American Indians of the southwestern United States andnorthwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters andbasket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in theirnative state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave,Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.", | |
| "GUILLOCHE": "An ornament in the form of two or more bands or strings twistedover each other in a continued series, leaving circular openingswhich are filled with round ornaments.", | |
| "DUTCHMAN": "A native, or one of the people, of Holland. Dutchman's breeches(Bot.), a perennial American herb (Dicentra cucullaria), withpeculiar double-spurred flowers. See Illust. of Dicentra.-- Dutchman's laudanum (Bot.), a West Indian passion flower(Passiflora Murucuja); also, its fruit.-- Dutchman's pipe (Bot.), an American twining shrub (AristolochiaSipho). Its flowers have their calyx tubes curved like a tobaccopipe.", | |
| "ABIOLOGICAL": "Pertaining to the study of inanimate things.", | |
| "CAMLET": "A woven fabric originally made of camel's hair, now chiefly ofgoat's hair and silk, or of wool and cotton. [Sometimes writtencamelot and camblet.]", | |
| "SAWFLY": "Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belongingto the family Tenthredinid\u00e6. The female usually has an ovipositorcontaining a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions inthe leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larv\u00e6resemble those of Lepidoptera.", | |
| "CHANFRIN": "The fore part of a horse's head.", | |
| "GORGERIN": "In some columns, that part of the capital between thetermination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the spacebetween two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, andhypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.", | |
| "STELLULATE": "Minutely stellate.", | |
| "TULLE": "A kind of silk lace or light netting, used for veils, etc.", | |
| "LOVYER": "A lover. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "NEREOCYSTIS": "A genus of gigantic seaweeds.", | |
| "COLLODIUM": "See Collodion.", | |
| "COMPARATE": "One of two things compared together.", | |
| "HEALFUL": "Tending or serving to heal; healing. [Obs.] Ecclus. xv. 3.", | |
| "LEAKAGE": "An allowance of a certain rate per cent for the leaking ofcasks, or waste of liquors by leaking.", | |
| "MACROBIOTICS": "The art of prolonging life.", | |
| "ASTERIATED": "Radiated, with diverging rays; as, asteriated sapphire.", | |
| "INTRINSE": "Tightly drawn; or (perhaps) intricate. [Very rare]Like rats, oft bite the holy cords atwain, Which are too intrinse tounloose. Shak.", | |
| "FILLET": "A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long striprolled together and tied.", | |
| "ZEHNER": "An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about fivecents.", | |
| "CHATTERATION": "The act or habit of chattering. [Colloq.]", | |
| "SYNTHETIZE": "To combine; to unite in regular structure. [R.]", | |
| "CLIMATAL": "Climatic. Dunglison.", | |
| "COADJUST": "To adjust by mutual adaptations. R. Owen.", | |
| "ADELPHIA": "A \"brotherhood,\" or collection of stamens in a bundle; -- usedin composition, as in the class names, Monadelphia, Diadelphia, etc.", | |
| "HYPERMETRICAL": "Having a redundant syllable; exceeding the common measure.Hypermetrical verse (Gr. & Lat. Pros.), a verse which contains asyllable more than the ordinary measure.", | |
| "LADE": "To transfer (the molten glass) from the pot to the formingtable.", | |
| "STINTER": "One who, or that which, stints.", | |
| "MUGGLETONIAN": "One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, anEnglish journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired.Eadie.", | |
| "STRAIGHTLY": "In a right line; not crookedly.", | |
| "DIVERTISE": "To divert; to entertain. [Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "COPPLE-CROWN": "A created or high-topped crown or head. \"Like the copple-crownthe lapwing has.\" T. Randolph.-- Cop\"ple-crowned`, a.", | |
| "COUNTERGAGE": "An adjustable gage, with double points for transferringmeasurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortiseto the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.", | |
| "INTERSTATE": "Pertaining to the mutual relations of States; existing between,or including, different States; as, interstate commerce. Story.", | |
| "PETALOUS": "Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to Ant: apetalous.", | |
| "ADORNINGLY": "By adorning; decoratively.", | |
| "HEPTINE": "Any one of a series of unsaturated metameric hydrocarbons,C7H12, of the acetylene series.", | |
| "FISSIPARITY": "Quality of being fissiparous; fissiparism.", | |
| "SHEBANDER": "A harbor master, or ruler of a port, in the East Indies.[Written also shebunder.]", | |
| "TOLBOOTH": "See Tollbooth.", | |
| "PLEIOSAURUS": "Same as Pliosaurus.", | |
| "PRONOMINAL": "Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.", | |
| "UNLUCKINESS": "Quality or state of being unlucky.", | |
| "COMESTIBLE": "Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.", | |
| "INDENTED": "Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth;serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary.", | |
| "RECEIPT": "To give a receipt, as for money paid.", | |
| "HOCHEPOT": "Hotchpot. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PINXTER": "See Pinkster.", | |
| "DOUC": "A monkey (Semnopithecus nem\u00e6us), remarkable for its varied andbrilliant colors. It is a native of Cochin China.", | |
| "UNDERWRITE": "To practice the business of insuring; to take a risk ofinsurance on a vessel or the like.", | |
| "TAILAGE": "See Tallage.", | |
| "MARISH": "Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor. [Archaic]Milton. Tennyson.", | |
| "OBELION": "The region of the skull between the two parietal foramina wherethe closure of the sagittal suture usually begins.", | |
| "SHORN": "p. p. of Shear.", | |
| "PETROUS": "Same as Petrosal.", | |
| "IMMOBILITY": "The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in placeor state.", | |
| "NAVY BLUE": "Prussian blue.", | |
| "INVETERATION": "The act of making inveterate. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "CYRENIAN": "Pertaining to Cyrene, in Africa; Cyrenaic.", | |
| "JAPE": "To jest; to play tricks; to jeer. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SELF-CONFIDENT": "Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one'sjudgment or ability; self-reliant.-- Self`-con\"fi*dent*ly, adv.", | |
| "COMPELLABLE": "Capable of being compelled or constrained. Blackstone.", | |
| "OVERHALL": "See Overhaul. [Obs.]", | |
| "BRANT": "A species of wild goose (Branta bernicla) -- called also brentand brand goose. The name is also applied to other related species.", | |
| "RENAISSANCE": "A new birth, or revival. Specifically:(a) The transitional movement in Europe, marked by the revival ofclassical learning and art in Italy in the 15th century, and thesimilar revival following in other countries.(b) The style of art which prevailed at this epoch.The Renaissance was rather the last stage of the Middle Ages,emerging from ecclesiastical and feudal despotism, developing whatwas original in medi\u00e6val ideas by the light of classic arts andletters. J. A. Symonds (Encyc. Brit. ).", | |
| "NECTAROUS": "Nectareous. Milton.", | |
| "DISCONFORMITY": "Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency;disagreement.Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves. Milton.Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conceptionof the mind. Hakewill.", | |
| "VALERYLENE": "A liquid hydrocarbon, C5H8; -- called also pentine.", | |
| "TOW-HEAD": "The hooded merganser. [ Local, U.S. ]", | |
| "MACROSPORIC": "Of or pertaining to macrospores.", | |
| "PIRACY": "Robbery on the high seas; the taking of property from others onthe open sea by open violence; without lawful authority, and withintent to steal; -- a crime answering to robbery on land.", | |
| "YEAST-BITTEN": "A term used of beer when the froth of the yeast has re\u00ebnteredthe body of the beer.", | |
| "AFORETHOUGHT": "Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as,malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.", | |
| "SCIATICAL": "Sciatic.", | |
| "SPEARER": "One who uses a spear; as, a spearer of fish.", | |
| "GROUTHEAD": "See Growthead.", | |
| "AFTEREYE": "To look after. [Poetic] Shak.", | |
| "CRISPER": "One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument formaking little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla.", | |
| "ENNEAGON": "A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; anonagon.", | |
| "PARENTATION": "Something done or said in honor of the dead; obsequies. [Obs.]Abp. Potter.", | |
| "SPORTLING": "A little person or creature engaged in sports or in play.When again the lambkins play --Pretty sportlings, full of May.Philips.", | |
| "GALLANTLY": "In a polite or courtly manner; like a gallant or wooer.", | |
| "TRUNKBACK": "The leatherback.", | |
| "JAWBONE": "The bone of either jaw; a maxilla or a mandible.", | |
| "AUTHORIZABLE": "Capable of being authorized. Hammond.", | |
| "FOOLHARDY": "Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold.Howell.", | |
| "POSTLIMINIAR": "Contrived, done, or existing subsequently. \"Postliminious afterapplications of them to their purposes.\" South.", | |
| "PRECONTRIVE": "To contrive or plan beforehand.", | |
| "SHINY": "Bright; luminous; clear; unclouded.Like distant thunder on a shiny day. Dryden.", | |
| "LIMAILLE": "Filings of metal. [Obs.] \"An ounce . . . of silver lymaille.\"Chaucer.", | |
| "TREADFOWL": "A cock. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PHILOMEL": "Same as Philomela, the nightingale. [Poetic] Milton. Cowper.", | |
| "SOLIDLY": "In a solid manner; densely; compactly; firmly; truly.", | |
| "TRANTER": "One who trants; a peddler; a carrier. [Written also traunter.][Obs. or Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "MOONED": "Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. \"Sharpeningin mooned horns.\" \"Mooned Ashtaroth.\" Milton.", | |
| "FETUS": "The young or embryo of an animal in the womb, or in the egg;often restricted to the later stages in the development of viviparousand oviparous animals, embryo being applied to the earlier stages.[Written also foetus.]", | |
| "VICTORINE": "A woman's fur tippet.", | |
| "EARLAP": "The lobe of the ear.", | |
| "BARRICADER": "One who constructs barricades.", | |
| "COLORABLE": "Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.\"Colorable pretense for infidility.\" Bp. Stillingfleet.-- Col\"or*a*ble*ness, n.-- Col\"or*a*bly, adv.Colorable and subtle crimes, that seldom are taken within the walk ofhuman justice. Hooker.", | |
| "CORRIDOR TRAIN": "A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through itsentire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartmentsopen. [Eng.]", | |
| "CONVICTIBLE": "Capable of being convicted. [R.] Ash.", | |
| "BILLING": "Caressing; kissing.", | |
| "DOUBLE-TONGUE": "Deceit; duplicity.Now cometh the sin of double-tongue, such as speak fair before folkand wickedly behind. Chaucer.", | |
| "PSYCHO-MOTOR": "Of or pertaining to movement produced by action of the mind orwill.", | |
| "SECRETAGE": "A process in which mercury, or some of its salts, is employedto impart the property of felting to certain kinds of furs. Ure.", | |
| "EQUANIMITY": "Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which isnot easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, tobear misfortunes with equanimity.", | |
| "DERIVER": "One who derives.", | |
| "PLESH": "A pool; a plash. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "STATUS": "State; condition; position of affairs.", | |
| "RUN": "To move rapidly by springing steps so that there is an instantin each step when neither foot touches the ground; -- sodistinguished from walking in athletic competition. As thing run,according to the usual order, conditions, quality, etc.; on theaverage; without selection or specification.-- To let run (Naut.), to allow to pass or move freely; to slackenor loosen.-- To run after, to pursue or follow; to search for; to endeavor tofind or obtain; as to run after similies. Locke.-- To run away, to flee; to escape; to elope; to run without controlor guidance.-- To run away with. (a) To convey away hurriedly; to accompany inescape or elopement. (b) To drag rapidly and with violence; as, ahorse runs away with a carriage.-- To run down. (a) To cease to work or operate on account of theexhaustion of the motive power; -- said of clocks, watches, etc. (b)To decline in condition; as, to run down in health.-- To run down a coast, to sail along it.-- To run for an office, to stand as a candidate for an office.-- To run in or into. (a) To enter; to step in. (b) To come incollision with.-- To run in trust, to run in debt; to get credit. [Obs.] -- To runin with. (a) To close; to comply; to agree with. [R.] T. Baker. (b)(Naut.) To make toward; to near; to sail close to; as, to run in withthe land.-- To run mad, To run mad after or on. See under Mad.-- To run on. (a) To be continued; as, their accounts had run on fora year or two without a settlement. (b) To talk incessantly. (c) Tocontinue a course. (d) To press with jokes or ridicule; to abuse withsarcasm; to bear hard on. (e) (Print.) To be continued in the samelines, without making a break or beginning a new paragraph.-- To run out. (a) To come to an end; to expire; as, the lease runsout Michaelmas. (b) To extend; to spread. \"Insectile animals . . .run all out into legs.\" Hammond. (c) To expatiate; as, to run outinto beautiful digressions. (d) To be wasted or exhausted; to becomepoor; to become extinct; as, an estate managed without economy willsoon run out.And had her stock been less, no doubt She must have long ago run out.Dryden.-- To run over. (a) To overflow; as, a cup runs over, or the liquorruns over. (b) To go over, examine, or rehearse cursorily. (c) Toride or drive over; as, to run over a child.-- To run riot, to go to excess.-- To run through. (a) To go through hastily; as to run through abook. (b) To spend wastefully; as, to run through an estate.-- To run to seed, to expend or exhaust vitality in producing seed,as a plant; figuratively and colloquially, to cease growing; to losevital force, as the body or mind.-- To run up, to rise; to swell; to grow; to increase; as, accountsof goods credited run up very fast.But these, having been untrimmed for many years, had run up intogreat bushes, or rather dwarf trees. Sir W. Scott.-- To run with. (a) To be drenched with, so that streams flow; as,the streets ran with blood. (b) To flow while charged with someforeign substance. \"Its rivers ran with gold.\" J. H. Newman.", | |
| "FARTHEST": "Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.", | |
| "PHANTASMASCOPE": "See Phantascope.", | |
| "ANTESTATURE": "A small intrenchment or work of palisades, or of sacks ofearth.", | |
| "CONNOTATION": "The act of connoting; a making known or designating somethingadditional; implication of something more than is asserted.", | |
| "MUTENESS": "The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.", | |
| "THIBETIAN": "Same as Thibetan.", | |
| "HUNTING": "The pursuit of game or of wild animals. A. Smith. Happy huntinggrounds, the region to which, according to the belief of AmericanIndians, the souls of warriors and hunters pass after death, to behappy in hunting and feasting. Tylor.-- Hunting box. Same As Hunting lodge (below).-- Hunting cat (Zo\u00f6l.), the cheetah.-- Hunting cog (Mach.), a tooth in the larger of two geared wheelswhich makes its number of teeth prime to the number in the smallerwheel, thus preventing the frequent meeting of the same pairs ofteeth.-- Hunting dog (Zo\u00f6l.), the hyena dog.-- Hunting ground, a region or district abounding in game; esp.(pl.), the regions roamed over by the North American Indians insearch of game.-- Hunting horn, a bulge; a horn used in the chase. See Horn, andBulge.-- Hunting leopard (Zo\u00f6l.), the cheetah.-- Hunting lodge, a temporary residence for the purpose of hunting.-- Hunting seat, a hunting lodge. Gray.-- Hunting shirt, a coarse shirt for hunting, often of leather.-- Hunting spider (Zo\u00f6l.), a spider which hunts its prey, instead ofcatching it in a web; a wolf spider.-- Hunting watch. See Hunter, 6.", | |
| "ABSTRACT": "To separate, as the more volatile or soluble parts of asubstance, by distillation or other chemical processes. In this senseextract is now more generally used.", | |
| "SEMIPLUME": "A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of anordinary feather.", | |
| "FENESTRATION": "The arrangement and proportioning of windows; -- used by modernwriters for the decorating of an architectural composition by meansof the window (and door) openings, their ornaments, and proportions.", | |
| "TACTFUL": "Full of tact; characterized by a discerning sense of what isright, proper, or judicious.", | |
| "TUFTHUNTER": "A hanger-on to noblemen, or persons of quality, especially inEnglish universities; a toady. See 1st Tuft, 3. [Cant, Eng.]Halliwell.", | |
| "PROTRACTIVE": "Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing;delaying.He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.", | |
| "MANLINESS": "The quality or state of being manly.", | |
| "OVERGREAT": "Too great.", | |
| "AERODYNAMIC": "Pertaining to the force of air in motion.", | |
| "ANISODACTYLOUS": "Characterized by unequal toes, three turned forward and onebackward, as in most passerine birds.", | |
| "BESEECHING": "Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look.-- Be*seech\"ing*ly, adv.-- Be*seech\"ing*ness, n.", | |
| "PORTRAIT": "To portray; to draw. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "HOMOGENEOUS": "Possessing the same number of factors of a given kind; as, ahomogeneous polynomial.", | |
| "FLUORIDE": "A binary compound of fluorine with another element or radical.Calcium fluoride (Min.), fluorite, CaF2. See Fluorite.", | |
| "DENOTATE": "To mark off; to denote. [Archaic]These terms denotate a longer time. Burton.What things should be denotated and signified by the color. Urquhart.", | |
| "ATTIRE": "To dress; to array; to adorn; esp., to clothe with elegant orsplendid garments.Finely attired in a robe of white. Shak.With the linen miter shall he be attired. Lev. xvi. 4.", | |
| "PRONONCE": "Strongly marked; decided, as in manners, etc.", | |
| "FLOCCILLATION": "A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if topick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acutediseases. Dunglison.", | |
| "KIVA": "A large chamber built under, or in, the houses of a Pueblovillage, used as an assembly room in religious rites or as a men'sdormitory. It is commonly lighted and entered from an opening in theroof.", | |
| "HEMATOID": "Resembling blood.", | |
| "INNERMOST": "Farthest inward; most remote from the outward part; inmost;deepest within. Prov. xviii. 8.", | |
| "PHRYGANEIDES": "A tribe of neuropterous insects which includes the caddiceflies; -- called also Trichoptera. See Trichoptera. [Written alsoPhryganides.]", | |
| "BLANK": "A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by afurther operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.", | |
| "GLEED": "A live or glowing coal; a glede. [Archaic] Chaucer. Longfellow.", | |
| "PANIDIOMORPHIC": "Having a completely idiomorphic structure; -- said of certainrocks.", | |
| "PEDESTALED": "Placed on, or supported by, a pedestal; figuratively, exalted.Hawthorne.Pedestaled haply in a palace court. Keats.", | |
| "MISRULE": "To rule badly; to misgovern.", | |
| "UNDERBID": "To bid less than, as when a contract or service is offered tothe lowest bidder; to offer to contract, sell, or do for a less pricethan.", | |
| "CHELONIA": "An order of reptiles, including the tortoises and turtles,perculiar in having a part of the vertebr\u00e6, ribs, and sternum unitedwith the dermal plates so as to form a firm shell. The jaws arecovered by a horny beak. See Reptilia; also, Illust. in Appendix.", | |
| "HACKBUSS": "Same as Hagbut.", | |
| "LEPISMA": "A genus of wingless thysanurous insects having an elongatedflattened body, covered with shining scales and terminated by sevenunequal bristles. A common species (Lepisma saccharina) is found inhouses, and often injures books and furniture. Called also shiner,silver witch, silver moth, and furniture bug.", | |
| "CORTICINE": "A material for carpeting or floor covering, made of ground corkand caoutchouc or India rubber.", | |
| "TESTATOR": "A man who makes and leaves a will, or testament, at death.", | |
| "UNITY": "Any definite quantity, or aggregate of quantities or magnitudestaken as one, or for which 1 is made to stand in calculation; thus,in a table of natural sines, the radius of the circle is regarded asunity.", | |
| "INCULTIVATED": "Uncultivated. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "SCRIBBLINGLY": "In a scribbling manner.", | |
| "PARASTICHY": "A secondary spiral in phyllotaxy, as one of the evident spiralsin a pine cone.", | |
| "ADVISABLE-NESS": "The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency;advisability.", | |
| "BUTT HINGE": "See 1st Butt, 10.", | |
| "MECHANISM": "An ideal machine; a combination of movable bodies constitutinga machine, but considered only with regard to relative movements.", | |
| "STRAMONY": "Stramonium.", | |
| "TABORET": "A small tabor. [Written also tabouret.]", | |
| "LOWING": "The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.", | |
| "ECHINITAL": "Of, or like, an echinite.", | |
| "APHRODITE": "The Greek goddess of love, corresponding to the Venus of theRomans.", | |
| "BADLY": "In a bad manner; poorly; not well; unskillfully; imperfectly;unfortunately; grievously; so as to cause harm; disagreeably;seriously.", | |
| "NUNNISH": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling a nun; characteristic of anun.-- Nun\"nish*ness, n.", | |
| "SPREAD-EAGLED": "1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a meansof punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extendedfully.", | |
| "ELIXIR": "A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture ormedicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcoholin some form.", | |
| "TULIP-SHELL": "A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolariatulipa) native of the Southern United States. The name is sometimesapplied also to other species of Fasciolaria.", | |
| "WIDE-ANGLE": "Having or covering an angle wider than the ordinary; -- appliedto certain lenses of relatively short focus. Lenses for ordinarypurposes have an angle of 50\u00ba or less. Wide-angle lenses may cover asmuch as 100\u00ba and are useful for photographing at short range, but thepictures appear distorted.", | |
| "DOCTORSHIP": "Doctorate. [R.] Clarendon.", | |
| "KILOWATT": "One thousand watts.", | |
| "RETROGRESSIVELY": "In a retrogressive manner.", | |
| "RECURSION": "The act of recurring; return. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "FRY": "To cook in a pan or on a griddle (esp. with the use of fat,butter, or olive oil) by heating over a fire; to cook in boiling lardor fat; as, to fry fish; to fry doughnuts.", | |
| "AFFLICTING": "Grievously painful; distressing; afflictive; as, an afflictingevent.-- Af*flict\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "BOURGEOIS": "A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.", | |
| "NIPPITATO": "Strong liquor. [Old Cant] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "BRIGADIER GENERAL": "An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a majorgeneral. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by ashortening of his title, simple a brigadier.", | |
| "EXCEPTIONABLE": "Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.-- Ex*cep\"tion*a*ble*ness, n.This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the wholepoem. Addison.", | |
| "TIMMER": "Same as 1st Timber. [Scot.]", | |
| "SECRETLY": "In a secret manner.", | |
| "SUSPENSORIUM": "Anything which suspends or holds up a part: especially, themandibular suspensorium (a series of bones, or of cartilagesrepresenting them) which connects the base of the lower jaw with theskull in most vertebrates below mammals.", | |
| "YAWS": "A disease, occurring in the Antilles and in Africa,characterized by yellowish or reddish tumors, of a contagiouscharacter, which, in shape and appearance, often resemble currants,strawberries, or raspberries. There are several varieties of thisdisease, variously known as framboesia, pian, verrugas, and crab-yaws.", | |
| "CIRRO-STRATUS": "See under Cloud.", | |
| "AGORA": "An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially themarket place, in an ancient Greek city.", | |
| "SPITZ DOG": "A breed of dogs having erect ears and long silky hair, usuallywhite; -- called also Pomeranian dog, and louploup.", | |
| "ADJUVANT": "Helping; helpful; assisting. [R.] \"Adjuvant causes.\" Howell.", | |
| "ORDONNANT": "Of or pertaining to ordonnance. Dryden.", | |
| "AUROCHLORIDE": "The trichloride of gold combination with the chloride ofanother metal, forming a double chloride; -- called also chloraurate.", | |
| "AZOGUE": "Lit.: Quicksilver; hence: pl. (Mining)", | |
| "SQUAMELLA": "A diminutive scale or bractlet, such as those found on thereceptacle in many composite plants; a palea.", | |
| "SWALLET": "Water breaking in upon the miners at their work; -- so calledamong tin miners. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "AWLWORT": "A plant (Subularia aquatica), with awl-shaped leaves.", | |
| "SUBCUTANEOUS": "Situated under the skin; hypodermic.-- Sub`cu*ta\"ne*ous*ly, adv. Subcutaneous operation (Surg.), anoperation performed without opening that part of the skin oppositeto, or over, the internal section.", | |
| "PENCHUTE": "See Penstock.", | |
| "SQUEEZE": "To press; to urge one's way, or to pass, by pressing; to crowd;-- often with through, into, etc.; as, to squeeze hard to get througha crowd.", | |
| "OSTLERESS": "A female ostler. [R.] Tennyson.", | |
| "SNATTOCK": "A chip; a alice. [Prov. Eng.] Gayton.", | |
| "SYMBOLOGIST": "One who practices, or who is versed in, symbology.", | |
| "ECHINOZOA": "The Echinodermata.", | |
| "CRYPTOGAMIA": "The series or division of flowerless plants, or those neverhaving true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of variouskinds.", | |
| "TRANSMOGRIFICATION": "The act of transmogrifying, or the state of beingtransmogrified; transformation. [Colloq.]Clive, who wrote me about the transmogrification of our schoolfellow,an attorney's son. Thackeray.", | |
| "CALCAREOUSNESS": "Quality of being calcareous.", | |
| "NOISELESS": "Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent;as, the noiseless foot of time.So noiseless would I live. Dryden.-- Noise\"less*ly, adv.-- Noise\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "SCISSURE": "A longitudinal opening in a body, made by cutting; a cleft; afissure. Hammond.", | |
| "WALTZER": "A person who waltzes.", | |
| "DETURPATION": "A making foul. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "ACCUMB": "To recline, as at table. [Obs.] Bailey.", | |
| "HEMI-": "A prefix signifying half.", | |
| "SNELL": "Active; brisk; nimble; quick; sharp. [Archaic or Prov. Eng. &Scot.]That horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man. Dr. J. Brown.", | |
| "CHOKING COIL": "A coil of small resistance and large inductance, used in analternating-current circuit to impede or throttle the current, or tochange its phase; --called also reactance coil or reactor, theseterms being now preferred in engineering usage.", | |
| "LARYNGOTRACHEAL": "Pertaining to both larynx and trachea; as, the laryngotrachealcartilage in the frog.", | |
| "CHILD": "To give birth; to produce young.This queen Genissa childing died. Warner.It chanced within two days they childed both. Latimer.", | |
| "GIE": "To guide. See Gye . [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "DISTILLATE": "The product of distillation; as, the distillate from molasses.", | |
| "MANCHET": "Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic] Bacon.Tennyson.", | |
| "UNDER": "In a lower, subject, or subordinate condition; in subjection; -- used chiefly in a few idiomatic phrases; as, to bring under, toreduce to subjection; to subdue; to keep under, to keep insubjection; to control; to go under, to be unsuccessful; to fail.I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection. 1 Cor. ix. 27.The minstrel fell, but the foeman's chain Could not bring his proudsoul under. Moore.", | |
| "-LOGY": "A combining form denoting a discourse, treatise, doctrine,theory, science; as, theology, geology, biology, mineralogy.", | |
| "LOATHY": "Loathsome. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "TOLTEC": "One of a race which formerly occupied Mexico.-- Tol\"te*can, a.", | |
| "PRECAUTIOUS": "Taking or using precaution; precautionary.-- Pre*cau\"tious*ly, adv.-- Pre*cau\"*tious*ness, n.", | |
| "BADDER": "compar. of Bad, a. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ITERANCE": "Iteration. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNDERCHAPS": "The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.", | |
| "MOTHERHOOD": "The state of being a mother; the character or office of amother.", | |
| "MISSEMBLANCE": "False resemblance or semblance. [Obs.]", | |
| "ZYGOBRANCHIA": "A division of marine gastropods in which the gills aredeveloped on both sides of the body and the renal organs are alsopaired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella)are examples.", | |
| "TRITORIUM": "Same as Triturium.", | |
| "GALVANOTROPISM": "The tendency of a root to place its axis in the line of agalvanic current.", | |
| "KREATININ": "See Creatinin.", | |
| "STAGEHOUSE": "A house where a stage regularly stops for passengers or a relayof horses.", | |
| "IMBRANGLE": "To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly. [R.] Hudibras.Physiology imbrangled with an inapplicable logic. Coleridge.", | |
| "SAUROIDICHNITE": "The fossil track of a saurian.", | |
| "FARMERSHIP": "Skill in farming.", | |
| "BASALT": "A rock of igneous origin, consisting of augite and triclinicfeldspar, with grains of magnetic or titanic iron, and also bottle-green particles of olivine frequently disseminated.", | |
| "FRANION": "A paramour; a loose woman; also, a gay, idle fellow. [Obs.]Spenser.", | |
| "CAHINCIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, cahinca, the native name of aspecies of Brazilian Chiococca, perhaps C. recemosa; as, cahincicacid.", | |
| "DUSE": "A demon or spirit. See Deuce.", | |
| "HESPERIDENE": "An isomeric variety of terpene from orange oil.", | |
| "CREPITATE": "To make a series of small, sharp, rapidly repeated explosionsor sounds, as salt in fire; to crackle; to snap.", | |
| "RETCHLESS": "Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden. --- Retch\"less*ly, adv.-- Retch\"less*ness, n. [Obs.]", | |
| "WRESTER": "One who wrests.", | |
| "MIOHIPPUS": "An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely relatedto the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on eachfoot.", | |
| "POPULARNESS": "The quality or state of being popular; popularity. Coleridge.", | |
| "POSITIVE": "Corresponding with the original in respect to the position oflights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed;as, a positive picture.", | |
| "CONSUMINGLY": "In a consuming manner.", | |
| "EUXENITE": "A brownish black mineral with a metallic luster, found inNorway. It contains niobium, titanium, yttrium, and uranium, withsome other metals.", | |
| "SUPERVACANEOUS": "Serving no purpose; superfluous; needless. [Obs.] Howell.", | |
| "FULVOUS": "Tawny; dull yellow, with a mixture of gray and brown. Lindley.", | |
| "EXPANSIVE": "Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive;of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; theexpansive quality of air.A more expansive and generous compassion. Eustace.His forehead was broad and expansive. Prescott.-- Ex*pan\"sive*ly, adv. -Ex*pan\"sive*ness, n.", | |
| "RADIOGRAPHY": "Art or process of making radiographs. -- Ra`di*o*graph\"ic (#),*graph\"ic*al (#), a. --Ra`di*o*graph\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "BARBELLULATE": "Barbellate with diminutive hairs or barbs.", | |
| "BESEE": "To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.", | |
| "HYOSTERNUM": "See Hyoplastron.", | |
| "IMPERIALIST": "One who serves an emperor; one who favors imperialism.", | |
| "RESENTFUL": "Inclined to resent; easily provoked to anger; irritable.-- Re*sent\"ful*ly, adv.", | |
| "ALEURONAT": "Flour made of aleurone, used as a substitute for ordinary flourin preparing bread for diabetic persons.", | |
| "MINOS": "A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiterand Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.", | |
| "PYCNODONT": "Any fossil fish belonging to the Pycnodontini. They havenumerous round, flat teeth, adapted for crushing.", | |
| "FOREAPPOINT": "To set, order, or appoint, beforehand. Sherwood.", | |
| "IRENICS": "That branch of Christian science which treats of the methods ofsecuring unity among Christians or harmony and union among thechurches; -- called also Irenical theology. Schaff-Herzog.", | |
| "INCAPABILITY": "Want of legal qualifications, or of legal power; as,incapability of holding an office.", | |
| "FREE-SOIL": "Pertaining to, or advocating, the non-extension of slavery; --esp. applied to a party which was active during the period 1846-1856.[U.S.] -- Free\"soil`er, n. [U.S.] -- Free\"-soil`ism, n. [U.S.]", | |
| "UNCONSTRAINT": "Freedom from constraint; ease. Felton.", | |
| "TRADITIONARY": "Traditional.The reveries of the Talmud, a collection of Jewish traditionaryinterpolations. Buckminster.", | |
| "THWITE": "To cut or clip with a knife; to whittle. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]Chaucer.", | |
| "BAD": "of Bid. Bade. [Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "ABHORRER": "One who abhors. Hume.", | |
| "STURIONIAN": "One of the family of fishes of which the sturgeon is the type.", | |
| "CURVIFORM": "Having a curved form.", | |
| "DARE-DEVIL": "A reckless fellow. Also used adjectively; as, dare-devilexcitement.A humorous dare-devil -- the very man To suit my prpose. Ld. Lytton.", | |
| "IMPARTIALLY": "In an impartial manner.", | |
| "CANARD": "An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricatedsensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in thenewspapers to hoax the public.", | |
| "ASSEVERATION": "The act of asseverating, or that which is asseverated; positiveaffirmation or assertion; solemn declaration.Another abuse of the tongue I might add, -- vehement asseverationsupon slight and trivial occasions. Ray.", | |
| "RAFFIA": "A fibrous material used for tying plants, said to come from theleaves of a palm tree of the genus Raphia. J. Smith (Dict. Econ.Plants).", | |
| "-GRAVE": "A final syllable signifying a ruler, as in landgrave, margrave.See Margrave.", | |
| "PULPITEER": "One who speaks in a pulpit; a preacher; -- so called incontempt. Howell.We never can think it sinful that Burns should have been humorous onsuch a pulpiteer. Prof. Wilson.", | |
| "OBLIGABLE": "Acknowledging, or complying with, obligation; trustworthy. [R.]The main difference between people seems to be, that one man can comeunder obligations on which you can rely, -- is obligable; and anotheris not. Emerson.", | |
| "ASPERGES": "See Wateringpot shell.", | |
| "TROLLEY CAR": "A motor car to which the current is conveyed by means of atrolley.", | |
| "CONCHOID": "A curve, of the fourth degree, first made use of by the Greekgeometer, Nicomedes, who invented it for the purpose of trisecting anangle and duplicating the cube.", | |
| "INAFFABLE": "Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.", | |
| "PRIAL": "A corruption of pair royal. See under Pair, n.", | |
| "AUGURIAL": "Relating to augurs or to augury. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "BINDING": "That binds; obligatory. Binding beam (Arch.), the main timberin double flooring.-- Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framedflooring.", | |
| "LOUSEWORT": "Any species of Pedicularis, a genus of perennial herbs. It wassaid to make sheep that fed on it lousy. Yellow lousewort , a plantof the genus Rhinanthus.", | |
| "KARYOKINESIS": "The indirect division of cells in which, prior to division ofthe cell protoplasm, complicated changes take place in the nucleus,attended with movement of the nuclear fibrils; -- opposed tokaryostenosis. The nucleus becomes enlarged and convoluted, andfinally the threads are separated into two groups which ultimatelybecome disconnected and constitute the daughter nuclei. Called alsomitosis. See Cell development, under Cell.", | |
| "FUSTIANIST": "A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "GENETIC": "Same as Genetical.", | |
| "SALEWORK": "Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly orslightingly. Shak.", | |
| "TEARFUL": "Abounding with tears; weeping; shedding tears; as, tearfuleyes.-- Tear\"ful*ly, adv.-- Tear\"ful*ness, n.", | |
| "INIRRITATIVE": "Not accompanied with excitement; as, an inirritative fever. E.Darwin.", | |
| "GALLYGASKINS": "See Galligaskins.", | |
| "NEO-": "A prefix meaning new, recent, late; and in chemistrydesignating specifically that variety of metameric hydrocarbonswhich, when the name was applied, had been recently classified, andin which at least one carbon atom in connected directly with fourother carbon atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as,neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.", | |
| "COOPERATIVE": "Operating jointly to the same end. Co\u00f6perative society, asociety established on the principle of a joint-stock association,for the production of commodities, or their purchase and distributionfor consumption, or for the borrowing and lending of capital amongits members.-- Co\u00f6perative store, a store established by a co\u00f6perative society,where the members make their purchases and share in the profits orlosses.", | |
| "DERMAL": "Pertaining to the dermis or true skin.", | |
| "FOXERY": "Behavior like that of a fox; [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PATIENTLY": "In a patient manner. Cowper.", | |
| "YERNUT": "An earthnut, or groundnut. See Groundnut (d). [Written alsoyarnut.]", | |
| "MONT DE PIETE": "One of certain public pawnbroking establishments whichoriginated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was tolend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; --called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in othercountries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.", | |
| "INFUSCATE": "To darken; to make black; to obscure.", | |
| "NARWE": "Narrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PUP": "To bring forth whelps or young, as the female of the caninespecies.", | |
| "ABNEGATE": "To deny and reject; to abjure. Sir E. Sandys. Farrar.", | |
| "PUDENCY": "Modesty; shamefacedness. \"A pudency so rosy.\" Shak.", | |
| "WATER CHEVROTAIN": "A large West African chevrotain (Hy\u00e6moschus aquaticus). It hasa larger body and shorter legs than the other allied species. Calledalso water deerlet.", | |
| "STANZA": "An apartment or division in a building; a room or chamber.", | |
| "BARILLA": "A name given to several species of Salsola from which soda ismade, by burning the barilla in heaps and lixiviating the ashes.", | |
| "MINISTRYSHIP": "The office of a minister. Swift.", | |
| "REFORGER": "One who reforges.", | |
| "ZONNAR": "See Zonar.", | |
| "ABATTOIR": "A public slaughterhouse for cattle, sheep, etc.", | |
| "SANITARIAN": "Of or pertaining to health, or the laws of health; sanitary.", | |
| "DOLERITIC": "Of the nature of dolerite; as, much lava is doleritic lava.Dana.", | |
| "IMPERFECT": "The imperfect tense; or the form of a verb denoting theimperfect tense.", | |
| "LAMELLARY": "Of or pertaining to lamella or to lamell\u00e6; lamellar.", | |
| "STINT": "To stop; to cease. [Archaic]They can not stint till no thing be left. Chaucer.And stint thou too, I pray thee. Shak.The damsel stinted in her song. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "ANTICIVIC": "Opposed to citizenship.", | |
| "PERNICIOUS": "Quick; swift (to burn). [R.] Milton.", | |
| "REDUCER": "One who, or that which, reduces.", | |
| "PROPAGATIVE": "Producing by propagation, or by a process of growth.", | |
| "BUCKLING": "Wavy; curling, as hair. Latham.", | |
| "ABURST": "In a bursting condition.", | |
| "INTENSENESS": "The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, theintenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.", | |
| "DUMPINESS": "The state of being dumpy.", | |
| "EXPURGE": "To purge away. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "MELLIGENOUS": "Having the qualities of honey. [R.]", | |
| "ZOLAISM": "The literary theories and practices of the French novelistEmile Zola (1840-1902); naturalism, esp. in a derogatory sense. --Zo\"la*ist, n. -- Zo`la*is\"tic (#), a. -- Zo\"la*ize (#), v.", | |
| "CAMBRIAN": "Of or pertaining to Cambria or Wales.", | |
| "LEGISLATORIAL": "Of or pertaining to a legislator or legislature.", | |
| "PRIESTLY": "Of or pertaining to a priest or the priesthood; sacerdotal;befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestlyfarewell. Shak.", | |
| "FORGETTINGLY": "By forgetting.", | |
| "PRESSPACK": "To pack, or prepare for packing, by means of a press.", | |
| "PROFOUNDNESS": "The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth.Hooker.", | |
| "AMPHIGAMOUS": "Having a structure entirely cellular, and no distinct sexualorgans; -- a term applied by De Candolle to the lowest order ofplants.", | |
| "CRAWL STROKE": "A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the waterwith face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes whilemoving his legs up and down alternately from the knee.", | |
| "FREEZING": "Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant inmanner.-- Frrez\"ing*ly, adv. Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice.-- Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemicalsalts) for producing intense cold.-- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluidbegins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezingpoint is at 32\u00ba Fahr., and at 0\u00ba Centigrade.", | |
| "ULTIMO": "In the month immediately preceding the present; as, on the 1stultimo; -- usually abbreviated to ult. Cf. Proximo.", | |
| "FUNGOSITY": "The quality of that which is fungous; fungous excrescence.Dunglison.", | |
| "CONTEXT": "Knit or woven together; close; firm. [Obs.]The coats, without, are context and callous. Derham.", | |
| "PARALLEL VISE": "A vise with jaws so guided as to remain parallel.", | |
| "VAZA PARROT": "Any one of several species of parrots of the genus Coracopsis,native of Madagascar; -- called also vasa parrot.", | |
| "DISENTITLE": "To deprive of title or claim.Every ordinary offense does not disentitle a son to the love of hisfather. South.", | |
| "LUM": "A grayish brown limestone, containing fossil shells, whichreflect a beautiful play of colors. It is also called fire marble,from its fiery reflections.", | |
| "DISRUDDER": "To deprive of the rudder, as a ship.", | |
| "LITERALIST": "One who adheres to the letter or exact word; an interpreteraccording to the letter.", | |
| "PUNITORY": "Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.God . . . may make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same timeboth prudential and punitory. A. Tucker.", | |
| "GYMNAST": "One who teaches or practices gymnastic exercises; the managerof a gymnasium; an athlete.", | |
| "FURTHERMOST": "Most remote; furthest.", | |
| "COLLETIC": "Agglutinant.-- n.", | |
| "PROVOKABLE": "That may be provoked.", | |
| "EMBASSADRESS": "Same as Ambassadress.", | |
| "MEZZOTINTER": "One who engraves in mezzotint.", | |
| "ISOLOGOUS": "Having similar proportions, similar relations, or similardifferences of composition; -- said specifically of groups or serieswhich differ by a constant difference; as, ethane, ethylene, anacetylene, or their analogous compounds, form an isologous series.", | |
| "TAXEOPODA": "An order of extinct Mammalia found in the Tertiary formations.", | |
| "OFFICIAL": "Approved by authority; sanctioned by the pharmacopoeia;appointed to be used in medicine; as, an official drug orpreparation. Cf. Officinal.", | |
| "ERUGINOUS": "Partaking of the substance or nature of copper, or of the rustcopper; resembling the trust of copper or verdigris; \u00e6ruginous.", | |
| "FERVENCY": "The state of being fervent or warm; ardor; warmth of feeling ordevotion; eagerness.When you pray, let it be with attention, with fervency, and withperseverance. Wake.", | |
| "HETEROCLITOUS": "Heteroclitic. [Obs.]", | |
| "HUSHER": "An usher. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "KERN": "An idler; a vagabond. Wharton.", | |
| "FLOCCOSE": "Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.", | |
| "VOLUMESCOPE": "An instrument consisting essentially of a glass tube providedwith a graduated scale, for exhibiting to the eye the changes ofvolume of a gas or gaseous mixture resulting from chemical action,and the like.", | |
| "CIRCUMPOLAR": "About the pole; -- applied to stars that revolve around thepole without setting; as, circumpolar stars.", | |
| "PANTAGRAPH": "See Pantograph.", | |
| "EVITATION": "A shunning; avoidance. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "SIXSCORE": "Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.", | |
| "ACHLAMYDEOUS": "Naked; having no floral envelope, neither calyx nor corolla.", | |
| "DELINQUENTLY": "So as to fail in duty.", | |
| "SURRENDERER": "One who surrenders.", | |
| "HEEP": "The hip of the dog-rose. [Obs.]", | |
| "CHLOROFORM": "A colorless volatile liquid, CHCl3, having an ethereal odor anda sweetish taste, formed by treating alcohol with chlorine and analkali. It is a powerful solvent of wax, resin, etc., and isextensively used to produce an\u00e6sthesia in surgical operations; alsoexternally, to alleviate pain.", | |
| "PROSAISM": "That which is in the form of prose writing; a prosaic manner.Coleridge.", | |
| "STRAIGHT-OUT": "Acting without concealment, obliquity, or compromise; hence,unqualified; thoroughgoing. [Colloq. U.S.]Straight-out and generous indignation. Mrs. Stowe.", | |
| "DRASTIC": "Acting rapidly and violently; efficacious; powerful; -- opposedto bland; as, drastic purgatives.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "UNDERSET": "To prop or support. Bacon.", | |
| "BECLAP": "To catch; to grasp; to insnare. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PRODUCTIBILITY": "The state of being productible; producibility. Ruskin.", | |
| "SPAULD": "The shoulder. [Scot.]", | |
| "INSURMOUNTABLY": "In a manner or to a degree not to be overcome.", | |
| "LAVE": "To wash; to bathe; as, to lave a bruise.His feet the foremost breakers lave. Byron.", | |
| "MANCUS": "An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and ofvariously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about oneshilling of modern English money.", | |
| "AMIANTHUS": "Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.", | |
| "MULTITUDINARY": "Multitudinous.", | |
| "MOONSAIL": "A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail. R. H.Dana, Jr.", | |
| "GODMOTHER": "A woman who becomes sponsor for a child in baptism. SeeGodfather", | |
| "METHOXYL": "A hypothetical radical, CH3O, analogous to hydroxyl.", | |
| "STOCKER": "One who makes or fits stocks, as of guns or gun carriages, etc.", | |
| "INODORATE": "Inodorous. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "KRANGING HOOK": "A hook for holding the blubber while cutting it away. [Writtenalso cranging hook.]", | |
| "VELVETEEN": "A kind of cloth, usually cotton, made in imitation of velvet;cotton velvet.", | |
| "PLETHORY": "Plethora. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "VIOLABLE": "Capable of being violated, broken, or injured.-- Vi\"o*la*bly, adv.", | |
| "TOPICAL": "Pertaining to, or consisting of, a topic or topics; accordingto topics.", | |
| "UNCAUSED": "Having no antecedent cause; uncreated; self-existent; eternal.A. Baxter.", | |
| "GLOSER": "See Glosser.", | |
| "SOMNE": "To summon. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "KAKA": "A New Zealand parrot of the genus Nestor, especially the brownparrot (Nestor meridionalis).", | |
| "QUAD": "A quadrat.", | |
| "PLACENTIFORM": "Having the shape of a placenta, or circular thickened disksomewhat thinner about the middle.", | |
| "TWIRL": "To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turnrapidly with the fingers.See ruddy maids, Some taught with dexterous hand to twirl the wheel.Dodsley.No more beneath soft eve's consenting star Fandango twirls his jocundcastanet. Byron.", | |
| "IRREVERSIBLY": "In an irreversible manner.", | |
| "RITUALIST": "One skilled un, or attached to, a ritual; one who advocates orpractices ritualism.", | |
| "RELICLY": "In the manner of relics. [Obs.]", | |
| "ULTRATROPICAL": "Situated beyond, or outside of, the tropics; extratropical;also, having an excessively tropical temperature; warmer than thetropics.", | |
| "FOODY": "Eatable; fruitful. [R.] Chapman.", | |
| "AITIOLOGY": "See \u00c6tiology.", | |
| "BLUSHLESS": "Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.Vice now, secure, her blushless front shall raise. Dodsley.", | |
| "DILUTENESS": "The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.", | |
| "NASTURTION": "Same as Nasturtium.", | |
| "LANDSKIP": "A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.]Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip roundit measures. Milton.", | |
| "MARTYRLY": "In the manner of a martyr.", | |
| "STELOGRAPHY": "The art of writing or inscribing characters on pillars. [R.]Stackhouse.", | |
| "ANTISIALAGOGUE": "Checking the flow of saliva.", | |
| "YEEL": "An eel. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "SHALLOW-PATED": "Shallow-brained.", | |
| "RENEGE": "To deny; to disown. [Obs.] Shak.All Europe high (all sorts of rights reneged) Against the trith andthee unholy leagued. Sylvester.", | |
| "ASTURIAN": "Of or pertaining to Asturias in Spain.-- n.", | |
| "OTIOSE": "Being at leisure or ease; unemployed; indolent; idle. \"Otioseassent.\" Paley.The true keeping of the Sabbath was not that otiose and unAlford.", | |
| "PRAIRIE STATE": "Illinois; -- a nickname.", | |
| "ERN": "To stir with strong emotion; to grieve; to mourn.", | |
| "DYSPEPTIC": "A person afflicted with dyspepsia.", | |
| "DEHORT": "To urge to abstain or refrain; to dissuade. [Obs.]The apostles vehemently dehort us from unbelief. Bp. Ward.\"Exhort\" remains, but dehort, a word whose place neither \"dissuade\"nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us. Trench.", | |
| "TRIGER PROCESS": "A method of sinking through water-bearing ground, in which theshaft is lined with tubbing and provided with an air lock, work beingproceeded with under air pressure.", | |
| "CAPULIN": "The Mexican chery (Prunus Capollin).", | |
| "GUARANTY": "In law and common usage: An undertaking to answer for thepayment of some debt, or the performance of some contract or duty, ofanother, in case of the failure of such other to pay or perform; aguarantee; a warranty; a security.", | |
| "AMBUSCADE": "The body of troops lying in ambush.", | |
| "EXTISPICIOUS": "Relating to the inspection of entrails for prognostication.[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ARDOIS SYSTEM": "A widely used system of electric night signals in which aseries of double electric lamps (white and red) is arrangedvertically on a mast, and operated from a keyboard below.", | |
| "TOADEATER": "A fawning, obsequious parasite; a mean sycophant; a flatterer;a toady. V. Knox.You had nearly imposed upon me, but you have lost your labor. You'retoo zealous a toadeater, and betray yourself. Dickens.", | |
| "UNARM": "To disarm. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "TETRATHIONATE": "A salt of tetrathionic acid.", | |
| "EGOPHONY": "The sound of a patient's voice so modified as to resemble thebleating of a goat, heard on applying the ear to the chest in certaindiseases within its cavity, as in pleurisy with effusion.", | |
| "NAUTICALLY": "In a nautical manner; with reference to nautical affais.", | |
| "DROWNAGE": "The act of drowning. [R.]", | |
| "STONEBIRD": "The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.[Local, U.S.]", | |
| "POLYTECHNICS": "The science of the mechanic arts.", | |
| "ALLA BREVE": "With one breve, or four minims, to measure, and sung fasterlike four crotchets; in quick common time; -- indicated in the timesignature by", | |
| "MALINGER": "To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.", | |
| "SAPPER": "One who saps; specifically (Mil.), one who is employed inworking at saps, building and repairing fortifications, and the like.", | |
| "ATTRY": "Poisonous; malignant; malicious. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "EVINCIVE": "Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate;demonstrative; indicative.", | |
| "SURAH": "A soft twilled silk fabric much used for women's dresses; --called also surah silk.", | |
| "HALF-WIT": "A foolish; a dolt; a blockhead; a dunce. Dryden.", | |
| "SUBAPENNINE": "Under, or at the foot of, the Apennine mountains; -- applied,in geology, to a series of Tertiary strata of the older Plioceneperiod.", | |
| "CATOPTROMANCY": "A species of divination, which was perforned by letting down amirror into water, for a sick person to look at his face in it. Ifhis countenance appeared distorted and ghastly, it was an ill omen;if fresh and healthy, it was favorable.", | |
| "MINABLE": "Such as can be mined; as, minable earth. Sir T. North.", | |
| "RODY": "Ruddy. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "INSURRECTIONARY": "Pertaining to, or characterized by, insurrection; rebellious;seditious.Their murderous insurrectionary system. Burke.", | |
| "PATRICIDAL": "Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.", | |
| "PAVIN": "See Pavan.", | |
| "MISDIGHT": "Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably. [Archaic] Bp.Hall.", | |
| "VEHEMENTLY": "In a vehement manner.", | |
| "VACUATION": "The act of emptying; evacuation. [R.]", | |
| "WRYTHEN": "Writhen.", | |
| "TREPEGET": "A trebuchet. [Obs.]", | |
| "CUSTODIAN": "One who has care or custody, as of some public building; akeeper or superintendent.", | |
| "PRETERLAPSED": "Past; as, preterlapsed ages. [R.] Glanvill.", | |
| "HIDER": "One who hides or conceals.", | |
| "SUPPLICATORY": "Containing supplication; humble; earnest.", | |
| "CRUDDLE": "To curdle. [Obs.]See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea", | |
| "INACCESSIBILITY": "The quality or state of being inaccessible; inaccessibleness.\"The inaccessibility of the precipice.\" Bp. Butler.", | |
| "SPALL": "The shoulder. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "VENTRILOQUOUS": "Of or pertaining to a ventriloquist or ventriloquism.", | |
| "SHEENY": "Bright; shining; radiant; sheen. \"A sheeny summer morn.\"Tennyson.", | |
| "PISTILLATION": "The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation.[Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "SQUIRT": "To drive or eject in a stream out of a narrow pipe or orifice;as, to squirt water.The hard-featured miscreant coolly rolled his tobacco in his cheek,and squirted the juice into the fire grate. Sir W. Scott.Squirting cucumber. (Bot.) See Ecballium.", | |
| "INTELLIGENCY": "Intelligence. [Obs.] Evelyn.", | |
| "CHRONICLE": "The two canonical books of the Old Testament in whichimmediately follow 2 Kings.", | |
| "DEMIGRATION": "Emigration. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "HISTORIED": "Related in history.", | |
| "COFFIN": "The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet,in which is the coffin bone. Coffin bone, the foot bone of the horseand allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding tothe third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.-- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone.", | |
| "UNBARRICADE": "To unbolt; to unbar; to open.You shall not unbarricade the door. J. Webster (1623).", | |
| "MARLY": "Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; aboundingwith marl.", | |
| "SUBDUEMENT": "Subdual. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "INDEFINITENESS": "The quality of being indefinite.", | |
| "NIRVANA": "In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation ofthe soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatificenfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilationor absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.", | |
| "ISATIDE": "A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reductionof isatin. [Written also isatyde.]", | |
| "URAN-UTAN": "The orang-utang", | |
| "CARDIOMETRY": "Measurement of the heart, as by percussion or auscultation.", | |
| "MONITORY": "Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory andinstructive. L'Estrange.", | |
| "ACCOSTED": "Supported on both sides by other charges; also, side by side.", | |
| "CARAWAY": "A biennial plant of the Parsley family (Carum Carui). The seedshave an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. They are used incookery and confectionery, and also in medicine as a carminative.", | |
| "BENEFICENCE": "The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, orcharity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.And whose beneficence no charge exhausts. Cowper.", | |
| "PRETERMISSION": "See Preterition.", | |
| "HARPRESS": "A female harper. [R.] Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "WESTERNER": "A native or inhabitant of the west.", | |
| "COCCOBACTERIUM": "One of the round variety of bacteria, a vegetable organism,generally less than a thousandth of a millimeter in diameter.", | |
| "CLOCKLIKE": "Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.Their services are clocklike, to be set Blackward and vorward attheir lord's command. B. Jonson.", | |
| "WAWASKEESH": "The wapiti, or wapiti, or American elk.", | |
| "APPOSITE": "Very applicable; well adapted; suitable or fit; relevant; pat;-- followed by to; as, this argument is very apposite to the case.-- Ap\"po*site*ly, adv.-- Ap\"po*site*ness, n.", | |
| "MARGARITACEOUS": "Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.", | |
| "MAESTRO": "A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.", | |
| "SELF-EDUCATED": "Educated by one's own efforts, without instruction, or withoutpecuniary assistance from others.", | |
| "SELF-COMMUNION": "Communion with one's self; thoughts about one's self.", | |
| "AMYELOUS": "Wanting the spinal cord.", | |
| "AVERTED": "Turned away, esp. as an expression of feeling; also, offended;unpropitious.Who scornful pass it with averted eye. Keble.", | |
| "BIMETALLIC": "Of or relating to, or using, a double metallic standard (asgold and silver) for a system of coins or currency.", | |
| "DESPONDER": "One who desponds.", | |
| "THEREWHILE": "At that time; at the same time. [Obs.] Laud.", | |
| "PARAXANTHIN": "A crystalline substance closely related to xanthin, present insmall quantity in urine.", | |
| "YESTERWEEK": "The week last past; last week.", | |
| "PIPA": "The Surinam toad (Pipa Americana), noted for its peculiarbreeding habits.", | |
| "MORPHOGENY": "History of the evolution of forms; that part of ontogeny thatdeals with the germ history of forms; -- distinguished fromphysiogeny. Haeckel.", | |
| "GOBBLE": "A noise made in the throat.Ducks and geese . . . set up a discordant gobble. Mrs. Gore.", | |
| "TESTIFIER": "One who testifies; one who gives testimony, or bears witness toprove anything; a witness.", | |
| "ECCLESIAL": "Ecclesiastical. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "NIGRITIC": "Pertaining to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or ofthe Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.", | |
| "FOOL-LARGESSE": "Foolish expenditure; waste. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "IMPATIENS": "A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautifulflowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst whentouched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called alsotouch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes calledlady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.", | |
| "INDEXER": "One who makes an index.", | |
| "ANTICHRIST": "A denier or opponent of Christ. Specif.: A great antagonist,person or power, expected to precede Christ's second coming.", | |
| "MARGARIN": "A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certainvegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound ofglycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture orcombination of tristearin and teipalmitin.", | |
| "PALPIGER": "That portion of the labium which bears the palpi in insects.", | |
| "TYPEWRITING": "The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with atypewriter.", | |
| "COSMORAMIC": "Of or pertaining to a cosmorama.", | |
| "GUAIACUM": "A genus of small, crooked trees, growing in tropical America.", | |
| "APPEASER": "One who appeases; a pacifier.", | |
| "VELLICATE": "To twitch; to cause to twitch convulsively.Convulsions, arising from something vellicating a nerve in itsextremity, are not very dangerous. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "WIER": "Same as Weir.", | |
| "SUPERNATATION": "The act of floating on the surface of a fluid. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "HECTOGRAMME": "The same as Hectogram.", | |
| "BRAZILIN": "A substance contained in both Brazil wood and Sapan wood, fromwhich it is extracted as a yellow crystalline substance which iswhite when pure. It is colored intensely red by alkalies. [Writtenalso brezilin.]", | |
| "CLUBBED": "Shaped like a club; grasped like, or used as, a club. Skelton.", | |
| "REENTRANT": "Re\u00ebntering; pointing or directed inwardds; as, a re angle.", | |
| "STEERSMAN": "One who steers; the helmsman of a vessel. Milton.", | |
| "CORNUCOPIA": "A genus of grasses bearing spikes of flowers resembling thecornucopia in form.", | |
| "DOWNWEIGH": "To weigh or press down.A different sin downweighs them to the bottom. Longfellow.", | |
| "DRAINABLE": "Capable of being drained.", | |
| "SUCCESSIVENESS": "The quality or state of being successive.", | |
| "NEGOTIOUS": "Very busy; attentive to business; active. [R.] D. Rogers.", | |
| "CHAPLESS": "Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. [R.] \"Yellow, chaplessskulls.\" Shak.", | |
| "COURSE": "A continuous level range of brick or stones of the same heightthroughout the face or faces of a building. Gwilt.", | |
| "INSCRIPTIVE": "Bearing inscription; of the character or nature of aninscription.", | |
| "SECANCY": "A cutting; an intersection; as, the point of secancy of oneline by another. [R.] Davies & Peck (Math. Dict. ).", | |
| "CELLULOSE": "Consisting of, or containing, cells.", | |
| "PULVINAR": "A prominence on the posterior part of the thalamus of the humanbrain.", | |
| "AGREEMENT": "Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender,number, case, or person.", | |
| "INSOUCIANCE": "Carelessness; heedlessness; thoughtlessness; unconcern.", | |
| "VERNACULARIZATION": "The act or process of making vernacular, or the state of beingmade vernacular. Fitzed. Hall.", | |
| "OVERWEENING": "Unduly confident; arrogant; presumptuous; conceited.-- O`ver*ween\"ingly, adv. Milton.-- O`ver*ween\"ing*ness, n.Here's an overweening rogue. Shak.", | |
| "SCUTTLE": "To run with affected precipitation; to hurry; to bustle; toscuddle.With the first dawn of day, old Janet was scuttling about the houseto wake the baron. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "CALOMEL": "Mild chloride of mercury, Hg", | |
| "HANDIWORK": "Work done by the hands; hence, any work done personally.The firmament showeth his handiwork. Ps. xix. 1.", | |
| "ANHELOUS": "Short of breath; panting.", | |
| "TRUMPETING": "A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft. Raymond.", | |
| "WANGER": "A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. [Obs. & R.]His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.", | |
| "SUBSEROUS": "Situated under a serous membrane.", | |
| "SHELDFOWL": "The common sheldrake. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "BILLETHEAD": "A round piece of timber at the bow or stern of a whaleboat,around which the harpoon lone is run out when the whale darts off.", | |
| "PAMPERIZE": "To pamper. [R.] Sydney Smith.", | |
| "ALCOHOLATE": "A crystallizable compound of a salt with alcohol, in which thelatter plays a part analogous to that of water of crystallization.Graham.", | |
| "INCAVERNED": "Inclosed or shut up as in a cavern. Drayton.", | |
| "PHOTOPSIA": "An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceivesluminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.", | |
| "SPILL": "To cover or decorate with slender pieces of wood, metal, ivory,etc.; to inlay. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "RESPIRATORY": "Of or pertaining to respiration; serving for respiration; as,the respiratory organs; respiratory nerves; the respiratory function;respiratory changes. Respiratory foods. (Physiol.) See 2d Note underFood, n., 1.-- Respiratory tree (Zo\u00f6l.), the branched internal gill of certainholothurians.", | |
| "MANUSCRIPTAL": "Manuscript. [Obs.]", | |
| "CEPHALAD": "Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body;opposed to caudad.", | |
| "LADY": "The triturating apparatus in the stomach of a lobster; -- socalled from a fancied resemblance to a seated female figure. Itconsists of calcareous plates. Ladies' man, a man who affects thesociety of ladies.-- Lady altar, an altar in a lady chapel. Shipley.-- Lady chapel, a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary.-- Lady court, the court of a lady of the manor.-- Lady crab (Zo\u00f6l.), a handsomely spotted swimming crab(Platyonichus ocellatus) very common on the sandy shores of theAtlantic coast of the United States.-- Lady fern. (Bot.) See Female fern, under Female, and Illust. ofFern.-- Lady in waiting, a lady of the queen's household, appointed towait upon or attend the queen.-- Lady Mass, a Mass said in honor of the Virgin Mary. Shipley. Ladyof the manor, a lady having jurisdiction of a manor; also, the wifeof a manor lord. Lady's maid, a maidservant who dresses and waitsupon a lady. Thackeray.-- Our Lady, the Virgin Mary.", | |
| "LARYNGOLOGY": "Systematized knowledge of the action and functions of thelarynx; in pathology, the department which treats of the diseases ofthe larynx.", | |
| "RENIDIFICATION": "The act of rebuilding a nest.", | |
| "VICINE": "Near; neighboring; vicinal. [R.] Glanvill.", | |
| "SENSISM": "Same as Sensualism, 2 & 3.", | |
| "BAITER": "One who baits; a tormentor.", | |
| "CONTUMELY": "Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornfulinsolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act orspeech; disgrace.The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely. Shak.Nothing aggravates tyranny so much as contumely. Burke.", | |
| "NARCISSUS": "A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers,having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, andcomprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds.", | |
| "SOCIABLENESS": "The quality of being sociable.", | |
| "RAMLINE": "A line used to get a straight middle line, as on a spar, orfrom stem to stern in building a vessel.", | |
| "HARVEST": "To reap or gather, as any crop.", | |
| "BANGING": "Huge; great in size. [Colloq.] Forby.", | |
| "INTHRALL": "To reduce to bondage or servitude; to make a thrall, slave,vassal, or captive of; to enslave.She soothes, but never can inthrall my mind. Prior.", | |
| "FORRAY": "To foray; to ravage; to pillage.For they that morn had forrayed all the land. Fairfax.", | |
| "CARTOGRAPHER": "One who make charts or maps.", | |
| "INTEMERATENESS": "The state of being unpolluted; purity. [Obs.] Donne.", | |
| "NYCTALOPY": "Same as Nyctalopia.", | |
| "MACROPRISM": "A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoidand the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are calledmacropyramids.", | |
| "MELAMINE": "A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from severalcyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, --formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam.Called also cyanuramide.", | |
| "GALLOMANIA": "An excessive admiration of what is French.-- Gal`lo*ma\"ni*ac, n.", | |
| "PULVERIZE": "To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, orthe like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding orbeating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must bepursued.", | |
| "ROLLY-POLY": "A kind of pudding made of paste spread with fruit, rolled intoa cylindrical form, and boiled or steamed.-- a.", | |
| "HOLSTER": "A leather case for a pistol, carried by a horseman at the bowof his saddle.", | |
| "HYDROPIPER": "A species (Polygonum Hydropiper) of knotweed with acridfoliage; water pepper; smartweed.", | |
| "SULPHURATION": "The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur orits compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.", | |
| "AEON": "A period of immeasurable duration; also, an emanation of theDeity. See Eon.", | |
| "REEXPULSION": "Renewed or repeated expulsion. Fuller.", | |
| "SYCOCERIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by theoxidation of sycoceryl alcohol.", | |
| "PHAEACIAN": "Of or pertaining to the Ph\u00e6acians, a fabulous seafaring peoplefond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.", | |
| "VOTARY": "Consecrated by a vow or promise; consequent on a vow; devoted;promised.Votary resolution is made equipollent to custom. Bacon.", | |
| "TRIPARTIENT": "Dividing into three parts; -- said of a number which exactlydivides another into three parts.", | |
| "LOOSE": "To set sail. [Obs.] Acts xiii. 13.", | |
| "FER": "Far. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "UNDECANE": "A liquid hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the methane series, found inpetroleum; -- so called from its containing eleven carbon atoms inthe molecule.", | |
| "PLUTOLOGY": "The science which treats of wealth.", | |
| "LAXATOR": "That which loosens; -- esp., a muscle which by its contractionloosens some part.", | |
| "BEWRECK": "To wreck. [Obs.]", | |
| "FARMYARD": "The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosedby the farm buildings.", | |
| "MISGRAFF": "To misgraft. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "CONFRIER": "A confr\u00e8re. [Obs.] Weever.", | |
| "CORDWAIN": "A term used in the Middle Ages for Spanish leather (goatskintanned and dressed), and hence, any leather handsomely finished,colored, gilded, or the like.Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.", | |
| "DIOPTRICS": "The science of the refraction of light; that part ofgeometrical optics which treats of the laws of the refraction oflight in passing from one medium into another, or through differentmediums, as air, water, or glass, and esp. through different lenses;-- distinguished from catoptrics, which refers to reflected light.", | |
| "COELECTRON": "See Electron.", | |
| "HAEMOGLOBIN": "Same as Hemoglobin.", | |
| "REERMOUSE": "See Rearmouse.", | |
| "HAMMER-HARDEN": "To harden, as a metal, by hammering it in the cold state.", | |
| "POURSUIVANT": "See Pursuivant.", | |
| "INELUCTABLE": "Not to be overcome by struggling; irresistible; inevitable. Bp.Pearson.The ineluctable conditions of matter. Hamerton.", | |
| "HULCHY": "Swollen; gibbous. [Obs.]", | |
| "EXSICCATION": "The act of operation of drying; evaporation or expulsion ofmoisture; state of being dried up; dryness. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "COTTONWEED": "See Cudweed.", | |
| "DIGESTION": "The conversion of food, in the stomach and intestines, intosoluble and diffusible products, capable of being absorbed by theblood.", | |
| "OTOCRANE": "The cavity in the skull in which the parts of the internal earare lodged.", | |
| "PESAGE": "A fee, or toll, paid for the weighing of merchandise.", | |
| "UNAUDIENCED": "Not given an audience; not received or heard.", | |
| "GALIMATIAS": "Nonsense; gibberish; confused and unmeaning talk; confusedmixture.Her dress, like her talk, is a galimatias of several countries.Walpole.", | |
| "ALBITE": "A mineral of the feldspar family, triclinic in crystallization,and in composition a silicate of alumina and soda. It is a commonconstituent of granite and of various igneous rocks. See Feldspar.", | |
| "CONFIDENTIALLY": "In confidence; in reliance on secrecy.", | |
| "SEERSUCKER": "A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk andlinen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped orpuckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.", | |
| "MUCID": "Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous.-- Mu\"cid*ness, n.", | |
| "RACHITIS": "Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied tothe rickets. See Rickets.", | |
| "PARALOGICAL": "Containing paralogism; illogical. \"Paralogical doubt.\" Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "ABACTION": "Stealing cattle on a large scale. [Obs.]", | |
| "COCCYGEOUS": "Coccygeal. [R.]", | |
| "PODOTHECA": "The scaly covering of the foot of a bird or reptile.", | |
| "AMERCER": "One who amerces.", | |
| "FRUSTRANEOUS": "Vain; useless; unprofitable. [Obs.] South.", | |
| "PENTACRON": "A solid having five summits or angular points.", | |
| "GANOCEPHALOUS": "Of or pertaining to the Ganocephala.", | |
| "FLEET": "To slip on the whelps or the barrel of a capstan or windlass; -- said of a cable or hawser.", | |
| "PALFREYED": "Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.", | |
| "PLATOMETER": "See Planimeter.", | |
| "COGENIAL": "Congenial. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNCASTLE": "To take a castle from; to turn out of a castle.", | |
| "GEMMACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to gems or to gemm\u00e6; of the nature of, orresembling, gems or gemm\u00e6.", | |
| "GRADATION": "A gradual passing from one tint to another or from a darker toa lighter shade, as in painting or drawing.", | |
| "REOTROPE": "See Rheotrope.", | |
| "WRACK": "A thin, flying cloud; a rack.", | |
| "INFANTRY": "A body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers, indistinction from cavalry.", | |
| "NUGIFY": "To render trifling or futile; to make silly. [R.] Coleridge.", | |
| "MAHOMETANISM": "See Mohammedanism.", | |
| "FEMININE": "Any one of those words which are the appellations of females,or which have the terminations usually found in such words; as,actress, songstress, abbess, executrix.There are but few true feminines in English. Latham.", | |
| "SPEW": "That which is vomited; vomit.", | |
| "ACTINOST": "(Anat.) One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.", | |
| "MIRINESS": "The quality of being miry.", | |
| "DIFFIND": "To split. [Obs.] Bailey.", | |
| "INFIDEL": "Not holding the faith; -- applied esp. to one who does notbelieve in the inspiration of the Scriptures, and the supernaturalorigin of Christianity.The infidel writer is a great enemy to society. V. Knox.", | |
| "CHEST": "A case in which certain goods, as tea, opium, etc., aretransported; hence, the quantity which such a case contains.", | |
| "WRECK-MASTER": "A person appointed by law to take charge of goods, etc., thrownon shore after a shipwreck.", | |
| "CRENELLED": "Same as Crenate.", | |
| "DILLY-DALLY": "To loiter or trifle; to waste time.", | |
| "EBURNATION": "A condition of bone cartilage occurring in certain diseases ofthese tissues, in which they acquire an unnatural density, and cometo resemble ivory.", | |
| "ORTHOMETRY": "The art or practice of constructing verses correctly; the lawsof correct versification.", | |
| "IMBAR": "To bar in; to secure. [Obs.]To imbar their crooked titles. Shak.", | |
| "TRICHROIC": "Exhibiting trichroism; pleochroic; pleochroism.", | |
| "BITTERWORT": "The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bittertaste.", | |
| "DIRIGENT": "Directing. Baxter.", | |
| "SECRETION": "The act of secreting; the process by which material isseparated from the blood through the agency of the cells of thevarious glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so asto form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and otherdigestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, andhence are formed the various secretions.", | |
| "SETEE": "See 2d Settee.", | |
| "MONTH": "One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; thetwelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of asynodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, aperiod of four weeks is often called a month.", | |
| "LUKE": "Moderately warm; not hot; tepid.-- Luke\"ness, n. [Obs.]Nine penn'orth o'brandy and water luke. Dickens.", | |
| "NASALITY": "The quality or state of being nasal.", | |
| "SUBSECUTIVE": "Following in a train or succession. [R.]", | |
| "SCAMPERER": "One who scampers. Tyndell.", | |
| "TROPAEOLIN": "A name given to any one of a series of orange-red dyestuffsproduced artificially from certain complex sulphonic acid derivativesof azo and diazo hydrocarbons of the aromatic series; -- so calledbecause of the general resemblance to the shades of nasturtium(Trop\u00e6olum).", | |
| "ESSENTIALLY": "In an essential manner or degree; in an indispensable degree;really; as, essentially different.", | |
| "SELENIURETED": "Combined with selenium as in a selenide; as, seleniuretedhydrogen. [Written also seleniuretted.] [Obsoles.]", | |
| "MOTH-EAT": "To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely usedexcept in the form moth-eaten, p.p. or a.]Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "PETTIFOGULIZE": "To act as a pettifogger; to use contemptible tricks. DeQuincey.", | |
| "ALTHORN": "An instrument of the saxhorn family, used exclusively inmilitary music, often replacing the French horn. Grove.", | |
| "BILIMENT": "A woman's ornament; habiliment. [Obs.]", | |
| "PERNYI MOTH": "A silk-producing moth (Attacus Pernyi) which feeds upon theoak. It has been introduced into Europe and America from China.", | |
| "CALCITE": "Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral inits crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. Itincludes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-sparand calcareous spar.", | |
| "AVAUNTOUR": "A boaster. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "POLYSCOPE": "A glass which makes a single object appear as many; amultiplying glass. Hutton.", | |
| "RAKESHAME": "A vile, dissolute wretch. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "SHILL": "To shell. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "DE JURE": "By right; of right; by law; -- often opposed to be facto.", | |
| "MUCKINESS": "The quality of being mucky.", | |
| "DELPHIC": "Pertaining to the dauphin of France; as, the Delphin classics,an edition of the Latin classics, prepared in the reign of LouisXIV., for the use of the dauphin (in usum Delphini).", | |
| "ALGERIAN": "Of or pertaining to Algeria.-- n.", | |
| "INTERCOLONIAL": "Between or among colonies; pertaining to the intercourse ormutual relations of colonies; as, intercolonial trade.-- In`ter*co*lo\"ni*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "EXCITABILITY": "The property manifested by living organisms, and the elementsand tissues of which they are constituted, of responding to theaction of stimulants; irritability; as, nervous excitability.", | |
| "GEEST": "Alluvial matter on the surface of land, not of recent origin.R. Jameson.", | |
| "GLUMACEOUS": "Having glumes; consisting of glumes.", | |
| "LUXURIANT": "Exuberant in growth; rank; excessive; very abundant; as, aluxuriant growth of grass; luxuriant foliage.Prune the luxuriant, the uncouth refine. Pope.Luxuriant flower (Bot.), one in which the floral envelopes areoverdeveloped at the expense of the essential organs.", | |
| "FIST": "the index mark [], used to direct special attention to thepassage which follows. Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand overhand.", | |
| "CURE": "A curate; a pardon.", | |
| "TRIFALLOW": "To plow the third time before sowing, as land. Mortimer.", | |
| "LUCIFER": "A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slenderbody and long appendages.", | |
| "KIND-HEARTED": "Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by ahumane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord.To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.", | |
| "TREFOIL": "Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the whiteclover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to thenonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.", | |
| "TRUNKFUL": "As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.", | |
| "SOMNER": "A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court.[Obs.] Piers Plowman.", | |
| "EVASION": "The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of anargument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means ofeluding.Thou . . . by evasions thy crime uncoverest more. Milton.", | |
| "DOMETT": "A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weftwoolen. Blakely.", | |
| "HYDATOID": "Resembling water; watery; aqueous; hyaloid.", | |
| "ORIEL": "A bay window. See Bay window.The beams that thro' the oriel shine Make prisms in every carvenglass. Tennyson.", | |
| "CREAM-FACED": "White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the naturalcomplexion.Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.", | |
| "ROSMARINE": "A fabulous sea animal which was reported to climb by means ofits teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew.And greedly rosmarines with visages deforme. Spenser.", | |
| "WHIGGISHLY": "In a Whiggish manner.", | |
| "LIMPITUDE": "Limpidity. [Obs.]", | |
| "ELFISH": "Of or relating to the elves; elflike; implike; weird; scarcelyhuman; mischievous, as though caused by elves. \"Elfish light.\"Coleridge.The elfish intelligence that was so familiar an expression on hersmall physiognomy. Hawthorne.", | |
| "ENRAPTURE": "To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; toenravish. Shenstone.", | |
| "PERFORATE": "To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument;to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce orpenetrate the surface of. Bacon.", | |
| "MEN": "pl. of Man.", | |
| "CARNAL-MINDEDNESS": "Grossness of mind.", | |
| "DRAWLATCH": "A housebreaker or thief. [Obs.] Old Play (1631).", | |
| "PUNDLE": "A short and fat woman; a squab. [Obs.]", | |
| "KIER": "A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the actionof hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.", | |
| "TIDED": "Affected by the tide; having a tide. \"The tided Thames.\" Bp.Hall.", | |
| "INDIGOMETER": "An instrument for ascertaining the strength of an indigosolution, as in volumetric analysis. Ure.", | |
| "SIGGER": "Same as Sicker. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "BRANDING IRON": "An iron to brand with.", | |
| "CAPUCCIO": "A capoch or hood. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "HYGROPLASM": "The fluid portion of the cell protoplasm, in opposition tostereoplasm, the solid or insoluble portion. The latter is supposedto be partly nutritive and partly composed of idioplasm.", | |
| "UNBREAST": "To disclose, or lay open; to unbosom. [Obs.] P. Fletcher,", | |
| "PERINUCLEAR": "Of or pertaining to a nucleus; situated around a nucleus; as,the perinuclear protoplasm.", | |
| "THEOPHILANTHROPY": "Theophilanthropism. Macaulay.", | |
| "NYMPHA": "Same as Nymph, 3.", | |
| "PRIMEVAL": "Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive;primary; as, the primeval innocence of man. \"This is the forestprimeval.\" Longfellow.From chaos, and primeval darkness, came Light. Keats.", | |
| "TOP-TOOL": "A tool applied to the top of the work, in distinction from atool inserted in the anvil and on which the work is placed.", | |
| "FINIS": "An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.", | |
| "DIGITULE": "A little finger or toe, or something resembling one.", | |
| "DOMABLENESS": "Tamableness.", | |
| "PRY": "A lever; also, leverage. [Local, U. S. & Eng.] Pry pole, thepole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing thewindlass.", | |
| "CERCUS": "See Cercopod.", | |
| "CIRCUMGYRE": "To circumgyrate. [Obs.]", | |
| "ANTHOBIAN": "A beetle which feeds on flowers.", | |
| "NEUROPTERIS": "An extensive genus of fossil ferns, of which species have beenfound from the Devonian to the Triassic formation.", | |
| "TWINLING": "A young or little twin, especially a twin lamb.", | |
| "CATECHIZE": "See Catechise.", | |
| "BLOBBER": "A bubble; blubber. [Low] T. Carew. Blobber lip, a thick,protruding lip.His blobber lips and beetle brows commend. Dryden.", | |
| "CRUCIATION": "The act of torturing; torture; torment. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "LANSEH": "The small, whitish brown fruit of an East Indian tree (Lansiumdomesticum). It has a fleshy pulp, with an agreeable subacid taste.Balfour.", | |
| "LARGE-HANDED": "Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in largequantities; rapacious or bountiful.", | |
| "SHUDDER": "To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiverwith cold; to quake. \"With shuddering horror pale.\" Milton.The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith.", | |
| "UNCIRCUMCISED": "Not circumcised; hence, not of the Israelites. \"Thisuncircumcised Philistine.\" 1 Sam. xvii. 26.", | |
| "DISLIKELIHOOD": "The want of likelihood; improbability. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "ONIROCRITIC": "See Oneirocritic.", | |
| "MULTINUCLEAR": "Containing many nuclei; as, multinuclear cells.", | |
| "STUCCOWORK": "Work done in stucco.", | |
| "PALAVERER": "One who palavers; a flatterer.", | |
| "TRIER": "A person appointed according to law to try challenges ofjurors; a trior. Burrill.", | |
| "UNATTIRE": "To divest of attire; to undress.", | |
| "INTERLOCUTORY": "Intermediate; not final or definitive; made or done during theprogress of an action.", | |
| "AFFLICTIVELY": "In an afflictive manner.", | |
| "SHIFTABLE": "Admitting of being shifted.", | |
| "URETHROTOMY": "An incision of the urethra, esp. incision for relief ofurethral stricture.", | |
| "CUND": "To con (a ship). [Obs.]", | |
| "PSEUDOBLEPSIS": "False or depraved sight; imaginary vision of objects. Forsyth.", | |
| "PENITENTIAL": "Of or pertaining to penitence, or to penance; expressingpenitence; of the nature of penance; as, the penitential book;penitential tears. \"Penitential stripes.\" Cowper.Guilt that all the penitential fires of hereafter can not cleanse.Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "UNDAUNTABLE": "Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable.Bp. Hall.", | |
| "PEDICELLATE": "Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.", | |
| "SMELTIE": "A fish, the bib. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "CLAVIER": "The keyboard of an organ, pianoforte, or harmonium.", | |
| "PNEUMATOGARM": "A tracing of the respiratory movements, obtained by apneumatograph or stethograph.", | |
| "CONTRAST": "To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, oropposition of qualities.The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with thedivisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars. Lyell.", | |
| "COHEIRSHIP": "The state of being a coheir.", | |
| "PREDOMINANCE": "The superior influence of a planet. Shak.", | |
| "PROBLEMATIZE": "To propose problems. [R.] \"Hear him problematize.\" B. Jonson.", | |
| "TRUNK": "That part of a pilaster which is between the base and thecapital, corresponding to the shaft of a column.", | |
| "JOINTURE": "An estate settled on a wife, which she is to enjoy afterhusband's decease, for her own life at least, in satisfaction ofdower.The jointure that your king must make, Which with her dowry shall becounterpoised. Shak.", | |
| "CYANOSIS": "A condition in which, from insufficient aCyanopathy.", | |
| "SKEW": "Awry; obliquely; askew.", | |
| "FANTASM": "Same as Phantasm.", | |
| "GREVE": "A grove. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "TRANSMISSIBILITY": "The quality of being transmissible.", | |
| "MURIDE": "Bromine; -- formerly so called from its being obtained from seawater.", | |
| "PALILOGY": "The repetition of a word, or part of a sentence, for the sakeof greater emphasis; as, \"The living, the living, he shall praisethee.\" Is. xxxviii. 19.", | |
| "UNCLESHIP": "The office or position of an uncle. Lamb.", | |
| "SHROVETIDE": "The days immediately preceding Ash Widnesday, especially theperiod between the evening before Quinguagesima Sunday and themorning of Ash Wednesday.", | |
| "INSATURABLE": "Not capable of being saturated or satisfied.", | |
| "WELTER": "To wither; to wilt. [R.]Weltered hearts and blighted . . . memories. I. Taylor.", | |
| "UNAMIABLE": "Not amiable; morose; ill-natured; repulsive.-- Un*a\"mi*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "FO": "The Chinese name of Buddha.", | |
| "YUCKEL": "Same as Yockel.", | |
| "BILATERALITY": "State of being bilateral.", | |
| "IMMODERATE": "Not moderate; exceeding just or usual and suitable bounds;excessive; extravagant; unreasonable; as, immoderate demands;immoderate grief; immoderate laughter.So every scope by the immoderate use Turns to restraint. Shak.", | |
| "POSTPONER": "One who postpones.", | |
| "HAILSHOT": "Small shot which scatter like hailstones. [Obs.] Hayward.", | |
| "VACUIST": "One who holds the doctrine that the space between the bodies ofthe universe, or the molecules and atoms of matter., is a vacuum; --opposed to plenist.", | |
| "GRIMALKIN": "An old cat, esp. a she-cat. J. Philips.", | |
| "HERBAGE": "The liberty or right of pasture in the forest or in the groundsof another man. Blount.", | |
| "APPEACHMENT": "Accusation. [Obs.]", | |
| "SLANGINESS": "Quality of being slangy.", | |
| "ANCHYLOSE": "To affect or be affected with anchylosis; to unite orconsolidate so as to make a stiff joint; to grow together into one.[Spelt also ankylose.] Owen.", | |
| "NOUGHT": "See Naught. Chaucer.", | |
| "ISOPERIMETRY": "The science of figures having equal perimeters or boundaries.", | |
| "HALP": "Helped. [Obs.]", | |
| "SEROUS": "The thar.", | |
| "XYSTARCH": "An office Dr. W. Smith.", | |
| "FAMOUSED": "Renowned. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "ENODATION": "The act or operation of clearing of knots, or of untying;hence, also, the solution of a difficulty. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "MERESMAN": "An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries. [Eng.]", | |
| "UNDERGLAZE": "Applied under the glaze, that is, before the glaze, that is,before the glaze is put on; fitted to be so applied; -- said ofcolors in porcelain painting.", | |
| "ABDOMINOSCOPY": "Examination of the abdomen to detect abdominal disease.", | |
| "FIELDPIECE": "A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; apiece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.", | |
| "WAILFUL": "Sorrowful; mournful. \" Like wailful widows.\" Spenser. \"Wailfulsonnets.\" Shak.", | |
| "MAWSEED": "The seed of the opium poppy.", | |
| "TEACHING": "The act or business of instructing; also, that which is taught;instruction.", | |
| "SERF": "A servant or slave employed in husbandry, and in some countriesattached to the soil and transferred with it, as formerly in Russia.In England, at least from the reign of Henry II, one only, and thatthe inferior species [of villeins], existed . . . But by the customsof France and Germany, persons in this abject state seem to have beencalled serfs, and distinguished from villeins, who were only bound tofixed payments and duties in respect of their lord, though, as itseems, without any legal redress if injured by him. Hallam.", | |
| "LIENCULUS": "One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood ofthe spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.", | |
| "PLAID": "Having a pattern or colors which resemble a Scotch plaid;checkered or marked with bars or stripes at right angles to oneanother; as, plaid muslin.", | |
| "NICKER TREE": "The plant producing nicker nuts. [Written also neckar tree andnickar tree.]", | |
| "ASSASSINATOR": "An assassin.", | |
| "JUPITER": "The supreme deity, king of gods and men, and reputed to be theson of Saturn and Rhea; Jove. He corresponds to the Greek Zeus.", | |
| "REGERMINATE": "To germinate again.Perennial plants regerminate several years successively. J. Lee.", | |
| "KNEE": "A piece of timber or metal formed with an angle somewhat in theshape of the human knee when bent.", | |
| "SOOTY": "To black or foul with soot. [R.]Sootied with noisome smoke. Chapman.", | |
| "PREVENTINGLY": "So as to prevent or hinder.", | |
| "MAXILLA": "One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.", | |
| "MICRON": "A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; themillionth part of a meter.", | |
| "INEXORABLY": "In an inexorable manner; inflexibly. \"Inexorably firm.\"Thomson.", | |
| "SELF-COMPLACENT": "Satisfied with one's own character, capacity, and doings; self-satisfied.", | |
| "ROTTEN": "Having rotted; putrid; decayed; as, a rotten apple; rottenmeat. Hence:(a) Offensive to the smell; fetid; disgusting.You common cry or curs! whose breath I hate As reek of the rottenfens. Shak.", | |
| "SPRECHERY": "Movables of an inferior description; especially, such as havebeen collected by depredation. [Scot]", | |
| "UNDULATIONIST": "One who advocates the undulatory theory of light. Whewell.", | |
| "OVERLEAD": "To domineer over; to affront; to treat with indignity. [Obs.]Chaucer.", | |
| "APPEL": "A tap or stamp of the foot as a warning of intent to attack; --called also attack.", | |
| "POLYCHROITE": "The coloring matter of saffron; -- formerly so called becauseof the change of color on treatment with certain acids; -- calledalso crocin, and safranin.", | |
| "THROWE": "A turning lathe. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "OVILE": "See Ovine.", | |
| "PULLICATE": "A kind of checked cotton or silk handkerchief.", | |
| "TORMENTISE": "Torture; torment. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ALGAL": "Pertaining to, or like, alg\u00e6.", | |
| "COAG": "See Coak, a kind of tenon.", | |
| "PONDERANCE": "Weight; gravity. [R.] Gregory.", | |
| "VELVETING": "The fine shag or nap of velvet; a piece of velvet; velvetgoods.", | |
| "UNSTRATIFIED": "Not stratified; -- applied to massive rocks, as granite,porphyry, etc., and also to deposits of loose material, as theglacial till, which occur in masses without layers or strata.", | |
| "AREOSTYLE": "See Intercolumniation, and Ar\u00e6ostyle.", | |
| "RESALGAR": "Realgar. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ENCEPHALIC": "Pertaining to the encephalon or brain.", | |
| "INSENSIBLENESS": "Insensibility. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "BUTTONBUSH": "A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.", | |
| "FAIR": "Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth;fowing; -- said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, waterlines, and other lines.", | |
| "REAPPROACH": "To approach again or anew.", | |
| "THE": "See Thee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Milton.", | |
| "TURBANED": "Wearing a turban. \" A malignant and a turbaned Turk.\" Shak.", | |
| "PORITE": "Any coral of the genus Porites, or family Poritid\u00e6.", | |
| "ASTROLOGY": "In its etymological signification, the science of the stars;among the ancients, synonymous with astronomy; subsequently, the artof judging of the influences of the stars upon human affairs, and offoretelling events by their position and aspects.", | |
| "LAFTE": "of Leave. Chaucer.", | |
| "PERSCRUTATION": "A thorough searching; a minute inquiry or scrutiny. Carlyle", | |
| "RIDDEN": "p. p. of Ride.", | |
| "GREEDINESS": "The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.Fox in stealth, wolf in greediness. Shak.", | |
| "CREAMCAKE": "A kind of cake filled with custard made of cream, eggs, etc.", | |
| "PITHECI": "A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimesused in the sense of Primates.", | |
| "BIRDSEED": "Canary seed, hemp, millet or other small seeds used for feedingcaged birds.", | |
| "UNCRUDDED": "Not cruddled, or curdled. [Obs.]Her breast like to a bowl of cream uncrudded. Spenser.", | |
| "SPADE": "A hart or stag three years old. [Written also spaid, spayade.]", | |
| "SPLIT SWITCH": "= Point switch.", | |
| "NOY": "To annoy; to vex. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Piers Plowman.All that noyed his heavy spright. Spenser.", | |
| "PLATHELMINTHES": "Same as Platyelminthes.", | |
| "CUTINIZE": "To change into cutin.", | |
| "MALACOLITE": "A variety of pyroxene.", | |
| "DENITRIFICATION": "The act or process of freeing from nitrogen; also, thecondition resulting from the removal of nitrogen.", | |
| "ADVANCIVE": "Tending to advance. [R.]", | |
| "Z": "Z, the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet, isa vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z, which camefrom the Greek alphabet, this having it from a Semitic source. Theultimate origin is probably Egyptian. Etymologically, it is mostclosely related to s, y, and j; as in glass, glaze; E. yoke, Gr.yugum; E. zealous, jealous. See Guide to Pronunciation, \u00a7\u00a7 273, 274.", | |
| "AFTERGUARD": "The seaman or seamen stationed on the poop or after part of theship, to attend the after-sails. Totten.", | |
| "NAS": "Was not. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GUARDS": "A body of picked troops; as, \"The Household Guards.\"", | |
| "BLABBER": "A tattler; a telltale.", | |
| "JANIZARY": "A soldier of a privileged military class, which formed thenucleus of the Turkish infantry, but was suppressed in 1826. [writtenalso janissary.]", | |
| "FRATERNIZATION": "The act of fraternizing or uniting as brothers.I hope that no French fraternization . . . could so change the heartsof Englishmen. Burke.", | |
| "MANZANITA": "A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostlyto A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., withreddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, andbearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite foodof the grizzly bear.", | |
| "MACROMETER": "An instrument for determining the size or distance ofinaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.", | |
| "PIED": "imp. & p. p. of Pi, or Pie, v.", | |
| "HEAVENLINESS": "The state or quality of being heavenly. Sir J. Davies.", | |
| "SHEET CABLE": "The cable belonging to the sheet anchor.", | |
| "FOURTH": "The interval of two tones and a semitone, embracing fourdiatonic degrees of the scale; the subdominant of any key. TheFourth, specifically, un the United States, the fourth day of July,the anniversary of the declaration of American independence; as, tocelebrate the Fourth.", | |
| "SALTERN": "A building or place where salt is made by boiling or byevaporation; salt works.", | |
| "BEE LINE": "The shortest line from one place to another, like that of a beeto its hive when loaded with honey; an air line. \"A bee line for thebrig.\" Kane.", | |
| "STUNTED": "Dwarfed.-- Stunt\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "LADLEFUL": "A quantity sufficient to fill a ladle.", | |
| "SPRINTER": "One who sprints; one who runs in sprint races; as, a championsprinter.", | |
| "SARCASMOUS": "Sarcastic. [Obs.] \"Sarcasmous scandal.\" Hubidras.", | |
| "EERILY": "In a strange, unearthly way.", | |
| "WASSAILER": "One who drinks wassail; one who engages in festivity,especially in drinking; a reveler.The rudeness and swilled insolence Of such late wassailers. Milton.", | |
| "QUOP": "See Quob.", | |
| "ATTERRATION": "The act of filling up with earth, or of forming land withalluvial earth. [Obs.]", | |
| "AMONTILLADO": "A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds.", | |
| "PUSTULE": "A vesicle or an elevation of the cuticle with an inflamed base,containing pus. Malignant pustule. See under Malignant.", | |
| "UNDERSECRETARY": "A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; anassistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.", | |
| "PRIMOGENITIVE": "Of or pertaining to primogeniture. [R.]", | |
| "ORNITHOMANCY": "Divination by means of birds, their flight, etc.Ornithomancy grew into an elaborate science. De Quincey.", | |
| "BROWN THRUSH": "A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied tothe mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.", | |
| "FACETTE": "See Facet, n.", | |
| "RIDGELET": "A little ridge.", | |
| "STINGO": "Old beer; sharp or strong liquor. [Old Slang]Shall I set a cup of old stingo at your elbow Addison.", | |
| "MISTAKINGLY": "Erroneously.", | |
| "PREMUNIRE": "See Pr\u00e6munire.", | |
| "ANTIMASONRY": "Opposition to Freemasonry.", | |
| "PALO": "A pole or timber of any kind; -- in the names of trees. [Sp.Amer.]", | |
| "ROCK STAFF": "An oscillating bar in a machine, as the lever of the bellows ofa forge.", | |
| "SOLEMNLY": "In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.There in deaf murmurs solemnly are wise. Dryden.I do solemnly assure the reader. Swift.", | |
| "PIETRA DURA": "Hard and fine stones in general, such as are used for inlay andthe like, as distinguished from the softer stones used in building;thus, a Florentine mosaic is a familiar instance of work in pietradura, though the ground may be soft marble.", | |
| "RE-RESOLVE": "To resolve again.Resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same. Young.", | |
| "CETIN": "A white, waxy substance, forming the essential part ofspermaceti.", | |
| "ACCESSION": "The invasion, approach, or commencement of a disease; a fit orparoxysm.", | |
| "FLOCCULATE": "To aggregate into small lumps.", | |
| "FERAE": "A group of mammals which formerly included the Carnivora,Insectivora, Marsupialia, and lemurs, but is now often restricted tothe Carnivora.", | |
| "ENFEEBLEMENT": "The act of weakening; enervation; weakness.", | |
| "IMPRACTICABLENESS": "The state or quality of being impracticable; impracticability.", | |
| "PRESBYTIC": "Same as Presbyopic.", | |
| "GLOSSANTHRAX": "A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in themouth and on the tongue.", | |
| "PRIVILEGE": "See Call, Put, Spread, etc. Breach of privilege. See underBreach.-- Question of privilege (Parliamentary practice), a question whichconcerns the security of a member of a legislative body in hisspecial privileges as such.-- Water privilege, the advantage of having machinery driven by astream, or a place affording such advantage. [ U. S.] -- Writ ofprivilege (Law), a writ to deliver a privileged person from custodywhen arrested in a civil suit. Blackstone.", | |
| "WARE": "Wore.", | |
| "CRASIS": "A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution;temperament.", | |
| "IODURET": "Iodide. [Obs.]", | |
| "MINIATURE": "Being on a small; much reduced from the reality; as, aminiature copy.", | |
| "NAVEL ORANGE": "A type of orange in which the fruit incloses a small secondaryfruit, the rind showing on the exterior a navel-like pit ordepression at the apex. There are several varieties; they are usuallyseedless, or nearly so, and are much grown in California.", | |
| "LANDSMAN": "A sailor on his first voyage.", | |
| "COMPLAINER": "One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.Beattie.Speechless complainer, I will learn thy thought. Shak.", | |
| "UNIVOCACY": "The quality or state of being univocal. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "CYANOSITE": "Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.", | |
| "ALIBILITY": "Quality of being alible.", | |
| "IMPERVIOUS": "Not pervious; not admitting of entrance or passage through; as,a substance impervious to water or air.This gulf impassable, impervious. Milton.The minds of these zealots were absolutely impervious. Macaulay.", | |
| "EVERLASTING": "A plant whose flowers may be dried without losing their form orcolor, as the pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea), theimmortelle of the French, the cudweeds, etc.", | |
| "RAFT": "imp. & p. p. of Reave. Spenser.", | |
| "FEARER": "One who fars. Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "GENTEELNESS": "The quality of being genteel.", | |
| "INCORRUPTIBLENESS": "The quality or state of being incorruptible. Boyle.", | |
| "PENTATEUCH": "The first five books of the Old Testament, collectively; --called also the Law of Moses, Book of the Law of Moses, etc.", | |
| "DEHONESTATION": "A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.", | |
| "FULL-FORMED": "Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh.The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.", | |
| "COCKING": "Cockfighting. Ben Jonson.", | |
| "HUTCH": "To place in huts; to live in huts; as, to hut troops in winterquarters.The troops hutted among the heights of Morristown. W. Irving.", | |
| "SUPEREXALT": "To exalt to a superior degree; to exalt above others. Barrow.", | |
| "EXEMPLARILY": "In a manner fitted or designed to be an example for imitationor for warning; by way of example.She is exemplarily loyal. Howell.Some he punisheth exemplarily. Hakewill.", | |
| "IMAGINER": "One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.", | |
| "EXCULPATION": "The act of exculpating from alleged fault or crime; that whichexculpates; excuse.These robbers, however, were men who might have made out a strongcase in exculpation of themselves. Southey.", | |
| "PEPPERMINT": "An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M.piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery.", | |
| "TETRASCHISTIC": "Characterized by division into four parts.", | |
| "TRAPDOOR": "A lifting or sliding door covering an opening in a roof orfloor.", | |
| "SARSA": "Sarsaparilla. [Written also sarza.]", | |
| "MAID": "The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raiabatis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.] Fair maid.(Zo\u00f6l.) See under Fair, a.-- Maid of honor, a female attendant of a queen or royal princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal orhonorary duties.-- Old maid. See under Old.", | |
| "MISGYE": "To misguide. [Obs.]", | |
| "LIGNITIFEROUS": "Producing or containing lignite; lignitic.", | |
| "INEFFECTIVENESS": "Quality of being ineffective.", | |
| "ENSCONCE": "To cover or shelter, as with a sconce or fort; to place or hidesecurely; to conceal.She shall not see me: I will ensconce me behind the arras. Shak.", | |
| "OVERPRAISE": "To praise excessively or unduly.", | |
| "RAJAH": "A native prince or king; also, a landholder or person ofimportance in the agricultural districts. [India]", | |
| "DISINHABITED": "Uninhabited. [Obs.]", | |
| "PHOSPHATIC": "Pertaining to, or containing, phosphorus, phosphoric acid, orphosphates; as, phosphatic nodules. Phosphatic diathesis (Med.), ahabit of body which leads to the undue excretion of phosphates withthe urine.", | |
| "SYNDACTYLE": "Any bird having syndactilous feet.", | |
| "KAN": "To know; to ken. [Obs.] See Ken.", | |
| "CONCEITLESS": "Without wit; stupid. [Obs.]Think'st thou I am so shallow, so conceitless. To be seduced by thyflattery Shak.", | |
| "AGAL-AGAL": "Same as Agar-agar.", | |
| "CONGRUENT": "Possessing congruity; suitable; agreeing; corresponding.The congruent and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence. B.Jonson.Congruent figures (Geom.), concurring figures.", | |
| "EXPOSITOR": "One who, or that which, expounds or explains; an expounder; acommentator. Bp. Horsley.", | |
| "AYE-AYE": "A singular nocturnal quadruped, allied to the lemurs, found inMadagascar (Cheiromys Madagascariensis), remarkable for its longfingers, sharp nails, and rodent-like incisor teeth.", | |
| "OVERMOISTURE": "Excess of moisture.", | |
| "SANG-FROID": "Freedom from agitation or excitement of mind; coolness intrying circumstances; indifference; calmness. Burke.", | |
| "NATIVITY": "A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy ofChrist. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the headsof an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.", | |
| "CRABFACED": "Having a sour, disagreeable countenance. Beau & Fl.", | |
| "SELF-EXCITE": "To energize or excite (the field magnets of a dynamo) byinduction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or apart of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.", | |
| "PHYLACTOLAEMATOUS": "Of or pertaining to the Phylactol\u00e6ma.", | |
| "TRECHOMETER": "An odometer for vehicles. Knight.", | |
| "CLEFTGRAFT": "To ingraft by cleaving the stock and inserting a scion.Mortimer.", | |
| "CLOTTY": "Full of clots, or clods. \"Clotty matter.\" Harvey.", | |
| "CATAMENIA": "The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.", | |
| "COAL-WHIPPER": "One who raises coal out of the hold of a ship. [Eng.] Dickens.", | |
| "BURETTE": "An apparatus for delivering measured quantities of liquid orfor measuring the quantity of liquid or gas received or discharged.It consists essentially of a graduated glass tube, usually furnishedwith a small aperture and stopcock.", | |
| "SCRABBLE": "To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, toscrabble paper.", | |
| "NOSELESS": "Destitute of a nose.", | |
| "INAQUATION": "The state of being inaquate. [Obs.] Bp. Gardiner.", | |
| "UNAFILED": "Undefiled. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "FEEBLY": "In a feeble manner.The restored church . . . contended feebly, and with half a heart.Macaulay.", | |
| "FLECTIONAL": "Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.A flectional word is a phrase in the bud. Earle.", | |
| "GRANDILOQUOUS": "Grandiloquent.", | |
| "IMPREGNANT": "That which impregnates. [R.] Glanvill.", | |
| "STOOP": "Originally, a covered porch with seats, at a house door; theDutch stoep as introduced by the Dutch into New York. Afterward, anout-of-door flight of stairs of from seven to fourteen steps, withplatform and parapets, leading to an entrance door some distanceabove the street; the French perron. Hence, any porch, platform,entrance stairway, or small veranda, at a house door. [U. S.]", | |
| "AVARICIOUS": "Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous ofaccumulating property.", | |
| "COUNTERGLOW": "An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous lightnear the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during Septemberand October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Itscause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.", | |
| "CLASSIFICATION": "The act of forming into a class or classes; a distibution intogroups, as classes, orders, families, etc., according to some commonrelations or affinities. Artificial classification. (Science) Seeunder Artifitial.", | |
| "DEBT": "An action at law to recover a certain specified sum of moneyalleged to be due. Burrill. Bond debt, Book debt, etc. See underBond, Book, etc.-- Debt of nature, death.", | |
| "DENOMINATIVELY": "By denomination.", | |
| "ADEMPTION": "The revocation or taking away of a grant donation, legacy, orthe like. Bouvier.", | |
| "SINCIPITAL": "Of or pertaining to the sinciput; being in the region of thesinciput.", | |
| "MIDDEST": "Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [Obs.]\" 'Mongst the middest crowd.\" Spenser.", | |
| "AMBIGUOUSLY": "In an ambiguous manner; with doubtful meaning.", | |
| "NOISETTE": "A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette,of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose.It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, theMarechal (or Marshal) Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses of thisclass have clustered flowers and are of vigorous growth. P.Henderson.", | |
| "PERSONA": "Same as Person, n., 8.", | |
| "SAVE": "The herb sage, or salvia. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SIDEHILL": "The side or slope of a hill; sloping ground; a descent. [U. S.]", | |
| "RAKE": "A fissure or mineral vein traversing the strata vertically, ornearly so; -- called also rake-vein. Gill rakes. (Anat.) See under1st Gill.", | |
| "WHENEVER": "At whatever time. \"Whenever that shall be.\" Milton.", | |
| "ANONACEOUS": "Pertaining to the order of plants including the soursop,custard apple, etc.", | |
| "RAT": "One of the several species of small rodents of the genus Musand allied genera, larger than mice, that infest houses, stores, andships, especially the Norway, or brown, rat (M. Alexandrinus). Thesewere introduced into Anerica from the Old World.", | |
| "LABELER": "One who labels. [Written also labeller.]", | |
| "FRECKLEDNESS": "The state of being freckled.", | |
| "WATER LOCUST": "A thorny leguminous tree (Gleditschia monosperma) which growsin the swamps of the Mississippi valley.", | |
| "ABSISTENCE": "A standing aloof. [Obs.]", | |
| "CLOSH": "A disease in the feet of cattle; laminitis. Crabb.", | |
| "BROMLIFE": "A carbonate of baryta and lime, intermediate between witheriteand strontianite; -- called also alstonite.", | |
| "CRESCENT": "The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward,when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency todistinguish a second son and his descendants.", | |
| "ENCHYMA": "The primitive formative juice, from which the tissues,particularly the cellular tissue, are formed.", | |
| "TERRACE": "A level plain, usually with a steep front, bordering a river, alake, or sometimes the sea.", | |
| "CULVERHOUSE": "A dovecote.", | |
| "OFFEND": "To oppose or obstruct in duty; to cause to stumble; to cause tosin or to fall. [Obs.]Who hath you misboden or offended. Chaucer.If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out... And if thy right handoffend thee, cut it off. Matt. v. 29, 3O.Great peace have they which love thy law, and nothing shall offendthem. Ps. cxix. 165.", | |
| "BAIN-MARIE": "A vessel for holding hot water in which another vessel may beheated without scorching its contents; -- used for warming orpreparing food or pharmaceutical preparations.", | |
| "PRACTICALLY": "1. In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to lookat things practically; practically worthless.", | |
| "MOSS-GROWN": "Overgrown with moss.", | |
| "CROSSHATCHING": "In drawing and line engraving, shading with lines that crossone another at an angle.", | |
| "THORNBACK": "A European skate (Raia clavata) having thornlike spines on itsback.", | |
| "SUCCEEDING": "The act of one who, or that which, succeeds; also, that whichsucceeds, or follows after; consequence. Shak.", | |
| "OBSECRATION": "A figure of speech in which the orator implores the assistanceof God or man.", | |
| "PREDICTION": "The act of foretelling; also, that which is foretold; prophecy.The predictions of cold and long winters. Bacon.", | |
| "YAULP": "To yaup.", | |
| "SUPERVISAL": "Supervision. Walpole.", | |
| "CONDENSATE": "Made dense; condensed.Water . . . thickened or condensate. Peacham.", | |
| "POTTAIN": "Old pot metal. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "PERSULPHURET": "A persulphide. [Obs.]", | |
| "HYDROTHECA": "One of the calicles which, in some Hydroidea (Thecaphora),protect the hydrants. See Illust. of Hydroidea, and Campanularian.", | |
| "LEONID": "One of the shooting stars which constitute the star shower thatrecurs near the fourteenth of November at intervals of about thirty-three years; so called because shooting stars appear on the heavensto move in lines directed from the constellation Leo.", | |
| "RETRACTIBLE": "Retractable.", | |
| "DISMETTLED": "Destitute of mettle, that is, or fire or spirit. [R.]Llewellyn.", | |
| "LURG": "A large marine annelid (Nephthys c\u00e6ca), inhabiting the sandyshores of Europe and America. It is whitish, with a pearly luster,and grows to the length of eight or ten inches.", | |
| "SAKERET": "The male of the saker (a).", | |
| "SOLENOID": "An electrodynamic spiral having the conjuctive wire turned backalong its axis, so as to neutralize that component of the effect ofthe current which is due to the length of the spiral, and reduce thewhole effect to that of a series of equal and parallel circularcurrents. When traversed by a current the solenoid exhibits polarityand attraction or repulsion, like a magnet.", | |
| "SANDPAPER": "Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used forsmoothing and polishing.", | |
| "AKIMBO": "With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turnedoutward. \"With one arm akimbo.\" Irving.", | |
| "EXOGEN": "A plant belonging to one of the greater part of the vegetablekingdom, and which the plants are characterized by having c woodbark, and pith, the wood forming a layer between the other two, andincreasing, if at all, by the animal addition of a new layer to theoutside next to the bark. The leaves are commonly netted-veined, andthe number of cotyledons is two, or, very rarely, several in a whorl.Cf. Endogen. Gray.", | |
| "GAS-BURNER": "The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as itescapes from one or more minute orifices.", | |
| "MISTELL": "To tell erroneously.", | |
| "PHOSPHATE": "A salt of phosphoric acid.", | |
| "ENHANCER": "One who enhances; one who, or that which, raises the amount,price, etc.", | |
| "BRACKETING": "A series or group of brackets; brackets, collectively.", | |
| "ALKORANIST": "Same as Alcoranist.", | |
| "CITHARA": "An ancient instrument resembling the harp.", | |
| "FRIEZER": "One who, or that which, friezes or frizzes.", | |
| "DESPECIFICATION": "Discrimination.", | |
| "SELF-POSITING": "The act of disposing or arranging one's self or itself.The self-positing of the molecules. R. Watts.", | |
| "INDUCTION": "The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, fromparticulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal;also, the result or inference so reached.Induction is an inference drawn from all the particulars. Sir W.Hamilton.Induction is the process by which we conclude that what is true ofcertain individuals of a class, is true of the whole class, or thatwhat is true at certain times will be true in similar circumstancesat all times. J. S. Mill.", | |
| "PYXIE": "Same as Pixy.", | |
| "LONGEVOUS": "Living a long time; of great age. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ENTERTAIN": "To receive, or provide entertainment for, guests; as, heentertains generously.", | |
| "UNGULOUS": "Same as Ungulate.", | |
| "CUBICALNESS": "The quality of being cubical.", | |
| "BACCATE": "Pulpy throughout, like a berry; -- said of fruits. Gray.", | |
| "REDEMPTIBLE": "Redeemable.", | |
| "SIRT": "A quicksand. [Obs.]", | |
| "WAG-HALTER": "One who moves or wears a halter; one likely to be hanged.[Colloq. & Obs.]I can tell you, I am a mad wag-halter. Marston.", | |
| "SUBMITTER": "One who submits. Whitlock.", | |
| "SKEAN": "A knife or short dagger, esp. that in use among the Highlandersof Scotland. [Variously spelt.] \"His skean, or pistol.\" Spenser.", | |
| "AIT": "An islet, or little isle, in a river or lake; an eyot.The ait where the osiers grew. R. Hodges (1649).Among green aits and meadows. Dickens.", | |
| "SESSIONAL": "Of or pertaining to a session or sessions.", | |
| "STOVEPIPE": "Pipe made of sheet iron in length and angular or curved piecesfitting together, -- used to connect a portable stove with a chimneyflue. Stovepipe hat, the common tall silk hat. [Slang, U.S.]", | |
| "WONG": "A field. [Obs.] Spelman. \"Woods and wonges.\" Havelok the Dane.", | |
| "VIRTUOSO": "A performer on some instrument, as the violin or the piano, whoexcels in the technical part of his art; a brilliant concert player.", | |
| "STYPHNATE": "A salt of styphnic acid.", | |
| "BATTY": "Belonging to, or resembling, a bat. \"Batty wings.\" Shak.", | |
| "ALLEGORIZATION": "The act of turning into allegory, or of understanding in anallegorical sense.", | |
| "COMMUNAL": "Pertaining to a commune.", | |
| "NAVVY": "Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence,a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads,embankments, etc. [Eng.]", | |
| "PUNCTUATOR": "One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.", | |
| "SEW": "Juice; gravy; a seasoned dish; a delicacy. [Obs.] Gower.I will not tell of their strange sewes. Chaucer.", | |
| "MOTLEY-MINDED": "Having a mind of a jester; foolish. Shak.", | |
| "COMMISSURE": "The line of junction or cohering face of two carpels, as in theparsnip, caraway, etc.", | |
| "KEYED": "Furnished with keys; as, a keyed instrument; also, set to akey, as a tune. Keyed bugle. See Kent bugle.", | |
| "DOMAL": "Pertaining to a house. Addison.", | |
| "TEXT": "The four Gospels, by way of distinction or eminence. [R.]", | |
| "SUPERFAMILY": "A group intermediate between a family and a suborder.", | |
| "VINOLENT": "Given to wine; drunken; intemperate. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "VAULT": "An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray.", | |
| "MANOR": "The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as alord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use andsubsistence of his family.My manors, rents, revenues, l forego. Shak.", | |
| "PLANT-CANE": "A stalk or shoot of sugar cane of the first growth from thecutting. The growth of the second and following years is of inferiorquality, and is called rattoon.", | |
| "BLEARY": "Somewhat blear.", | |
| "EVAPORATE": "Dispersed in vapors. Thomson.", | |
| "TYPHOON": "A violent whirlwind; specifically, a violent whirlwindoccurring in the Chinese seas.", | |
| "CADDIS": "A kind of worsted lace or ribbon. \"Caddises, cambrics, lawns.\"Shak.", | |
| "INDIVIDABLE": "Indivisible. [R.] Shak.", | |
| "COMMARK": "The frontier of a country; confines. [Obs.] Shelton.", | |
| "DISELDER": "To deprive of an elder or elders, or of the office of an elder.[Obs.] Fuller.", | |
| "ROUND": "To whisper. [obs.] Shak. Holland.The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, \"Ye are not a wise man,\" .. . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, \"Wherefore broughtye me here\" Calderwood.", | |
| "PHANTASMAGORIC": "Of or pertaining to phantasmagoria; phantasmagorial. Hawthorne.", | |
| "CHEMITYPE": "One of a number of processes by which an impression from anengraved plate is obtained in relief, to be used for printing on anordinary printing press.", | |
| "COOPER": "One who makes barrels, hogsheads, casks, etc.", | |
| "FACTORSHIP": "The business of a factor.", | |
| "MIDSHIP": "Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship. Midshipbeam (Naut.), the beam or timber upon which the broadest part of avessel is formed.-- Midship bend, the broadest frame in a vessel. Weale.", | |
| "SOIL": "To feed, as cattle or horses, in the barn or an inclosure, withfresh grass or green food cut for them, instead of sending them outto pasture; hence (such food having the effect of purging them), topurge by feeding on green food; as, to soil a horse.", | |
| "METAMORPHOSIS": "A change in the form or function of a living organism, by anatural process of growth or development; as, the metamorphosis ofthe yolk into the embryo, of a tadpole into a frog, or of a bud intoa blossom. Especially, that form of sexual reproduction in which anembryo undergoes a series of marked changes of external form, as thechrysalis stage, pupa stage, etc., in insects. In these intermediatestages sexual reproduction is usually impossible, but they ultimatelypass into final and sexually developed forms, from the union of whichorganisms are produced which pass through the same cycle of changes.See Transformation.", | |
| "SEPIOSTARE": "The bone or shell of cuttlefish. See Illust. under Cuttlefish.", | |
| "PHALANSTERIAN": "Of or pertaining to phalansterianism.", | |
| "RANTISM": "Ranterism.", | |
| "SEASONAL": "Of or pertaining to the seasons. Seasonal dimorphism (Zo\u00f6l.),the condition of having two distinct varieties which appear atdifferent seasons, as certain species of butterflies in which thespring brood differs from the summer or autumnal brood.", | |
| "TROUBLE": "Troubled; dark; gloomy. [Obs.] \"With full trouble cheer.\"Chaucer.", | |
| "PLECTOGNATH": "Of or pertaining to the Plectognathi.-- n.", | |
| "NESTLING": "Newly hatched; being yet in the nest.", | |
| "EFFERVESCIVE": "Tending to produce effervescence. \"An effervescive force.\"Hickok.", | |
| "COHEIR": "A joint heir; one of two or more heirs; one of several entitledto an inheritance.", | |
| "LEERE": "Tape or braid; an ornament. Halliwell. Leere side, the leftside, as that on which a leere or ornament was worn. B. Jonson.", | |
| "INCONVENIENCE": "To put to inconvenience; to incommode; as, to inconvenience aneighbor.", | |
| "UNFORMED": "Unorganized; without definite shape or structure; as, anunformed, or unorganized, ferment. Unformed stars (Astron.), starsnot grouped into any constellation; informed stars. See Sporades.", | |
| "JESU": "Jesus. [Poetical]", | |
| "MURAENA": "A genus of large eels of the family Mir\u00e6nid\u00e6. They differ fromthe common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal andanal fins continuous. The murry (Mur\u00e6na Helen\u00e6) of Southern Europewas the mur\u00e6na of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.", | |
| "URRHODIN": "Indigo red, a product of the decomposition, or oxidation, ofindican. It is sometimes found in the sediment of pathologicalurines. It is soluble in ether or alcohol, giving the solution abeautiful red color. Also called indigrubin.", | |
| "NEOLOGIZATION": "The act or process of neologizing.", | |
| "ENTOMOPHAGOUS": "Feeding on insects; insectivorous.", | |
| "INFRA-AXILLARY": "Situated below the axil, as a bud.", | |
| "POLYDIPSIA": "Excessive and constant thirst occasioned by disease.", | |
| "PARIAN": "Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the \u00c6gean Sea noted forits excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. Parian chronicle, amost ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble inthe Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.", | |
| "EXTRAVASATION": "The act of forcing or letting out of its proper vessels orducts, as a fluid; effusion; as, an extravasation of blood after arupture of the vessels.", | |
| "ILLUSTRATOR": "One who illustrates.", | |
| "CREMATOR": "One who, or that which, cremmates or consumes to ashes.", | |
| "FLUORESCENT": "Having the property of fluorescence.", | |
| "MEGASTHENE": "One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals,having a large size as a typical characteristic.", | |
| "GRIMACED": "Distorted; crabbed.", | |
| "SKOPSTER": "The saury. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "FORCIBLENESS": "The quality of being forcible.", | |
| "NEARNESS": "The state or quality of being near; -- used in the varioussenses of the adjective.", | |
| "TROILUS": "A large, handsome American butterfly (Euphoeades, or Papilio,troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings,and blue spots on the rear wings.", | |
| "PENTANGULAR": "Having five corners or angles. [R.]", | |
| "ENDOPHYLLOUS": "Wrapped up within a leaf or sheath.", | |
| "PROTESTANTICAL": "Protestant. [Obs.]", | |
| "ANTORBITAL": "Pertaining to, or situated in, the region of the front of theorbit.-- n.", | |
| "GARNET": "A mineral having many varieties differing in color and in theirconstituents, but with the same crystallization (isometric), andconforming to the same general chemical formula. The commonest coloris red, the luster is vitreous, and the hardness greater than that ofquartz. The dodecahedron and trapezohedron are the common forms.", | |
| "CO-LESSOR": "A partner in giving a lease.", | |
| "MAINLY": "Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree. [Obs.] Bacon. Shak.", | |
| "ULOTRICHAN": "Of or pertaining to the Ulotrichi.-- n.", | |
| "PARKESINE": "A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, butlater from different materials, and used as a substitute forvulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.", | |
| "EMBRIGHT": "To brighten. [Obs.]", | |
| "AVESTA": "The Zoroastrian scriptures. See Zend-Avesta.", | |
| "SEIGNIORALTY": "The territory or authority of a seignior, or lord. Milman.", | |
| "THUNDER": "To emit with noise and terror; to utter vehemently; to publish,as a threat or denunciation.Oracles severe Were daily thundered in our general's ear. Dryden.An archdeacon, as being a prelate, may thunder out an ecclesiasticalcensure. Ayliffe.", | |
| "OMELET": "Eggs beaten up with a little flour, etc., and cooked in afrying pan; as, a plain omelet.", | |
| "TRANS-": "A prefix, signifying over, beyond, through and through, on theother side, as in transalpine, beyond the Alps; transform, to formthrough and through, that is, anew, transfigure.", | |
| "HYDROPHORE": "An instrument used for the purpose of obtaining specimens ofwater from any desired depth, as in a river, a lake, or the ocean.", | |
| "FRIEZE": "A kind of coarse woolen cloth or stuff with a shaggy or tufted(friezed) nap on one side. \"Robes of frieze.\" Goldsmith.", | |
| "INTERSTITIAL": "Of or pertaining to interstices; intermediate; within thetissues; as, interstitial cavities or spaces in the tissues ofanimals or plants.", | |
| "PHYLLOPHAGOUS": "Substituting on leaves; leaf-eating.", | |
| "GUIDEPOST": "A post at the fork of a road, with a guideboard on it, todirect travelers.", | |
| "OVULIFEROUS": "Producing ovules.", | |
| "AGGLOMERATIVE": "Having a tendency to gather together, or to make collections.Taylor is eminently discursive, accumulative, and (to use one of hisown words) agglomerative. Coleridge.", | |
| "DEMISSIVE": "Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.]They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).", | |
| "APPENDAGED": "Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage.", | |
| "STANDARD": "The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy establishedby authority.By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coinedout of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "PALMED": "Having or bearing a palm or palms. Paimed deer (Zo\u00f6l.), a stagof full growth, bearing palms. See lst Palm, 4.", | |
| "EUHEMERISTIC": "Of or pertaining to euhemerism.", | |
| "ZENIK": "See Zenick.", | |
| "POLYGYNIA": "A Linn\u00e6an order of plants having many styles.", | |
| "COIFFEUR": "A hairdresser.", | |
| "ICHTHYOPHTHALMITE": "See Apophyllite. [R.]", | |
| "PATRISTICS": "That departnent of historical theology which treats of thelives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.", | |
| "OVERPART": "To give too important or difficult a part to. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "EXPOSTULATION": "The act of expostulating or reasoning with a person inopposition to some impropriety of conduct; remonstrance; earnest andkindly protest; dissuasion.We must use expostulation kindly. Shak.", | |
| "OLIVACEOUS": "Resembling the olive; of the color of the olive; olive-green.", | |
| "AFFIXTURE": "The act of affixing, or the state of being affixed; attachment.", | |
| "VIVIPAROUSNESS": "The quality of being viviparous; viviparity.", | |
| "ITACOLUMITE": "A laminated, granular, siliceous rocks, often occurring inregions where the diamond is found.", | |
| "VERATRIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, plants of the genus Veratrum.Veratric acid (Chem.), an acid occurring, together with veratrine, inthe root of white hellebore (Veratrum album), and in sabadilla seed;-- extracted as a white crystalline substance which is related toprotocatechuic acid.", | |
| "QUICH": "To stir. [Obs.]He could not move nor quich at all. Spenser.", | |
| "PLANO-CONCAVE": "Plane or flat on one side, and concave on the other; as, aplano-concave lens. See Lens.", | |
| "UNPLAID": "To deprive of a plaid.", | |
| "OPTOMETRIST": "One who is skilled in or practices optometry.", | |
| "LIMITATE": "Bounded by a distinct line.", | |
| "COLLECTIVIST": "An advocate of collectivism.-- a.", | |
| "SHOALING": "Becoming shallow gradually. \"A shoaling estuary.\" Lyell.", | |
| "VICTORIOUS": "Of or pertaining to victory, or a victor' being a victor;bringing or causing a victory; conquering; winning; triumphant; as, avictorious general; victorious troops; a victorious day.But I shall rise victorious, and subdue My vanquisher. Milton.Now are our brows bound wind victorious wreaths. Shak.-- Vic*to\"ri*ous*ly, adv.-- Vic*to\"ri*ous*ness, n.", | |
| "ARGUTATION": "Caviling; subtle disputation. [Obs.]", | |
| "HAGFISH": "See Hag, 4.", | |
| "RIAL": "A Spanish coin. See Real. [Obs.]", | |
| "MOURNIVAL": "See Murnival.", | |
| "DEGERMINATOR": "A machine for breaking open the kernels of wheat or other grainand removing the germs.", | |
| "UNSHELVE": "To remove from, or as from, a shelf.", | |
| "BUNGLINGLY": "Clumsily; awkwardly.", | |
| "DEMOTIC": "Of or pertaining to the people; popular; common. Demoticalphabet or character, a form of writing used in Egypt after six orseven centuries before Christ, for books, deeds, and other suchwritings; a simplified form of the hieratic character; -- called alsoepistolographic character, and enchorial character. See Enchorial.", | |
| "ANTI-SEMITISM": "Opposition to, or hatred of, Semites, esp. Jews. -- An`ti-Sem\"ite (#), n. -- An`ti-Sem*it\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "OSTEOMA": "A tumor composed mainly of bone; a tumor of a bone.", | |
| "TABRET": "A taboret. Young.", | |
| "WORKADAY": "See Workyday.", | |
| "DAWDLER": "One who wastes time in trifling employments; an idler; atrifler.", | |
| "OVERWIT": "To outwit. Swift.", | |
| "VARIATION": "Change of termination of words, as in declension, conjugation,derivation, etc.", | |
| "PARTICIPIALIZE": "To form into, or put in the form of, a participle. [R.]", | |
| "REVERENTIAL": "Proceeding from, or expressing, reverence; having a reverentquality; reverent; as, reverential fear or awe. \"A reverential esteemof things sacred.\" South.", | |
| "PRICASOUR": "A hard rider. [Obs.]", | |
| "BANNERED": "Decorated with a banner or banners \"bannered host.\" Milton.", | |
| "MESOSTERNUM": "The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.", | |
| "SKRIMP": "See Scrimp.", | |
| "MANESHEET": "A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.", | |
| "EPISTOLET": "A little epistle. Lamb.", | |
| "PATH": "To make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.]\"Pathing young Henry's unadvised ways.\" Drayton.", | |
| "DODKIN": "A doit; a small coin. Shelton.", | |
| "EFFIGIATION": "The act of forming in resemblance; an effigy. Fuller.", | |
| "HIPPOCRATES": "A famous Greek physician and medical writer, born in Cos, about460 B. C. Hippocrates' sleeve, a conical strainer, made by stitchingtogether two adjacent sides of a square piece of cloth, esp. flannelof linen.", | |
| "CINGLE": "A girth. [R.] See Surcingle.", | |
| "SABAEAN": "Same as Sabianism.", | |
| "PRECOMPOSE": "To compose beforehand. Johnson.", | |
| "PALEORNITHOLOGY": "The branch of paleontology which treats of fossil birds.", | |
| "CADMIAN": "See Cadmean.", | |
| "JAVELIN": "A sort of light spear, to be thrown or cast by thew hand;anciently, a weapon of war used by horsemen and foot soldiers; nowused chiefly in hunting the wild boar and other fierce game.Flies the javelin swifter to its mark, Launched by the vigor of aRoman arm Addison.", | |
| "PEDALITY": "The act of measuring by paces. [R.] Ash.", | |
| "ATTICAL": "Attic. [Obs.] Hammond.", | |
| "BENEFICIALLY": "In a beneficial or advantageous manner; profitably; helpfully.", | |
| "SUBTRIPLICATE": "Expressed by the cube root; -- said especially of ratios.Subtriplicate ratio, the ratio of the cube root; thus, thesubtriplicate ratio of a to b is cube roota to cube rootb, or cuberoota\/b.", | |
| "FLINTINESS": "The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty. Beau.& Fl.", | |
| "FILIGRANED": "See Filigreed. [Archaic]", | |
| "RECLAIMANT": "One who reclaims; one who cries out against or contradicts.", | |
| "HELCOPLASTY": "The act or process of repairing lesions made by ulcers,especially by a plastic operation.", | |
| "FILICAL": "Belonging to the Filices, r ferns.", | |
| "RINDERPEST": "A highly contagious distemper or murrain, affecting neatcattle, and less commonly sheep and goats; -- called also cattleplague, Russian cattle plague, and steppe murrain.", | |
| "CORYPHODON": "A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europeand America. Its species varied in size between the tapir andrhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short,plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.", | |
| "CERAUNOSCOPE": "An instrument or apparatus employed in the ancient mysteries toimitate thunder and lightning. T. Moore.", | |
| "JAKES": "A privy. Shak.", | |
| "SHOO": "Begone; away; -- an expression used in frightening awayanimals, especially fowls.", | |
| "INCONSECUTIVENESS": "The state or quality of not being consecutive. J. H. Newman.", | |
| "JAGGERY": "Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating thefresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically that ofthe palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis). [Written also jagghery.]", | |
| "ACCESSIONAL": "Pertaining to accession; additional. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "LUCENT": "Shining; bright; resplendent. \" The sun's lucent orb.\" Milton.", | |
| "BRANCH PILOT": "A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House,England, for special navigation.", | |
| "ORDERABLE": "Capable of being ordered; tractable. [R.]Being very orderable in all his sickness. Fuller.", | |
| "DISSIMILAR": "Not similar; unlike; heterogeneous; as, the tempers of men areas dissimilar as their features.This part very dissimilar to any other. Boyle.", | |
| "SUBSIGNATION": "The act of writing the name under something, as forattestation. [R.] Shelton.", | |
| "BAREBONE": "A very lean person; one whose bones show through the skin.Shak.", | |
| "HETERONOMY": "A term applied by Kant to those laws which are imposed on usfrom without, or the violence done to us by our passions, wants, ordesires. Krauth-Fleming.", | |
| "SALUBRIOUS": "Favorable to health; healthful; promoting health; as,salubrious air, water, or climate.", | |
| "WRONGER": "One who wrongs or injures another. Shak. \"Wrongers of theworld.\" Tennyson.", | |
| "BLESSED THISTLE": "See under Thistle.", | |
| "RELESSOR": "See Releasor.", | |
| "GANGION": "A short line attached to a trawl. See Trawl, n.", | |
| "LUDIFICATION": "The act of deriding.", | |
| "-ICS": ". A suffix used in forming the names of certain sciences,systems, etc., as acoustics, mathematics, dynamics, statistics,politics, athletics.", | |
| "WOUNDABLE": "Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. [R.] Fuller.", | |
| "HEADLINE": "The line at the head or top of a page.", | |
| "DREDGE": "Very fine mineral matter held in suspension in water. Raymond.", | |
| "ENTERIC": "Of or pertaining to the enteron, or alimentary canal;intestinal. Enteric fever (Med.), typhoid fever.", | |
| "SHOVELFUL": "As much as a shovel will hold; enough to fill a shovel.", | |
| "FOUMART": "The European polecat; -- called also European ferret, andfitchew. See Polecat. [Written also foulmart, foulimart, andfulimart.]", | |
| "SHOVEL": "An implement consisting of a broad scoop, or more or lesshollow blade, with a handle, used for lifting and throwing earth,coal, grain, or other loose substances. Shovel hat, a broad-brimmedhat, turned up at the sides, and projecting in front like a shovel, -- worn by some clergy of the English Church. [Colloq.] -- Shovelspur(Zo\u00f6l.), a flat, horny process on the tarsus of some toads, -- usedin burrowing.-- Steam shovel, a machine with a scoop or scoops, operated by asteam engine, for excavating earth, as in making railway cuttings.", | |
| "SUPPLANTER": "One who supplants.", | |
| "NEUROPATHIC": "Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or sufferingfrom, nervous disease.", | |
| "COQUILLA NUT": "The fruit of a Brazilian tree (Attalea funifera of Martius.).", | |
| "HOLOSIDERITE": "Meteoric iron; a meteorite consisting of metallic iron withoutstony matter.", | |
| "UNWISDOM": "Want of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; folly; simplicity;ignorance.Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we haveoutgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulateprivate habits and manners by statute. J. A. Froude.", | |
| "BEE LARKSPUR": "(Bot.) See Larkspur.", | |
| "NETSUKE": "In Japanese costume and decorative art, a small object carvedin wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced withholes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with theinro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried inthe girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.", | |
| "CRESTED": "Having a crest of feathers or hair upon the head. \"The crestedbird.\" Dryden.", | |
| "MERIT": "To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; toprofit. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "MICROFARAD": "The millionth part of a farad.", | |
| "WHACKING": "Very large; whapping. [Colloq.]", | |
| "GANGREL": "Wandering; vagrant. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "AURIVOROUS": "Gold-devouring. [R.] H. Walpole.", | |
| "OUTTWINE": "To disentangle. [Obs.]", | |
| "ANTHOID": "Resembling a flower; flowerlike.", | |
| "MINIOUS": "Of the color of red or vermilion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "PTERYGOID": "A pterygoid bone. Pterygoid bone (Anat.), a bone whichcorresponds to the inner plate of the pterygoid process of the humanskull, but which, in all vertebrates below mammals, is not connectedwith the posterior nares, but serves to connect the palatine boneswith the point of suspension of the lower jaw.-- Pterygoid process (Anat.), a process projecting downward fromeither side of the sphenoid bone, in man divided into two plates, aninner and an outer. The posterior nares pass through the space,called the pterygoid fossa, between the processes.", | |
| "LACTOSCOPE": "An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained inmilk by ascertaining its relative opacity.", | |
| "SET-OFF": "A counterclaim; a cross debt or demand; a distinct claim filedor set up by the defendant against the plaintiff's demand.", | |
| "INCLOSER": "One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land fromcommon grounds.", | |
| "BONEBLACK": "See Bone black, under Bone, n.", | |
| "OXIDIZABLE": "Capable of being oxidized.", | |
| "DIAPHANOUSLY": "Translucently.", | |
| "PARITORY": "Pellitory. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FUMELESS": "Free from fumes.", | |
| "ANILIDE": "One of a class of compounds which may be regarded as amides inwhich more or less of the hydrogen has been replaced by phenyl.", | |
| "TOQUET": "See Toque, 1.", | |
| "UTILIZATION": "The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized.", | |
| "GLARE": "To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. Milton.", | |
| "LEVOROTATION": "Rotation in the direction of an outgoing right-handed screw;counter-clockwise rotation; -- applied chiefly to the turning of theplane of polarization of light.", | |
| "BERHYME": "To mention in rhyme or verse; to rhyme about.", | |
| "SOUTHWEST": "The point of the compass equally from the south and the west;the southwest part or region.", | |
| "PHYLARCHY": "The office of a phylarch; government of a class or tribe.", | |
| "WATER PURSLANE": "See under Purslane.", | |
| "PREREQUIRE": "To require beforehand.Some things are prerequired of us. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "POLLUTED": "Defiled; made unclean or impure; debauched.-- Pol*lut\"ed*ly, adv.-- Pol*lut\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "PREBENDATE": "To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to aprebend. [Obs.] Grafton.", | |
| "PISAY": "See Pis\u00e9.", | |
| "SOORD": "Skin of bacon. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "CROW-QUILL": "A quill of the crow, or a very fine pen made from such a quill.", | |
| "PRETTINESS": "The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in adisparaging sense.A style . . . without sententious pretension or antitheticalprettiness. Jeffrey.", | |
| "BEEFEATER": "An African bird of the genus Buphaga, which feeds on the larv\u00aff botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc. Twospecies are known.", | |
| "SQUAMATA": "A division of edentates having the body covered with large,imbricated horny scales. It includes the pangolins.", | |
| "ADAPTION": "Adaptation. Cheyne.", | |
| "DISORDINANCE": "Disarrangement; disturbance. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PREDILECTION": "A previous liking; a prepossession of mind in favor ofsomething; predisposition to choose or like; partiality. Burke.", | |
| "CENTRALIZATION": "The act or process of centralizing, or the state of beingcentralized; the act or process of combining or reducing severalparts into a whole; as, the centralization of power in the generalgovernment; the centralization of commerce in a city.", | |
| "DISCRIMINATORY": "Discriminative.", | |
| "STRENE": "Race; offspring; stock; breed; strain. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "HERIE": "To praise; to worship. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ANTIPERISTASIS": "Opposition by which the quality opposed asquires strength;resistance or reaction roused by opposition or by the action of anopposite principle or quality.", | |
| "IMPROMPT": "Not ready. [R.] Sterne.", | |
| "BATTERING-RAM": "1. (Mil.) An engine used in ancient times to beat down thewalls of besieged places.", | |
| "AMBIDEXTER": "Using both hands with equal ease. Smollett.", | |
| "ACICULIFORM": "Needle-shaped; acicular.", | |
| "WERYANGLE": "See Wariangle. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "BEIGE": "Debeige.", | |
| "MANGANESIC": "Manganic. [Obs.]", | |
| "DIM": "To grow dim. J. C. Shairp.", | |
| "IRONSTONE": "A hard, earthy ore of iron. Clay ironstone. See under Clay.-- Ironstone china, a hard white pottery, first made in Englandduring the 18th century.", | |
| "LEUCOPHLEGMACY": "A dropsical habit of body, or the commencement of anasarca;paleness, with viscid juices and cold sweats.", | |
| "MANIFOLDNESS": "A generalized concept of magnitude.", | |
| "PRIME": "The morning; specifically (R. C. Ch.), the first canonicalhour, succeeding to lauds.Early and late it rung, at evening and at prime. Spenser.", | |
| "WATERPROOF": "Proof against penetration or permeation by water; impervious towater; as, a waterproof garment; a waterproof roof.", | |
| "IDALIAN": "Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or toVenus, to whom it was sacred. \"Idalian Aphrodit\u00e9.\" Tennyson.", | |
| "TONCA BEAN": "See Tonka bean.", | |
| "STHENIC": "Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attendedwith excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, andcharacterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervoussystem; as, a sthenic fever. Sthenic theory. See Stimulism (a).", | |
| "DEINOSAUR": "See Dinosaur.", | |
| "COCKBOAT": "A small boat, esp. one used on rivers or near the shore.", | |
| "RECREMENTAL": "Recrementitious.", | |
| "REWME": "Realm. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.", | |
| "CRAPY": "Resembling crape.", | |
| "ANGLIAN": "Of or pertaining to the Angles.-- n.", | |
| "ANA": "Of each; an equal quantity; as, wine and honey, ana (or,contracted, aa), ., that is, of wine and honey, each, two ounces.An apothecary with a . . . long bill of anas. Dryden.", | |
| "TOOTHLET": "A little tooth, or like projection.", | |
| "SCISSORSTAIL": "A tyrant flycatcher (Milvulus forficatus) of the SouthernUnited States and Mexico, which has a deeply forked tail. It is lightgray above, white beneath, salmon on the flanks, and fiery red at thebase of the crown feathers.", | |
| "LAEVULOSE": "See Levulose.", | |
| "ASSEMBLE": "To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together;to convene; to congregate.Thither he assembled all his train. Milton.All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2.", | |
| "MONOPHYSITE": "One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that thehuman and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one compositenature. Also used adjectively.", | |
| "NYMPHOTOMY": "Excision of the nymph\u00e6.", | |
| "INNOCENTLY": "In an innocent manner.", | |
| "AIRLIKE": "Resembling air.", | |
| "FAULT-FINDER": "One who makes a practice off discovering others' faults andcensuring them; a scold.", | |
| "PERCEPTIBLE": "Capable of being perceived; cognizable; discernible;perceivable.With a perceptible blast of the air. Bacon.-- Per*cep\"ti*ble*ness, n.-- Per*cep\"ti*bly, adv.", | |
| "SPLIT STITCH": "A stitch used in stem work to produce a fine line, much used inold church embroidery to work the hands and faces of figures.", | |
| "NERVOUSLY": "In a nervous manner.", | |
| "SATURNALIA": "the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originallyduring one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period ofunrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even tothe slaves.", | |
| "SCARP": "A band in the same position as the bend sinister, but only halfas broad as the latter.", | |
| "DOCTRINALLY": "In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positivedirection.", | |
| "ENTROPIUM": "The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.", | |
| "DUO": "A composition for two performers; a duet.", | |
| "ANTIVENEREAL": "Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic.", | |
| "INCISURE": "A cut; an incision; a gash. Derham.", | |
| "CHAMPLAIN PERIOD": "A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following theGlacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain.", | |
| "FENERATION": "The act of fenerating; interest. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "SUBLIGATION": "The act of binding underneath. [R.]", | |
| "PROTOZOAN": "Of or pertaining to the Protozoa.-- n.", | |
| "CREAKING": "A harsh grating or squeaking sound, or the act of making such asound.Start not at the creaking of the door. Longfellow.", | |
| "PHONO": "A South American butterfly (Ithonia phono) having nearlytransparent wings.", | |
| "PHORMIUM": "A genus of liliaceous plants, consisting of one species(Phormium tenax). See Flax-plant.", | |
| "CONGEAL": "To grow hard, stiff, or thick, from cold or other causes; tobecome solid; to freeze; to cease to flow; to run cold; to bechilled.", | |
| "DESIROUS": "Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain;covetous.Jesus knew that they were desirous to ask him. John xvi. 19.Be not desirous of his dainties. Prov. xxiii. 3.", | |
| "PULLDEVIL": "A number of fishhooks rigidly fastened back to be pulledthrough the water to catch fish.", | |
| "AFFABLY": "In an affable manner; courteously.", | |
| "AWKWARD SQUAD": "A squad of inapt recruits assembled for special drill.", | |
| "SUBTILIATE": "To make thin or rare. [Obs.] Harvey.-- Sub`til*i*a\"tion, n. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "MILLEPED": "A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as thegalleyworm. [Written also millipede and milliped.]", | |
| "DAWSONITE": "A hydrous carbonate of alumina and soda, occuring in white,bladed crustals.", | |
| "PETALODY": "The metamorphosis of various floral organs, usually stamens,into petals.", | |
| "SULPHAURIC": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, a hypothetical sulphacid ofgold (aurum), known only in its salts.", | |
| "BEHAVE": "To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behavewell or ill.", | |
| "RESIANCE": "Residence; abode. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "UNCONFOUND": "To free from a state of confusion, or of being confounded.Milton.", | |
| "RESISTIVE": "Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.", | |
| "ENHEDGE": "To surround as with a hedge. [R.] Vicars.", | |
| "THIONOL": "A red or violet dyestuff having a greenish metallic luster. Itis produced artificially, by the chemical dehydration of thionine, asa brown amorphous powder.", | |
| "GIBLETS": "The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.),of poultry.", | |
| "ENTITY": "A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or infact; being; essence; existence.Self-subsisting entities, such as our own personality. Shairp.Fortune is no real entity, . . . but a mere relative signification.Bentley.", | |
| "INTERCIDENCE": "The act or state of coming or falling between; occurrence;incident. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "SING-SING": "The kob.", | |
| "GRAF": "A German title of nobility, equivalent to earl in English, orcount in French. See Earl.", | |
| "HYDROPLANE": "Of a boat, to plane (see Plane, below).", | |
| "PAYTINE": "An alkaloid obtained from a white bark resembling that of thecinchona, first brought from Payta, in Peru.", | |
| "ANTHROPOMANCY": "Divination by the entrails of human being.", | |
| "MONARCHISM": "The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.", | |
| "TRANSEPT": "The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right anglesto the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In thebasilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothicchurches these project these project greatly, and should be calledthe arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the armsthemselves as the transepts.", | |
| "ANYWISE": "In any wise or way; at all. \"Anywise essential.\" Burke.", | |
| "BIRTHPLACE": "The town, city, or country, where a person is born; place oforigin or birth, in its more general sense. \"The birthplace ofvalor.\" Burns.", | |
| "OXYQUINOLINE": "Hydroxy quinoline; a phenol derivative of quinoline, -- calledalso carbostyril.", | |
| "SEA COLEWORT": "Sea cabbage.", | |
| "OPPOSITIPETALOUS": "Placed in front of a petal.", | |
| "ARSESMART": "Smartweed; water pepper. Dr. Prior.", | |
| "ILLEGIBILITY": "The state or quality of being illegible.", | |
| "DECARD": "To discard. [Obs.]You have cast those by, decarded them. J. Fletcher.", | |
| "GRE": "See Gree, a step. [Obs.]", | |
| "HEMATOTHERMA": "The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds;-- the antithesis to hematocrya.", | |
| "ALMOND": "One of the tonsils. Almond oil, fixed oil expressed from sweetor bitter almonds.-- Oil of bitter almonds, a poisonous volatile oil obtained frombitter almonds by maceration and distillation; benzoic aldehyde.-- Imitation oil of bitter almonds, nitrobenzene.-- Almond tree (Bot.), the tree bearing the almond.-- Almond willow (Bot.), a willow which has leaves that are of alight green on both sides; almond-leaved willow (Salix amygdalina).Shenstone.", | |
| "HOMOTYPAL": "Of the same type of structure; pertaining to a homotype; as,homotypal parts.", | |
| "LAWMAKER": "A legislator; a lawgiver.", | |
| "CRAPULENCE": "The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.", | |
| "BRANDENBURG": "A kind of decoration for the breast of a coat, sometimes only afrog with a loop, but in some military uniforms enlarged into a broadhorizontal stripe.", | |
| "TERMINATOR": "The dividing line between the illuminated and the unilluminatedpart of the moon.", | |
| "WHITESTER": "A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PROCEPTION": "Preoccupation. [Obs.] Eikon Basilik", | |
| "SACCHARIN": "A bitter white crystalline substance obtained from thesaccharinates and regarded as the lactone of saccharinic acid; -- socalled because formerly supposed to be isomeric with cane sugar(saccharose).", | |
| "HYLOIST": "Same as Hylotheist.", | |
| "RECONSOLIDATE": "To consolidate anew or again.", | |
| "MASSACRE": "To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can notbe made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, andcontrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; --limited to the killing of human beings.If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian hadmassacred the Theban legion. Macaulay.", | |
| "DENUNCIATORY": "Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory;accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.", | |
| "PANTASTOMATA": "One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads andallied forms.", | |
| "CONSTATE": "To ascertain; to verify; to establish; to prove. F. P. Cobbe.", | |
| "WEARILESS": "Incapable of being wearied.", | |
| "COMPOSITOR": "One who sets type and arranges it for use.", | |
| "GORGED": "Bearing a coronet or ring about the neck.", | |
| "INDEPENDENCE DAY": "In the United States, a holiday, the 4th of July, commemoratingthe adoption of the Declaration of Independence on that day in 1776.", | |
| "VISCOUNTESS": "The wife of a viscount.", | |
| "COKENAY": "A cockney. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SKY-HIGH": ", adv. & a. Very high. [Colloq.]", | |
| "CROW": "A bird, usually black, of the genus Corvus, having a strongconical beak, with projecting bristles. It has a harsh, croakingnote. See Caw.", | |
| "EPITHALAMIC": "Belonging to, or designed for, an epithalamium.", | |
| "CATHEAD": "A projecting piece of timber or iron near the bow of vessel, towhich the anchor is hoisted and secured.", | |
| "HODMANDOD": "See Dodman. Bacon.", | |
| "OMISSIBLE": "Capable of being omitted; that may be omitted.", | |
| "SPADEFISH": "An American market fish (Ch\u00e6todipterus faber) common on thesouthern coasts; -- called also angel fish, moonfish, and porgy.", | |
| "PURITANIZE": "To agree with, or teach, the doctrines of Puritans; to conformto the practice of Puritans. Bp. Montagu.", | |
| "TRIFLER": "One who trifles. Waterland.", | |
| "HYDRIA": "A water jar; esp., one with a large rounded body, a small neck,and three handles. Some of the most beautiful Greek vases are of thisform.", | |
| "INTERCALATE": "To insert, as a day or other portion of time, in a calendar.", | |
| "SPIT": "To attend to a spit; to use a spit. [Obs.]She's spitting in the kitchen. Old Play.", | |
| "PROVISORILY": "In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as,to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.", | |
| "RHEOMETRIC": "Of or pertaining to a rheometer or rheometry. Lardner.", | |
| "PULVINIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained by thedecomposition of vulpinic acid, as a white crystalline substance.", | |
| "EUCHYMY": "A good state of he blood and other fluids of the body.", | |
| "LITHOCLAST": "An instrument for crushing stones in the bladder.", | |
| "SEED": "The generative fluid of the male; semen; sperm; -- not used inthe plural.", | |
| "SECONDARY": "Possessing some quality, or having been subject to someoperation (as substitution), in the second degree; as, a secondarysalt, a secondary amine, etc. Cf. primary.", | |
| "SHIE": "See Shy, to throw.", | |
| "POPULIN": "A glycoside, related to salicin, found in the bark of certainspecies of the poplar (Populus), and extracted as a sweet whitecrystalline substance.", | |
| "ANTIASTHMATIC": "Same as Antasthmatic.", | |
| "MOUNTABLE": "Such as can be mounted.", | |
| "RECENTNESS": "Quality or state of being recent.", | |
| "TUNGUSIC": "Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.", | |
| "INFATIGABLE": "Indefatigable. [Obs.] Daniel.", | |
| "KARN": "A pile of rocks; sometimes, the solid rock. See Cairn.", | |
| "KIE": "Kine; cows. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.", | |
| "FLEAM": "A sharp instrument used for opening veins, lancing gums, etc.;a kind of lancet. Fleam tooth, a tooth of a saw shaped like anisosceles triangle; a peg tooth. Knight.", | |
| "UNVISIBLY": "Invisibly. [Obs.]", | |
| "SUPPAGE": "What may be supped; pottage. [Obs.] Hooker.", | |
| "TROCHISK": "See Trochiscus. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "REENLIST": "To enlist again.", | |
| "BARGEMAN": "The man who manages a barge, or one of the crew of a barge.", | |
| "IRRESPONSIVE": "Not responsive; not able, ready, or inclined to respond.", | |
| "STEERING": "from Steer, v. Steering wheel (Naut.), the wheel by means ofwhich the rudder of a vessel is turned and the vessel is steered.", | |
| "DEMICANNON": "A kind of ordnance, carrying a ball weighing from thirty tothirty-six pounds. Shak.", | |
| "SUCCEDANEOUS": "Pertaining to, or acting as, a succedaneum; supplying the placeof something else; being, or employed as, a substitute for another.Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "MESOMYCETES": "One of the three classes into which the fungi are divided inBrefeld's classification. -- Mes`o*my*ce\"tous (#), a.", | |
| "FONTAL": "Pertaining to a font, fountain, source, or origin; original;primitive. [R.]From the fontal light of ideas only can a man draw intellectualpower. Coleridge.", | |
| "QUINHYDRONE": "A green crystalline substance formed by the union of quinonewith hydroquinone, or as an intermediate product in the oxidation ofhydroquinone or the reduction of quinone. [Written also chinhydrone.]", | |
| "BEDSITE": "A recess in a room for a bed.Of the three bedrooms, two have fireplaces, and all are of fair size,with windows and bedsite well placed. Quart. Rev.", | |
| "COLATION": "The act or process of straining or filtering. [R.]", | |
| "REFECTORY": "A room for refreshment; originally, a dining hall inmonasteries or convents.", | |
| "BOW-PENCIL": "Bow-compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil.", | |
| "SAGENITE": "Acicular rutile occurring in reticulated forms imbedded inquartz.", | |
| "MANKIND": "Manlike; not womanly; masculine; bold; cruel. [Obs]Are women grown so mankind Must they be wooing Beau. & Fl.Be not too mankind against your wife. Chapman.", | |
| "PENITENTIARYSHIP": "The office or condition of a penitentiary of the papal court.[R.] Wood.", | |
| "IMPLIABLE": "Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.", | |
| "GAMBESON": "Same as Gambison.", | |
| "PALEONTOLOGY": "The science which treats of the ancient life of the earth, orof fossils which are the remains of such life.", | |
| "KURDISH": "Of or pertaining to the Kurds. [Written also Koordish.]", | |
| "MATUTINAL": "Of or pertaining to the morning; early.", | |
| "POPULARIZATION": "The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.", | |
| "MASK": "A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and otherprominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- calledalso mascaron.", | |
| "MEALINESS": "The quality or state of being mealy.", | |
| "GELLY": "Jelly. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "IMPLAUSIBLE": "Not plausible; not wearing the appearance of truth orcredibility, and not likely to be believed. \"Implausible harangues.\"Swift.-- Im*plau\"si*ble*ness, n.-- Im*plau\"si*bly, adv.", | |
| "COLEORHIZA": "A sheath in the embryo of grasses, inclosing the caulicle.Gray.", | |
| "TROWELED": "Formed with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweledstucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint.[Written also trowelled.]", | |
| "EVERYONE": "Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.", | |
| "CASEMENTED": "Having a casement or casements.", | |
| "CIRCLE": "An instrument of observation, the graduated limb of whichconsists of an entire circle.", | |
| "HERPETOLOGIST": "One versed in herpetology, or the natural history of reptiles.", | |
| "TRACHEOSCOPY": "Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of amirror.", | |
| "PULAS": "The East Indian leguminous tree Butea frondosa. See Gum Butea,under Gum. [Written also pales and palasa.]", | |
| "ECTOSTEAL": "Of or pertaining to ectostosis; as, ectosteal ossification.", | |
| "HOOK-BILLED": "Having a strongly curved bill.", | |
| "BAUDRICK": "A belt. See Baldric.", | |
| "LOYALTY": "The state or quality of being loyal; fidelity to a superior, orto duty, love, etc.He had such loyalty to the king as the law required. Clarendon.Not withstanding all the subtle bait With which those Amazons hislove still craved, To his one love his loyalty he saved. Spenser.", | |
| "NECROPHOBIA": "An exaggerated fear of death or horror of dead bodies.", | |
| "SUDDENTY": "Suddenness; a sudden. [Scot.] On a suddenty, on a sudden.[Scot.] Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "HIPPODROME": "A place set apart for equestrian and chariot races.", | |
| "APOLOGER": "A teller of apologues. [Obs.]", | |
| "INSEMINATION": "A sowing. [Obs.]", | |
| "KAINIT": "Salts of potassium used in the manufacture of fertilizers.", | |
| "VULCANIZE": "To change the properties of, as caoutchouc, or India rubber, bythe process of vulcanization. Vulcanized fiber, paper, paper pulp, orother fiber, chemically treated, as with metallic chlorides, so as toform a substance resembling ebonite in texture, hardness, etc.Knight.-- Vulcanized rubber, India rubber, vulcanized.", | |
| "ORYZA": "A genus of grasses including the rice plant; rice.", | |
| "VIDA FINCH": "The whidah bird.", | |
| "CALYCLE": "A row of small bracts, at the base of the calyx, on theoutside.", | |
| "HOT-HEADED": "Fiery; violent; rash; hasty; impetuous; vehement. Macaulay.", | |
| "UNDERDO": "To do less than is requisite or proper; -- opposed to overdo.Grew.", | |
| "ZINCIFEROUS": "Containing or affording zinc.", | |
| "RESEIZER": "The taking of lands into the hands of the king where a generallivery, or oustre le main, was formerly mis-sued, contrary to theform and order of law.", | |
| "OUTWORTH": "To exceed in worth. [R.]", | |
| "SMALLNESS": "The quality or state of being small.", | |
| "UNFRUITFUL": "Not producing fruit or offspring; unproductive; infertile;barren; sterile; as, an unfruitful tree or animal; unfruitful soil;an unfruitful life or effort.-- Un*fruit\"ful*ly, adv.-- Un*fruit\"ful*ness, n.", | |
| "ERASEMENT": "The act of erasing; a rubbing out; expunction; obliteration.Johnson.", | |
| "SEMIPELLUCID": "Half clear, or imperfectly transparent; as, a semipellucid gem.", | |
| "OBEDIENT": "Subject in will or act to authority; willing to obey;submissive to restraint, control, or command.And floating straight, obedient to the stream. Shak.The chief his orders gives; the obedient band, With due observance,wait the chief's command. Pope.", | |
| "CONNUMERATION": "A reckoning together. [R.] Porson.", | |
| "SERPENT": "Any reptile of the order Ophidia; a snake, especially a largesnake. See Illust. under Ophidia.", | |
| "MINUS": "Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minusquantity. Minus sign (Math.), the sign [-] denoting minus, or less,prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. SeeNegative sign, under Negative.", | |
| "ROWER": "One who rows with an oar.", | |
| "HIEROGLYPHIST": "One versed in hieroglyphics. Gliddon.", | |
| "LAMINITIS": "Inflammation of the lamin\u00e6 or fleshy plates along the coffinbone of a horse; founder. Youatt.", | |
| "VERTICILLASTER": "A whorl of flowers apparently of one cluster, but composed oftwo opposite axillary cymes, as in mint. See Illust. of Whorl.", | |
| "HYPERCRITICALLY": "In a hypercritical manner.", | |
| "REVERER": "One who reveres.", | |
| "IMPERMANENT": "Not permanent.", | |
| "TUBULIBRANCHIATA": "A group of gastropod mollusks having a tubular shell. Vermetusis an example.", | |
| "MAISTRESS": "Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "DAYFLY": "A neuropterous insect of the genus Ephemera and related genera,of many species, and inhabiting fresh water in the larval state; theephemeral fly; -- so called because it commonly lives but one day inthe winged or adult state. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.", | |
| "SEMILENTICULAR": "Half lenticular or convex; imperfectly resembling a lens.Kirwan.", | |
| "CONSECRATION": "The act or ceremony of consecrating; the state of beingconsecrated; dedication.Until the days of your consecration be at an end. Lev. viii. 33.Consecration makes not a place sacred, but only solemny declares itso. South.", | |
| "NUCIFORM": "Shaped like a nut; nut-shaped.", | |
| "UNRUMPLE": "To free from rumples; to spread or lay even,", | |
| "DUEFUL": "Fit; becoming. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "STIBICONITE": "A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellowcolor.", | |
| "MISAPPRECIATED": "Improperly appreciated.", | |
| "GADDINGLY": "In a roving, idle manner.", | |
| "RETREAT": "To make a retreat; to retire from any position or place; towithdraw; as, the defeated army retreated from the field.The rapid currents drive Towards the retreating sea their furioustide. Milton.", | |
| "NUBILE": "Of an age suitable for marriage; marriageable. Prior.", | |
| "DISUTILIZE": "To deprive of utility; to render useless. [R.] Mrs. Browning.", | |
| "ORBICULA": "Same as Discina.", | |
| "CHROMATOGENOUS": "Producing color.", | |
| "DECEPTIBLE": "Capable of being deceived; deceivable. Sir T. Browne.-- De*cep`ti*bil\"i*ty (, n.", | |
| "MOLTABLE": "Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible. [Obs.]", | |
| "ROESTONE": "Same as O\u00f6lite.", | |
| "TYPOLITE": "A stone or fossil which has on it impressions or figures ofplants and animals.", | |
| "TENTORIUM": "A fold of the dura mater which separates the cerebellum fromthe cerebrum and often incloses a process or plate of the skullcalled the bony tentorium.", | |
| "POTASSIC": "Pertaining to, or containing, potassium.", | |
| "DISSWEETEN": "To deprive of sweetness. [R.] Bp. Richardson.", | |
| "FIDDLESTRING": "One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.", | |
| "WAIVURE": "See Waiver. [R.]", | |
| "ELDRITCH": "Hideous; ghastly; as, an eldritch shriek or laugh. [Local,Eng.]", | |
| "PLAIN-HEARTED": "Frank; sincere; artless. Milton.-- Plain\"-heart`ed*ness, n.", | |
| "REVENGELESS": "Unrevenged. [Obs.] Marston.", | |
| "STODGY": "Wet. [Prov. Eng.] G. Eliot.", | |
| "WAYGATE": "The tailrace of a mill. Knight.", | |
| "REPRISTINATE": "To restore to an original state. [R.] Shedd.", | |
| "RETROGRESS": "Retrogression. [R.] H. Spenser.", | |
| "CREBRISULCATE": "Marked with closely set transverse furrows.", | |
| "IRON-GRAY": "Of a gray color, somewhat resembling that of iron freshlybroken.-- n.", | |
| "BULBACEOUS": "Bulbous. Jonson.", | |
| "MYCODERMA": "One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more orless thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by thebacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they aredeveloped. This production differs from the zo\u00f6loea stage of bacteriaby not having the intermediary mucous substance.", | |
| "LIGULE": "A band of white matter in the wall of fourth ventricle of thebrain.", | |
| "PETULCOUS": "Wanton; frisky; lustful. [Obs.] J. V. Cane.", | |
| "PULMONATE": "One of the Pulmonata.", | |
| "RAUCID": "Hoarse; raucous [R.] Lamb.", | |
| "GALLOONED": "Furnished or adorned with galloon.", | |
| "ALIENATOR": "One who alienates.", | |
| "LARGENESS": "The quality or state of being large.", | |
| "PARROCK": "A croft, or small field; a paddock. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "STAYED": "Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid.Bacon. Pope.", | |
| "SIRIUS": "The Dog Star. See Dog Star.", | |
| "ACCREMENTITION": "The process of generation by development of blastema, orfission of cells, in which the new formation is in all respect likethe individual from which it proceeds.", | |
| "IRRETURNABLE": "Not to be returned.", | |
| "STEMLESS": "Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.", | |
| "TAURYLIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an acid found of a urine of neatcattle, and probably identical with cresol.", | |
| "MEASLE": "A leper. [Obs.] [Written also meazel, and mesel.] Wyclif (Matt.x. 8. ).", | |
| "BAROKO": "A form or mode of syllogism of which the first proposition is auniversal affirmative, and the other two are particular negative.", | |
| "MELANOCOMOUS": "Having very dark or black hair; black-haired. Prichard.", | |
| "TERRAS": "See .", | |
| "MODERATISM": "Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics orreligion.", | |
| "EDULCORATE": "To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, bywashing; to purify. [R.]", | |
| "LIMERICK": "A nonsense poem of five anapestic lines, of which lines 1, 2,and 5 are of there feet, and rime, and lines 3 and 4 are of two feet,and rime; as --", | |
| "MOISTNESS": "The quality or state of being moist.", | |
| "WOOLGATHERING": "Indulging in a vagrant or idle exercise of the imagination;roaming upon a fruitless quest; idly fanciful.", | |
| "MINCER": "One who minces.", | |
| "REMISE": "To send, give, or grant back; torelease a claim to; to resignor surrender by deed; to return. Blackstone.", | |
| "MALKIN": "A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out acannon.", | |
| "BLIGHT": "To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine neverblights.", | |
| "MOUSETAIL": "A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which theprolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and soresembles the tail of a mouse.", | |
| "DESPISER": "One who despises; a contemner; a scorner.", | |
| "ARCHED": "Made with an arch or curve; covered with an arch; as, an archeddoor.", | |
| "HYGROPHANOUS": "Having such a structure as to be diaphanous when moist, andopaque when dry.", | |
| "INTERSPACE": "Intervening space. Bp. Hacket.", | |
| "SHENDSHIP": "Harm; ruin; also, reproach; disgrace. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SWIMMER": "A protuberance on the leg of a horse.", | |
| "DETRITION": "A wearing off or away.Phonograms which by process long-continued detrition have reached astep of extreme simplicity. I. Taylor (The Alphabet).", | |
| "ARCUBALISTER": "A crossbowman; one who used the arcubalist. Camden.", | |
| "VILLANIZER": "One who villanizes. [R.]", | |
| "PLURIPAROUS": "Producing several young at a birth; as, a pluriparous animal.", | |
| "TRAVELER": "A traveling crane. See under Crane.", | |
| "DEJEUNER": "A breakfast; sometimes, also, a lunch or collation.", | |
| "RECOMMISSION": "To commission again; to give a new commission to.Officers whose time of service had expired were to be recommissioned.Marshall.", | |
| "RECOGNIZE": "To enter an obligation of record before a proper tribunal; as,A, B recognized in the sum of twenty dollars. [Written alsorecognise.]", | |
| "EMBITTERMENT": "The act of embittering; also, that which embitters.", | |
| "LUNGIE": "A guillemot. [Written also longie.] [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W.Scott.", | |
| "SELF-SACRIFICE": "The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, forothers; self-devotion.", | |
| "WELLDOER": "One who does well; one who does good to another; a benefactor.", | |
| "GLINT": "A glimpse, glance, or gleam. [Scot.] \"He saw a glint of light.\"Ramsay.", | |
| "ANTECIANS": "See Ant.", | |
| "INGLORIOUSLY": "In an inglorious manner; dishonorably; with shame;ignominiously; obscurely.", | |
| "HAMILTON PERIOD": "A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so namedfrom Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus,Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.", | |
| "MONT": "Mountain.", | |
| "NIGHTISH": "Of or pertaining to night.", | |
| "PARDONABLENESS": "The quality or state of being pardonable; as, thepardonableness of sin. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "KINNIKINIC": "Prepared leaves or bark of certain plants; -- used by theIndians of the Northwest for smoking, either mixed with tobacco or asa substitute for it. Also, a plant so used, as the osier cornel(Cornus stolonijra), and the bearberry (Arctostaphylus Uva-ursi).[Spelled also kinnickinnick and killikinick.]", | |
| "SAWDER": "A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder,seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]", | |
| "HEMATOPHILIA": "A condition characterized by a tendency to profuse anduncontrollable hemorrhage from the slightest wounds.", | |
| "HOMESTEADER": "One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with thepurpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of thehomestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in thismanner. [Local, U.S.]", | |
| "AVOWANT": "The defendant in replevin, who avows the distress of the goods,and justifies the taking. Cowell.", | |
| "VANESSA": "Any one of numerous species of handsomely colored butterfliesbelonging to Vanessa and allied genera. Many of these species havethe edges of the wings irregularly scalloped.", | |
| "CANONRY": "A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; aright to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; thedignity or emoluments of a canon.", | |
| "CHRISMAL": "Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.", | |
| "SCOAT": "To prop; to scotch. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "ASIPHONATE": "Destitute of a siphon or breathing tube; -- said of manybivalve shells.-- n.", | |
| "YACHTMAN": "See Yachtsman.", | |
| "EPICRANIUM": "The upper and superficial part of the head, including thescalp, muscles, etc.", | |
| "SCOKE": "Poke (Phytolacca decandra).", | |
| "NUCHAL": "Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the back, or nape, ofthe neck; -- applied especially to the anterior median plate in thecarapace of turtles.", | |
| "INTERMISE": "Interference; interposition. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "GRAPHITE": "Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granularmassive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leavea trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called leadpencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often calledplumbago or black lead. Graphite battery (Elec.), a voltaic batteryconsisting of zinc and carbon in sulphuric acid, or other excitingliquid.", | |
| "BILANDER": "A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting,or for use in canals, as in Holland.Why choose we, then, like bilanders to creep Along the coast, andland in view to keep Dryden.", | |
| "INVALIDNESS": "Invalidity; as, the invalidness of reasoning.", | |
| "SLUGGARD": "A person habitually lazy, idle, and inactive; a drone.Go to the ant, thou sluggard; considered her ways, and be wise. Prov.vi. 6.", | |
| "WEND": "p. p. of Wene. Chaucer.", | |
| "CONTRAVALLATION": "A trench guarded with a parapet, constructed by besiegers, tosecure themselves and check sallies of the besieged.", | |
| "ANIMISTIC": "Of or pertaining to animism. Huxley. Tylor.", | |
| "CHURCH-BENCH": "A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.", | |
| "MICROANALYSIS": "Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observationof photomicrographs.", | |
| "AXILLARY": "Of or pertaining to the axilla or armpit; as, axillary gland,artery, nerve.", | |
| "GLABELLA": "The space between the eyebrows, also including thecorresponding part of the frontal bone; the mesophryon.-- Gla*bel\"lar, a.", | |
| "ENISLED": "Placed alone or apart, as if on an island; severed, as anisland. [R.] \"In the sea of life enisled.\" M. Arnold.", | |
| "RECURVE": "To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back ordown.", | |
| "ERIGIBLE": "Capable of being erected. [Obs.]", | |
| "CROUSE": "Brisk; lively; bold; self-complacent. [Scot.] Burns.", | |
| "PSEUDODOX": "Not true in opinion or doctrine; false.-- n.", | |
| "AWORK": "At work; in action. \"Set awork.\" Shak.", | |
| "LUTEIN": "A substance of a strongly marked yellow color, extracted fromthe yelk of eggs, and from the tissue of the corpus luteum.", | |
| "PURENESS": "The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).", | |
| "NURSE": "A lieutenant or first officer, who is the real commander whenthe captain is unfit for his place.", | |
| "PRE-RAPHAELITE": "Popularly, any modern artist thought to be a would-be restorerof early ideas or methods, as one of the German painters often calledNazarenes, or one who paints and draws with extreme minuteness ofdetail.", | |
| "TAILING": "The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.Gwilt.", | |
| "WATER DEERLET": "See Water chevrotain.", | |
| "PENDULOSITY": "The state or quality of being pendulous. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "CHARWOMAN": "A woman hired for odd work or for single days.", | |
| "ISOBARIC": "Denoting equal pressure; as, an isobaric line; specifically, ofor pertaining to isobars.", | |
| "FEMINITY": "Womanliness; femininity. [Obs.] \"Trained up in true feminity.\"Spenser.", | |
| "CONVALLARIN": "A white, crystalline glucoside, of an irritating taste,extracted from the convallaria or lily of the valley.", | |
| "DEUTEROZOOID": "One of the secondary, and usually sexual, zooids produced bybudding or fission from the primary zooids, in animals havingalternate generations. In the tapeworms, the joints aredeuterozooids.", | |
| "FIKE": "See Fyke.", | |
| "INDIES": "A name designating the East Indies, also the West Indies.Our king has all the Indies in his arms. Shak.", | |
| "SANABLENESS": "The quality of being sanable.", | |
| "SLASH": "To strike violently and at random, esp. with an edgedinstrument; to lay about one indiscriminately with blows; to cuthastily and carelessly.Hewing and slashing at their idle shades. Spenser.", | |
| "CATAPLASM": "A soft and moist substance applied externally to some part ofthe body; a poultice. Dunglison.", | |
| "MERCENARIA": "The quahog.", | |
| "UNDERGOWN": "A gown worn under another, or under some other article ofdress.An undergown and kirtle of pale sea-green silk. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "ACETONIC": "Of or pertaining to acetone; as, acetonic bodies.", | |
| "TRIWEEKLY": "Occurring or appearing three times a week; thriceweekly; as, atriweekly newspaper.-- adv.", | |
| "JEERS": "See 1st Jeer (b).", | |
| "PETERERO": "See Pederero.", | |
| "EARSH": "See Arrish.", | |
| "INAPTITUDE": "Want of aptitude.", | |
| "SOUNE": "To sound. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "HOGCHAIN": "A chain or tie rod, in a boat or barge, to prevent the vesselfrom hogging.", | |
| "SCALLOP": "Any one of numerous species of marine bivalve mollusks of thegenus Pecten and allied genera of the family Pectinid\u00e6. The shell isusually radially ribbed, and the edge is therefore often undulated ina characteristic manner. The large adductor muscle of some thespecies is much used as food. One species (Vola Jacob\u00e6us) occurs onthe coast of Palestine, and its shell was formerly worn by pilgrimsas a mark that they had been to the Holy Land. Called also fan shell.See Pecten, 2.", | |
| "SECONDO": "The second part in a concerted piece.", | |
| "SEA POOL": "A pool of salt water. Spenser.", | |
| "SULPHAMATE": "A salt of sulphamic acid.", | |
| "POULDRON": "See Pauldron.", | |
| "HABITUATION": "The act of habituating, or accustoming; the state of beinghabituated.", | |
| "NOGGEN": "Made of hemp; hence, hard; rough; harsh. [Obs.] Johnson.", | |
| "CINEFACTION": "Cineration; reduction to ashes. [Obs.]", | |
| "SAPOTACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to a natural order (Sapotace\u00e6) of (mostlytropical) trees and shrubs, including the star apple, the Lucuma, ornatural marmalade tree, the gutta-percha tree (Isonandra), and theIndia mahwa, as well as the sapodilla, or sapota, after which theorder is named.", | |
| "IGNOBILITY": "Ignobleness. [Obs.] Bale.", | |
| "DILETTANTISM": "Same as Dilettanteism. F. Harrison.", | |
| "ITTRIUM": "See Yttrium.", | |
| "DEUTERONOMIST": "The writer of Deuteronomy.", | |
| "LACTARENE": "A preparation of casein from milk, used in printing calico.", | |
| "SEA TANG": "A kind of seaweed; tang; tangle.To their nests of sedge and sea tang. Longfellow.", | |
| "TRODDEN": "p. p. of Tread.", | |
| "ORANG-OUTANG": "An arboreal anthropoid ape (Simia satyrus), which inhabitsBorneo and Sumatra. Often called simply orang. [Written also orang-outan, orang-utan, ourang-utang, and oran-utan.]", | |
| "CYMA": "A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which iswavelike in form.", | |
| "OPISTHODOME": "A back chamber; especially, that part of the naos, or cella,farthest from the main entrance, sometimes having an entrance of itsown, and often used as a treasury.", | |
| "SMOOTH": "Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface;frictionless.", | |
| "GALLIUM": "A rare metallic element, found in certain zinc ores. It iswhite, hard, and malleable, resembling aluminium, and remarcable forits low melting point (86", | |
| "CALCES": "See Calx.", | |
| "RALLIANCE": "The act of rallying.", | |
| "SWINCK": "See Swink.", | |
| "MONOGYNOUS": "Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.", | |
| "CURRENTLY": "In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currentlybelieved.", | |
| "MANILIO": "See Manilla, 1. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "DOUGHBIRD": "The Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis). See Curlew.", | |
| "WAILMENT": "Lamentation; loud weeping; wailing. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.", | |
| "BEGILD": "To gild. B. Jonson.", | |
| "DEFERENT": "Serving to carry; bearing. [R.] \"Bodies deferent.\" Bacon.", | |
| "INSURGENT": "Rising in opposition to civil or political authority, oragainst an established government; insubordinate; rebellious. \"Theinsurgent provinces.\" Motley.", | |
| "DISTINGUISHMENT": "Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt.", | |
| "YOWE": "A ewe. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] G. Eliot.", | |
| "PRETERITION": "A figure by which, in pretending to pass over anything, asummary mention of it is made; as, \"I will not say, he is valiant, heis learned, he is just.\" Called also paraleipsis.", | |
| "UNFLESHLY": "Not pertaining to the flesh; spiritual.", | |
| "TRIFASCIATED": "Having, or surrounded by, three fasci\u00e6, or bands.", | |
| "TEMPORIZER": "One who temporizes; one who yields to the time, or complieswith the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer.A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, orshall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.", | |
| "STREEN": "See Strene. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ARABIC": "Of or pertaining to Arabia or the Arabians. Arabic numerals orfigures, the nine digits, 1, 2, 3, etc., and the cipher 0.-- Gum arabic. See under Gum.", | |
| "INWITH": "Within. [Obs.]This purse hath she inwith her bosom hid. Chaucer.", | |
| "TABULAR": "Having the form of, or pertaining to, a table (in any of theuses of the word). Specifically: --(a) Having a flat surface; as, a tabular rock.(b) Formed into a succession of flakes; laminated.Nodules . . . that are tabular and plated. Woodward.", | |
| "NEUROLOGIST": "One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in thetreatment of nervous diseases.", | |
| "REGNAL": "Of or pertaining to the reign of a monarch; as, regnal years.", | |
| "CUSHAT": "The ringdove or wood pigeon.Scarce with cushat's homely song can vie. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "PAAS": "The Easter festival. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.", | |
| "FELSTONE": "See Felsite.", | |
| "NOPAL": "A cactaceous plant (Nopalea cochinellifera), originallyMexican, on which the cochineal insect feeds, and from which it iscollected. The name is sometimes given to other species of Cactace\u00e6.", | |
| "HOLARCTIC": "Of or pert. to the arctic regions collectively; specif.(Zo\u00f6geography),", | |
| "STORM": "A violent assault on a fortified place; a furious attempt oftroops to enter and take a fortified place by scaling the walls,forcing the gates, or the like.", | |
| "SORELY": "In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorelyafflicted.", | |
| "SYNCOPIST": "One who syncopates. Addison.", | |
| "EXTRADITION": "The surrender or delivery of an alleged criminal by one Stateor sovereignty to another having jurisdiction to try charge.", | |
| "FEODATORY": "See Feudatory.", | |
| "LITIGABLE": "Such as can be litigated.", | |
| "BRAHMIN-ICAL": "Of or pertaining to the Brahmans or to their doctrines andworship.", | |
| "CONJOINTLY": "In a conjoint manner; untitedly; jointly; together. Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "BASILISK": "A lizard of the genus Basiliscus, belonging to the familyIguanid\u00e6.", | |
| "CERATOHYAL": "Pertaining to the bone, or carts, large, below the epihyal inthe hyoid arch.-- n.", | |
| "GREEN-LEEK": "An Australian parrakeet (Polytelis Barrabandi); -- called alsothe scarlet-breasted parrot.", | |
| "ANOINTMENT": "The act of anointing, or state of being anointed; also, anointment. Milton.", | |
| "REPRESENTATIVE": "Giving, or existing as, a transcript of what was originallypresentative knowledge; as, representative faculties; representativeknowledge. See Presentative, 3 and Represent, 8.", | |
| "SEA LION": "Any one of several large species of seals of the familyOtariid\u00e6 native of the Pacific Ocean, especially the southern sealion (Otaria jubata) of the South American coast; the northern sealion (Eumetopias Stelleri) found from California to Japan; and theblack, or California, sea lion (Zalophus Californianus), which iscommon on the rocks near San Francisco.", | |
| "SPECIFIABLE": "Admitting specification; capable of being specified.", | |
| "BRAINSICKLY": "In a brainsick manner.", | |
| "CIDER": "The expressed juice of apples. It is used as a beverage, formaking vinegar, and for other purposes.", | |
| "GULPH": "See Gulf.", | |
| "UNDECENCY": "Indecency. [Obs.] \"Decency and undecency.\" Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "ACETOMETER": "Same as Acetimeter. Brande & C.", | |
| "WINDLESS": "A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. AgrostisSpica-ventis. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Shelley.", | |
| "AWM": "See Aam.", | |
| "PTENOGLOSSATE": "Of or pertaining to the Ptenoglossa.", | |
| "EXARATE": "To plow up; also, to engrave; to write. [Obs.] Blount.", | |
| "CRORE": "Ten millions; as, a crore of rupees (which is nearly$5,000,000). [East Indies] Malcolm.", | |
| "OBSECRATORY": "Expressing, or used in, entreaty; supplicatory. [R.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "TARING": "The common tern; -- called also tarret, and tarrock. [Prov.Eng.]", | |
| "UNDEIFY": "To degrade from the state of deity; to deprive of the characteror qualities of a god; to deprive of the reverence due to a god.Addison.", | |
| "JOURNALIZE": "To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.", | |
| "BOGY": "A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear. \"Death's heads and bogies.\"J. H. Newman. [Written also bogey.]There are plenty of such foolish attempts at playing bogy in thehistory of savages. C. Kingsley.", | |
| "BUSKED": "Wearing a busk. Pollok.", | |
| "TRACHYSTOMATA": "An order of tailed aquatic amphibians, including Siren andPseudobranchus. They have anterior legs only, are eel-like in form,and have no teeth except a small patch on the palate. The externalgills are persistent through life.", | |
| "WATER TUBE": "One of a system of tubular excretory organs having externalopenings, found in many invertebrates. They are believed to beanalogous in function to the kidneys of vertebrates. See Illust.under Trematodea, and Sporocyst.", | |
| "UBIQUITARY": "Ubiquitous. Howell.", | |
| "SNARL": "To form raised work upon the outer surface of (thin metal ware)by the repercussion of a snarling iron upon the inner surface.", | |
| "INDEFEASIBLE": "Not to be defeated; not defeasible; incapable of being annulledor made void; as, an indefeasible or title.That the king had a divine and an indefeasible right to the regalpower. Macaulay.", | |
| "ENTHYMEME": "An argument consisting of only two propositions, an antecedentand consequent deduced from it; a syllogism with one premise omitted;as, We are dependent; therefore we should be humble. Here the majorproposition is suppressed. The complete syllogism would be, Dependentcreatures should be humble; we are dependent creatures; therefore weshould be humble.", | |
| "PRAGMATIZE": "To consider, represent, or embody (something unreal) as fact;to materialize. [R.] \"A pragmatized metaphor.\" Tylor.", | |
| "CONVENTUAL": "Of or pertaining to a convent; monastic. \"A conventual garb.\"Macaulay. Conventual church, a church attached or belonging to aconvent or monastery. Wordsworth.", | |
| "VANQUISH": "A disease in sheep, in which they pine away. [Written alsovinquish.]", | |
| "TENERITY": "Tenderness. [Obs.] Ainsworth.", | |
| "ENARRATION": "A detailed exposition; relation. [Obs.] Hakewill.", | |
| "WHOOT": "To hoot. [Obs.]", | |
| "FARRAGO": "A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; amedley; a mixture.A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all theflimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.", | |
| "SMITHING": "The act or art of working or forging metals, as iron, into anydesired shape. Moxon.", | |
| "AFER": "The southwest wind. Milton.", | |
| "COMB": "To disentangle, cleanse, or adjust, with a comb; to lay smoothand straight with, or as with, a comb; as, to comb hair or wool. Seeunder Combing.Comb down his hair; look, look! it stands upright. Shak.", | |
| "EXCRUCIATING": ". Torturing; racking. \"Excruciating pain.\" V. Knox.\"Excruciating fears.\" Bentley -- Ex*cru\"ci*a`ting*ly, adv.", | |
| "FOUND": "imp. & p. p. of Find.", | |
| "PRICKING-UP": "The first coating of plaster in work of three coats upon laths.Its surface is scratched once to form a better key for the next coat.In the United States called scratch coat. Brande & C.", | |
| "GLOST OVEN": "An oven in which glazed pottery is fired; -- also called glazekiln, or glaze.", | |
| "UPON": "On; -- used in all the senses of that word, with which it isinterchangeable. \"Upon an hill of flowers.\" Chaucer.Our host upon his stirrups stood anon. Chaucer.Thou shalt take of the blood that is upon the altar. Ex. xxix. 21.The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. Judg. xvi. 9.As I did stand my watch upon the hill. Shak.He made a great difference between people that did rebel uponwantonness, and them that did rebel upon want. Bacon.This advantage we lost upon the invention of firearms. Addison.Upon the whole, it will be necessary to avoid that perpetualrepetition of the same epithets which we find in Homer. Pope.He had abandoned the frontiers, retiring upon Glasgow. Sir. W. Scott.Philip swore upon the Evangelists to abstain from aggression in myabsence. Landor.", | |
| "HEXAGYNIA": "A Linn\u00e6an order of plants having six pistils.", | |
| "MACHIAVELIAN": "Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles;politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.", | |
| "ALBUMINATE": "A substance produced by the action of an alkali upon albumin,and resembling casein in its properties; also, a compound formed bythe union of albumin with another substance.", | |
| "ETIOLATION": "Paleness produced by absence of light, or by disease.Dunglison.", | |
| "COTARNINE": "A white, crystalline substance, C12H13NO3, obtained as aproduct of the decomposition of narcotine. It has weak basicproperties, and is usually regarded as an alkaloid.", | |
| "PROUDLY": "In a proud manner; with lofty airs or mien; haughtily;arrogantly; boastfully.Proudly he marches on, and void of fear. Addison.", | |
| "DEMANTOID": "A yellow-green, transparent variety of garnet found in theUrals. It is valued as a gem because of its brilliancy of luster,whence the name.", | |
| "SALVO": "An exception; a reservation; an excuse.They admit many salvos, cautions, and reservations. Eilon Basilike.", | |
| "EPIBLAST": "The outer layer of the blastoderm; the ectoderm. SeeBlastoderm, Delamination.", | |
| "POLYBASIC": "Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, severalmolecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable ofbeing replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as,sulphuric acid is polybasic.", | |
| "MUSSITE": "A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont;diopside.", | |
| "DIAZO-": "A combining form (also used adjectively), meaning pertainingto, or derived from, a series of compounds containing a radical oftwo nitrogen atoms, united usually to an aromatic radical; as, diazo-benzene, C6H5.N2.OH.", | |
| "SPECHT": "A woodpecker. [Obs. or prov. Eng.] Sherwood.", | |
| "HUNCHBACK": "A back with a hunch or hump; also, a hunchbacked person.", | |
| "SCAMBLER": "1. One who scambles.", | |
| "UNGOWN": "To strip of a gown; to unfrock.", | |
| "CHEILOPODA": "See Ch.", | |
| "CONTROLLABLE": "Capable of being controlled, checked, or restrained; amenableto command.Passion is the drunkeness of the mind, and, therefore, . . . notalways controllable by reason. South.", | |
| "SASSE": "A sluice or lock, as in a river, to make it more navigable.[Obs.] Pepys.", | |
| "ANATHEMA": "Pertaining to, or having the nature of, an anathema.-- A*nath`e*mat\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "SUPERCARBURETED": "Bicarbureted. [Written also supercarburetted.] [Obsoles.]", | |
| "BUFFERHEAD": "The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, inrailroad carriages.", | |
| "CHOREGRAPHY": "The art of representing dancing by signs, as music isrepresented by notes. Craig.", | |
| "POLYGALACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Polygalace\u00e6) ofwhich Polygala is the type.", | |
| "HIDALGO": "A title, denoting a Spanish nobleman of the lower class.", | |
| "MANAGE": "The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse;management; administration. See Manege. [Obs.]Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more thanthey can hold. Bacon.Down, down I come; like glistering Pha\u00ebthonWanting the manage of unruly jades. Shak.The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl. Shak.", | |
| "ATMOLYZE": "To subject to atmolysis; to separate by atmolysis.", | |
| "INTERBREED": "To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.", | |
| "CAMELLIA": "An Asiatic genus of small shrubs, often with shining leaves andshowy flowers. Camelia Japonica is much cultivated for ornament, andC. Sassanqua and C. Oleifera are grown in China for the oil which ispressed from their seeds. The tea plant is now referred to this genusunder the name of Camellia Thea.", | |
| "EAGER": "Same as Eagre.", | |
| "MYSTERIAL": "Mysterious. [Obs.]", | |
| "MARQUEE": "A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officerof high rank. [Written also markee.]", | |
| "ETHYLAMINE": "A colorless, mobile, inflammable liquid, C2H5.NH2, veryvolatile and with an ammoniacal odor. It is a strong base, and is aderivative of ammonia. Called also ethyl carbamine, and amido ethane.", | |
| "PIONER": "A pioneer. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "DIGITIZE": "To finger; as, to digitize a pen. [R.] Sir T. Browne. computersto convert (information, a signal, an image) into a form expressiblein binary notation", | |
| "SCIENCE": "To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; toinstruct. [R.] Francis.", | |
| "EXPUGNABLE": "Capable of being expugnded.", | |
| "BEBLEED": "To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SYNTHERMAL": "Having the same degree of heat.", | |
| "TRIPALMITIN": "See Palmitin.", | |
| "MISORDINATION": "Wrong ordination.", | |
| "CATAPHONIC": "Of or relating to cataphonics; catacoustic.", | |
| "BACKHANDER": "A backhanded blow.", | |
| "MAD-HEADED": "Wild; crack-brained.", | |
| "INDIGENTLY": "In an indigent manner.", | |
| "RACCOON": "A North American nocturnal carnivore (Procyon lotor) allied tothe bears, but much smaller, and having a long, full tail, bandedwith black and gray. Its body is gray, varied with black and white.Called also coon, and mapach.", | |
| "ACONITIA": "Same as Aconitine.", | |
| "AFTERMATH": "A second moving; the grass which grows after the first crop ofhay in the same season; rowen. Holland.", | |
| "CONSOPITE": "Lulled to sleep. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "FLICKERINGLY": "In a flickering manner.", | |
| "HYMNODY": "Hymns, considered collectively; hymnology.", | |
| "TORTURINGLY": "So as to torture. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "DISCOVERABILITY": "The quality of being discoverable. [R.] Carlyle.", | |
| "MISLY": "Raining in very small drops.", | |
| "BEDAGGLE": "To daggle.", | |
| "GENERALIZED": "Comprising structural characters which are separated in morespecialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type.", | |
| "OSTENSIVELY": "In an ostensive manner.", | |
| "ANCHORETISM": "The practice or mode of life of an anchoret.", | |
| "TAILPIN": "The center in the spindle of a turning lathe.", | |
| "OVEREMPTY": "To make too empty; to exhaust. [R.] Carew.", | |
| "SEID": "A descendant of Mohammed through his daughter Fatima and nephewAli.", | |
| "KERATOME": "An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations forcataract.", | |
| "BLOODHOUND": "A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, andpendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employedto recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, andfor tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runawayslaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purposeand go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a varietyof the mastiff.", | |
| "LITHOTRITY": "The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into smallpieces capable of being voided.", | |
| "MIMETISM": "Same as Mimicry.", | |
| "GASTROSPLENIC": "Pertaining to the stomach and spleen; as, the gastrosplenicligament.", | |
| "MIXEDLY": "In a mixed or mingled manner.", | |
| "RESOUND": "Return of sound; echo. Beaumont.", | |
| "NOCTAMBULO": "A noctambulist. [Obs.]", | |
| "WELCOMELY": "In a welcome manner.", | |
| "EXPLICITNESS": "The quality of being explicit; clearness; directness. Jer.Taylor.", | |
| "ORNATELY": "In an ornate manner. Sir T. More.", | |
| "PYTHONIST": "A conjurer; a diviner.", | |
| "PEDIMANE": "A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum.", | |
| "ULLAGE": "The amount which a vessel, as a cask, of liquor lacks of beingfull; wantage; deficiency.", | |
| "COMPLIMENT": "An expression, by word or act, of approbation, regard,confidence, civility, or admiration; a flattering speech orattention; a ceremonious greeting; as, to send one's compliments to afriend.Tedious waste of time, to sit and hear So many hollow compliments andlies. Milton.Many a compliment politely penned. Cowper.To make one a compliment, to show one respect; to praise one in aflattering way.Locke.-- To make one's compliments to, to offer formal courtesias to.-- To stand on compliment, to treat with ceremony.", | |
| "SIST": "To stay, as judicial proceedings; to delay or suspend; to stop.", | |
| "INCONTAMINATE": "Not contaminated; pure. Moore.-- In`con*tam\"i*nate*ness, n.", | |
| "CHAMLET": "See Camlet. [Obs.]", | |
| "PLIERS": "A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending orcutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as theparts of a watch, etc.", | |
| "BICAUDAL": "Having, or terminating in, two tails.", | |
| "ROKELAY": "A short cloak. [Written also rockelay, rocklay, etc.] [Scot.]", | |
| "TERMINATIVE": "Tending or serving to terminate; terminating; determining;definitive. Bp. Rust.-- Ter\"mi*na*tive*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "GONOBLASTID": "A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.", | |
| "THREPSOLOGY": "The doctrine of nutrition; a treatise on nutrition.", | |
| "THERMOTICS": "The science of heat. Whewell.", | |
| "PACKWAY": "A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.", | |
| "NITROUS": "Of, pertaining to, or designating, any one of those compoundsin which nitrogen has a relatively lower valence as contrasted withnitric compounds. Nitrous acid (Chem.), a hypothetical acid ofnitrogen HNO2, not known in the free state, but forming a well knownseries of salts, viz., the nitrites.-- Nitrous oxide. See Laughing gas.", | |
| "RETRIBUTER": "One who makes retribution.", | |
| "SULPHOCYANOGEN": "See Persulphocyanogen. [Obs.]", | |
| "BURH": "See Burg. [Obs.]", | |
| "CONVENTIONALIZE": "To make designs in art, according to conventional principles.Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.", | |
| "VAGRANTLY": "In a vagrant manner.", | |
| "TAVERNMAN": "The keeper of a tavern; also, a tippler. [Obs.]", | |
| "COAGMENT": "To join together. [Obs.] Glanvill.", | |
| "FORPINE": "To waste away completely by suffering or torment. [Archaic]\"Pale as a forpined ghost.\" Chaucer.", | |
| "PIGEON-LIVERED": "Pigeon-hearted.", | |
| "MISJOIN": "To join unfitly or improperly.", | |
| "TRICHITE": "A kind of crystallite resembling a bunch of hairs, common inobsidian. See Illust. of Crystallite.", | |
| "HELIOCHROMY": "The art of producing photographs in color.", | |
| "INDULGENCY": "Indulgence. Dryden.", | |
| "BILABIATE": "Having two lips, as the corols of certain flowers.", | |
| "ADNATE": "Grown to congenitally.", | |
| "REPROVABLE": "Worthy of reproof or censure. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "RENOVEL": "To renew; to renovate. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "RETOUCHER": "One who retouches.", | |
| "DISACCORD": "To refuse to assent. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "STILLHOUSE": "A house in which distillation is carried on; a distillery.", | |
| "VEGETATION": "An exuberant morbid outgrowth upon any part, especially uponthe valves of the heart. Vegetation of salts (Old Chem.), acrystalline growth of an arborescent form.", | |
| "LUNGIS": "A lingerer; a dull, drowsy fellow. [Obs.]", | |
| "VICARY": "A vicar. [Obs.]", | |
| "LIEVE": "Same as Lief.", | |
| "TIMIDOUS": "Timid. [Obs.] Hudibras.", | |
| "CELIBATE": "Unmarried; single; as, a celibate state.", | |
| "TRICURVATE": "Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (seeIllust. of Spicule).", | |
| "FORESTAL": "Of or pertaining to forests; as, forestal rights.", | |
| "REGENERACY": "The state of being regenerated. Hammond.", | |
| "HYLEOSAUR": "Same as Hyl\u00e6osaur.", | |
| "VARLETRY": "The rabble; the crowd; the mob.Shall they hoist me up, And show me to the shouting varletry Ofcensuring Rome. Shak.", | |
| "CULVERKEY": "The root of a handsome erect herb (Leptandra, syn. Veronica,Virginica) common in most moist woods of North America , used as anactive cathartic and emetic; also, the plant itself.", | |
| "UNORIGINATELY": "Without origin.", | |
| "COMETARY": "Pertaining to, or resembling, a comet. Cheyne.", | |
| "WATER-WITHE": "A vinelike plant (Vitis Carib\u00e6a) growing in parched districtsin the West Indies, and containing a great amount of sap which issometimes used for quenching thirst.", | |
| "ENDOGAMOUS": "Marrying within the same tribe; -- opposed to exogamous.", | |
| "SECUNDO-GENITURE": "A right of inheritance belonging to a second son; a property orpossession so inherited.The kingdom of Naples . . . was constituted a secundo-geniture ofSpain. Bancroft.", | |
| "CHASIBLE": "See Chasuble.", | |
| "COLZA": "A variety of cabbage (Brassica oleracea), cultivated for itsseeds, which yield an oil valued for illuminating and lubricatingpurposes; summer rape.", | |
| "KISSINGCRUST": "The portion of the upper crust of a loaf which has touchedanother loaf in baking. Lamb.A massy fragment from the rich kissingcrust that hangs like a frettedcornice from the upper half of the loaf. W. Howitt.", | |
| "GRAND MERCY": "See Gramercy. [Obs.]", | |
| "REQUISITOR": "One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisitionto investigate facts.", | |
| "OUTTALK": "To overpower by talking; to exceed in talking; to talk down.Shak.", | |
| "DEGUST": "To taste. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "PONDERAL": "Estimated or ascertained by weight; -- distinguished fromnumeral; as, a ponderal drachma. [R.] Arbuthnot.", | |
| "SECESS": "Retirement; retreat; secession. [Obs.] R. H. More.", | |
| "HIDDEN": "from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known;mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths oroctaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motionof two parts towards a fifth or an octave.", | |
| "BUCCAN": "A wooden frame or grid for roasting, smoking, or drying meatover fire.", | |
| "SCOFF": "To show insolent ridicule or mockery; to manifest contempt byderisive acts or language; -- often with at.Thuth from his lips prevailed with double sway, And fools who came toscoff, remained to pray. Goldsmith.", | |
| "COMPLEMENT": "A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to athird given quantity.", | |
| "HARMONIZE": "To accompany with harmony; to provide with parts, as an air, ormelody.", | |
| "SOMETIMES": "Former; sometime. [Obs.]Thy sometimes brother's wife. Shak.", | |
| "AMETHODIST": "One without method; a quack. [Obs.]", | |
| "YAOURT": "A fermented drink, or milk beer, made by the Turks.", | |
| "BANALITY": "Something commonplace, hackneyed, or trivial; the commonplace,in speech.The highest things were thus brought down to the banalities ofdiscourse. J. Morley.", | |
| "BREASTED": "Having a breast; -- used in composition with qualifying words,in either a literal or a metaphorical sense; as, a single-breastedcoat.The close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open-breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.", | |
| "JEHU": "A coachman; a driver; especially, one who drives furiously.[Colloq.]", | |
| "IMPUDICITY": "Immodesty. Sheldon.", | |
| "QUINTILLLION": "According to the French notation, which is used on theContinent and in America, the cube of a million, or a unit witheighteen ciphers annexed; according to the English notation, a numberproduced by involving a million to the fifth power, or a unit withthirty ciphers annexed. See the Note under Numeration.", | |
| "SUNLESS": "Destitute or deprived of the sun or its rays; shaded; shadowed.The sunken glen whose sunless shrubs must weep. Byron.", | |
| "TRICKMENT": "Decoration. [Obs.] \" No trickments but my tears.\" Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "SIDEBONE": "A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides ofthe coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.", | |
| "BETEL NUT": "The nutlike seed of the areca palm, chewed in the East withbetel leaves (whence its name) and shell lime.", | |
| "SITED": "Having a site; situated. [Obs.][The garden] sited was in fruitful soil. Chaucer.", | |
| "MEASELRY": "Leprosy. [Obs.] R. of Brunne.", | |
| "PINFOLD": "A place in which stray cattle or domestic animals are confined;a pound; a penfold. Shak.A parish pinfold begirt by its high hedge. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "DISTRAINOR": "One who distrains; the party distraining goods or chattels.Blackstone.", | |
| "LIMNER": "A painter; an artist; esp.:(a) One who paints portraits.(b) One who illuminates books. [Archaic]", | |
| "NEOTERICALLY": "Recently; newly.", | |
| "PODOSCAPH": "A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking onwater.", | |
| "SCAPHOLUNAR": "Of or pertaining to the scaphoid and lunar bones of the carpus.-- n.", | |
| "STALK": "An ornament in the Corinthian capital resembling the stalk of aplant, from which the volutes and helices spring.", | |
| "CIRCUMCISER": "One who performs circumcision. Milton.", | |
| "PREPONDERATION": "The act or state of preponderating; preponderance; as, apreponderation of reasons. I. Watts.", | |
| "PTEROPHORE": "Any moth of the genus Pterophorus and allied genera; a plumemoth. See Plume moth, under Plume.", | |
| "HORNY-HANDED": "Having the hands horny and callous from labor.", | |
| "STALLATION": "Installation. [Obs.]", | |
| "LOBELIN": "A yellowish green resin from Lobelia, used as an emetic anddiaphoretic.", | |
| "TETRADECAPODA": "Same as Arthrostraca.", | |
| "TRICROTOUS": "Tricrotic.", | |
| "POLYPEAN": "Of or pertaining to a polyp, or polyps.", | |
| "CLINKER-BUILT": "Having the side planks (af a boat) so arranged that the loweredge of each overlaps the upper edge of the plank next below it likeclapboards on a house. See Lapstreak.", | |
| "RECOMPILE": "To compile anew.", | |
| "ARCTOIDEA": "A group of the Carnivora, that includes the bears, weasels,etc.", | |
| "EXCLUSORY": "Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.", | |
| "BABYHOOD": "The state or period of infancy.", | |
| "MOW": "A wry face. \"Make mows at him.\" Shak.", | |
| "SPIRE": "To breathe. [Obs.] Shenstone.", | |
| "ENLIVE": "To enliven. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "PLASTIN": "A substance associated with nuclein in cell nuclei, and by someconsidered as the fundamental substance of the nucleus.", | |
| "EVITERNITY": "Eternity. [Obs.]", | |
| "FALLIBILITY": "The state of being fallible; liability to deceive or to bedeceived; as, the fallibity of an argument or of an adviser.", | |
| "TOTA": "The grivet.", | |
| "ANGIOSPOROUS": "Having spores contained in cells or thec\u00e6, as in the case ofsome fungi.", | |
| "INSUFFLATE": "To blow upon; to breath upon or into; to use insufflation upon.", | |
| "REBAPTIZER": "One who rebaptizes.", | |
| "ASPIRIN": "A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid usedas a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.", | |
| "ENDECANE": "One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24,found as a constituent of petroleum. [Written also hendecane.]", | |
| "CONGEALEDNESS": "The state of being congealed. Dr. H.More.", | |
| "NAINSOOK": "A thick sort of jaconet muslin, plain or striped, formerly madein India.", | |
| "FIDDLESTICK": "The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; afiddle bow.", | |
| "AMMA": "An abbes or spiritual mother.", | |
| "LUTULENT": "Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]", | |
| "ACETOL": "Methyl ketol; also, any of various homologues of the same.", | |
| "SULPHYDRATE": "A compound, analogous to a hydrate, regarded as a salt ofsulphydric acid, or as a derivative of hydrogen sulphide in which onehalf of the hydrogen is replaced by a base (as potassium sulphydrate,KSH), or as a hydrate in which the oxygen has been wholly orpartially replaced by sulphur.", | |
| "VOCULE": "A short or weak utterance; a faint or feeble sound, as thatheard on separating the lips in pronouncing p or b. Rush.-- Voc\"u*lar, a.", | |
| "PAPILLOTE": "a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair tomake it curl; a curl paper.", | |
| "INVOLUTE": "A curve traced by the end of a string wound upon another curve,or unwound from it; -- called also evolvent. See Evolute.", | |
| "ADFILIATION": "See Affiliation. [Obs.]", | |
| "NYCTITROPIC": "Turning or bending at night into special positions.", | |
| "MILESTONE": "A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.", | |
| "INDICE": "Index; indication. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "MISWRITE": "To write incorrectly.", | |
| "DROUTHY": "Droughty.", | |
| "MARCOR": "A wasting away of flesh; decay. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "INCOMPETIBLE": "See Incompatible.", | |
| "KERMES": "The dried bodies of the females of a scale insect (Coccusilicis), allied to the cochineal insect, and found on several speciesof oak near the Mediterranean. They are round, about the size of apea, contain coloring matter analogous to carmine, and are used indyeing. They were anciently thought to be of a vegetable nature, andwere used in medicine. [Written also chermes.]", | |
| "SUBLEASE": "A lease by a tenant or lessee to another person; an underlease.Bouvier.", | |
| "EBRILLADE": "A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when herefuses to turn.", | |
| "INTUITIVELY": "In an intuitive manner.", | |
| "POLITICLY": "In a politic manner; sagaciously; shrewdly; artfully. Pope.", | |
| "INTERPHALANGEAL": "Between phalanges; as, interphalangeal articulations.", | |
| "WORK": "Structures in civil, military, or naval engineering, as docks,bridges, embankments, trenches, fortifications, and the like; also,the structures and grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, ironworks; locomotive works; gas works. (d) pl.", | |
| "SOEVER": "A word compounded of so and ever, used in composition with who,what, where, when, how, etc., and indicating any out of all possibleor supposable persons, things, places, times, ways, etc. It issometimes used separate from the pronoun or adverb.For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required.Luke xii. 48.What great thing soever a man proposed to do in his life, he shouldthink of achieving it by fifty. Sir W. Temple.", | |
| "STEREOGRAM": "A diagram or picture which represents objects in such a way asto give the impression of relief or solidity; also, a stereograph.", | |
| "ABBREVIATE": "To reduce to lower terms, as a fraction.", | |
| "SOODRA": "Same as Sudra.", | |
| "WITCH-ELM": "See Wych-elm.", | |
| "MAIDENLIKE": "Like a maiden; modest; coy.", | |
| "CONCREMATION": "The act of burning different things together. [Obs.]", | |
| "TABARD": "A sort of tunic or mantle formerly worn for protection from theweather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with thearms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garmentadopted for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]", | |
| "BURGHMOTE": "A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court heldthree times yearly.", | |
| "MEDIATORSHIP": "The office or character of a mediator.", | |
| "SMUTCHIN": "Snuff. [Obs.] Howell.", | |
| "PARALLELIZE": "To render parallel. [R.]", | |
| "MYELOIDIN": "A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinalepithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, thesubstance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers.", | |
| "PERIPATUS": "A genus of lowly organized arthropods, found in South Africa,Australia, and tropical America. It constitutes the order Malacopoda.", | |
| "FURROWY": "Furrowed. [R.] Tennyson.", | |
| "SARDIUS": "A precious stone, probably a carnelian, one of which was set inAaron's breastplate. Ex. xxviii. 17.", | |
| "OSO-BERRY": "The small, blueblack, drupelike fruit of the Nuttalliacerasiformis, a shrub of Oregon and California, belonging to theCherry tribe of Rosace\u00e6.", | |
| "UNDERACTION": "Subordinate action; a minor action incidental or subsidiary tothe main story; an episode.The least episodes or underactions . . . are parts necessary orconvenient to carry on the main design. Dryden.", | |
| "COL": "A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains;the pass over such a ridge.", | |
| "PSEUDO-GALENA": "False galena, or blende. See Blende (a).", | |
| "MESOLE": "Same as Thomsonite.", | |
| "CARBIMIDE": "The technical name for isocyanic acid. See under Isocyanic.", | |
| "MUREX": "A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequentlyspinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rockshells. They abound in tropical seas.", | |
| "SUSTENTATE": "To sustain. [R.] C. Reade.", | |
| "DONSHIP": "The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight. Hudibras.", | |
| "ASTATICISM": "The state of being astatic.", | |
| "JACAL": "In Mexico and the southwestern United States, a kind ofplastered house or hut, usually made by planting poles or timber inthe ground, filling in between them with screen work or wickerwork,and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, thismethod of construction.", | |
| "REPOUSSE": "Repouss\u00e9 work. Repouss\u00e9 work, ornamentation of metal in reliefby pressing or hammering on the reverse side.", | |
| "MESHED": "Mashed; brewed. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "STAND-BY": "One who, or that which, stands by one in need; something uponwhich one relies for constant use or in an emergency.", | |
| "CHESTED": "Having (such) a chest; -- in composition; as, broad-chested;narrow-chested.", | |
| "CABMAN": "The driver of a cab.", | |
| "SEMINUDE": "Partially nude; half naked.", | |
| "CYMIDINE": "A liquid organic base, C10H13.NH2, derived from cymene.", | |
| "RECONCILEMENT": "Reconciliation. Milton.", | |
| "SELDOMNESS": "Rareness. Hooker.", | |
| "ARMIFEROUS": "Bearing arms or weapons. [R.]", | |
| "LADYHOOD": "The state or quality of being a lady; the personality of alady.", | |
| "DECIPHERER": "One who deciphers.", | |
| "COMPLEXIONARY": "Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer.Taylor.", | |
| "HYDROLOGICAL": "Of or pertaining to hydrology.", | |
| "PERMEABILITY": "The quality or state of being permeable. Magnetic permeability(Physics), the specific capacity of a body for magnetic induction, orits conducting power for lines of magnetic force. Sir W. Thomson.", | |
| "TOD": "To weigh; to yield in tods. [Obs.]", | |
| "EXPURGATION": "The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purificationfrom anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous. Milton.", | |
| "BLOWTUBE": "A long wrought iron tube, on the end of which the workmangathers a quantity of \"metal\" (melted glass), and through which heblows to expand or shape it; -- called also blowing tube, andblowpipe.", | |
| "CHALK": "A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowishwhite color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the samecomposition as common limestone.", | |
| "GROSCHEN": "A small silver coin and money of account of Germany, worthabout two cents. It is not included in the new monetary system of theempire.", | |
| "LEVIR": "A husband's brother; -- used in reference to leviratemarriages.", | |
| "INDICTMENT": "The formal statement of an offense, as framed by theprosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury.", | |
| "LATITANCY": "Act or state of lying hid, or lurking. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ANIMATOR": "One who, or that which, animates; an animater. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "DOUAY BIBLE": "A translation of the Scriptures into the English language forthe use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the LatinVulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testamentportion was published at Rheims, A. D. 1582, the Old Testament atDouai, A. D. 1609-10. Various revised editions have since beenpublished. [Written also Doway Bible. Called also the Rheims andDouay version.]", | |
| "MODERABLE": "Modeate; temperate. [Obs.]", | |
| "CONCILIATIVE": "Conciliatory. Coleridge.", | |
| "ALUMINOUS": "Pertaining to or containing alum, or alumina; as, aluminousminerals, aluminous solution.", | |
| "STOR": "See Stoor. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GAMIN": "A neglected and untrained city boy; a young street Arab.In Japan, the gamins run after you, and say, 'Look at the Chinaman.'L. Oliphant.", | |
| "VITRITE": "A kind of glass which is very hard and difficult to fuse, usedas an insulator in electrical lamps and other apparatus.", | |
| "CORONILLA": "A genus of plants related to the clover, having their flowersarranged in little heads or tufts resembling coronets.", | |
| "VATICINATION": "Prediction; prophecy.It is not a false utterance; it is a true, though an impetuous,vaticination. I. Taylor.", | |
| "APPLICABILITY": "The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.", | |
| "NUCLEOLATED": "Having a nucleole, or second inner nucleus.", | |
| "SELF-VIEW": "A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard forone's own interests", | |
| "HEBDOMAD": "A week; a period of seven days. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "OVERLUSTY": "Too lusty, or lively. Shak.", | |
| "IMPORTUNER": "One who importunes.", | |
| "ROUGHEN": "To make rough.", | |
| "DISUNIFORM": "Not uniform. [Obs.]", | |
| "WAVER": "A sapling left standing in a fallen wood. [Prov. Eng.]Halliwell.", | |
| "CASUAL": "One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which hedoes not belong; a vagrant.", | |
| "OLOGY": "A colloquial or humorous name for any science or branch ofknowledge.He had a smattering of mechanics, of physiology, geology, mineralogy,and all other ologies whatsoever. De Quincey.", | |
| "STRUCTURIST": "One who forms structures; a builder; a constructor. [R.]", | |
| "CLAMP": "A thick plank on the inner part of a ship's side, used tosustuan the ends of beams.", | |
| "WEEL": "Well. [Obs. or Scot.]", | |
| "SPIRATION": "The act of breathing. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "MICROPHYLLOUS": "Small-leaved.", | |
| "COMMENDAM": "A vacant living or benefice commended to a cleric (usually abishop) who enjoyed the revenue until a pastor was provided. A livingso held was said to be held in commendam. The practice was abolishedby law in 1836.There was [formerly] some sense for commendams. Selden.Partnership in commendam. See under Partnership.", | |
| "FLUSHER": "The red-backed shrike. See Flasher.", | |
| "DEAR-BOUGHT": "Bought at a high price; as, dear-bought experience.", | |
| "SELF-BORN": "Born or produced by one's self.", | |
| "LANGUED": "Tongued; having the tongue visible.Lions . . . represented as armed and langued gules. Cussans.", | |
| "MARL": "To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecularhitch at each turn to prevent unwinding. Marling spike. (Naut.) Seeunder Marline.", | |
| "EROGATION": "The act of giving out or bestowing. [Obs.] Sir T. Elyot.", | |
| "NAEVOSE": "Spotted; frecled.", | |
| "DICAST": "A functionary in ancient Athens answering nearly to the modernjuryman.", | |
| "FICTITIOUS": "Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; notgenuine; as, fictitious fame.The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. Pope.-- Fic*ti\"tious*ly, adv.-- Fic*ti\"tious*ness, n.", | |
| "RESEIZURE": "A second seizure; the act of seizing again. Bacon.", | |
| "CETRARIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, the lichen, Iceland moss(Cetaria Islandica). Cetraric acid. See Cetrarin.", | |
| "TUREEN": "A large, deep vessel for holding soup, or other liquid food, atthe table. [Written also terreen.]", | |
| "COUNTERMAN": "A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.[Eng.]", | |
| "SPECIFICNESS": "The quality or state of being specific.", | |
| "ORGANULE": "One of the essential cells or elements of an organ. See Senseorganule, under Sense. Huxley.", | |
| "SALIFIABLE": "Capable of neutralizing an acid to form a salt; -- said ofbases; thus, ammonia is salifiable.", | |
| "SONSY": "See Soncy. [Scot.] Burns.", | |
| "SICKER": "To percolate, trickle, or ooze, as water through a crack. [Alsowritten sigger, zigger, and zifhyr.] [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "GINGLYMUS": "A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion andextension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and theankle.", | |
| "ATHEOLOGY": "Antagonism to theology. Swift.", | |
| "DECOCTURE": "A decoction. [R.]", | |
| "POLING": "The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks withpoles.", | |
| "RUBY": "A precious stone of a carmine red color, sometimes verging toviolet, or intermediate between carmine and hyacinth red. It is a redcrystallized variety of corundum.", | |
| "CHONDRIGEN": "The chemical basis of cartilage, converted by long boiling inwater into a gelatinous body called chondrin.", | |
| "HASTIF": "Hasty. [Obs.] Chaucer.-- Has\"tif*ly, adv. [Obs.]", | |
| "LEVELLY": "In an even or level manner.", | |
| "TRIONYCHOIDEA": "A division of chelonians which comprises Trionyx and alliedgenera; -- called also Trionychoides, and Trionychina.", | |
| "TILL": "A vetch; a tare. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "ANTHROPOTOMIST": "One who is versed in anthropotomy, or human anatomy.", | |
| "BIRAMOUS": "Having, or consisting of, two branches.", | |
| "MALAXATOR": "One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine forgrinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]", | |
| "UNACTIVENESS": "Inactivity. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "OUTVIE": "To exceed in vying. Dryden.", | |
| "DIPLOMATIC": "A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; adiplomatist.", | |
| "LOCALIZE": "To make local; to fix in, or assign to, a definite place. H.Spencer. Wordsworth.", | |
| "BLEST": "Blessed. \"This patriarch blest.\" Milton.White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.", | |
| "RUBICELLE": "A variety of ruby of a yellowish red color, from Brazil.", | |
| "FACTO": "In fact; by the act or fact. De facto. (Law) See De facto.", | |
| "LATAKIA": "A superior quality of Turkish smoking tobacco, so called fromthe place where produced, the ancient Laodicea.", | |
| "EMBOGUE": "To disembogue; to discharge, as a river, its waters into thesea or another river. [R.]", | |
| "LANCE": "A small iron rod which suspends the core of the mold in castinga shell.", | |
| "ABLOOM": "In or into bloom; in a blooming state. Masson.", | |
| "DALLES": "A rapid, esp. one where the channel is narrowed between rockwalls. [Northwestern U. S. & Canada]", | |
| "JURISPRUDENCE": "The science of juridical law; the knowledge of the laws,customs, and rights of men in a state or community, necessary for thedue administration of justice.The talents of Abelard were not confined to theology, jurisprudence,philosophy. J. Warton.Medical jurisprudence, that branch of juridical law which concernsquestions of medicine.", | |
| "SLIVER": "To cut or divide into long, thin pieces, or into very smallpieces; to cut or rend lengthwise; to slit; as, to sliver wood. Shak.They 'll sliver thee like a turnip. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "HATCHET MAN": "1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hitman.", | |
| "PARTICIPIAL": "Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle;formed from a participle; as, a participial noun. Lowth.", | |
| "BACHELORISM": "Bachelorhood; also, a manner or peculiarity belonging tobachelors. W. Irving.", | |
| "PRECEPTIVE": "Containing or giving precepts; of the nature of precepts;didactic; as, the preceptive parts of the Scriptures.The lesson given us here is preceptive to us. L'Estrange.", | |
| "TOMAN": "A money of account in Persia, whose value varies greatly atdifferent times and places. Its average value may be reckoned atabout two and a half dollars.", | |
| "PAH": "An exclamation expressing disgust or contempt. See Bah.Fie! fie! fie! pah! pah! Give me an ounce of civet, good apothecary,to sweeten my imagination. Shak.", | |
| "OSCILLOGRAPH": "An apparatus for recording or indicating alternating-currentwave forms or other electrical oscillations, usually consisting of agalvanometer with strong field, in which the mass of the moving partis very small and frequency of vibration very high. --Os`cil*lo*graph\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "APPEACH": "To impeach; to accuse; to asperse; to inform against; toreproach. [Obs.]And oft of error did himself appeach. Spenser.", | |
| "ANTALKALINE": "Of power to counteract alkalies.", | |
| "MELANOTIC": ", Melanistic.", | |
| "OBJECTIST": "One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy.Ed. Rev.", | |
| "CHARLATANRY": "Undue pretensions to skill; quackery; wheedling; empiricism.", | |
| "DUODECIMAL": "Proceeding in computation by twelves; expressed in the scale oftwelves.-- Du`o*dec\"i*mal*ly, adv.", | |
| "INDEVOTE": "Not devoted. [Obs.] Bentley. Clarendon.", | |
| "PARIETAL": "Attached to the main wall of the ovary, and not to the axis; --said of a placenta.", | |
| "ANYTHING": "In any measure; anywise; at all.Mine old good will and hearty affection towards you is not . . .anything at all quailed. Robynson (More's Utopia).", | |
| "PROPITIATION": "That which propitiates; atonement or atoning sacrifice;specifically, the influence or effects of the death of Christ inappeasing the divine justice, and conciliating the divine favor.He [Jesus Christ] is the propitiation for our sins. 1 John ii. 2.", | |
| "CONVERSANCE": "The state or quality of being conversant; habit of familiarity;familiar acquaintance; intimacy. [R.]", | |
| "HOMELIKE": "Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.", | |
| "SUPERFECUNDITY": "Superabundant fecundity or multiplication of the species.", | |
| "ALISPHENOID": "The alisphenoid bone.", | |
| "CIRCUMAMBIENCY": "The act of surrounding or encompassing. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "URTICACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticace\u00e6) of plants, ofwhich the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, theelm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.", | |
| "SLAYER": "One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.", | |
| "VENTRAD": "Toward the ventral side; on the ventral side; ventrally; --opposed to dorsad.", | |
| "PLUMAGE": "The entire clothing of a bird.", | |
| "DEPRESSIVE": "Able or tending to depress or cast down.-- De*press\"ive*ness, n.", | |
| "GUN": "A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.", | |
| "PHENYLIC": "Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, phenyl. Phenylicalcohol (Chem.), phenol.", | |
| "LANCEPESADE": "An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties ofa corporal; -- called also lance corporal.", | |
| "RAGING": "a. & n. from Rage, v. i.-- Ra\"*ging*ly, adv.", | |
| "SEETHER": "A pot for boiling things; a boiler.Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.", | |
| "OCHIMY": "See Occamy.", | |
| "SHOADING": "The tracing of veins of metal by shoads. [Written alsoshoding.] Pryce.", | |
| "STEREOMETER": "Of or pertaining to stereometry; performed or obtained bystereometry.-- Ste`re*o*met\"ric*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "UNLOAD": "To perform the act of unloading anything; as, let unload now.", | |
| "RECOILER": "One who, or that which, recoils.", | |
| "REGARDER": "An officer appointed to supervise the forest. Cowell.", | |
| "ASSIGNABLE": "Capable of being assigned, allotted, specified, or designated;as, an assignable note or bill; an assignable reason; an assignablequantity.", | |
| "MALEFICE": "An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Obs.]", | |
| "PURSER": "A commissioned officer in the navy who had charge of theprovisions, clothing, and public moneys on shipboard; -- now calledpaymaster.", | |
| "DERIVAL": "Derivation. [R.]The derival of e from a. Earle.", | |
| "THORNLESS": "Destitute of, or free from, thorns.", | |
| "ABDICANT": "Abdicating; renouncing; -- followed by of.Monks abdicant of their orders. Whitlock.", | |
| "HUNGARIAN": "Of or pertaining to Hungary or to the people of Hungary.-- n.", | |
| "DREGGINESS": "Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.", | |
| "NIGHTDRESS": "A nightgown.", | |
| "DIDELPHIAN": "Of or relating to the Didelphia.-- n.", | |
| "SUBINDEX": "A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter orsymbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2,and n as subindices.", | |
| "HUMBLE": "Hornless. See Hummel. [Scot.]", | |
| "RAGLAN": "A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan,an English general.", | |
| "DISPONER": "One who legally transfers property from himself to another.", | |
| "RACKTAIL": "An arm attached to a swinging notched arc or rack, to let offthe striking mechanism of a repeating clock.", | |
| "TIDILY": "In a tidy manner.", | |
| "ACTUATION": "A bringing into action; movement. Bp. Pearson.", | |
| "CORRESPONSIVE": "Corresponding; conformable; adapted. Shak.-- Cor`re*spon\"sive*ly, adv.", | |
| "LURRY": "A confused heap; a throng, as of persons; a jumble, as ofsounds. [Obs.]To turn prayer into a kind of lurry. Milton.", | |
| "HATTER": "To tire or worry; -- out. [Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "PREJUDICE": "A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interfereswith fairness of judgment.", | |
| "HOCUS": "To cheat. [Colloq.] L'Estrange.", | |
| "PHAINOPEPLA": "A small crested passerine bird (Pha\u00efnopepla nitens), native ofMexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniformglossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also blackflycatcher.", | |
| "PATAVINITY": "The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar styleor diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium,now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.", | |
| "GIBBON": "Any arboreal ape of the genus Hylobates, of which many speciesand varieties inhabit the East Indies and Southern Asia. They aretailless and without cheek pouches, and have very long arms, adaptedfor climbing.", | |
| "COVERCLE": "A small cover; a lid. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "UNSPIRIT": "To dispirit. [Obs.] Sir W. Temple.", | |
| "LEPTYNITE": "See Granulite.", | |
| "PHENYL": "A hydrocarbon radical (C6H5) regarded as the essential residueof benzene, and the basis of an immense number of aromaticderivatives. Phenyl hydrate (Chem.), phenol or carbolic acid.-- Phenyl hydrazine (Chem.), a nitrogenous base (C6H5.N2H3) producedartificially as a colorless oil which unites with acids, ketones,etc., to form well-crystallized compounds.", | |
| "TUNICATA": "A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in somerespects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by somewriters united with the latter. They were formerly classed withacephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm externaltunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, onefor the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx isusually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series ofciliated slits, and serves as a gill.", | |
| "RIBAUDRY": "Ribaldry. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "DEATHSMAN": "An executioner; a headsman or hangman. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "VIRIDESCENT": "Slightly green; greenish.", | |
| "ELECTRIZER": "One who, or that which, electrizes.", | |
| "MOUNTY": "The rise of a hawk after prey. Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "ANALEPTIC": "Restorative; giving strength after disease.-- n.", | |
| "AU REVOIR": "Good-by until we meet again.", | |
| "DICHLAMYDEOUS": "Having two coverings, a calyx and in corolla.", | |
| "DEDANS": "A division, at one end of a tennis court, for spectators.", | |
| "UNDERGOD": "A lower or inferio", | |
| "WENCH": "To frequent the company of wenches, or women of ill fame.", | |
| "ANSEROUS": "Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.", | |
| "DOXOLOGIZE": "To give glory to God, as in a doxology; to praise God withdoxologies.", | |
| "DISMAN": "To unman. [Obs.] Feltham.", | |
| "CHLOROPHANE": "A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautifulemerald green light.", | |
| "UNMERCHANTABLE": "Not merchantable; not fit for market; being of a kind, quality,or quantity that is unsalable. McElrath.", | |
| "MONGCORN": "See Mangcorn.", | |
| "INSULITE": "An insulating material, usually some variety of compressedcellulose, made of sawdust, paper pulp, cotton waste, etc.", | |
| "SEA CORN": "A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species ofwhelks (Buccinum), which resembles an ear of maize.", | |
| "COMMOTE": "To commove; to disturb; to stir up. [R.]Society being more or less commoted and made uncomfortable.Hawthorne.", | |
| "ALIENABLE": "Capable of being alienated, sold, or transferred to another;as, land is alienable according to the laws of the state.", | |
| "HULOTHEISM": "See Hylotheism.", | |
| "LIND": "The linden. See Linden. Chaucer.", | |
| "PECTORILOQUISM": "Pectoriloquy.", | |
| "CHALCOGRAPHY": "The act or art of engraving on copper or brass, especially ofengraving for printing.", | |
| "ORTHOTOMIC": "Cutting at right angles. Orthotomic circle (Geom.), that circlewhich cuts three given circles at right angles.", | |
| "PICROLITE": "A fibrous variety of serpentine.", | |
| "KILLIKINICK": "See Kinnikinic.", | |
| "SIPHONATA": "A tribe of bivalve mollusks in which the posterior mantleborder is prolonged into two tubes or siphons. Called alsoSiphoniata. See Siphon, 2 (a), and Quahaug.", | |
| "SLUGS": "Half-roasted ore.", | |
| "PROTESTATOR": "One who makes protestation; a protester.", | |
| "COUNTERGUARD": "A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of twolines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protectingthem from a breaching fire.", | |
| "DECINE": "One of the higher hydrocarbons, C10H15, of the acetyleneseries; -- called also decenylene.", | |
| "ELECTROLYZABLE": "Capable of being electrolyzed, or decomposed by electricity.", | |
| "INLIVE": "To animate. [R.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "NARCOTICAL": "Narcotic.-- Nar*cot\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "PHAENOGAM": "Any plant of the class Ph\u00e6nogamia.", | |
| "PARRICIDE": "The act or crime of murdering one's own father or any ancestor.", | |
| "THALAMUS": "A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricleof the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.", | |
| "LAGGER": "A laggard.", | |
| "MEDIAEVALISM": "The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to theinstitutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from theMiddle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]", | |
| "BOUGIE DECIMALE": "A photometric standard used in France, having the value of onetwentieth of the Violle platinum standard, or slightly less than aBritish standard candle. Called also decimal candle.", | |
| "ADVOWSON": "The right of presenting to a vacant benefice or living in thechurch. [Originally, the relation of a patron (advocatus) orprotector of a benefice, and thus privileged to nominate or presentto it.]", | |
| "FRAIGHT": "Same as Fraught. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "GARNISHER": "One who, or that which, garnishes.", | |
| "BRONZE STEEL": "A hard tough alloy of tin, copper, and iron, which can be usedfor guns.", | |
| "POSER": "One who, or that which, puzzles; a difficult or inexplicablequestion or fact. Bacon.", | |
| "SPRINGHALT": "A kind of lameness in horse. See Stringhalt. Shak.", | |
| "AMPHIDROMICAL": "Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- socalled because the friends of the parents carried the child aroundthe hearth and then named it.", | |
| "VALVULE": "A small valvelike process.", | |
| "FRUCTIFERUOS": "Bearing or producing fruit. Boyle.", | |
| "DIETICAL": "Dietetic. [R.] Ferrand.", | |
| "DUDGEON": "Resentment; ill will; anger; displeasure.I drink it to thee in dudgeon and hostility.Sir T. Scott.", | |
| "ANTILOGARITHM": "The number corresponding to a logarithm. The word has beensometimes, though rarely, used to denote the complement of a givenlogarithm; also the logarithmic cosine corresponding to a givenlogarithmic sine.-- An`ti*log`a*rith\"mic, a.", | |
| "TEREBRATE": "To perforate; to bore; to pierce. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "RABIDITY": "Rabidness; furiousness.", | |
| "COWWEED": "Same as Cow parsley.", | |
| "INCAPSULATION": "The process of becoming, or the state or condition of being,incapsulated; as, incapsulation of the ovum in the uterus.", | |
| "FINNER": "A finback whale.", | |
| "BOTANIST": "One skilled in botany; one versed in the knowledge of plants.", | |
| "DENDRITE": "A stone or mineral on or in which are branching figuresresembling shrubs or trees, produced by a foreign mineral, usually anoxide of manganese, as in the moss agate; also, a crystallizedmineral having an arborescent form, e. g., gold or silver; anarborization.", | |
| "ALTRUIST": "One imbued with altruism; -- opposed to egoist.", | |
| "SLUICY": "Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice.And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.", | |
| "BURGEOIS": "See 1st Bourgeous.", | |
| "RACE": "A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages ofcontests.", | |
| "MOTTLED": "Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as,mottled wood. \"The mottled meadows.\" Drayton.", | |
| "JOYLESS": "Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.-- Joy\"less*ly, adv.-- Joy\"less*ness, n.With downcast eyes the joyless victor sat. Dryden.Youth and health and war are joyless to him. Addison.[He] pining for the lass, Is joyless of the grove, and spurns thegrowing grass. Dryden.", | |
| "SEEDMAN": "Seedsman.", | |
| "INQUIET": "To disquiet. [Obs.] Joye.", | |
| "BELLICOUS": "Bellicose. [Obs.]", | |
| "HYDRIFORM": "Having the form or structure of a hydra.", | |
| "PICAMAR": "An oily liquid hydrocarbon extracted from the creosote ofbeechwood tar. It consists essentially of certain derivatives ofpyrogallol.", | |
| "INTERTWIST": "To twist together one with another; to intertwine.", | |
| "MONOCARBONIC": "Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is amonocarbonic acid.", | |
| "ECLEGM": "A medicine made by mixing oils with sirups. John Quincy.", | |
| "FERMENT": "To cause ferment of fermentation in; to set in motion; toexcite internal emotion in; to heat.Ye vigorous swains! while youth ferments your blood. Pope.", | |
| "SUPERSALIENCY": "The act of leaping on anything. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "SUSPIRATION": "The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deeprespiration; a sigh.Windy suspiration of forced breath. Shak.", | |
| "VALEDICTORY": "Bidding farewell; suitable or designed for an occasion ofleave-taking; as, a valedictory oration.", | |
| "CHLOROPLATINIC": "See Platinichloric.", | |
| "EPIPLOCE": "A figure by which one striking circumstance is added, in duegradation, to another; climax; e. g., \"He not only spared hisenemies, but continued them in employment; not only continued, butadvanced them.\" Johnson.", | |
| "BETONGUE": "To attack with the tongue; to abuse; to insult.", | |
| "COMPERENDINATE": "To delay. Bailey.", | |
| "GENTILLY": "In a gentle or hoble manner; frankly. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SYSTEMIZE": "To reduce to system; to systematize.", | |
| "CRYSTALLOGRAPHER": "One who describes crystals, or the manner of their formation;one versed in crystallography.", | |
| "MINERALIST": "One versed in minerals; mineralogist. [R.]", | |
| "FULMINIC": "Pertaining to fulmination; detonating; specifically (Chem.),pertaining to, derived from, or denoting, an acid, so called; as,fulminic acid. Fulminic acid (Chem.), a complex acid, H2C2N2O2,isomeric with cyanic and cyanuric acids, and not known in the freestate, but forming a large class of highly explosive salts, thefulminates. Of these, mercuric fulminate, the most common, is used,mixed with niter, to fill percussion caps, charge cartridges, etc.-- Fulminic acid is made by the action of nitric acid on alcohol.", | |
| "PIGHTEL": "A small inclosure. [Written also pightle.] [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PRIVATIVELY": "In a privative manner; by the absence of something; negatively.[R.] Hammond.", | |
| "SUBNOTOCHORDAL": "Situated on the ventral side of the notochord; as, thesubnotochordal rod.", | |
| "RHOMBOGANOIDEI": "Same as Ginglymodi.", | |
| "STILLSON WRENCH": "A pipe wrench having an adjustable L-shaped jaw piece slidingin a sleeve that is pivoted to, and loosely embraces, the handle.Pressure on the handle increases the grip.", | |
| "JAKWOOD": "See Jackwood.", | |
| "PARAGONITE": "A kind of mica related to muscovite, but containing sodainstead of potash. It is characteristic of the paragonite schist ofthe Alps.", | |
| "PURIFORM": "In the form of pus.", | |
| "HIBERNATION": "The act or state of hibernating. Evelyn.", | |
| "CONQUERABLE": "Capable of being conquered or subdued. South.-- Con\"quer*a*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "PREFIXION": "The act of prefixing. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "PHYCOPHAEINE": "A brown coloring matter found in certain alg\u00e6.", | |
| "RENAISSANT": "Of or pertaining to the Renaissance.", | |
| "FIRRING": "See Furring.", | |
| "SCOTCH": "Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants;Scottish. Scotch broom (Bot.), the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom.-- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck (Zo\u00f6l.), the bufflehead; -- calledalso Scotch teal, and Scotchman.-- Scotch fiddle, the itch. [Low] Sir W. Scott.-- Scotch mist, a coarse, dense mist, like fine rain.-- Scotch nightingale (Zo\u00f6l.), the sedge warbler. [Prov. Eng.] --Scotch pebble. See under pebble.-- Scotch pine (Bot.) See Riga fir.-- Scotch thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Onopordonacanthium); -- so called from its being the national emblem of theScotch.", | |
| "SUPERVENIENT": "Coming as something additional or extraneous; comingafterwards.That branch of belief was in him supervenient to Christian practice.Hammond.Divorces can be granted, a mensa et toro, only for supervenientcauses. Z. Swift.", | |
| "VARYING": "a. & n. from Vary. Varying hare (Zo\u00f6l.), any hare or rabbitwhich becomes white in winter, especially the common hare of theNorthern United States and Canada.", | |
| "CANONIST": "A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge andpractice of ecclesiastical law. South.", | |
| "SACCULO-COCHLEAR": "pertaining to the sacculus and cochlea of the ear.", | |
| "LAMELY": "An a lame, crippled, disabled, or imperfect manner; as, to walklamely; a figure lamely drawn.", | |
| "MINISHMENT": "The act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished;diminution. [Obs.]", | |
| "CRAPPIE": "A kind of fresh-water bass of the genus Pomoxys, found in therivers of the Southern United States and Mississippi valley. Thereare several species. [Written also croppie.]", | |
| "PENTACLE": "A figure composed of two equilateral triangles intersecting soas to form a six-pointed star, -- used in early ornamental art, andalso with superstitious import by the astrologers and mystics of theMiddle Ages.", | |
| "NORFOLK PLOVER": "The stone curlew.", | |
| "BURGLARY": "Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in thenighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether thefelonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill.", | |
| "TRANSLAVATION": "A laving or lading from one vessel to another. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "PACIFICATOR": "One who, or that which, pacifies; a peacemaker. Bacon.", | |
| "NAG": "To tease in a petty way; to scold habitually; to annoy; to fretpertinaciously. [Colloq.] \"She never nagged.\" J. Ingelow.", | |
| "PHYSOPODA": "Same as Thysanoptera.", | |
| "PERSONALTY": "Personal property, as distinguished from realty or realproperty.", | |
| "INERRABLENESS": "Exemption from error; inerrability; infallibility. Hammond.", | |
| "BELATED": "Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night;benighted. \"Some belated peasant.\" Milton.-- Be*lat\"ed*ness, n. Milton.", | |
| "TAMALE": "A Mexican dish made of crushed maize mixed with minced meat,seasoned with red pepper, dipped in oil, and steamed.", | |
| "RHODAMMONIUM": "Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, rhodium andammonia; -- said of certain complex compounds.", | |
| "CRATE": "To pack in a crate or case for transportation; as, to crate asewing machine; to crate peaches.", | |
| "PHALANSTERE": "A phalanstery.", | |
| "FRESCO": "To paint in fresco, as walls.", | |
| "CHROMISM": "Same as Chromatism.", | |
| "EFFECTIVENESS": "The quality of being effective.", | |
| "TUNA": "The Opuntia Tuna. See Prickly pear, under Prickly.", | |
| "EXORHIZA": "A plant Whose radicle is not inclosed or sheathed by thecotyledons or plumule. Gray.", | |
| "MISMEASURE": "To measure or estimate incorrectly.", | |
| "DECOREMENT": "Ornament. [Obs.]", | |
| "CHAIN": "An instrument which consists of links and is used in measuringland.", | |
| "STREAMLET": "A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.", | |
| "SATIVE": "Sown; propagated by seed. [Obs.] Evelyn.", | |
| "BICALCARATE": "Having two spurs, as the wing or leg of a bird.", | |
| "TRIONYX": "A genus of fresh-water or river turtles which have the shellimperfectly developed and covered with a soft leathery skin. They arenoted for their agility and rapacity. Called also soft tortoise,soft-shell tortoise, and mud turtle.", | |
| "TAMBURIN": "See Tambourine. Spenser.", | |
| "BANK-SIDED": "Having sides inclining inwards, as a ship; -- opposed to wall-sided.", | |
| "ARCHDUKE": "A prince of the imperial family of Austria.", | |
| "CLEAR-SHINING": "Shining brightly. Shak.", | |
| "CHANGE": "A place where merchants and others meet to transact business; abuilding appropriated for mercantile transactions. [Colloq. forExchange.]", | |
| "CONTRIVER": "One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.", | |
| "SANDHILLER": "A nickname given to any \"poor white\" living in the pine woodswhich cover the sandy hills in Georgia and South Carolina. [U.S.]", | |
| "FOOTPRINT": "The impression of the foot; a trace or footmark; as,\"Footprints of the Creator.\"", | |
| "TRIPHYLLOUS": "Having three leaves; three-leaved.", | |
| "TONELESS": "Having no tone; unmusical.", | |
| "ANAEMIC": "Of or pertaining to an\u00e6mia.", | |
| "WHORT": "The whortleberry, or bilberry. See Whortleberry (a).", | |
| "HAMITIC": "Pertaining to Ham or his descendants. Hamitic languages, thegroup of languages spoken mainly in the Sahara, Egypt, Galla, andSom\u00e2li Land, and supposed to be allied to the Semitic. Keith Johnson.", | |
| "STROWN": "p. p. of Strow.", | |
| "COEFFICIENCY": "Joint efficiency; co\u00f6peration. Glanvill.", | |
| "BOURD": "A jest. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "INERTITUDE": "Inertness; inertia. [R.] Good.", | |
| "SEMINIST": "A believer in the old theory that the newly created being isformed by the admixture of the seed of the male with the supposedseed of the female.", | |
| "ANTIMALARIAL": "Good against malaria.", | |
| "PREOBLONGATA": "The anterior part of the medulla oblongata. B. G. Wilder.", | |
| "OVERPICTURE": "To surpass nature in the picture or representation of. [Obs.]\"O'erpicturing that Venus.\" Shak.", | |
| "PAWK": "A small lobster. Travis.", | |
| "JEER": "An assemblage or combination of tackles, for hoisting orlowering the lower yards of a ship. Jeer capstan (Naut.), an extracapstan usually placed between the foremast and mainmast.", | |
| "IRIS": "The goddess of the rainbow, and swift-footed messenger of thegods. Shak.", | |
| "STUCCO": "To overlay or decorate with stucco, or fine plaster.", | |
| "STATIVE": "Of or pertaining to a fixed camp, or military posts orquarters. [Obs. or R.]", | |
| "SOWCE": "See Souse. [Obs.]", | |
| "NEPOTIST": "One who practices nepotism.", | |
| "TICKET": "A small piece of paper, cardboard, or the like, serving as anotice, certificate, or distinguishing token of something.Specifically: --(a) A little note or notice. [Obs. or Local]He constantly read his lectures twice a week for above forty years,giving notice of the time to his auditors in a ticket on the schooldoors. Fuller.", | |
| "MOSASAURIA": "An order of large, extinct, marine reptiles, found in theCretaceous rocks, especially in America. They were serpentlike inform and in having loosely articulated and dilatable jaws, with largerecurved tteth, but they had paddlelike feet. Some of them were overfifty feet long. They are, essentially, fossil sea serpents withpaddles. Called also Pythonomarpha, and Mosasauria.", | |
| "REPROBATER": "One who reprobates.", | |
| "FRENZICAL": "Frantic. [Obs.] Orrery.", | |
| "HETEROPLASM": "An abnormal formation foreign to the economy, and composed ofelements different from those are found in it in its normalcondition. Dunglison.", | |
| "ODINISM": "Worship of Odin; broadly, the Teutonic heathenism. --O\"din*ist, n.", | |
| "EPIGLOTTIC": "Pertaining to, or connected with, the epiglottis.", | |
| "GRISETTE": "A French girl or young married woman of the lower class; morefrequently, a young working woman who is fond of gallantry. Sterne.", | |
| "ADDICTION": "The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination. \"Hisaddiction was to courses vain.\" Shak.", | |
| "GOBLINIZE": "To transform into a goblin. [R.] Lowell.", | |
| "PYRITACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to pyrites. See Pyritic.", | |
| "RHEOSCOPE": "An instrument for detecting the presence or movement ofcurrents, as of electricity.", | |
| "TEQUILA": "An intoxicating liquor made from the maguey in the district ofTequila, Mexico.", | |
| "LUCERNARIA": "A genus of acalephs, having a bell-shaped body with eightgroups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by asucker at the base of the pedicel.", | |
| "ECHOLESS": "Without echo or response.", | |
| "PAPESS": "A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp.Hall.", | |
| "CARVEN": "Wrought by carving; ornamented by carvings; carved. [Poetic]A carven bowl well wrought of beechen tree. Bp. Hall.The carven cedarn doors. Tennyson.A screen of carven ivory. Mrs. Browning.", | |
| "RASHFUL": "Rash; hasty; precipitate. [Obs.]", | |
| "KERNISH": "Clownish; booorish. [Obs.] \"A petty kernish prince.\" Milton.", | |
| "INCORRUPTIVE": "Incorruptible; not liable to decay. Akenside.", | |
| "STRALE": "Pupil of the eye. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "REPAIRMENT": "Act of repairing.", | |
| "INDOL": "A white, crystalline substance, C8H7N, obtained from blueindigo, and almost all indigo derivatives, by a process of reduction.It is also formed from albuminous matter, together with skatol, byputrefaction, and by fusion with caustic potash, and is present inhuman excrement, as well as in the intestinal canal of someherbivora.", | |
| "BULBAR": "Of or pertaining to bulb; especially, in medicine, pertainingto the bulb of the spinal cord, or medulla oblongata; as, bulbarparalysis.", | |
| "ANASTIGMATIC": "Not astigmatic; --said esp. of a lens system which consists ofa converging lens and a diverging lens of equal and oppositeastigmatism but different focal lengths, and sensibly free fromastigmatism.", | |
| "ATWITE": "To speak reproachfully of; to twit; to upbraid. [Obs.]", | |
| "ATHANASIAN": "Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4thcentury. Athanasian creed, a formulary, confession, or exposition offaith, formerly supposed to have been drawn up by Athanasius; butthis opinion is now rejected, and the composition is ascribed by someto Hilary, bishop of Arles (5th century). It is a summary of what wascalled the orthodox faith.", | |
| "CYSTOSE": "Containing, or resembling, a cyst or cysts; cystic; bladdery.", | |
| "GASCOINES": "See Gaskins, 1. Lyly.", | |
| "CONJUREMENT": "Serious injunction; solemn demand or entreaty. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "EVANGELIZE": "To instruct in the gospel; to preach the gospel to; to convertto Christianity; as, to evangelize the world.His apostles whom he sends To evangelize the nations. Milton.", | |
| "FLATTISH": "Somewhat flat. Woodward.", | |
| "AVERSE": "To turn away. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "BESHREW": "To curse; to execrate.Beshrew me, but I love her heartily. Shak.", | |
| "LAND": "Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]", | |
| "HOMOEOMEROUS": "Having the main artery of the leg parallel with the sciaticnerve; -- said of certain birds.", | |
| "ADMINISTRATE": "To administer. [R.] Milman.", | |
| "DEAVE": "To stun or stupefy with noise; to deafen. [Scot.]", | |
| "DEDICATE": "Dedicated; set apart; devoted; consecrated. \"Dedicate tonothing temporal.\" Shak.", | |
| "FRETFUL": "Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state ofvexation; as, a fretful temper.-- Fret\"ful-ly, adv.-- Fret\"ful-ness, n.", | |
| "BAGWORM": "One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in thelarval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection.One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. SeeBasket worm.", | |
| "SUBLAPSARY": "Sublapsarian. Johnson.", | |
| "GENEVA": "The chief city of Switzerland. Geneva Bible, a translation ofthe Bible into English, made and published by English refugees inGeneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bibleprinted in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the firstwhich recognized the division into verses, and the first whichommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto, and soonsuperseded the large folio of Cranmer's translation. Called alsoGenevan Bible.-- Geneva convention (Mil.), an agreement made by representatives ofthe great continental powers at Geneva and signed in 1864,establishing new and more humane regulation regarding the treatmentof the sick and wounded and the status of those who minister to themin war. Ambulances and military hospitals are made neutral, and thiscondition affects physicians, chaplains, nurses, and the ambulancecorps. Great Britain signed the convention in 1865.-- Geneva cross (Mil.), a red Greek cross on a white ground; -- theflag and badge adopted in the Geneva convention.", | |
| "UNQUICK": "Not quick. [R.] Daniel.", | |
| "PRIAPISM": "More or less permanent erection and rigidity of the penis, withor without sexual desire.", | |
| "ARKOSE": "A sandstone derived from the disintegration of granite orgneiss, and characterized by feldspar fragments. -- Ar*kos\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "POLLY": "A woman's name; also, a popular name for a parrot.", | |
| "WITHERBAND": "A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, tostrengthen the bow.", | |
| "FALK": "The razorbill. [Written also falc, and faik.] [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "BAUBEE": "Same as Bawbee.", | |
| "ROB": "The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation ofthe juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. Itis sometimes mixed with honey or sugar. [Written also rhob, androhob.]", | |
| "UNDERTONE": "A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud thanusual.", | |
| "DISTANTLY": "At a distance; remotely; with reserve.", | |
| "STEMMER": "One who, or that which, stems (in any of the senses of theverbs).", | |
| "INCYST": "See Encyst.", | |
| "TIDBIT": "A delicate or tender piece of anything eatable; a deliciousmorsel. [Written also titbit.]", | |
| "CUTLET": "A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut forbroiling.", | |
| "DUCKLING": "A young or little duck. Gay.", | |
| "NATURALIZATION": "The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alienwith the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, thestate of being naturalized.", | |
| "BISHOPLIKE": "Resembling a bishop; belonging to a bishop. Fulke.", | |
| "FISSIGEMMATION": "A process of reproduction intermediate between fission andgemmation.", | |
| "CAUSAL": "Relating to a cause or causes; inplying or containing a causeor causes; expressing a cause; causative.Causal propositions are where two propositions are joined by causalwords. Watts.", | |
| "HELIOGRAVURE": "The process of photographic engraving.", | |
| "CHARTULARY": "See Cartulary.", | |
| "ABSTRACTIONIST": "An idealist. Emerson.", | |
| "CERULEUM": "A greenish blue pigment prepared in various ways, consistingessentially of cobalt stannate. Unlike other cobalt blues, it doesnot change color by gaslight.", | |
| "KIRKYARD": "A churchyard. [Scot.]", | |
| "APATHY": "Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement;dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied tothe mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference,incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertionby pleasure, pain, or passion. \"The apathy of despair.\" Macaulay.A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . toleave events to take their own course. Prescott.According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passionsby the ascendency of reason. Fleming.", | |
| "PARNASSUS": "A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, andfamous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass ofParnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia.-- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]", | |
| "REDOUBTING": "Reverence; honor. [Obs.]In redoutyng of Mars and of his glory. Chaucer.", | |
| "CLOTHING": "See Card clothing, under 3d Card.", | |
| "CREMASTERIC": "Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.", | |
| "SUPEREXALTATION": "Elevation above the common degree. Holyday.", | |
| "PURSINESS": "State of being pursy.", | |
| "NAENIA": "See Nenia.", | |
| "STENTORONIC": "Stentorian. [Obs.]", | |
| "AMENABLE": "Easy to be led; governable, as a woman by her husband. [Obs.]Jacob.", | |
| "CENTIGRADE": "Consisting of a hundred degrees; graduated into a hundreddivisions or equal parts. Spesifically: of or pertaining thecentigrade thermometer; as, 10\u00b0 centigrade (or 10\u00b0 C.). Centigradethermometer, a thermometer having the zero or 0 at the pointindicating the freezing state of water, and the distance between thatand the point indicating the boiling state of water divided into onehundred degrees. It is called also the Celsius thermometer, fromAnders Celsius, the originator of this scale.", | |
| "OVERCOMING": "Conquering; subduing.-- O`ver*com\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "TIMBERING": "The act of furnishing with timber; also, timbers, collectively;timberwork; timber.", | |
| "PLASTIDOZOA": "Same as Protoza.", | |
| "PHLOROL": "A liquid metameric with xylenol, belonging to the class ofphenols, and obtained by distilling certain salts of phloretic acid.", | |
| "RECORDATION": "Remembrance; recollection; also, a record. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "WELL-WILLER": "One who wishes well, or means kindly. [R.] \"A well-willer ofyours.\" Brydges.", | |
| "MONSEIGNEUR": "My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth orrank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. Itwas given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)", | |
| "MILITARILY": "In a military manner.", | |
| "EXERGUE": "The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved ona coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver'sname, etc., or other subsidiary matter. Fairholt.", | |
| "SELFLESS": "Having no regard to self; unselfish.Lo now, what hearts have men! they never mount As high as woman inher selfless mood. Tennyson.", | |
| "BALKER": "One who, or that which balks.", | |
| "PELERINE": "A woman's cape; especially, a fur cape that is longer in frontthan behind.", | |
| "INAPPLICATION": "Want of application, attention, or diligence; negligence;indolence.", | |
| "BUCRANIUM": "A sculptured ornament, representing an ox skull adorned withwreaths, etc.", | |
| "TOMENTOSE": "Covered with matted woolly hairs; as, a tomentose leaf; atomentose leaf; a tomentose membrane.", | |
| "ERASURE": "The act of erasing; a scratching out; obliteration.", | |
| "VAUNT-COURIER": "See Van-courier. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "IRRITABLENESS": "Irritability.", | |
| "TREHALOSE": "Mycose; -- so called because sometimes obtained from trehala.", | |
| "LYMPHY": "Containing, or like, lymph.", | |
| "MESENCEPHALIC": "Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.", | |
| "AHUNGERED": "Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bront\u00e9.", | |
| "CONCIERGE": "One who keeps the entrance to an edifice, public or private; adoorkeeper; a janitor, male or female.", | |
| "VASSAL": "The grantee of a fief, feud, or fee; one who holds land ofsuperior, and who vows fidelity and homage to him; a feudatory; afeudal tenant. Burrill.", | |
| "URANISCOPLASTY": "The process of forming an artificial palate.", | |
| "WEBFOOT": "Any web-footed bird.", | |
| "AUXETIC": "Pertaining to, or containing, auxesis; amplifying.", | |
| "DISGALLANT": "To deprive of gallantry. [Obs.] B. Jonson.", | |
| "DEZINCIFICATION": "The act or process of freeing from zinc; also, the conditionresulting from the removal of zinc.", | |
| "INTERSECANT": "Dividing into parts; crossing; intersecting.", | |
| "ABSEY-BOOK": "An A-B-C book; a primer. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "MIDDLEMOST": "Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.", | |
| "DYSPROSIUM": "An element of the rare earth-group. Symbol Dy; at. wt., 162.5.", | |
| "POUSSE-CAFE": "A drink served after coffee at dinner, usually one of severalliqueurs, or cordials, of different specific gravities poured so asto remain separate in layers; hence, such a drink of cordials servedat any time.", | |
| "WETHER": "A castrated ram.", | |
| "SUGESCENT": "Of or pertaining to sucking. [R.] Paley.", | |
| "ANNULOSAN": "One of the Annulosa.", | |
| "VINTRY": "A place where wine is sold. [Obs.] Ainsworth.", | |
| "PETIT": "Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty. [Obs.,except in legal language.]By what small, petit hints does the mind catch hold of and recover avanishing notion. South.Petit constable, an inferior civil officer, subordinate to the highconstable.-- Petit jury, a jury of twelve men, impaneled to try causes at thebar of a court; -- so called in distinction from the grand jury.-- Petit larceny, the stealing of goods of, or under, a certainspecified small value; -- opposed to grand larceny. The distinctionis abolished in England.-- Petit ma\u00eetre (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; acoxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith.-- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, bythe service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, anarrow, a sword, a flag, etc.-- Petit treason, formerly, in England, the crime of killing aperson to whom the offender owed duty or subjection, as one'shusband, master, mistress, etc. The crime is now not distinguishedfrom murder.", | |
| "COOKMAID": "A female servant or maid who dresses provisions and assists thecook.", | |
| "FLETIFEROUS": "Producing tears. [Obs.] Blount.", | |
| "MUTE": "To cast off; to molt.Have I muted all my feathers Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "YID": "A Jew. [Slang or Colloq.] \"Almost any young Yid who goes outfrom among her people.\" John Corbin.", | |
| "JETTINESS": "The state of being jetty; blackness. Pennant.", | |
| "PERPETRATE": "To do or perform; to carry through; to execute, commonly in abad sense; to commit (as a crime, an offense); to be guilty of; as,to perpetrate a foul deed.What the worst perpetrate, or best endure. Young.", | |
| "ACANTHOPTEROUS": "Spiny-winged.", | |
| "FORAGER": "One who forages.", | |
| "RETREATFUL": "Furnishing or serving as a retreat. [R.] \"Our retreatfulflood.\" Chapman.", | |
| "TRIPASCHAL": "Including three passovers.", | |
| "GRASSINESS": "The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.", | |
| "HARBORAGE": "Shelter; entertainment.[R.]Where can I get me harborage for the night Tennyson.", | |
| "WORKMANLIKE": "Becoming a workman, especially a skillful one; skillful; wellperformed.", | |
| "CRADLING": "Cutting a cask into two pieces lengthwise, to enable it to passa narrow place, the two parts being afterward united and rehooped.", | |
| "CULLING": "Anything separated or selected from a mass.", | |
| "VEIN": "One of the vessels which carry blood, either venous orarterial, to the heart. See Artery, 2.", | |
| "BUTTING JOINT": "A joint between two pieces of timber or wood, at the end of oneor both, and either at right angles or oblique to the grain, as thejoints which the struts and braces form with the truss posts; --sometimes called abutting joint.", | |
| "UNCIVILITY": "Incivility. [Obs.]", | |
| "APEHOOD": "The state of being an ape.", | |
| "LAKIN": "See Ladykin.", | |
| "UNDERPULLER": "One who underpulls. [Obs.]", | |
| "COMPASSED": "Rounded; arched. [Obs.]She came . . . into the compassed window. Shak.", | |
| "VALERO-": "A combining form (also used adjectively) indicating derivationfrom, or relation to, valerian or some of its products, as valericacid; as in valerolactone, a colorless oily liquid produced as theanhydride of an hydroxy valeric acid.", | |
| "SELFNESS": "Selfishness. [Obs.] Sir. P. Sidney.", | |
| "FUM": "To play upon a fiddle. [Obs.]Follow me, and fum as you go. B. Jonson.", | |
| "PELAGIAN": "Of or pertaining to the sea; marine; pelagic; as, pelagianshells.", | |
| "BISHOP": "To admit into the church by confirmation; to confirm; hence, toreceive formally to favor.", | |
| "PROSOPULMONATA": "A division of pulmonate mollusks having the breathing organsituated on the neck, as in the common snail.", | |
| "BOXING DAY": "The first week day after Christmas, a legal holiday on whichChristmas boxes are given to postmen, errand boys, employees, etc.The night of this day is boxing night. [Eng.]", | |
| "FRONTISPIECE": "The part which first meets the eye; as:(a) (Arch.) The principal front of a building. [Obs. or R.](b) An ornamental figure or illustration fronting the first page, ortitlepage, of a book; formerly, the titlepage itself.", | |
| "GLARY": "Of a dazzling luster; glaring; bright; shining; smooth.Bright, crystal glass is glary. Boyle.", | |
| "FAY": "A fairy; an elf. \"Yellow-skirted fays.\" Milton.", | |
| "RECOPY": "To copy again.", | |
| "DECATOIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, decane.", | |
| "VERMICULITE": "A group of minerals having, a micaceous structure. They arehydrous silicates, derived generally from the alteration of some kindof mica. So called because the scales, when heated, open out intowormlike forms.", | |
| "YMAKED": "Made.", | |
| "TIRELING": "Tired; fatigued. [Obs.]", | |
| "PASSIM": "Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in thepoem.", | |
| "POLYNESIAN": "Of or pertaining to Polynesia (the islands of the eastern andcentral Pacific), or to the Polynesians.", | |
| "HAGGED": "Like a hag; lean; ugly. [R.]", | |
| "VITALISTIC": "Pertaining to, or involving, vitalism, or the theory of aspecial vital principle.", | |
| "PROCREATION": "The act of begetting; generation and production of young.South.", | |
| "SCUNNER": "To cause to loathe, or feel disgust at. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "HYDROUS": "Containing water of hydration or crystallization.", | |
| "OBSERVERSHIP": "The office or work of an observer.", | |
| "FELT GRAIN": ", the grain of timber which is transverse to the annular ringsor plates; the direction of the medullary rays in oak and some othertimber. Knight.", | |
| "ENGRAFF": "To graft; to fix deeply. [Obs.]", | |
| "PROMULGATE": "To make known by open declaration, as laws, decrees, ortidings; to publish; as, to promulgate the secrets of a council.", | |
| "SACRAMENTARIAN": "A name given in the sixteenth century to those German reformerswho rejected both the Roman and the Lutheran doctrine of the holyeucharist.", | |
| "PROSECUTRIX": "A female prosecutor.", | |
| "SEA BEAN": "Same as Florida bean.", | |
| "BABYSHIP": "The quality of being a baby; the personality of an infant.", | |
| "BASE-BURNER": "A furnace or stove in which the fuel is contained in a hopperor chamber, and is fed to the fire as the lower stratum is consumed.", | |
| "BENTHAMIC": "Of or pertaining to Bentham or Benthamism.", | |
| "PHOTO-ENGRAVING": "The process of obtaining an etched or engraved plate from thephotographic image, to be used in printing; also, a picture producedby such a process.", | |
| "PEDICULATI": "An order of fishes including the anglers. See Illust. of Anglerand Batfish.", | |
| "GRYPHITE": "A shell of the genus Gryphea.", | |
| "RAMPANT": "Rising with fore paws in the air as if attacking; -- said of abeast of prey, especially a lion. The right fore leg and right hindleg should be raised higher than the left. Rampant arch. (a) An archwhich has one abutment higher than the other. (b) Same as Rampantvault, below.-- Rampant gardant (Her.), rampant, but with the face turned to thefront.-- Rampant regardant, rampant, but looking backward.-- Rampant vault (Arch.), a continuous wagon vault, or cradle vault,whose two abutments are located on an inclined planed plane, such asthe vault supporting a stairway, or forming the ceiling of astairway.", | |
| "SICER": "A strong drink; cider. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PEEPHOLE": "A hole, or crevice, through which one may peep without beingdiscovered.", | |
| "NEMEAN": "Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greekscelebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.", | |
| "MESOPTERYGIUM": "The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in thefins of fishes.-- Me*sop`ter*yg\"i*al, a.", | |
| "DISPACE": "To roam. [Obs.]In this fair plot dispacing to and fro. Spenser.", | |
| "RESORPTION": "The act of resorbing; also, the act of absorbing again;reabsorption.", | |
| "SIGNIFICAVIT": "Formerly, a writ issuing out of chancery, upon certificategiven by the ordinary, of a man's standing excommunicate by the spaceof forty days, for the laying him up in prison till he submit himselfto the authority of the church. Crabb.", | |
| "MAWKS": "A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "RACOVIAN": "One of a sect of Socinians or Unitarians in Poland.", | |
| "PERSECOT": "See Persicot.", | |
| "FLAGELLATE": "To whip; to scourge; to flog.", | |
| "CEREBROPATHY": "A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring inthose whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag.", | |
| "GORE": "One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meetingin an acute angle in the fesse point.", | |
| "CRAPAUDINE": "Turning on pivots at the top and bottom; -- said of a door.", | |
| "AMALGAMATOR": "One who, or that which, amalgamates. Specifically: A machinefor separating precious metals from earthy particles by bringing themin contact with a body of mercury with which they form an amalgam.", | |
| "ADEPTIST": "A skilled alchemist. [Obs.]", | |
| "TAINTWORM": "A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.", | |
| "CHARTOMANCY": "Divination by written paper or by cards.", | |
| "BRIDESMAID": "A female friend who attends on a bride at her wedding.", | |
| "THURGH": "Through. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "BROWDYNG": "Embroidery. [Obs.]Of goldsmithrye, of browdying, and of steel. Chaucer.", | |
| "CONTERMINAL": "Conterminous.", | |
| "ABORAL": "Situated opposite to, or away from, the mouth.", | |
| "INCLUSIVELY": "In an inclusive manner.", | |
| "VOMITO": "The yellow fever in its worst form, when it is usually attendedwith black vomit. See Black vomit.", | |
| "BOTS": "The larv\u00e6 of several species of botfly, especially those larv\u00b7hich infest the stomach, throat, or intestines of the horse, and aresupposed to be the cause of various ailments. [Written also botts.]", | |
| "ACOTYLEDONOUS": "Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plantswhich have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.", | |
| "INDEFENSIBLE": "Not defensible; not capable of being defended, maintained,vindicated, or justified; unjustifiable; untenable; as, anindefensible fortress, position, cause, etc.Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the veryproposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.", | |
| "NEBULA": "A faint, cloudlike, self-luminous mass of matter situatedbeyond the solar system among the stars. True nebul\u00e6 are gaseous; butvery distant star clusters often appear like them in the telescope.", | |
| "ILLICITOUS": "Illicit. [R.] Cotgrave.", | |
| "SOREDIUM": "A patch of granular bodies on the surface of the thallus oflichens.", | |
| "SCRAWLER": "One who scrawls; a hasty, awkward writer.", | |
| "INAMOVABLE": "Not amovable or removable. [R.] Palgrave.", | |
| "POLYPOROUS": "Having many pores. Wright.", | |
| "RELIEVABLE": "Capable of being relieved; fitted to recieve relief. Sir M.Hale.", | |
| "PICKER": "A machine for picking fibrous materials to pieces so as toloosen and separate the fiber.", | |
| "EPISODIAL": "Pertaining to an episode; by way of episode; episodic.", | |
| "MULCT": "Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, afine.Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. Sir W. Temple.", | |
| "WHOLENESS": "The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound;entireness; totality; completeness.", | |
| "ANTIPTOSIS": "The putting of one case for another.", | |
| "NARRATIVE": "That which is narrated; the recital of a story; a continuousaccount of the particulars of an event or transaction; a story.Cyntio was much taken with my narrative. Tatler.", | |
| "SUICIDISM": "The quality or state of being suicidal, or self-murdering. [R.]", | |
| "FOAMLESS": "Having no foam.", | |
| "SHETH": "The part of a plow which projects downward beneath the beam,for holding the share and other working parts; -- also calledstandard, or post.", | |
| "WRANGLERSHIP": "The honor or position of being a wrangler at the University ofCambridge, England.", | |
| "FOLIFEROUS": "Producing leaves. [Written also foliiferous.]", | |
| "LATER": "A brick or tile. Knight.", | |
| "BRASSE": "A spotted European fish of the genus Lucioperca, resembling aperch.", | |
| "BROOMSTAFF": "A broomstick. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "TOPARCH": "The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governorof a toparchy.The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.", | |
| "SNEERINGLY": "In a sneering manner.", | |
| "RORIFEROUS": "generating or producing dew. [R.]", | |
| "VATICAL": "Of or pertaining to a prophet; prophetical. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "ANNIVERSARILY": "Annually. [R.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "CHANCE-MEDLEY": "The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden andunpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.", | |
| "DYSGENESIC": "Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may bedysgenesic with respect to another. Darwin.", | |
| "FAMULAR": "Domestic; familiar. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ROLLER BEARING": "A bearing containing friction rollers.", | |
| "WOMANISH": "Suitable to a woman, having the qualities of a woman;effeminate; not becoming a man; -- usually in a reproachful sense.See the Note under Effeminate. \" Thy tears are womanish.\" Shak. \"Womanish entreaties.\" Macaulay.A voice not soft, weak, piping, and womanish, but audible, strong,and manlike. Ascham.-- Wom\"an*ish*ly, adv.-- Wom\"an*ish*ness, n.", | |
| "INCUMBITION": "Incubation. [R.] Sterne.", | |
| "REFRIGERANT": "Cooling; allaying heat or fever. Bacon.", | |
| "PHYTOGLYPHIC": "Relating to phytoglyphy.", | |
| "LEUCORRHOEA": "A discharge of a white, yellowish, or greenish, viscid mucus,resulting from inflammation or irritation of the membrane lining thegenital organs of the female; the whites. Dunglison.", | |
| "ALLIGATOR WRENCH": "A kind of pipe wrench having a flaring jaw with teeth on oneside.", | |
| "LATERAL": "Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesialplane; external; -- opposed to mesial.", | |
| "ODELSTHING": "The lower house of the Norwegian Storthing. See Legislature.", | |
| "PANCREAS": "The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearlyall vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and itssecretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often togetherwith the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is apowerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.", | |
| "COMMUTATIVE": "Relative to exchange; interchangeable; reciprocal.-- Com*mut\"a*tive\"ly, adv.Rich traders, from their success, are presumed . . . to havecultivated an habitual regard to commutative justice. Burke.", | |
| "GREENGAGE": "A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh,and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after thequeen of Francis I. See Gage.", | |
| "EIGNE": "Eldest; firstborn. Blackstone.", | |
| "INELOQUENTLY": "Without eloquence.", | |
| "VALETUDINARIANISM": "The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health;infirmity.", | |
| "CALL": "An invitation to take charge of or serve a church as itspastor.", | |
| "LIMBOUS": "With slightly overlapping borders; -- said of a suture.", | |
| "RECONCENTRADO": "Lit., one who has been reconcentrated; specif., in Cuba, thePhilippines, etc., during the revolution of 1895-98, one of the ruralnoncombatants who were concentrated by the military authorities inareas surrounding the fortified towns, and later were reconcentratedin the smaller limits of the towns themselves.", | |
| "HYPERBOLIZE": "To speak or write with exaggeration. Bp. Montagu.", | |
| "FRENCHIFY": "To make French; to infect or imbue with the manners or tastesof the French; to Gallicize. Burke.", | |
| "INTERLUCATE": "To let in light upon, as by cutting away branches. [Obs.]", | |
| "CETIC": "Of or pertaining to a whale.", | |
| "TELESEISM": "A seismic movement or shock far from the recording instrument.-- Tel`e*seis\"mic (#), a.", | |
| "EXPEDITATE": "To deprive of the claws or the balls of the fore feet; as, toexpeditate a dog that he may not chase deer.", | |
| "PALMITOLIC": "Pertaining to, or designating, an artificial acid of the oleicacid series, isomeric with linoleic acid.", | |
| "DESQUAMATE": "To peel off in the form of scales; to scale off, as the skin incertain diseases.", | |
| "INCURVATE": "Curved; bent; crooked. Derham.", | |
| "SUPERANGELIC": "Superior to the angels in nature or rank. [R.] Milman.", | |
| "CONSUETUDINAL": "According to custom; customary; usual. [R.]", | |
| "ANAGNORISIS": "The unfolding or d\u00e9nouement. [R.] De Quincey.", | |
| "BATTAILOUS": "Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.]\"In battailous aspect.\" Milton.", | |
| "JACK KETCH": "A public executioner, or hangman. [Eng.]The manor of Tyburn was formerly held by Richard Jaquett, wherefelons for a long time were executed; from whence we have Jack Ketch.Lloyd's MS., British Museum.[Monmouth] then accosted John Ketch, the executioner, a wretch whohad butchered many brave and noble victims, and whose name has,during a century and a half, been vulgarly given to all who havesucceeded him in his odious office. Macaulay.", | |
| "ENRICHMENT": "The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase ofvalue by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration;embellishment.", | |
| "PETALUM": "A petal.", | |
| "CLIMATURE": "A climate. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "LATITANT": "Lying hid; concealed; latent. [R.]", | |
| "THRICECOCK": "The missel thrush. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "U-SHAPED": "Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.),", | |
| "IDEOGRAPH": "Same as Ideogram.", | |
| "KIOSK": "A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.", | |
| "AFFAMISHMENT": "Starvation. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "CRINKLY": "Having crinkles; wavy; wrinkly.", | |
| "ATTRIBUTABLE": "Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable.Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.", | |
| "STINKARD": "The teledu of the East Indies. It emits a disagreeable odor.", | |
| "TOG": "To put toggery, or togs, on; to dress; -- usually with out,implying care, elaborateness, or the like. [Colloq. or Slang]Harper's Weekly.", | |
| "CONVENT": "To call before a judge or judicature; to summon; to convene.[Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "DISCOURTESY": "Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation ofdisrespect; incivility.Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truthdiscourtesy. Herbert.", | |
| "MUTOSCOPE": "A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series ofviews, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed onpaper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation ofthe wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and theblended effect gives a semblance of motion.", | |
| "LEGIST": "One skilled in the laws; a writer on law. Milman. J. Morley.", | |
| "ADAPTORIAL": "Adaptive. [R.]", | |
| "BANDAGE": "To bind, dress, or cover, with a bandage; as, to bandage theeyes.", | |
| "HALLOA": "See Halloo.", | |
| "PITUITRIN": "A substance or extract from the pituitary body.", | |
| "AIGRE": "Sour. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "DECOCTIBLE": "Capable of being boiled or digested.", | |
| "DESPERATELY": "In a desperate manner; without regard to danger or safety;recklessly; extremely; as, the troops fought desperately.She fell desperately in love with him. Addison.", | |
| "EXOPHYLLOUS": "Not sheathed in another leaf.", | |
| "NECKTIE": "A scarf, band, or kerchief of silk, etc., passing around theneck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened infront of the neck.", | |
| "SAGAPEN": "Sagapenum.", | |
| "UNRAZORED": "Not shaven. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "PREDETERMINE": "To determine beforehand.", | |
| "ENURESIS": "An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.", | |
| "RIDGEBONE": "The backbone. [Obs.]Blood . . . lying cluttered about the ridgebone. Holland.", | |
| "NATKA": "A species of shrike.", | |
| "CRASPEDOTE": "Of or pertaining to the Craspedota.", | |
| "CARBURETED": "Combined with carbon in the manner of a carburet or carbide.", | |
| "BOBTAILED": "Having the tail cut short, or naturally short; curtailed; as, abobtailed horse or dog; a bobtailed coat.", | |
| "ALTO-CUMULUS": "A fleecy cloud formation consisting of large whitish or grayishglobular cloudlets with shaded portions, often grouped in flocks orrows.", | |
| "PROCONSUL": "An officer who discharged the duties of a consul without beinghimself consul; a governor of, or a military commander in, aprovince. He was usually one who had previously been consul.", | |
| "COURSEY": "A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "ANTEFLEXION": "A displacement forward of an organ, esp. the uterus, in suchmanner that its axis is bent upon itself. T. G. Thomas.", | |
| "CAPITIBRANCHIATA": "A division of annelids in which the gills arise from or nearthe head. See Tubicola.", | |
| "HUNDREDTH": "One of a hundred equal parts into which one whole is, or maybe, divided; the quotient of a unit divided by a hundred.", | |
| "INTERVISIBLE": "Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, asstations.", | |
| "AORISTIC": "Indefinite; pertaining to the aorist tense.", | |
| "SLATE": "An argillaceous rock which readily splits into thin plates;argillite; argillaceous schist.", | |
| "HABITABLE": "Capable of being inhabited; that may be inhabited or dwelt in;as, the habitable world.-- Hab\"it*a*ble*ness, n.-- Hab\"it*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "RUGOUS": "Wrinkled; rugose.", | |
| "GIPOUN": "A short cassock. [Written also gepoun, gypoun, jupon, juppon.][Obs.]", | |
| "ALBUMINURIA": "A morbid condition in which albumin is present in the urine.", | |
| "PEZIZA": "A genus of fungi embracing a great number of species, some ofwhich are remarkable for their regular cuplike form and deep colors.", | |
| "SEMUNCIA": "A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Romanpound.", | |
| "PSEUDOPOD": "Any protoplasmic filament or irregular process projecting fromany unicellular organism, or from any animal or plant call.", | |
| "CHECKY": "Divided into small alternating squares of two tinctures; --said of the field or of an armorial bearing. [Written also checquy,cheguy.]", | |
| "LEVOROTATORY": "Turning or rotating the plane of polarization towards the left;levogyrate, as levulose, left handed quartz crystals, etc. [Writtenalso l\u00e6vorotatory.]", | |
| "RELIGION": "A monastic or religious order subject to a regulated mode oflife; the religious state; as, to enter religion. Trench.A good man was there of religion. Chaucer.", | |
| "RETRACTABLE": "Capable of being retracted; retractile.", | |
| "SEA MUD": "A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore,sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.", | |
| "RATIFIER": "One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer. Shak.", | |
| "INDICES": "See Index.", | |
| "SMOKEHOUSE": "A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to adense smoke.", | |
| "BANISTER": "A stringed musical instrument having a head and neck like theguitar, and its body like a tambourine. It has five strings, and isplayed with the fingers and hands.", | |
| "OVERTASK": "To task too heavily.", | |
| "TURBIDNESS": "The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.", | |
| "MONOICOUS": "Monoecious.", | |
| "BLUE-SKYLAW": "A law enacted to provide for the regulation and supervision ofinvestment companies in order to protect the public against companiesthat do not intend to do a fair and honest business and that offerinvestments that do not promise a fair return; -- so called becausethe promises made by some investment companies are as boundless oralluring as the blue sky, or, perhaps, because designed to clear awaythe clouds and fogs from the simple investor's horizon. [Colloq.]", | |
| "SKELLY": "To squint. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "DEVEX": "Bending down; sloping. [Obs.]", | |
| "CIRCUMSCRIBER": "One who, or that which, circumscribes.", | |
| "ETHEL": "Noble. [Obs.]", | |
| "BALANOGLOSSUS": "A peculiar marine worm. See Enteropneusta, and Tornaria.", | |
| "EASTERLING": "The smew.", | |
| "CLAIRVOYANT": "Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in amesmeric state which are not present to the senses.", | |
| "SCORIACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to scoria; like scoria or the recrement ofmetals; partaking of the nature of scoria.", | |
| "COMPLEXED": "Complex, complicated. [Obs.] \"Complexed significations.\" Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "BOSCAGE": "Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees;also, a tax on wood.", | |
| "FRONDENT": "Covered with leaves; leafy; as, a frondent tree. [R.]", | |
| "LEVE": "Dear. See Lief. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "INEXPUGNABLY": "So as to be inexpugnable; in an inexpugnable manner. Dr. H.More.", | |
| "SUBLIBRARIAN": "An under or assistant librarian.", | |
| "WORDSMAN": "One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. [R.]\"Some speculative wordsman.\" H. Bushnell.", | |
| "UPHILT": "To thrust in up to the hilt; as, to uphilt one's sword into anenemy. [R.] Stanyhurst.", | |
| "SELF-SATISFYING": "Giving satisfaction to one's self.", | |
| "HOURS": "Goddess of the seasons, or of the hours of the day.Lo! where the rosy-blosomed Hours, Fair Venus' train, appear. Gray.", | |
| "TRAYFUL": "As much as a tray will hold; enough to fill a tray.", | |
| "CHALLIS": "A soft and delicate woolen, or woolen and silk, fabric, forladies' dresses. [Written also chally.]", | |
| "PAROCHIALISM": "The quality or state of being parochial in form or nature; asystem of management peculiar to parishes.", | |
| "SOUTHWESTERLY": "To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; asouthwesterly wind.", | |
| "UNRESTY": "Causing unrest; disquieting; as, unresty sorrows. [Obs.]Chaucer.", | |
| "INCONSISTENTNESS": "Inconsistency. [R.]", | |
| "SPERMATOGENESIS": "The development of the spermatozoids.", | |
| "PANOPLIED": "Dressed in panoply.", | |
| "EVALUATION": "Valuation; appraisement. J. S. Mill.", | |
| "CONGEALABLE": "Capable of being congealed. --Con*geal\"a*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "NYENTEK": "A carnivorous mannual (Helictis moscatus, or H. orientalis),native of Eastern Asia and the Indies. It has a dorsal white stripe,and another one across the shoulders. It has a strong musky odor.", | |
| "RETRO-": "A prefix or combining form signifying backward, back; as,retroact, to act backward; retrospect, a looking back.", | |
| "PNEUMATOMETRY": "See Spirometry.", | |
| "LESSES": "The leavings or dung of beasts.", | |
| "CONCHOLOGICAL": "Pertaining to, or connected with, conchology.", | |
| "EXPECTINGLY": "In state of expectation.", | |
| "BIOCELLATE": "Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.", | |
| "CARTILAGINIFICATION": "The act or process of forming cartilage. Wright.", | |
| "TEENY": "Very small; tiny. [Colloq.]", | |
| "SAWBONES": "A nickname for a surgeon.", | |
| "RESCINDABLE": "Capable of being rescinded.", | |
| "FERMACY": "Medicine; pharmacy. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "TRAVEL": "An account, by a traveler, of occurrences and observationsduring a journey; as, a book of travels; -- often used as the titleof a book; as, Travels in Italy.", | |
| "INRUSH": "A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide. G. Eliot.", | |
| "POCK-PITTED": "Pockmarked; pitted.", | |
| "GLOSE": "See Gloze. Chaucer.", | |
| "UNFEATY": "Not feat; not dexterous; unskillful; clumsy. [Obs.] Sir P.Sidney.", | |
| "MOTILITY": "Capability of motion; contractility.", | |
| "CEROPLASTIC": "The art of modeling in wax.", | |
| "DISCOUNT": "To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating thediscount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.", | |
| "EQUIVALENCY": "Same as Equivalence.", | |
| "PONIBILITY": "The capability of being placed or located. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "ALISEPTAL": "Relating to expansions of the nasal septum.", | |
| "SAWMILL": "A mill for sawing, especially one for sawing timber or lumber.", | |
| "AFIRE": "On fire.", | |
| "CLUMP": "To arrange in a clump or clumps; to cluster; to group.Blackmore.", | |
| "MARKETSTEAD": "A market place. [Obs.] Drayton.", | |
| "OCTUPLE": "Eightfold.", | |
| "REVOLUTIONIST": "One engaged in effecting a change of government; a favorer ofrevolution. Burke.", | |
| "VIRGILIAN": "Of or pertaining to Virgil, the Roman poet; resembling thestyle of Virgil. [Spelt also Vergilian.]The rich Virgilian rustic measure Of Lari Maxume. Tennyson.", | |
| "PYNE": "See Pine. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "WISE-HEARTED": "Wise; knowing; skillful; sapient; erudite; prudent. Ex. xxviii.3.", | |
| "COMBE": "See Comb.", | |
| "HAMADRYAS": "The sacred baboon of Egypt (Cynocephalus Hamadryas).", | |
| "WEB": "A weaver. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "HEBE": "The goddess of youth, daughter of Jupiter and Juno. She wasbelieved to have the power of restoring youth and beauty to those whohad lost them.", | |
| "RILIEVO": "Same as Relief, n.,5.", | |
| "REPULSION": "The power, either inherent or due to some physical action, bywhich bodies, or the particles of bodies, are made to recede fromeach other, or to resist each other's nearer approach; as, molecularrepulsion; electrical repulsion.", | |
| "STENTOR": "Any species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to the genusStentor and allied genera, common in fresh water. The stentors have abell-shaped, or cornucopia-like, body with a circle of cilia aroundthe spiral terminal disk. See Illust. under Heterotricha.", | |
| "TREMELLA": "A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.", | |
| "ZODIACAL": "Of or pertaining to the zodiac; situated within the zodiac; as,the zodiacal planets. Zodiacal light, a luminous tract of the sky, ofan elongated, triangular figure, lying near the ecliptic, its basebeing on the horizon, and its apex at varying altitudes. It is to beseen only in the evening, after twilight, and in the morning beforedawn. It is supposed to be due to sunlight reflected from multitudesof meteoroids revolving about the sun nearly in the plane of theecliptic.", | |
| "MAPLE": "A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A.saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of whichsugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, byevaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple,A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A.Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe isA. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and theNorway maple is A. platanoides.", | |
| "CURBSTONE": "A stone Curbstone broker.See under Broker.", | |
| "FLIPPER": "A broad flat limb used for swimming, as those of seals, seaturtles, whales, etc.", | |
| "PLATT": "See Lodge, n. Raymond.", | |
| "PLEDGEE": "The one to whom a pledge is given, or to whom property pledgedis delivered.", | |
| "PAXILLOSE": "Resembling a little stake.", | |
| "ZINCOGRAPHY": "The art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in whichthe design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest ofthe ground being eaten away by acid.", | |
| "FUMY": "Producing fumes; fumous. \"Drowned in fumy wine.\" H. Brooke.", | |
| "CRUMB": "To break into crumbs or small pieces with the fingers; as, tocrumb bread. [Written also crum.]", | |
| "CURVIDENTATE": "Having curved teeth.", | |
| "APOROSA": "A group of corals in which the coral is not porous; -- opposedto Perforata.", | |
| "PUISSANTLY": "In a puissant manner; powerfully; with great strength.", | |
| "STREPSIPTERA": "A group of small insects having the anterior wings rudimentary,and in the form of short and slender twisted appendages, while theposterior ones are large and membranous. They are parasitic in thelarval state on bees, wasps, and the like; -- called also Rhipiptera.See Illust. under Rhipipter.", | |
| "LICHENIFORM": "Having the form of a lichen.", | |
| "ROMPU": "Broken, as an ordinary; cut off, or broken at the top, as achevron, a bend, or the like.", | |
| "STIRP": "Stock; race; family. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "GRUMOSE": "Clustered in grains at intervals; grumous.", | |
| "SARASIN": "See Sarrasin.", | |
| "SHRIVEN": "p. p. of Shrive.", | |
| "FACTUAL": "Relating to, or containing, facts. [R.]", | |
| "COPULATORY": "Used in sexual union; as, the copulatory organs of insects.", | |
| "INTROMIT": "To intermeddle with the effects or goods of another.", | |
| "PUS": "The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by theprocess of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleatedcells floating in a clear liquid.", | |
| "SOUNDAGE": "Dues for soundings.", | |
| "ZEPHYR": "The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze. \"Soft thezephyr blows.\" Gray.As gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet. Shak.Zephyr cloth, a thin kind of cassimere made in Belgium; also, awaterproof fabric of wool.-- Zephyr shawl, a kind of thin, light, embroidered shawl made ofworsted and cotton.-- Zephyr yarn, or worsted, a fine, soft kind of yarn or worsted, --used for knitting and embroidery.", | |
| "HONEYSUCKER": "See Honey eater, under Honey.", | |
| "DISPROPORTIONABLE": "Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, oradaptation; disproportionate; inadequate.-- Dis`pro*por\"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond.-- Dis`pro*por\"tion*a*bly, adv.", | |
| "TILEFISH": "A large, edible, deep-water food fish (Lopholatiluscham\u00e6leonticeps) more or less thickly covered with large, round,yellow spots.", | |
| "VOUCH": "To call into court to warrant and defend, or to make good awarranty of title.He vouches the tenant in tail, who vouches over the common vouchee.Blackstone.", | |
| "JELL": "To jelly. [Colloq.]", | |
| "TORC": "Same as Torque, 1.", | |
| "DIREMPTION": "A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "QUADRAGESIMALS": "Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese onMid-Lent Sunday.", | |
| "AVIDIOUS": "Avid.", | |
| "MICROPHONIC": "Of or pert. to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.", | |
| "LINGENCE": "A linctus. [Obs.] Fuller.", | |
| "MISRECITE": "To recite erroneously.", | |
| "TELEPHOTOGRAPH": "A photograph, image, or impression, reproduced by or taken witha telephotographic apparatus.", | |
| "WIRELESS": "Having no wire; specif. (Elec.),", | |
| "COURAGEOUSLY": "In a courageous manner.", | |
| "GROOMER": "One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brushrotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaninghorses.", | |
| "GEAL": "To congeal. [Obs. or Scot.]", | |
| "HARD-HEARTED": "Unsympathetic; inexorable; cruel; pitiless.-- Hard\"-heart`ed*ness, n.", | |
| "ESCOUT": "See Scout. [Obs.] Hayward.", | |
| "ALLANTOIC": "Pertaining to, or contained in, the allantois. Allantoic acid.(Chem.) See Allantoin.", | |
| "BEPOMMEL": "To pommel; to beat, as with a stick; figuratively, to assail orcriticise in conversation, or in writing. Thackeray.", | |
| "BIGHT": "A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.", | |
| "REFUTABLE": "Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of beingproved false or erroneous.", | |
| "MONOECIAN": "Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious.-- n.", | |
| "TANKIA": "See Tanka.", | |
| "CYMBIUM": "A genus of marine univalve shells; the gondola.", | |
| "SOOTHINGLY": "In a soothing manner.", | |
| "UTAS": "The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, theutas of St. Michael. Cowell.The marriage was celebrated and Canterbury, and in the utas of St.Hilary next ensuing she was crowned. Holinshed.", | |
| "COMPTROLER": "A controller; a public officer whose duty it is to examinecertify accounts.", | |
| "CATERWAUL": "To cry as cats in rutting time; to make a harsh, offensivenoise. Coleridge.", | |
| "HECTOGRAPH": "A contrivance for multiple copying, by means of a surface ofgelatin softened with glycerin. [Written also hectograph.]", | |
| "SIGHT": "To take aim by a sight.", | |
| "BUCENTAUR": "The state barge of Venice, used by the doge in the ceremony ofespousing the Adriatic.", | |
| "ASSAMESE": "Of or pertaining to Assam, a province of British India, or toits inhabitants.-- n. sing. & pl.", | |
| "DRESSER": "A kind of pick for shaping large coal.", | |
| "CURATESHIP": "A curacy.", | |
| "ENTEROCOELE": "A perivisceral cavity which arises as an outgrowth oroutgrowths from the digestive tract; distinguished from aschizocoele, which arises by a splitting of the mesoblast of theembryo.", | |
| "OMNIVAGANT": "Wandering anywhere and everywhere. [R.]", | |
| "TROCHA": "A line of fortifications, usually rough, constructed to preventthe passage of an enemy across a region. [Sp. Amer.]", | |
| "OSTEOPOROSIS": "An absorption of bone so that the tissue becomes unusuallyporous.", | |
| "ABEYANCE": "Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.", | |
| "LIMACINA": "A genus of small spiral pteropods, common in the Arctic andAntarctic seas. It contributes to the food of the right whales.", | |
| "SPREAD-EAGLE": "Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style;defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; aspread-eagle speech. [Colloq.& Humorous]", | |
| "INVINCIBILITY": "The quality or state of being invincible; invincibleness.", | |
| "SELF-CONDEMNATION": "Condemnation of one's self by one's own judgment.", | |
| "ILLAPSABLE": "Incapable of slipping, or of error. [R.]Morally immutable and illapsable. Glanvill.", | |
| "STOWBOARD": "A place into which rubbish is put. [Written also stowbord.]", | |
| "ENUCLEATION": "The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contributeanything to the enucleation of this disease. Tooke.", | |
| "SPINNAKER": "A large triangular sail set upon a boom, -- used when runningbefore the wind.", | |
| "ELECTROTYPING": "The act or the process of making electrotypes.", | |
| "SELF-CONSUMING": "Consuming one's self or itself.", | |
| "SYM-": "See Syn-.", | |
| "DIAMETER": "The distance through the lower part of the shaft of a column,used as a standard measure for all parts of the order. See Module.Conjugate diameters. See under Conjugate.", | |
| "INSTIGATION": "The act of instigating, or the state of being instigated;incitement; esp. to evil or wickedness.The baseness and villainy that . . . the instigation of the devilcould bring the sons of men to. South.", | |
| "MEDIA": "pl. of Medium.", | |
| "PLANXTY": "An Irish or Welsh melody for the harp, sometimes of a mournfulcharacter.", | |
| "CONVINCINGLY": "in a convincing manner; in a manner to compel assent.", | |
| "POLLICITATION": "A promise without mutuality; a promise which has not beenaccepted by the person to whom it is made. Bouvier.", | |
| "FER-DE-LANCE": "A large, venomous serpent (Trigonocephalus lanceolatus) ofBrazil and the West Indies. It is allied to the rattlesnake, but hasno rattle.", | |
| "THITSEE": "The varnish tree of Burmah (Melanorrhoea usitatissima).", | |
| "UTRICULOID": "Resembling a bladder; utricular; utriculate. Dana.", | |
| "LOUR": "An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.", | |
| "INFLICTIVE": "Causing infliction; acting as an infliction. Whitehead.", | |
| "WRACKFUL": "Ruinous; destructive. [Obs.]", | |
| "INTERDIGITATE": "To interweave. [R.]", | |
| "TECHNICALLY": "In a technical manner; according to the signification of termsas used in any art, business, or profession.", | |
| "FRIGHTFULLY": "In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.", | |
| "SPONGIOLITE": "One of the microsporic siliceous spicules which occurabundantly in the texture of sponges, and are sometimes found fossil,as in flints.", | |
| "MAMMILLARY": "Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling thebreasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.", | |
| "DIMPLY": "Full of dimples, or small depressions; dimpled; as, the dimplypool. Thomson.", | |
| "TUMORED": "Distended; swelled. [R.] \"His tumored breast.\" R. Junius.", | |
| "UNEXPERIENCE": "Inexperience. [Obs.]", | |
| "BRACTEAL": "Having the nature or appearance of a bract.", | |
| "STEARYL": "The hypothetical radical characteristic of stearic acid.", | |
| "BRIEF": "An abridgment or concise statement of a client's case, made outfor the instruction of counsel in a trial at law. This word isapplied also to a statement of the heads or points of a law argument.It was not without some reference to it that I perused many a brief.Sir J. Stephen.", | |
| "BIFORINE": "An oval sac or cell, found in the leaves of certain plants ofthe order Arace\u00e6. It has an opening at each end through whichraphides, generated inside, are discharged.", | |
| "DEATHLESS": "Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal;undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.", | |
| "DREUL": "To drool. [Obs.]", | |
| "APHTHOID": "Of the nature of aphth\u00e6; resembling thrush.", | |
| "COPART": "To share. [Obs.]For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when nonecoparts our grief. Webster (1661).", | |
| "CONTRACTION": "The process of shortening an operation.", | |
| "FLATULENTLY": "In a flatulent manner; with flatulence.", | |
| "EARINESS": "Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.[Written also eiryness.]The sense of eariness, as twilight came on. De Quincey.", | |
| "CONTEMPLATIVELY": "With contemplation; in a contemplative manner.", | |
| "PLANIPETALOUS": "Having flat petals.", | |
| "ORIGINATOR": "One who originates.", | |
| "CRINCUM-CRANCUM": "A twist; a whimsey or whim. [Colloq.]", | |
| "FESTLICH": "Festive; fond of festive occasions. [Obs.] \"A festlich man.\"Chaucer.", | |
| "AWN": "The bristle or beard of barley, oats, grasses, etc., or anysimilar bristlelike appendage; arista. Gray.", | |
| "ODOROUS": "Having or emitting an odor or scent, esp. a sweet odor;fragrant; sweet-smelling. \"Odorous bloom.\" Keble.Such fragrant flowers do give most odorous smell. Spenser.-- O\"dor*ous*ly, adv.-- O\"dor*ous*ness, n.", | |
| "RHIZODONT": "A reptile whose teeth are rooted in sockets, as the crocodile.", | |
| "ECRASEMENT": "The operation performed with an \u00e9craseur.", | |
| "GELATINIFORM": "Having the form of gelatin.", | |
| "EXTRAMURAL": "Outside of the walls, as of a fortified or walled city.", | |
| "FOMES": "Any substance supposed to be capable of absorbing, retaining,and transporting contagious or infectious germs; as, woolen clothesare said to be active fomites.", | |
| "RUBIDINE": "A nitrogenous base homologous with pyridine, obtained from coaltar as an oily liquid, C11H17N; also, any one of the group odmetameric compounds of which rubidine is the type.", | |
| "WEAPON": "A thorn, prickle, or sting with which many plants arefurnished. Concealed weapons. See under Concealed.-- Weapon salve, a salve which was supposed to cure a wound by beingapplied to the weapon that made it. [Obs.] Boyle.", | |
| "CONTAGIOUS": "Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation;catching; as, a contagious disease.", | |
| "EUORNITHES": "The division of Aves which includes all the typical birds, orall living birds except the penguins and birds of ostrichlike form.", | |
| "HEADSPRING": "Fountain; source.The headspring of our belief. Stapleton.", | |
| "INCALESCENCE": "The state of being incalescent, or of growing warm. Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "HENT": "To seize; to lay hold on; to catch; to get. [Obs.] PiersPlowman. Spenser.This cursed Jew him hente and held him fast. Chaucer.But all that he might of his friendes hente On bookes and on learninghe it spente. Chaucer.", | |
| "CAMERONIAN": "A follower of the Rev. Richard Cameron, a Scotch Covenanter ofthe time of Charies II.Cameron and others refused to accept the \"indulgence\" offered thePresbyterian clergy, insisted on the Solemn league and Covenant, andin 1680 declared Charles II deposed for tyranny, breach of faith,etc. Cameron was killed at the battle of Airdmoss, but his followersbecame a denomination (afterwards called Reformed Presbyterians) whorefused to recognize laws or institutions which they believedcontrary to the kingdom of Christ, but who now avail themselves ofpolitical rights.", | |
| "LAQUEARY": "Using a noose, as a gladiator. [Obs. or R.]Retiary and laqueary combatants. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "UPROARIOUS": "Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as,uproarious merriment.-- Up*roar\"i*ous*ly, adv.-- Up*roar\"i*ous*ness, n.", | |
| "JOCKEYISM": "The practice of jockeys.", | |
| "XANTHOCARPOUS": "Having yellow fruit.", | |
| "REVIVAL": "The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.Specifically:(a) Renewed attention to something, as to letters or literature.(b) Renewed performance of, or interest in, something, as the dramaand literature.(c) Renewed interest in religion, after indifference and decline; aperiod of religious awakening; special religious interest.(d) Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied tothe health, spirits, and the like.(e) Renewed pursuit, or cultivation, or flourishing state ofsomething, as of commerce, arts, agriculture.(f) Renewed prevalence of something, as a practice or a fashion.(g) (Law) Restoration of force, validity, or effect; renewal; as, therevival of a debt barred by limitation; the revival of a revokedwill, etc.(h) Revivification, as of a metal. See Revivification, 2.", | |
| "MANDORE": "A kind of four-stringed lute.", | |
| "PLETHYSMOGRAPH": "An instrument for determining and registering the variations inthe size or volume of a limb, as the arm or leg, and hence thevariations in the amount of blood in the limb.-- Pleth`ys*mo*graph\"ic, a.", | |
| "HALF SEAS OVER": "Half drunk. [Slang: used only predicatively.] Spectator.", | |
| "REVOLUTIONISM": "The state of being in revolution; revolutionary doctrines orprinciples.", | |
| "STYLOGLOSSAL": "Of or pertaining to styloid process and the tongue.", | |
| "HETERONOMOUS": "Subject to the law of another. Krauth-Fleming.", | |
| "APSIDES": "See Apsis.", | |
| "CARVACROL": "A thick oily liquid, C10H13.OH, of a strong taste anddisagreeable odor, obtained from oil of caraway (Carum carui).", | |
| "MISDESCRIBE": "To describe wrongly.", | |
| "DILETTANTEISH": "Somewhat like a dilettante.", | |
| "ASSERTIVE": "Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.In a confident and assertive form. Glanvill.As*sert\"ive*ly, adv.-- As*sert\"ive*ness, n.", | |
| "GOLDSINNY": "See Goldfinny.", | |
| "IMPEDIMENTAL": "Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing;impeditive.Things so impediental to success. G. H. Lewes.", | |
| "GRANT": "To assent; to consent. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "GOURNET": "A fish. See Gurnet.", | |
| "ADANGLE": "Dangling. Browning.", | |
| "FORAY": "A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, anyirregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser.The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey.Tennyson.", | |
| "MALAGASY": "A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.", | |
| "ONCOTOMY": "The opening of an abscess, or the removal of a tumor, with acutting instrument. [Written also onkotomy.] Dunglison.", | |
| "CANKER FLY": "A fly that preys on fruit.", | |
| "AGRAPPES": "Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.", | |
| "ANARTHROPODA": "One of the divisions of Articulata in which there are nojointed legs, as the annelids; -- opposed to Arthropoda.", | |
| "TELEGONY": "The supposed influence of a father upon offspring subsequent tohis own, begotten of the same mother by another father. --Te*leg\"o*nous (#), a.", | |
| "MELODRAME": "Melodrama.", | |
| "MERCHAND": "To traffic. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "FIN KEEL": "A projection downward from the keel of a yacht, resembling inshape the fin of a fish, though often with a cigar-shaped bulb oflead at the bottom, and generally made of metal. Its use is toballast the boat and also to enable her to sail close to the wind andto make the least possible leeway by offering great resistance tolateral motion through the water.", | |
| "VITRIFACTION": "The act, art, or process of vitrifying; also, the state ofbeing vitrified.", | |
| "DICHOTOMY": "That phase of the moon in which it appears bisected, or showsonly half its disk, as at the quadratures.", | |
| "EFFRONTERY": "Impudence or boldness in confronting or in transgressing thebounds of duty or decorum; insulting presumptuousness; shamelessboldness; barefaced assurance.Corruption lost nothing of its effrontery. Bancroft.", | |
| "VITIATION": "The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated;depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of theblood; the vitiation of a contract.The vitiation that breeds evil acts. G. Eliot.", | |
| "ALTITUDE": "The elevation of a point, or star, or other celestial object,above the horizon, measured by the arc of a vertical circleintercepted between such point and the horizon. It is either true orapparent; true when measured from the rational or real horizon,apparent when from the sensible or apparent horizon.", | |
| "AIR": "An artificial or affected manner; show of pride or vanity;haughtiness; as, it is said of a person, he puts on airs. Thackeray.", | |
| "PROCURATORSHIP": "The office or term of a procurator. Bp. Pearson.", | |
| "OVERRIGID": "Too rigid; too severe.", | |
| "COMPLAINABLE": "That may be complained of. [R.] Feltham.", | |
| "LIBAMENT": "Libation. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "NAIK": "A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal. Balfour (Cyc. of India).", | |
| "NOTIDANIAN": "Any one of several species of sharks of the family Notidanid\u00e6,or Hexanchid\u00e6. Called also cow sharks. See Shark.", | |
| "BULLIST": "A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.", | |
| "MILLIONARY": "Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, themillionary chronology of the pundits. Pinker", | |
| "EXUVIABILITY": "Capability of shedding the skin periodically. Craig.", | |
| "INSIGNIFICANTLY": "without significance, importance, or effect; to no purpose.\"Anger insignificantly fierce.\" Cowper.", | |
| "LULLER": "One who, or that which, lulls.", | |
| "AGONOTHETE": "An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.", | |
| "THICKISH": "Somewhat thick.", | |
| "GIVEN": "p. p. & a. from Give, v.", | |
| "MALAPERT": "Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. Shak.-- n.", | |
| "MIDWIFE": "A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a femalepractitioner of the obstetric art.", | |
| "TINKLING": "A grackle (Quiscalus crassirostris) native of Jamaica. It oftenassociates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects.", | |
| "LORCHA": "A kind of light vessel used on the coast of China, having thehull built on a European model, and the rigging like that of aChinese junk. Admiral Foote.", | |
| "HYDROXIDE": "A hydrate; a substance containing hydrogen and oxygen, made bycombining water with an oxide, and yielding water by elimination. Thehydroxides are regarded as compounds of hydroxyl, united usually withbasic element or radical; as, calcium hydroxide ethyl hydroxide.", | |
| "RECONDENSATION": "The act or process of recondensing.", | |
| "TIGHTNESS": "The quality or condition of being tight.", | |
| "REVISION": "Of or pertaining to revision; revisory.", | |
| "RECOIN": "To coin anew or again.", | |
| "ALEMBIC": "An apparatus formerly used in distillation, usually made ofglass or metal. It has mostly given place to the retort and wormstill.Used also metaphorically. The alembic of a great poet's imagination.Brimley.", | |
| "TRITHEIST": "One who believes in tritheism.", | |
| "GANGETIC": "Pertaining to, or inhabiting, the Ganges; as, the Gangeticshark.", | |
| "OWCH": "See Ouch. [Obs.] Speser.", | |
| "SPULZIE": "Plunder, or booty. [Written also spuilzie, and spulye.] Sir W.Scott.", | |
| "BATHORSE": "A horse which carries an officer's baggage during a campaign.", | |
| "DIONAEA": "An insectivorous plant. See Venus's flytrap.", | |
| "IMAGO": "The final adult, and usually winged, state of an insect. SeeIllust. of Ant-lion, and Army worm.", | |
| "APPRECIATOR": "One who appreciates.", | |
| "PRONOUNCE": "Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "EUPHROE": "A block or long slat of wood, perforated for the passage of thecrowfoot, or cords by which an awning is held up. [Written alsouphroe and uvrou.] Knight.", | |
| "GLANDULIFEROUS": "Bearing glandules.", | |
| "STILL-HUNT": "A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or undercover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any objectquietly and cautiously.-- Still\"-hunt`er, n.-- Still\"-hunt`ing, n. [U.S.]", | |
| "NONMEMBERSHIP": "State of not being a member.", | |
| "ESTURE": "Commotion. [Obs.] Chapman.", | |
| "MONETARY": "Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.\"The monetary relations of Europe.\" E. Everett. Monetary unit, thestandard of a national currency, as the dollar in the United States,the pound in England, the franc in France, the mark in Germany.", | |
| "CALIN": "An alloy of lead and tin, of which the Chinese make teacanisters.", | |
| "MATHEMATICS": "That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exactrelations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of themethods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantitiessought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; thescience of spatial and quantitative relations.", | |
| "POT SHOT": "Lit., a shot fired simply to fill the pot; hence, a shot firedat an animal or person when at rest or within easy range, or firedsimply to kill, without reference to the rules of sport; a shotneedling no special skill.", | |
| "CREATABLE": "That may be created.", | |
| "FILIATE": "To adopt as son or daughter; to establish filiation between.[R.] Southey.", | |
| "LUMBAGO": "A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.", | |
| "SELTZER WATER": "See Selters water.", | |
| "TARSIUS": "A genus of nocturnal lemurine mammals having very large eyesand ears, a long tail, and very long proximal tarsal bones; -- calledalso malmag, spectral lemur, podji, and tarsier.", | |
| "TAPETUM": "An area in the pigmented layer of the choroid coat of the eyein many animals, which has an iridescent or metallic luster and helpsto make the eye visible in the dark. Sometimes applied to the wholelayer of pigmented epithelium of the choroid.", | |
| "ULTRAGE": "Outrage. [Obs.]", | |
| "CARRACK": "See Carack.", | |
| "CARINA": "A keel.(a) That part of a papilionaceous flower, consisting of two petals,commonly united, which incloses the organs of fructification.(b) A longitudinal ridge or projection like the keel of a boat.", | |
| "UNDIVIDUAL": "Indivisible. [Obs.]True courage and courtesy are undividual companions. Fuller.", | |
| "FUBBERY": "Cheating; deception. Marston.", | |
| "EFFLORESCE": "To change on the surface, or throughout, to a whitish, mealy,or crystalline powder, from a gradual decomposition, esp. from theloss of water, on simple exposure to the air; as, Glauber's salts,and many others, effloresce.", | |
| "WINNOWER": "One who, or that which, winnows; specifically, a winnowingmachine.", | |
| "CABLING": "The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilasterwith reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollowsof the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of theheight of the shaft.", | |
| "ISHMAELITISH": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or theIshmaelites.", | |
| "SALICACEOUS": "Belonging or relating to the willow.", | |
| "CHARITABLENESS": "The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.", | |
| "STYLITE": "One of a sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived onthe tops of pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- calledalso pillarist and pillar saint.", | |
| "WYNKERNEL": "The European moor hen. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "IMPROVER": "One who, or that which, improves.", | |
| "BRANCHIAL": "Of or pertaining to branchi\u00e6 or gills. Branchial arches, thebony or cartilaginous arches which support the gills on each side ofthe throat of fishes and amphibians. See Illustration in Appendix.-- Branchial clefts, the openings between the branchial archesthrough which water passes.", | |
| "DEVOTIONALLY": "In a devotional manner; toward devotion.", | |
| "AMBITIOUSNESS": "The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness.", | |
| "BULLA": "A bleb; a vesicle, or an elevation of the cuticle, containing atransparent watery fluid.", | |
| "ACROTER": "Same as Acroterium.", | |
| "CRIED": "imp. & p. p. of Cry.", | |
| "MISSTAYED": "Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.", | |
| "MIRABILARY": "One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one whowrites of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "DISENCUMBER": "To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs,impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen.I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.", | |
| "REDRESSIVE": "Tending to redress. Thomson.", | |
| "GALILEE": "A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbeychurch, where the monks collected on returning from processions,where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women wereallowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divineservice. Also, frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Elyand Durham cathedrals. Gwilt.", | |
| "SUFFRAGANSHIP": "The office of a suffragan.", | |
| "ENDAMAGEMENT": "Damage; injury; harm. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "PLANISHING": "a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls (Coining),rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring themto exactly the required thickness.", | |
| "NECTARINE": "Nectareous. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "DISSEVER": "To part in two; to sever thoroughly; to sunder; to disunite; toseparate; to disperse.The storm so dissevered the company . . . that most of therm nevermet again. Sir P. Sidney.States disserved, discordant, belligerent. D. Webster.", | |
| "VIRGULATE": "Shaped like a little twig or rod.", | |
| "BLACK PUDDING": "A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened withmeal.And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight inblood. Hudibras.", | |
| "DUCHESS": "The wife or widow of a duke; also, a lady who has thesovereignty of a duchy in her own right.", | |
| "BLOODY HAND": "A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now thedistinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.", | |
| "GAZE": "To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look witheagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or withstudious attention.Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.", | |
| "NEO-GREEK": "A member of a body of French painters (F. les n\u00e9o-Grecs) of themiddle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders tocertain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert,than a name adopted by the artists themselves.", | |
| "DISINTERESSMENT": "Disinterestedness; impartiality; fairness. [Obs.] Prior.", | |
| "EXPIATOR": "One who makes expiation or atonement.", | |
| "SURLING": "A sour, morose fellow. [Obs.] Camden.", | |
| "EPITHELIAL": "Of or pertaining to epithelium; as, epithelial cells;epithelial cancer.", | |
| "UNPRINCIPLE": "To destroy the moral principles of. [R.]", | |
| "MISPENSE": "See Misspense. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "AMATEURSHIP": "The quality or character of an amateur.", | |
| "DISPURSE": "To disburse. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "MILLI-": "A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter,milligram, milliamp\u00e8re.", | |
| "MISPRACTICE": "Wrong practice.", | |
| "WORM-SHELL": "Any species of Vermetus.", | |
| "TWO-LIPPED": "Divided in such a manner as to resemble the two lips when themouth is more or less open; bilabiate.", | |
| "PHYSIOLOGIST": "One who is versed in the science of physiology; a student ofthe properties and functions of animal and vegetable organs andtissues.", | |
| "CHUCKLEHEAD": "A person with a large head; a numskull; a dunce. [Low] Knowles.", | |
| "GURGLET": "A porous earthen jar for cooling water by evaporation.", | |
| "MERITEDLY": "By merit; deservedly.", | |
| "SEA PORCUPINE": "Any fish of the genus Diodon, and allied genera, whose body iscovered with spines. See Illust. under Diodon.", | |
| "INTERSPERSION": "The act of interspersing, or the state of being interspersed.", | |
| "HILLTOP": "The top of a hill.", | |
| "DILAPIDATE": "To get out of repair; to fall into partial ruin; to becomedecayed; as, the church was suffered to dilapidate. Johnson.", | |
| "QUADRUPED": "Having four feet.", | |
| "EXCRETORY": "Having the quality of excreting, or throwing offexcrementitious matter.", | |
| "MUNIFICENT": "Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificentbenefactor.-- Mu*nif\"i*cent*ly, adv.", | |
| "DERIDE": "To laugh at with contempt; to laugh to scorn; to turn toridicule or make sport of; to mock; to scoff at.And the Pharisees, also, . . . derided him. Luke xvi. 14.Sport that wrinkled Care derides. And Laughter holding both hissides. Milton.", | |
| "PAROTOID": "Resembling the parotid gland; -- applied especially tocutaneous glandular elevations above the ear in many toads and frogs.-- n.", | |
| "QUESTRIST": "A seeker; a pursuer. [Obs.] \"Hot questrists after him.\" Shak.", | |
| "CHANTER": "The hedge sparrow.", | |
| "RATIHABITION": "Confirmation or approbation, as of an act or contract. [Obs.]Jer. Tailor.", | |
| "RECOUNT": "To count or reckon again.", | |
| "STAVEWOOD": "A tall tree (Simaruba amara) growing in tropical America. It isone of the trees which yields quassia.", | |
| "AUDITORIAL": "Auditory. [R.]", | |
| "CONOID": ", Resembling a cone; conoidal.", | |
| "MOABITE": "One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.)Also used adjectively.", | |
| "SCRAPPILY": "In a scrappy manner; in scraps. Mary Cowden Clarke.", | |
| "EMPRISE": "To undertake. [Obs.] Sackville.", | |
| "SACROSANCT": "Sacred; inviolable. [R.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "SPITTED": "p. p. of Spit, v. i., to eject, to spit. [Obs.]", | |
| "HYDROMICA": "A variety of potash mica containing water. It is less elasticthan ordinary muscovite. Hydromica schist (Min.), a mica schistcharacterized by the presence of hydromica. It often has a silkyluster and almost soapy feel.", | |
| "RIGHTWISELY": "Righteously. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNDIGENOUS": "Generated by water. [R.] Kirwan.", | |
| "UXORIAL": "Dotingly fond of, or servilely submissive to, a wife; uxorious;also, becoming a wife; pertaining to a wife. [R.]The speech [of Zipporah, Ex. iv. 25] is not a speech of reproach orindignation, but of uxorial endearment. Geddes.", | |
| "PERSEUS": "A Grecian legendary hero, son of Jupiter and Dana\u00eb, who slewthe Gorgon Medusa.", | |
| "FOEHOOD": "Enmity. Br. Bedell.", | |
| "HILE": "To hide. See Hele. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PARAVAIL": "At the bottom; lowest. Cowell.", | |
| "CALAMBOUR": "A species of agalloch, or aloes wood, of a dusky or mottledcolor, of a light, friable texture, and less fragrant than calambac;-- used by cabinetmakers.", | |
| "INTRENCHMENT": "Any defensive work consisting of at least a trench or ditch anda parapet made from the earth thrown up in making such a ditch.On our side, we have thrown up intrenchments on Winter and ProspectHills. Washington.", | |
| "SYNGNATHI": "A suborder of lophobranch fishes which have an elongated snoutand lack the ventral and first dorsal fins. The pipefishes and seahorses are examples.-- Syng\"na*thous, a.", | |
| "SLEEPING": "from Sleep. Sleeping car, a railway car or carrriage, arrangedwith apartments and berths for sleeping.-- Sleeping partner (Com.), a dormant partner. See under Dormant.-- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on whichpulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.", | |
| "ANTHROPOPHUISM": "Human nature. [R.] Gladstone.", | |
| "NEPETA": "A genus of labiate plants, including the catnip and ground ivy.", | |
| "UNREDEEMED": "Not redeemed.", | |
| "AVIATOR": "A woman aviator.", | |
| "PINDER": "One who impounds; a poundkeeper. [Obs.]", | |
| "ETHEREALISM": "Ethereality.", | |
| "INDIGNIFY": "To treat disdainfully or with indignity; to contemn. [Obs.]Spenser.", | |
| "HYDROPHID": "Any sea snake of the genus Hydrophys and allied genera. Thesesnakes are venomous, live upon fishes, and have a flattened tail forswimming.", | |
| "SAPOROUS": "Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "PALEOBOTANY": "That branch of paleontology which treats of fossil plants.", | |
| "FOURSQUARE": "Having four sides and four equal angles. Sir W. Raleigh.", | |
| "SUPERINDUCTION": "The act of superinducing, or the state of being superinduced.South.", | |
| "HIPPOBOSCA": "A genus of dipterous insects including the horsefly or horsetick.-- Hip`po*bos\"can, a.", | |
| "UPSIDOWN": "See Upsodown. [Obs. or Colloq.] Spenser.", | |
| "CURVE": "Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curvesurface.", | |
| "EXOLUTION": "See Exsolution. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ODDLY": "In a manner measured by an odd number.", | |
| "INOSCULATION": "The junction or connection of vessels, channels, or passages,so that their contents pass from one to the other; union by mouths orducts; anastomosis; intercommunication; as, inosculation of veins,etc. Ray.", | |
| "FEBRIFACIENT": "Febrific. Dunglison.-- n.", | |
| "SUFFRAGETTE": "A woman who advocates the right to vote for women; a womansuffragist.", | |
| "KOBELLITE": "A blackish gray mineral, a sulphide of antimony, bismuth, andlead.", | |
| "RANNY": "The erd shrew. [Scot.]", | |
| "CONSUBSTANTIALISM": "The doctrine of consubstantiation.", | |
| "DETERRENT": "Serving to deter. \"The deterrent principle.\" E. Davis.", | |
| "IMPERCEPTIBLE": "Not perceptible; not to be apprehended or cognized by thesouses; not discernible by the mind; not easily apprehended.Almost imperceptible to the touch. Dryden.Its operation is slow, and in some cases almost imperceptible. Burke.-- Im`per*cep\"ti*ble*ness, n.-- Im`per*cep\"ti*bly, adv.Their . . . subility and imperceptibleness. Sir M. Hale.", | |
| "PEPO": "Any fleshy fruit with a firm rind, as a pumpkin, melon, orgourd. See Gourd.", | |
| "SANSKRITIC": "Sanskrit.", | |
| "UNSECULARIZE": "To cause to become not secular; to detach from secular things;to alienate from the world.", | |
| "WINGMANSHIP": "Power or skill in flying. [R.] Duke of Argyll.", | |
| "LYCANTHROPIA": "See Lycanthropy, 2.", | |
| "DESTRUCTIVE": "Causing destruction; tending to bring about ruin, death, ordevastation; ruinous; fatal; productive of serious evil; mischievous;pernicious; -- often with of or to; as, intemperance is destructiveof health; evil examples are destructive to the morals of youth.Time's destructive power. Wordsworth.Destructive distillation. See Distillation.-- Destructive sorties ( (Logic), a process of reasoning whichinvolves the denial of the first of a series of dependentpropositions as a consequence of the denial of the last; a species ofreductio ad absurdum. Whately.", | |
| "ARGUMENTIZE": "To argue or discuss. [Obs.] Wood.", | |
| "SWEARING": "from Swear, v.Idle swearing is a cursedness. Chaucer.", | |
| "SCAUP": "A scaup duck. See below. Scaup duck (Zo\u00f6l.), any one of severalspecies of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adultmales are, in large part, black. The three North American speciesare: the greater scaup duck (Aythya marila, var. nearctica), calledalso broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, andraft duck; the lesser scaup duck (A. affinis), called also littlebluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked,scaup duck (A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill,ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck (A.marila),closely resembles the American variety.", | |
| "DISINCLINE": "To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversionin; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate.Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection tothe Queen. Clarendon.To social scenes by nature disinclined. Cowper.", | |
| "MALLOTUS": "A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, thecapelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.", | |
| "OBJECTOR": "One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition ormeasure.", | |
| "IMPUTATIVE": "Transferred by imputation; that may be imputed.-- Im*put\"a*tive*ly, adv.Actual righteousness as well as imputative. Bp. Warburton.", | |
| "BLUESTOCKINGISM": "The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.[Colloq.]", | |
| "NECKERCHIEF": "A kerchief for the neck; -- called also neck handkerchief.", | |
| "WILDER": "To bewilder; to perplex.Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope.Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as theyrose. Bryant.", | |
| "DEFIBRINATE": "To deprive of fibrin, as fresh blood or lymph by stirring withtwigs.", | |
| "DELIBATION": "Act of tasting; a slight trial. [Obs.] Berkeley.", | |
| "RECONSTRUCTION": "The act or process of reorganizing the governments of theStates which had passed ordinances of secession, and ofre\u00ebstablishing their constitutional relations to the nationalgovernment, after the close of the Civil War.", | |
| "IMPRESSIONABLENESS": "The quality of being impressionable.", | |
| "GROIN": "The snout of a swine. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PLUMILIFORM": "Having the of a plume or feather. [R.]", | |
| "ALLONGE": "A thrust or pass; a lunge.", | |
| "MEASLES": "Leprosy; also, a leper. [Obs.]", | |
| "PONTIFEX": "A high priest; a pontiff.", | |
| "VEGETIVE": "Having the nature of a plant; vegetable; as, vegetive life.[R.] Tusser.", | |
| "EMENAGOGUE": "See Emmenagogue.", | |
| "SATELLITE": "A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, themoon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar.Satellite moth (Zo\u00f6l.), a handsome European noctuid moth (Scopelosomasatellitia).", | |
| "OSMOMETER": "An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action indifferent liquids.", | |
| "LONGIPENNINE": "Of or pertaining to the Longipennes; longipennate.", | |
| "DUMMERER": "One who feigns dumbness. [Obs.] Burton.", | |
| "ABLUENT": "Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.-- n. (Med.)", | |
| "FOREMOTHER": "A female ancestor.", | |
| "ANARCHAL": "Lawless; anarchical. [R.]We are in the habit of calling those bodies of men anarchal which arein a state of effervescence. Landor.", | |
| "REPREHENDER": "One who reprehends.", | |
| "VEINY": "Full of veins; veinous; veined; as, veiny marble.", | |
| "REINSURER": "One who gives reinsurance.", | |
| "ANTIQUELY": "In an antique manner.", | |
| "POISONSOME": "Poisonous.[Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "TAYRA": "A South American carnivore (Galera barbara) allied to thegrison. The tail is long and thick. The length, including the tail,is about three feet. [Written also taira.]", | |
| "PLANE TREE": "Same as 1st Plane.", | |
| "MOGUL": "A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs ofconnected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. Great, or Grand,Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindostan by theMongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very importantpersonage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul. Dryden.", | |
| "DUDISH": "Like, or characterized of, a dude.", | |
| "SUGAR": "In making maple sugar, to complete the process of boiling downthe sirup till it is thick enough to crystallize; to approach orreach the state of granulation; -- with the preposition off. [Local,U.S.]", | |
| "EXCREMENTIVE": "Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. [R.]\"The excrementive parts.\" Felthman.", | |
| "DABBLE": "To wet by little dips or strokes; to spatter; to sprinkle; tomoisten; to wet. \"Bright hair dabbled in blood.\" Shak.", | |
| "SQUARE-RIGGED": "Having the sails extended upon yards suspended horizontally bythe middle, as distinguished from fore-and-aft sails; thus, a shipand a brig are square-rigged vessels.", | |
| "IMPERFECTIBILITY": "The state or quality of being imperfectible. [R.]", | |
| "SECALE": "A genus of cereal grasses including rye.", | |
| "AVULSION": "The sudden removal of lands or soil from the estate of one manto that of another by an inundation or a current, or by a suddenchange in the course of a river by which a part of the estate of oneman is cut off and joined to the estate of another. The property inthe part thus separated, or cut off, continues in the original owner.Wharton. Burrill.", | |
| "METER": "A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net isattached in order to strengthen it.", | |
| "CRESSY": "Abounding in cresses.The cressy islets white in flower. Tennyson.", | |
| "INSOLENCE": "To insult. [Obs.] Eikon Basilike.", | |
| "ACCORDION": "A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones aregenerated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.", | |
| "EMBUSH": "To place or hide in a thicket; to ambush. [Obs.] Shelton.", | |
| "JELLYFISH": "Any one of the acalephs, esp. one of the larger species, havinga jellylike appearance. See Medusa.", | |
| "RED-HOT": "Red with heat; heated to redness; as, red-hot iron; red-hotballs. Hence, figuratively, excited; violent; as, a red-hot radical.Shak.", | |
| "PILLOWCASE": "A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of whitelinen or cotton cloth.", | |
| "PREOMINATE": "To ominate beforehand; to portend. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "PRESENTIALITY": "State of being actually present. [Obs.] South.", | |
| "SCRUTIN DE LISTE": "Voting for a group of candidates for the same kind of office onone ticket or ballot, containing a list of them; -- the method, usedin France, as from June, 1885, to Feb., 1889, in elections for theChamber of Deputies, each elector voting for the candidates for thewhole department in which he lived, as disting. from scrutind'arrondissement (da`r\u00f4N`des`m\u00e4N\"), or voting by each elector for thecandidate or candidates for his own arrondissement only.", | |
| "TARTRATE": "A salt of tartaric acid.", | |
| "PRESTIDIGITATOR": "One skilled in legerdemain or sleight of hand; a juggler.", | |
| "INGATHERING": "The act or business of gathering or collecting anything;especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest.Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.", | |
| "ARREARAGE": "That which remains unpaid and overdue, after payment of a part;arrears.The old arrearages . . . being defrayed. Howell.", | |
| "HAULSE": "See Halse.", | |
| "LUNITIDAL": "Pertaining to tidal movements dependent on the moon. Bache.Lunitidal interval. See Retard, n.", | |
| "ZOISITE": "A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic,prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate ofalumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.", | |
| "PARADOS": "An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortificationto protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse.Farrow.", | |
| "OZONOMETRY": "The measurement or determination of the quantity of ozone.", | |
| "HEPTAHEDRON": "A solid figure with seven sides.", | |
| "SNACKET": "See Snecket. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "GUTTIFORM": "Drop-shaped, as a spot of color.", | |
| "BREAD": "To spread. [Obs.] Ray.", | |
| "PALMETTO": "A name given to palms of several genera and species growing inthe West Indies and the Southern United States. In the United States,the name is applied especially to the Cham\u00e6rops, or Sabal, Palmetto,the cabbage tree of Florida and the Carolinas. See Cabbage tree,under Cabbage.", | |
| "SWANLIKE": "Resembling a swan.", | |
| "SOPHISM": "The doctrine or mode of reasoning practiced by a sophist;hence, any fallacy designed to deceive.When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then itis properly called a sophism, or \"fallacy\". I. Watts.Let us first rid ourselves of sophisms, those of depraved men, andthose of heartless philosophers. I. Taylor.", | |
| "EXOCARP": "The outer portion of a fruit, as the flesh of a peach or therind of an orange. See Illust. of Drupe.", | |
| "BASIPODITE": "The basal joint of the legs of Crustacea.", | |
| "COULOMB METER": "Any instrument by which electricity can be measured incoulombs.", | |
| "DESOLATELY": "In a desolate manner.", | |
| "BOULDERY": "Characterized by bowlders.", | |
| "PARTITA": "A suite; a set of variations.", | |
| "SABRINA WORK": "A variety of appliqu\u00e9 work for quilts, table covers, etc.Caulfeild & S. (Dict. of Needlework).", | |
| "DOCTORALLY": "In the manner of a doctor.[R.]", | |
| "QUARTER": "The encampment on one of the principal passages round a placebesieged, to prevent relief and intercept convoys.(i) (Naut.) The after-part of a vessel's side, generallycorresponding in extent with the quarter-deck; also, the part of theyardarm outside of the slings.(j) (Her.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is dividedinto four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meetingin the fess point.", | |
| "UROHYAL": "Of or pertaining to one or more median and posterior elementsin the hyoidean arch of fishes.-- n.", | |
| "WALLACHIAN": "Of or pertaining to Wallachia, a former principality, now partof the kingdom, of Roumania. -- n.", | |
| "GNOMICALLY": "In a gnomic, didactic, or sententious manner.", | |
| "EVERDURING": "Everlasting. Shak.", | |
| "COMPRESSED": "Flattened lengthwise. Compessed air engine, an engine operatedby the elastic force of compressed air.", | |
| "ERPETOLOGIST": "Herpetologist.", | |
| "SWAYFUL": "Able to sway. [R.] Rush.", | |
| "UNAVOIDABLE": "Not voidable; incapable of being made null or void. Blackstone.Unavoidable hemorrhage (Med.), hemorrhage produced by the afterbirth,or placenta, being situated over the mouth of the womb so as torequire detachment before the child can be born.-- Un`a*void\"a*ble*ness, n.-- Un`a*void\"a*bly, adv.", | |
| "PIMP": "One who provides gratification for the lust of others; aprocurer; a pander. Swift.", | |
| "VERIDICAL": "Truth-telling; truthful; veracious. [R.] Carlyle.", | |
| "DOMINATION": "A high order of angels in the celestial hierarchy; -- a meaninggiven by the schoolmen.Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers. Milton.", | |
| "NUMBEROUS": "Numerous. [Obs.] Drant.", | |
| "SELF-CREATED": "Created by one's self; not formed or constituted by another.", | |
| "ONEIDAS": "A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the region near OneidaLake in the State of New York, and forming part of the Five Nations.Remnants of the tribe now live in New York, Canada, and Wisconsin.", | |
| "ABSCESSION": "A separating; removal; also, an abscess. [Obs.] Gauden.Barrough.", | |
| "REPEATER": "One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically:(a) A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of aspring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters.(b) A repeating firearm.(c) (Teleg.) An instrument for resending a telegraphic messageautomatically at an intermediate point.(d) A person who votes more than once at an election. [U.S.](e) See Circulating decimal, under Decimal.(f) (Naut.) A pennant used to indicate that a certain flag in a hoistof signal is duplicated. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "LEPROSITY": "The state or quality of being leprous or scaly; also, a scale.Bacon.", | |
| "DEIFIED": "Honored or worshiped as a deity; treated with supreme regard;godlike.", | |
| "GYPSY": "Pertaining to, or suitable for, gypsies. Gypsy hat, a woman'sor child's broad-brimmed hat, usually of straw or felt.-- Gypsy winch, a small winch, which may be operated by a crank, orby a ratchet and pawl through a lever working up and down.", | |
| "BRONCHIOLE": "A minute bronchial tube.", | |
| "OVERLIVE": "To outlive. Sir P. Sidney.The culture of Northumbria overlived the term of its politicalsupermacy. Earle.", | |
| "SIXTEENMO": "See Sextodecimo.", | |
| "FARL": "Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "PECTINIBRANCHIATE": "Having pectinated gills.", | |
| "RELEASABLE": "That may be released.", | |
| "DILUVIAL": "Effected or produced by a flood or deluge of water; -- said ofcoarse and imperfectly stratified deposits along ancient or existingwater courses. Similar unstratified deposits were formed by theagency of ice. The time of deposition has been called the Diluvianepoch.", | |
| "CAUFLE": "A gung of slaves. Same as Coffle.", | |
| "PREFIGURE": "To show, suggest, or announce, by antecedent types andsimilitudes; to foreshadow. \"Whom all the various types prefigured.\"South.", | |
| "CHRISTOPHANY": "An appearance of Christ, as to his disciples after thecrucifixion.", | |
| "FRITILLARIA": "A genus of liliaceous plants, of which the crown-imperial(Fritillaria imperialis) is one species, and the Guinea-hen flower(F. Meleagris) another. See Crown-imperial.", | |
| "ELUCTATE": "To struggle out; -- with out. [Obs.] Bp. Hacket.", | |
| "WORKER": "One of the neuter, or sterile, individuals of the social ants,bees, and white ants. The workers are generally females having thesexual organs imperfectly developed. See Ant, and White ant, underWhite.", | |
| "APPARITIONAL": "Pertaining to an apparition or to apparitions; spectral. \"Anapparitional soul.\" Tylor.", | |
| "CARROT": "An umbelliferous biennial plant (Daucus Carota), of manyvarieties.", | |
| "NEPHRITE": "A hard compact mineral, of a dark green color, formerly worn asa remedy for diseases of the kidneys, whence its name; kidney stone;a kind of jade. See Jade.", | |
| "INVENOM": "See Envenom.", | |
| "TRES-TINE": "The third tine above the base of a stag's antler; the royalantler.", | |
| "IMBURSE": "To supply or stock with money. [Obs.]", | |
| "CONTROLLABILITY": "Capability of being controlled; controllableness.", | |
| "PILCH": "A gown or case of skin, or one trimmed or lined with fur.[Obs.]", | |
| "BANEFUL": "Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious;noxious; pernicious. \"Baneful hemlock.\" Garth. \"Baneful wrath.\"Chapman.-- Bane\"ful*ly, adv. --Bane\"ful*ness, n.", | |
| "DESECATE": "To cut, as with a scythe; to mow. [Obs.]", | |
| "SPIRLING": "Sparling. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "SWITHE": "Instantly; quickly; speedily; rapidly. [Obs.]That thou doest, do thou swithe. Wyclif (John xiii. 27).", | |
| "CONSOLATE": "To console; to comfort. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "IMMISCIBILITY": "Incapability of being mixed, or mingled.", | |
| "INVOLUNTARINESS": "The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness;automatism.", | |
| "COMPLEXUS": "A complex; an aggregate of parts; a complication.", | |
| "BODLE": "A small Scotch coin worth about one sixth of an English penny.Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "HOLMIUM": "A rare element said to be contained in gadolinite.-- Hol\"mic, a.", | |
| "NUCAMENTACEOUS": "Like a nut either in structure or in being indehiscent; bearingone-seeded nutlike fruits. [Written also nucumentaceous.]", | |
| "HARPAGON": "A grappling iron. [Obs.]", | |
| "UNDERPRIZE": "To undervalue; to underestimate. Shak.", | |
| "PAGING": "The marking or numbering of the pages of a book.", | |
| "ARAUCARIA": "A genus of tall conifers of the pine family. The species areconfined mostly to South America and Australia. The wood cells differfrom those of other in having the dots in their lateral surfaces intwo or three rows, and the dots of contiguous rows alternating. Theseeds are edible.", | |
| "FULCIBLE": "Capable of being propped up. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "LINNAEA BOREALIS": "The twin flower which grows in cold northern climates.", | |
| "FORGOT": "imp. & p. p. of Forget.", | |
| "GONOCOCCUS": "A vegetable micro\u00f6rganism of the genus Micrococcus, occurringin the secretion in gonorrhea. It is believed by some to constitutethe cause of this disease.", | |
| "TENDRESSE": "Tender feeling; fondness. [Obs., except as a French word]", | |
| "MOTOGRAPH": "A device utilized in the making of a loud-speaking telephone,depending on the fact that the friction between a metallic point anda moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, onwhich it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between thepoint and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "PANELWORK": "Wainscoting.", | |
| "CLAIK": "See Clake.", | |
| "PELLITORY": "The common name of the several species of the genus Parietaria,low, harmless weeds of the Nettle family; -- also called wallpellitory, and lichwort.", | |
| "ISATIS": "A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatistinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.", | |
| "NOTICEABLY": "In a noticeable manner.", | |
| "CENTROSOME": "A peculiar rounded body lying near the nucleus of a cell. It isregarded as the dynamic element by means of which the machinery ofcell division is organized.", | |
| "JAW-FALLEN": "Dejected; chopfallen.", | |
| "VERIFIABLE": "Capable of being verified; confirmable. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "CANTILENA": "See Cantabile.", | |
| "JEROPIGIA": "See Geropigia.", | |
| "SLINK": "To cast prematurely; -- said of female beasts; as, a cow thatslinks her calf.", | |
| "IMMEMORIALLY": "Beyond memory. Bentley.", | |
| "AESTHESODIC": "Conveying sensory or afferent impulses; -- said of nerves.", | |
| "GHAST": "To strike aghast; to affright. [Obs.]Ghasted by the noise I made. Full suddenly he fled. Shak.", | |
| "MONOMPHALUS": "A form of double monster, in which two individuals are unitedby a common umbilicus.", | |
| "DISGORGE": "To vomit forth what anything contains; to discharge; to makerestitution.See where it flows, disgorging at seven mouths Into the sea. Milton.", | |
| "COMEDY": "A dramatic composition, or representation of a bright andamusing character, based upon the foibles of individuals, the mannersof society, or the ludicrous events or accidents of life; a play inwhich mirth predominates and the termination of the plot is happy; --opposed to tragedy.With all the vivacity if comedy. Macaulay.Are come to play a pleasant comedy. Shak.", | |
| "PASSAGER": "A passenger; a bird or boat of passage. [Obs.] Ld. Berners.", | |
| "ABUNA": "The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.", | |
| "NAM": "Am not. [Obs.]", | |
| "PALEOPHYTOLOGY": "Paleobotany.", | |
| "FORMULARISTIC": "Pertaining to, or exhibiting, formularization. Emerson.", | |
| "TIMESERVER": "One who adapts his opinions and manners to the times; one whoobsequiously compiles with the ruling power; -- now used only in abad sense.", | |
| "ARCHITECTRESS": "A female architect.", | |
| "ANDABATISM": "Doubt; uncertainty. [Obs.] Shelford.", | |
| "PROTRACTED": "Prolonged; continued. Protracted meeting,a religious meetingcontinued for many successive days. [U. S.] -- Pro*tract\"ed*ly, adv.-- Pro*tract\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "SANDERS-BLUE": "See Saundersblue.", | |
| "OXIDATION": "The act or process of oxidizing, or the state or result ofbeing oxidized.", | |
| "ASSISTANTLY": "In a manner to give aid. [R.]", | |
| "DESMINE": "Same as Stilbite. It commonly occurs in bundles or tufts ofcrystals.", | |
| "CEASE": "To put a stop to; to bring to an end.But he, her fears to cease Sent down the meek-eyed peace. Milton.Cease, then, this impious rage. Milton", | |
| "STAGELY": "Pertaining to a stage; becoming the theater; theatrical. [Obs.]Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "SWAYED": "Bent down, and hollow in the back; sway-backed; -- said of ahorse. Shak.", | |
| "HURDS": "The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.", | |
| "HESPERORNIS": "A genus of large, extinct, wingless birds from the Cretaceousdeposits of Kansas, belonging to the Odontornithes. They had teeth,and were essentially carnivorous swimming ostriches. Several speciesare known. See Illust. in Append.", | |
| "PLACE-PROUD": "Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "POIKILOTHERMOUS": "Poikilothermal.", | |
| "FAUCHION": "See Falchion. [Obs.]", | |
| "MARCHIONESS": "The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rankand dignity of a marquis. Spelman.", | |
| "STRAGGLINGLY": "In a straggling manner.", | |
| "PORTIERE": "A curtain hanging across a doorway.", | |
| "CHAUSSES": "The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below thewaist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to thearmor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.", | |
| "RULABLE": "That may be ruled; subject to rule; accordant or conformable torule. Bacon.", | |
| "TID": "Tender; soft; nice; -- now only used in tidbit.", | |
| "GRAYFLY": "The trumpet fly. Milton.", | |
| "EPISCOPARIAN": "Episcopal. [R.] Wood.", | |
| "IDEO-MOTOR": "Applied to those actions, or muscular movements, which areautomatic expressions of dominant ideas, rather than the result ofdistinct volitional efforts, as the act of expressing the thoughts inspeech, or in writing, while the mind is occupied in the compositionof the sentence. Carpenter.", | |
| "SNOWSTORM": "A storm with falling snow.", | |
| "OUTPUT": "That which is thrown out as products of the metabolic activityof the body; the egesta other than the f\u00e6ces. See Income.", | |
| "HEMATOXYLIN": "H\u00e6matoxylin.", | |
| "PORPHYRE": "Porphyry. [Obs.] Locke.", | |
| "WOURALI": "Same as Curare.", | |
| "COUNTERTRIPPANT": "Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.", | |
| "ICHTHYOLITE": "A fossil fish, or fragment of a fish.", | |
| "FUTURELESS": "Without prospect of betterment in the future. W. D. Howells.", | |
| "PUMICEOUS": "Of or pertaining to pumice; resembling pumice.", | |
| "GARBOIL": "Tumult; disturbance; disorder. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "CIRCUMFUSION": "The act of pouring or spreading round; the state of beingspread round. Swift.", | |
| "ADIPOLYTIC": "Hydrolyzing fats; converting neutral fats into glycerin andfree fatty acids, esp. by the action of an enzyme; as, adipolyticaction.", | |
| "GASOLINE": "A highly volatile mixture of fluid hydrocarbons, obtained frompetroleum, as also by the distillation of bituminous coal. It is usedin making air gas, and in giving illuminating power to water gas. SeeCarburetor.", | |
| "ECLOGITE": "A rock consisting of granular red garnet, light greensmaragdite, and common hornblende; -- so called in reference to itsbeauty.", | |
| "VIGESIMO-QUARTO": "Having twenty-four leaves to a sheet; as, a vigesimo-quartoform, book, leaf, size, etc.", | |
| "WITELESS": "Blameless. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "IDENTIFY": "To become the same; to coalesce in interest, purpose, use,effect, etc. [Obs. or R.]An enlightened self-interest, which, when well understood, they tellus will identify with an interest more enlarged and public. Burke.", | |
| "LAPPIC": "Of or pertaining to Lapland, or the Lapps.-- n.", | |
| "WERNERITE": "The common grayish or white variety of soapolite.", | |
| "CIRRHIFEROUS": "See Cirriferous.", | |
| "TWO-EDGED": "Having two edges, or edges on both sides; as, a two-edgedsword.", | |
| "VAIN": "Vanity; emptiness; -- now used only in the phrase in vain. Forvain. See In vain. [Obs.] Shak.-- In vain, to no purpose; without effect; ineffectually. \" In vaindoth valor bleed.\" Milton. \" In vain they do worship me.\" Matt. xv.9.-- To take the name of God in vain, to use the name of God withlevity or profaneness.", | |
| "LONG-LIVED": "Having a long life; having constitutional peculiarities whichmake long life probable; lasting long; as, a long-lived tree; theyare a longlived family; long-lived prejudices.", | |
| "FORESTAY": "A large, strong rope, reaching from the foremast head to thebowsprit, to support the mast. See Illust. under Ship.", | |
| "INCASK": "To cover with a casque or as with a casque. Sherwood.", | |
| "FREEBOOTING": "Robbery; plunder; a pillaging.", | |
| "METHYLENE": "A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, butregarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivativesof methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called alsomethene. Methylene blue (Chem.), an artificial dyestuff consisting ofa complex sulphur derivative of diphenyl amine; -- called also pureblue.", | |
| "CONSTRINGE": "To dawn together; to contract; to force to contract itself; toconstrict; to cause to shrink. [R.]Strong liquors . . . intoxicate, constringe, harden the fibers, andcoagulate the fluids. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "RADE": "A raid. [Scot.]", | |
| "BATHYGRAPHIC": "Descriptive of the ocean depth; as, a bathygraphic chart.", | |
| "KERSEYMERE": "See Cassimere.", | |
| "LAMENTATION": "A book of the Old Testament attributed to the prophet Jeremiah,and taking its name from the nature of its contents.", | |
| "MAJUSCULAE": "Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth centuryand earlier.", | |
| "PATRONOMAYOLOGY": "That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names andtheir origin; the study of patronymics.", | |
| "AMMIRAL": "An obsolete form of admiral. \"The mast of some great ammiral.\"Milton.", | |
| "SPECTROPHOTOMETRY": "The art of comparing, photometrically, the brightness of twospectra, wave length by wave length; the use of thespectrophotometer. --Spec`tro*pho`to*met\"ric (#), a.", | |
| "SUPERADVENIENT": "Coming upon; coming in addition to, or in assistance of,something. [R.]He has done bravely by the superadvenient assistance of his God. Dr.H. More.", | |
| "TONGUELET": "A little tongue.", | |
| "DIES NON": "A day on which courts are not held, as Sunday or any legalholiday.", | |
| "CAPITATE": "Having the flowers gathered into a head.", | |
| "CHIMERE": "The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves areusually attached. Hook.", | |
| "SQUARENESS": "The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try thesquareness of work.", | |
| "GALLINACEOUS": "Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertainingto the Gallinae.", | |
| "SELF-REPROACHING": "Reproaching one's self.-- Self`-re*proach\"ing*ly, adv.", | |
| "LAUGHABLE": "Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughablescene.", | |
| "FORAMINOUS": "Having foramina; full of holes; porous. Bacon.", | |
| "ANEMONIC": "An acrid, poisonous, crystallizable substance, obtained from,the anemone, or from anemonin.", | |
| "GYMNOPHIONA": "An order of Amphibia, having a long, annulated, snakelike body.See Ophiomorpha.", | |
| "VALHALLA": "The palace of immortality, inhabited by the souls of heroesslain in battle.", | |
| "ARCHPRESBYTERY": "The absolute dominion of presbytery. Milton.", | |
| "EMYD": "A fresh-water tortoise of the family Emydid\u00e6.", | |
| "DREAMINGLY": "In a dreamy manner.", | |
| "BEROE": "A small, oval, transparent jellyfish, belonging to theCtenophora.", | |
| "HERMODACTYL": "A heart-shaped bulbous root, about the size of a finger,brought from Turkey, formerly used as a cathartic.", | |
| "DECLINATURE": "The act of declining or refusing; as, the declinature of anoffice.", | |
| "PERSOLVE": "To pay wholly, or fully. [Obs.] E. Hall.", | |
| "GREEN": "To make green.Great spring before Greened all the year. Thomson.", | |
| "FRAPLER": "A blusterer; a rowdy. [Obs.]Unpolished, a frapler, and base. B. Jonson.", | |
| "SETIGER": "An annelid having set\u00e6; a ch\u00e6topod.", | |
| "LYRE BIRD": "Any one of two or three species of Australian birds of thegenus Menura. The male is remarkable for having the sixteen tailfeathers very long and, when spread, arranged in the form of a lyre.The common lyre bird (Menura superba), inhabiting New South Wales, isabout the size of a grouse. Its general color is brown, with rufouscolor on the throat, wings, tail coverts and tail. Called also lyrepheasant and lyre-tail.", | |
| "PAPALIZE": "To make papal. [R.]", | |
| "SPHACELATION": "The process of becoming or making gangrenous; mortification.", | |
| "DEPARTMENT STORE": "A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged inseveral departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.", | |
| "DODECANDRIA": "A Linn\u00e6an class of plants including all that have any number ofstamens between twelve and nineteen.", | |
| "ISOCHRONAL": "Uniform in time; of equal time; performed in equal times;recurring at regular intervals; isochronal vibrations oroscillations.", | |
| "RESISTANCE FRAME": "A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretchedspirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heatrapidly.", | |
| "SELF-EXISTENCE": "Inherent existence; existence possessed by virtue of a being'sown nature, and independent of any other being or cause; -- anattribute peculiar to God. Blackmore.", | |
| "GUTTURAL": "Of or pertaining to the throat; formed in the throat; relatingto, or characteristic of, a sound formed in the throat.Children are occasionally born with guttural swellings. W. Guthrie.In such a sweet, guttural accent. Landor.", | |
| "BOOKBINDER": "One whose occupation is to bind books.", | |
| "MANDARINIC": "Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.", | |
| "ASSESSORIAL": "Of or pertaining to an assessor, or to a court of assessors.Coxe.", | |
| "TERRESTRIAL": "An inhabitant of the earth.", | |
| "WHITEWOOD": "The soft and easily-worked wood of the tulip tree(Liriodendron). It is much used in cabinetwork, carriage building,etc.", | |
| "STIFFLY": "In a stiff manner.", | |
| "RUDENTURE": "Cabling. See Cabling. gwilt.", | |
| "COSMOLOGY": "The science of the world or universe; or a treatise relating tothe structure and parts of the system of creation, the elements ofbodies, the modifications of material things, the laws of motion, andthe order and course of nature.", | |
| "GOTH": "One of an ancient Teutonic race, who dwelt between the Elbe andthe Vistula in the early part of the Christian era, and who overranand took an important part in subverting the Roman empire.", | |
| "DWELL": "To inhabit. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "JAGGY": "Having jags; set with teeth; notched; uneven; as, jaggy teeth.Addison.", | |
| "FILIPINO": "A native of the Philippine Islands, specif. one of Spanishdescent or of mixed blood.", | |
| "RELENTLESS": "Unmoved by appeals for sympathy or forgiveness; insensible tothe distresses of others; destitute of tenderness; unrelenting;unyielding; unpitying; as, a prey to relentless despotism.For this the avenging power employs his darts,.. Thus will persist,relentless in his ire. Dryden.-- Re*lent\"less*ly, adv.-- Re*lent\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "BEDOTE": "To cause to dote; to deceive. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "FRETTED": "Interlaced one with another; -- said of charges and ordinaries.", | |
| "CHOROLOGY": "The science which treats of the laws of distribution of livingorganisms over the earth's surface as to latitude, altitude,locality, etc.Its distribution or chorology. Huxley.", | |
| "CASSINIAN OVALS": "See under Oval.", | |
| "DEDALIAN": "See D\u00e6dalian.", | |
| "-ITE": "A suffix used to denote the salts formed from those acids whosenames end in -ous; as, sulphite, from sulphurous; nitrite, fromnitrous acid, etc.", | |
| "ENDOSPERMIC": "Relating to, accompanied by, or containing, endosperm.", | |
| "TAMWORTH": "One of a long-established English breed of large pigs. They arered, often spotted with black, with a long snout and erect orforwardly pointed ears, and are valued as bacon producers.", | |
| "PORTEMONNAIE": "A small pocketbook or wallet for carrying money.", | |
| "INSTINCT": "Urged or sas, birds instinct with life.The chariot of paternal deity . . . Itself instinct with spirit, butconvoyed By four cherubic shapes. Milton.A noble performance, instinct with sound principle. Brougham.", | |
| "DECOMPLEX": "Repeatedly compound; made up of complex constituents.", | |
| "SACHEM": "A chief of a tribe of the American Indians; a sagamore.", | |
| "PENTINE": "An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C5H8, of the acetylene series. Sameas Valerylene.", | |
| "CATAMITE": "A boy kept for unnatural purposes.", | |
| "ADVENTUAL": "Relating to the season of advent. Sanderson.", | |
| "TORREFACTION": "The act or process of torrefying, or the state of beingtorrefied. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "PANHELLENISM": "A scheme to unite all the Greeks in one political body.", | |
| "ENDOCYST": "The inner layer of the cells of Bryozoa.", | |
| "WICOPY": "See Leatherwood.", | |
| "UNAQUIT": "Unrequited. [R. & Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "SWEAT": "The fluid which is excreted from the skin of an animal; thefluid secreted by the sudoriferous glands; a transparent, colorless,acid liquid with a peculiar odor, containing some fatty acids andmineral matter; perspiration. See Perspiration.In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread. Gen. iii. 19.", | |
| "TUN": "A fermenting vat.", | |
| "SEXTOLET": "A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the timeof four.", | |
| "THERMOTROPIC": "Manifesting thermotropism.", | |
| "WOLFHOUND": "Originally, a large hound used in hunting wolves; now, any oneof certain breeds of large dogs, some of which are nearly identicalwith the great Danes.", | |
| "COMITIAL": "Relating to the comitia, or popular assembles of the Romans forelecting officers and passing laws. Middleton.", | |
| "ABANGA": "A West Indian palm; also the fruit of this palm, the seeds ofwhich are used as a remedy for diseases of the chest.", | |
| "MEDICORNU": "The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of thebrain. B. G. Wilder.", | |
| "SARCULATION": "A weeding, as with a hoe or a rake.", | |
| "OILMAN": "One who deals in oils; formerly, one who dealt in oils andpickles.", | |
| "ADVOWEE": "One who has an advowson. Cowell.", | |
| "COMPETITRIX": "A competitress.", | |
| "TRUNDLEHEAD": "One of the disks forming the ends of a lantern wheel or pinion.", | |
| "CHIGNON": "A knot, boss, or mass of hair, natural or artificial, worn by awoman at the back of the head.A curl that had strayed from her chignon. H. James.", | |
| "CONJUGALITY": "The conjugal state; sexual intercourse. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "PURSEFUL": "All that is, or can be, contained in a purse; enough to fill apurse.", | |
| "CONJECTURER": "One who conjectures. Hobbes.", | |
| "TELEMETROGRAPH": "A combination of the camera lucida and telescope for drawingand measuring distant objects. -- Tel`e*me*trog\"ra*phy (#), n. --Tel`e*met`ro*graph\"ic (#), a.", | |
| "PISTACHE": "The anacardiaceous tree Pistacia vera, which yields thepistachio nut; also, the nut itself and the flavoring extractprepared from it.", | |
| "SYNSEPALOUS": "Having united sepals; gamosepalous.", | |
| "LABEFY": "To weaken or impair. [R.]", | |
| "TRANSVERSE": "Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; --often opposed to Ant: longitudinal. Transverse axis (of an ellipse orhyperbola) (Geom.), that axis which passes through the foci.-- Transverse partition (Bot.), a partition, as of a pericarp, atright angles with the valves, as in the siliques of mustard.", | |
| "MALIGN": "To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; towrong; to injure. [Obs.]The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will againstprivate men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murderingthem. Spenser.", | |
| "PUBLICIST": "A writer on the laws of nature and nations; one who is versedin the science of public right, the principles of government, etc.The Whig leaders, however, were much more desirous to get rid ofEpiscopacy than to prove themselves consummate publicists andlogicians. Macaulay.", | |
| "CONTINUER": "One who continues; one who has the power of perseverance orpersistence. \"Indulgent continuers in sin.\" Hammond.I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and so good acontinuer. Shak.", | |
| "DESIGNING": "Intriguing; artful; scheming; as, a designing man.", | |
| "HEMISTICHAL": "Pertaining to, or written in, hemistichs; also, by, oraccording to, hemistichs; as, a hemistichal division of a verse.", | |
| "OSSIVOROUS": "Feeding on bones; eating bones; as, ossivorous quadrupeds.Derham.", | |
| "PIPEFISH": "Any lophobranch fish of the genus Siphostoma, or Syngnathus,and allied genera, having a long and very slender angular body,covered with bony plates. The mouth is small, at the end of a long,tubular snout. The male has a pouch on his belly, in which theincubation of the eggs takes place.", | |
| "ROUGHRIDER": "One who breaks horses; especially (Mil.), a noncommissionedofficer in the British cavalry, whose duty is to assist the ridingmaster.", | |
| "NIHILITY": "Nothingness; a state of being nothing.", | |
| "PLIM": "To swell, as grain or wood with water. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.", | |
| "DEMULSION": "The act of soothing; that which soothes. Feltham.", | |
| "DETESTABLENESS": "The quality or state of being detestable.", | |
| "GRES": "Grass. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "SELF-REPELLING": "Made up of parts, as molecules or atoms, which mutually repeleach other; as, gases are self-repelling.", | |
| "INSTRUCTRESS": "A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.", | |
| "UNBETHINK": "To change the mind of (one's self). [Obs.]", | |
| "AFFIRMATION": "A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, bypersons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declarationis in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.", | |
| "PRAEMOLAR": "See Premolar.", | |
| "GEHENNA": "The valley of Hinnom, near Jerusalem, where some of theIsraelites sacrificed their children to Moloch, which, on thisaccount, was afterward regarded as a place of abomination, and made areceptacle for all the refuse of the city, perpetual fires being keptup in order to prevent pestilential effluvia. In the New Testamentthe name is transferred, by an easy metaphor, to Hell.The pleasant valley of Hinnom. Tophet thence And black Gehennacalled, the type of Hell. Milton.", | |
| "BUMPKIN": "An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout.\"Bashful country bumpkins.\" W. Irving.", | |
| "ATHAMAUNT": "Adamant. [Obs.]Written in the table of athamaunt. Chaucer.", | |
| "BLUEPOLL": "A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.", | |
| "CLASH GEAR": "A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by slidingendwise.", | |
| "UNDERMOST": "Lowest, as in place, rank, or condition. Addison.", | |
| "SHOVELHEAD": "A shark (Sphryna tiburio) allied to the hammerhead, and nativeof the warmer parts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans; -- calledalso bonnet shark.", | |
| "PARAMAGNETISM": "Magnetism, as opposed to diamagnetism. Faraday.", | |
| "WEIRD": "To foretell the fate of; to predict; to destine to. [Scot.]Jamieson.", | |
| "HYPOCHONDRY": "Hypochondriasis.", | |
| "STATABLE": "That can be stated; as, a statablegrievance; the question atissue is statable.", | |
| "THEWY": "Having strong or large thews or muscles; muscular; sinewy;strong.", | |
| "SPUMEOUS": "Spumous. [Obs.] r. H. More.", | |
| "MEDIAEVALLY": "In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance withmedi\u00e6valism.", | |
| "PHTHONGAL": "Formed into, or characterized by, voice; vocalized; -- said ofall the vowels and the semivowels, also of the vocal or sonantconsonants g, d, b, l, r, v, z, etc.", | |
| "BONDSTONE": "A stone running through a wall from one face to another, tobind it together; a binding stone.", | |
| "LUSTILY": "In a lusty or vigorous manner.", | |
| "NIELLO": "A process, now no longer used, invented by J. N. Niepce, aFrench chemist, in 1829. It depends upon the action of light inrendering a thin layer of bitumen, with which the plate is coated,insoluble.", | |
| "DODECASYLLABIC": "Having twelve syllables.", | |
| "DEOBSTRUCT": "To remove obstructions or impediments in; to clear fromanything that hinders the passage of fluids; as, to deobstruct thepores or lacteals. Arbuthnot.", | |
| "STREPTONEURA": "An extensive division of gastropod Mollusca in which the loopor visceral nerves is twisted, and the sexes separate. It is nearlyto equivalent to Prosobranchiata.", | |
| "CORONOID": "Resembling the beak of a crow; as, the coronoid process of thejaw, or of the ulna.", | |
| "ORNITHOLITE": "Of or pertaining to ornithology.", | |
| "SUBTECTACLE": "A space under a roof; a tabernacle; a dwelling. [Obs.] Davies(Holy Roode).", | |
| "OBOMEGOID": "Obversely omegoid.", | |
| "LYCHNOSCOPE": "Same as Low side window, under Low, a.", | |
| "DISCRIMINATION": "The arbitrary imposition of unequal tariffs for substantiallythe same service.A difference in rates, not based upon any corresponding difference incost, constitutes a case of discrimination. A. T. Hadley.", | |
| "LOESS": "A quaternary deposit, usually consisting of a fine yellowishearth, on the banks of the Rhine and other large rivers.", | |
| "HUSWIFE": "A case for sewing materials. See Housewife. Cowper.", | |
| "MISDISPOSITION": "Erroneous disposal or application. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "FOXEARTH": "A hole in the earth to which a fox resorts to hide himself.", | |
| "FLUGELMAN": "Same as Fugleman.", | |
| "URTICA": "A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.", | |
| "RECOMMENDATIVE": "That which recommends; a recommendation. [Obs.]", | |
| "BLUENESS": "The quality of being blue; a blue color. Boyle.", | |
| "CUDGEL": "A staff used in cudgel play, shorter than the quarterstaff, andwielded with one hand; hence, any heavy stick used as a weapon.He getteth him a grievous crabtree cudgel and . . . falls to ratingof them as if they were dogs. Bunyan.Cudgel play, a fight or sportive contest with cudgels.-- To cross the cudgels, to forbear or give up the contest; -- aphrase borrowed from the practice of cudgel players, who lay onecudgel over another when the contest is ended.-- To take up cudgels for, to engage in a contest in behalf of (someone or something).", | |
| "HURTLESS": "Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury orharm.Gentle dame so hurtless and so true. Spenser.-- Hurt\"less*ly, adv.-- Hurt\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "MAGGOT-PIE": "A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "PSEUDOHALTER": "One of the rudimentary front wings of certain insects(Stylops). They resemble the halteres, or rudimentary hind wings, ofDiptera.", | |
| "PHYLLOPHOROUS": "Leaf-bearing; producing leaves.", | |
| "SEA FAN": "Any gorgonian which branches in a fanlike form, especiallyGorgonia flabellum of Florida and the West Indies.", | |
| "PERMEABLY": "In a permeable manner.", | |
| "VIOLASCENT": "Violescent. [R.]", | |
| "MISBECOMING": "Unbecoming. Milton.-- Mis`be*com\"ing*ly, adv.-- Mis`be*com\"ing*ness, n. Boyle.", | |
| "HYPERNOEA": "Abnormal breathing, due to slightly deficient arterializationof the blood; -- in distinction from eupnoea. See Eupnoea, andDispnoea.", | |
| "LACRYMAL": "See Lachrymatory, n., and Lachrymal, a.", | |
| "MEAWL": "See Mewl, and Miaul.", | |
| "PROLLER": "Prowler; thief. [Obs.] Chapman.", | |
| "INUNDERSTANDING": "Void of understanding. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.", | |
| "SANGUINARIA": "A genus of plants of the Poppy family.", | |
| "TRAVELED": "Having made journeys; having gained knowledge or experience bytraveling; hence, knowing; experienced. [Written also travelled.]The traveled thane, Athenian Aberdeen. Byron.", | |
| "PERICOPE": "A selection or extract from a book; especially (Theol.), aselection from the Bible, appointed to be read in the churches orused as a text for a sermon.", | |
| "LINEOLATE": "Marked with little lines.", | |
| "PENTACRINUS": "A genus of large, stalked crinoids, of which several speciesoccur in deep water among the West Indies and elsewhere.", | |
| "ROUGHWORK": "To work over coarsely, without regard to nicety, smoothness, orfinish. Moxon.", | |
| "POTECARY": "An apothecary. [Obs.]", | |
| "PREINDISPOSE": "To render indisposed beforehand. Milman.", | |
| "LATINIZE": "To use words or phrases borrowed from the Latin. Dryden.", | |
| "ANTIFEBRINE": "Acetanilide.", | |
| "PEDIPALP": "One of the Pedipalpi.", | |
| "AFFRIGHTFUL": "Terrifying; frightful.-- Af*fright\"ful*ly, adv. [Archaic]Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth.", | |
| "PROCRUSTEAN": "Of or pertaining to Procrustes, or the mode of torturepracticed by him; producing conformity by violent means; as, theProcrustean treatment; a Procrustean limit. See Procrustes.", | |
| "LYOPOMATA": "An order of brachiopods, in which the valves of shell are notarticulated by a hinge. It includes the Lingula, Discina, and alliedforms. [Written also Lyopoma.]", | |
| "MEZUZOTH": "A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to thedoorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews.", | |
| "PERENNIBRANCHIATA": "Those Batrachia which retain their gills through life, as themenobranchus.", | |
| "WAFERER": "A dealer in the cakes called wafers; a confectioner. [Obs.]Chaucer.", | |
| "TABOR": "A small drum used as an accompaniment to a pipe or fife, bothbeing played by the same person. [Written also tabour, and taber.]", | |
| "CARBONACEOUS": "Pertaining to, containing, or composed of, carbon.", | |
| "TWENTYFOLD": "Twenty times as many.", | |
| "SONGLESS": "Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songlessbirds; songless woods.", | |
| "CONCLUDENT": "Bringing to a close; decisive; conclusive. [Obs.]Arguments highly consequential and concludent to my purpose. Sir M.Hale.", | |
| "BATHMISM": "See Vital force.", | |
| "EXPENSEFULL": "Full of expense; costly; chargeable. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.-- Ex*pense\"ful*ly, adv. [R.] -- Ex*pense\"ful*ness, n. [R.]", | |
| "POME": "A fruit composed of several cartilaginous or bony carpelsinclosed in an adherent fleshy mass, which is partly receptacle andpartly calyx, as an apple, quince, or pear.", | |
| "PHOTOGRAPHONE": "A device, consisting essentially of an electric arc and acamera, by which a series of photographs of the variations of the arcdue to sound waves are obtained for reproduction by means of aselenium cell and a telephone.", | |
| "UNDERWEAR": "That which is worn under the outside clothing; underclothes.", | |
| "ARGOSY": "A large ship, esp. a merchant vessel of the largest size.Where your argosies with portly sail . . . Do overpeer the pettytraffickers. Shak.", | |
| "BRITTLELY": "In a brittle manner. Sherwood.", | |
| "QUACK GRASS": "See Quitch grass.", | |
| "SPARELESS": "Unsparing. Sylvester.", | |
| "MOLLUSCUM": "A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, ofvarious forms, filled with a thick matter; -- so called from theresemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals. Dunglison.", | |
| "APOPHTHEGM": "See Apothegm.", | |
| "APPRIZAL": "See Appraisal.", | |
| "ASSIDUATE": "Unremitting; assiduous. [Obs.] \"Assiduate labor.\" Fabyan.", | |
| "POLEMARCH": "In Athens, originally, the military commanderin-chief; but,afterward, a civil magistrate who had jurisdiction in respect ofstrangers and sojourners. In other Grecian cities, a high militaryand civil officer.", | |
| "SWITCHING": "from Switch, v. Switching engine, a locomotive for switchingcars from one track to another, and making up trains; -- called alsoswitch engine. [U.S.]", | |
| "COWPEA": "The seed of one or more leguminous plants of the genusDolichos; also, the plant itself. Many varieties are cultivated inthe southern part of the United States.", | |
| "EXORCISER": "An exorcist.", | |
| "RENT": "To rant. [R. & Obs.] Hudibras.", | |
| "MANABLE": "Marriageable.[Obs.]", | |
| "DISPOSINGLY": "In a manner to dispose.", | |
| "ADJECTIVALLY": "As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively.", | |
| "DEMERSED": "Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.", | |
| "REGEST": "A register. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "SURDITY": "Deafness. [Obs.]", | |
| "ACCESSARILY": "In the manner of an accessary.", | |
| "TOYFUL": "Full of trifling play. [Obs.] Donne.", | |
| "COPARCENARY": "Partnership in inheritance; joint heirship; joint right ofsucession to an inheritance.", | |
| "NARRATORY": "Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters.Howell.", | |
| "EXTENT": "Extended. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "AUXESIS": "A figure by which a grave and magnificent word is put for theproper word; amplification; hyperbole.", | |
| "SEMICASTRATE": "To deprive of one testicle.-- Sem`i*cas*tra\"tion,n.", | |
| "BICKERN": "An anvil ending in a beak or point (orig. in two beaks); also,the beak or horn itself.", | |
| "IMPUNE": "Unpunished. [R.]", | |
| "SCYPHUS": "A kind of large drinking cup, -- used by Greeks and Romans,esp. by poor folk.", | |
| "THOMSONIAN": "Of or pertaining to Thomsonianism.-- n.", | |
| "ACTIONABLE": "That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, tocall a man a thief is actionable.", | |
| "SHEDDER": "A crab in the act of casting its shell, or immediatelyafterwards while still soft; -- applied especially to the ediblecrabs, which are most prized while in this state.", | |
| "DEHYDROGENATE": "To deprive of, or free from, hydrogen.", | |
| "AMMUNITION": "To provide with ammunition.", | |
| "BINATE": "Double; growing in pairs or couples. Gray.", | |
| "PROHIBITIVE": "That prohibits; prohibitory; as, a tax whose effect isprohibitive.", | |
| "COLDNESS": "The state or quality of being cold.", | |
| "REINSPIRE": "To inspire anew. Milton.", | |
| "REPOSED": "Composed; calm; tranquil; at rest. Bacon.-- Re*pos\"ed*ly (r, adv.-- Re*pos\"ed*ness, n.", | |
| "FREEWHEEL": "A clutch fitted in the rear hub of a cycle, which engages therear sprocket with the rear wheel when the pedals are rotatedforwards, but permits the rear wheel to run on free from the rearsprocket when the pedals are stopped or rotated backwards.Freewheelcycles are usually fitted with hub brakes or rim brakes,operated by back pedaling.", | |
| "FOUNDERY": "Same as Foundry.", | |
| "ANTIVACCINIST": "One opposed to vaccination.", | |
| "NITROSE": "See Nitrous.", | |
| "TRANSPLANTER": "One who transplants; also, a machine for transplanting trees.", | |
| "COPIOUS": "Large in quantity or amount; plentiful; abundant; fruitful.Kindly pours its copious treasures forth. Thomson.Hail, Son of God, Savior of men! thy name Shall be the copious matterof my song. Milton.", | |
| "KITTLE": "To bring forth young, as a cat; to kitten; to litter. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.]", | |
| "SIGNIORSHIP": "State or position of a signior.", | |
| "HYPOTHETIST": "One who proposes or supports an hypothesis. [R.]", | |
| "SUSPENSELY": "In suspense. [Obs.] Hales.", | |
| "CLAMMY": "Having the quality of being viscous or adhesive; soft andsticky; glutinous; damp and adhesive, as if covered with a coldperspiration.", | |
| "CONGRESSMAN": "A member of the Congress of the United States, esp. of theHouse of Representatives.", | |
| "LEAKINESS": "The quality of being leaky.", | |
| "REPOSIT": "To cause to rest or stay; to lay away; to lodge, as for safetyor preservation; to place; to store.Others reposit their young in holes. Derham.", | |
| "CLATHRATE": "Shaped like a lattice; cancellate. Gray.", | |
| "SYNCARPIUM": "Same as Syncarp.", | |
| "INDOLES": "Natural disposition; natural quality or abilities.", | |
| "WATER CURE": "Hydropathy.", | |
| "CLARE-OBSCURE": "See Chiaroscuro.", | |
| "COLLOPED": "Having ridges or bunches of flesh, like collops.With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.", | |
| "LANIARY": "Lacerating or tearing; as, the laniary canine teeth.", | |
| "DRAYMAN": "A man who attends a dray.", | |
| "SUB-": "A prefix denoting that the ingredient (of a compound) signifiedby the term to which it is prefixed,is present in only a smallproportion, or less than the normal amount; as, subsulphide,suboxide, etc. Prefixed to the name of a salt it is equivalent tobasic; as, subacetate or basic acetate. [Obsoles.]", | |
| "LIONISM": "An attracting of attention, as a lion; also, the treating orregarding as a lion.", | |
| "GALENA": "A remedy or antidose for poison; theriaca. [Obs.] Parr.", | |
| "WATER MOUSE": "Any one of several species of mice belonging to the genusHydromys, native of Australia and Tasmania. Their hind legs arestrong and their toes partially webbed. They live on the borders ofstreams, and swim well. They are remarkable as being the only rodentsfound in Australia.", | |
| "GOSSAMERY": "Like gossamer; flimsy.The greatest master of gossamery affectation. De Quincey.", | |
| "ASSAFOETIDA": "Same as Asafetida.", | |
| "AMPULLIFORM": "Flask-shaped; dilated.", | |
| "MODILLION": "The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found underthe cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, andsometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- socalled because of its arrangement at regulated distances.", | |
| "TAMER": "One who tames or subdues.", | |
| "RIGSDALER": "A Danish coin worth about fifty-four cents. It was former unitof value in Denmark.", | |
| "AUBADE": "An open air concert in the morning, as distinguished from anevening serenade; also, a pianoforte composition suggestive ofmorning. Grove.The crowing cock . . . Sang his aubade with lusty voice and clear.Longfellow.", | |
| "SUBLIMATED": "Refined by, or as by, sublimation; exalted; purified.[Words] whose weight best suits a sublimated strain. Dryden.", | |
| "ALIMONIOUS": "Affording food; nourishing. [R.] \"Alimonious humors.\" Harvey.", | |
| "DIGESTIBLE": "Capable of being digested.", | |
| "FEHMIC": "See Vehmic.", | |
| "WATER PENNYWORT": "Marsh pennywort. See under Marsh.", | |
| "CALLOSAN": "Of the callosum.", | |
| "ACCUSE": "Accusation. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "SUBCELESTIAL": "Being beneath the heavens; as, subcelestial glories. Barrow.", | |
| "GNAW": "To use the teeth in biting; to bite with repeated effort, as ineating or removing with the teethsomething hard, unwiedly, orunmanageable.I might well, like the spaniel, gnaw upon the chain that ties me. SirP. Sidney.", | |
| "INTRAMOLECULAR": "Between molecules; situated, or acting, between the moleculesof bodies.", | |
| "EARMARK": "To mark, as sheep, by cropping or slitting the ear.", | |
| "UNICELLULAR": "Having, or consisting of, but a single cell; as, a unicellularorganism.", | |
| "STREAM WHEEL": "A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, thevelocity of flowing water; a current wheel.", | |
| "UPBLOW": "To inflate. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "TETRALOGY": "A group or series of four dramatic pieces, three tragedies andone satyric, or comic, piece (or sometimes four tragedies),represented consequently on the Attic stage at the Dionysiacfestival.", | |
| "PANE": "The narrow edge of a hammer head. See Peen.", | |
| "LARCENY": "The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal withintent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf.Embezzlement. Grand larceny and Petit larceny are distinctions havingreference to the nature or value of the property stolen. They areabolished in England.-- Mixed, or Compound, larceny, that which, under statute, includesin it the aggravation of a taking from a building or the person.-- Simple larceny, that which is not accompanied with anyaggravating circumstances.", | |
| "COMPASSLESS": "Having no compass. Knowles.", | |
| "GRAVIC": "Pertaining to, or causing, gravitation; as, gravic forces;gravic attraction. [R.]", | |
| "ACROBATISM": "Feats of the acrobat; daring gymnastic feats; high vaulting.", | |
| "UNPARAGONED": "Having no paragon or equal; matchless; peerless. [R.]Your unparagoned mistress is dead. Shak.", | |
| "BRONTOMETER": "An instrument for noting or recording phenomena attendant onthunderstorms.", | |
| "CHICCORY": "See Chicory.", | |
| "LATINITASTER": "One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.", | |
| "GANGRENESCENT": "Tending to mortification or gangrene.", | |
| "HEEDLESS": "Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless;unobservant.O, negligent and heedless discipline! Shak.The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound himso. Waller.-- Heed\"less*ly, adv.-- Heed\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "SUSPENSATION": "The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended,especially for a short time; temporary suspension.", | |
| "NONUNIFORMIST": "One who believes that past changes in the structure of theearth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than arenow operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian.", | |
| "FETTER": "1. To put fetters upon; to shakle or confine the feet of with achain; to bind.My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. Milton.", | |
| "CREDENDUM": "A thing to be believed; an article of faith; -- distinguishedfrom agendum, a practical duty.The great articles and credenda of Christianity. South.", | |
| "TIGERINE": "Tigerish; tigrine. [R.]", | |
| "IRREPRESENTABLE": "Not capable of being represented or portrayed.", | |
| "RIDDER": "One who, or that which, rids.", | |
| "SERIN": "A European finch (Serinus hortulanus) closely related to thecanary.", | |
| "DISCONFORMABLE": "Not conformable.Disconformable in religion from us. Stow (1603).", | |
| "FUTURE": "That is to be or come hereafter; that will exist at any timeafter the present; as, the next moment is future, to the present.Future tense (Gram.), the tense or modification of a verb whichexpresses a future act or event.", | |
| "TESTIFICATOR": "A testifier.", | |
| "MYSTIC": "One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views,interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one whoprofessed mysticism. See Mysticism.", | |
| "CONCHIFEROUS": "Producing or having shells.", | |
| "ANTICHTHON": "Inhabitants of opposite hemispheres. Whewell.", | |
| "BULLBEGGAR": "Something used or suggested to produce terror, as in childrenor persons of weak mind; a bugbear.And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the churchwardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in theparish. Mountfort (1691).", | |
| "SYMPTOMATOLOGY": "The doctrine of symptoms; that part of the science of medicinewhich treats of the symptoms of diseases; semeiology.", | |
| "MATRICULATION": "The act or process of matriculating; the state of beingmatriculated.", | |
| "WHENCESOEVER": "From what place soever; from what cause or source soever.Any idea, whencesoever we have it. Locke.", | |
| "BEVER": "A light repast between meals; a lunch. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "REPARTOTION": "Another, or an additional, separation into parts.", | |
| "HEMACHROME": "Same as H\u00e6machrome.", | |
| "GRAINING": "The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.", | |
| "-ENCE": "A noun suffix signifying action, state, or quality; also, thatwhich relates to the action or state; as in emergence, diffidence,diligence, influence, difference, excellence. See -ance.", | |
| "PREDEDICATION": "A dedication made previously or beforehand.", | |
| "SLOBBER": "See Slabber.", | |
| "FILE CLOSER": "A commissioned or noncommissioned officer posted in the rear ofa line, or on the flank of a column, of soldiers, to rectify mistakesand insure steadiness and promptness in the ranks.", | |
| "VENDER": "One who vends; one who transfers the exclusive right ofpossessing a thing, either his own, or that of another as his agent,for a price or pecuniary equivalent; a seller; a vendor.", | |
| "DELETERIOUS": "Hurtful; noxious; destructive; pernicious; as, a deleteriousplant or quality; a deleterious example.-- Del`e*te\"ri*ous*ly, adv.-- Del`e*te\"ri*ous*ness, n.", | |
| "DAUGHTERLINESS": "The state of a daughter, or the conduct becoming a daughter.", | |
| "NEPOTAL": "Of or relating to a nephew.", | |
| "SNUGGLE": "To move one way and the other so as to get a close place; tolie close for comfort; to cuddle; to nestle.", | |
| "SUBGLUMACEOUS": "Somewhat glumaceous.", | |
| "PLEURO-": "A combining form denoting relation to a side; specif.,connection with, or situation in or near, the pleura; as,pleuroperitoneum.", | |
| "IMPULSIVE": "Acting momentarily, or by impulse; not continuous; -- said offorces.", | |
| "GESTE": "To tell stories or gests. [Obs.]", | |
| "EQUINUMERANT": "Equal as to number. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.", | |
| "FATTISH": "Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness.Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man.Carlyle.", | |
| "CAREWORN": "Worn or burdened with care; as, careworn look or face.", | |
| "ALCHEMY": "See Alchemic, Alchemist, Alchemistic, Alchemy.", | |
| "HYDROMETEOR": "A meteor or atmospheric phenomenon dependent upon the vapor ofwater; -- in the pl., a general term for the whole aqueous phenomenaof the atmosphere, as rain, snow, hail, etc. Nichol.", | |
| "TAME": "To broach or enter upon; to taste, as a liquor; to divide; todistribute; to deal out. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]In the time of famine he is the Joseph of the country, and keeps thepoor from starving. Then he tameth his stacks of corn, which not hiscovetousness, but providence, hath reserved for time of need. Fuller.", | |
| "COMMENDATARY": "One who holds a living in commendam.", | |
| "SYNDICALISM": "The theory, plan, or practice of trade-union action (originallyas advocated and practiced by the French Conf\u00e9d\u00e9ration G\u00e9n\u00e9rale duTravail) which aims to abolish the present political and socialsystem by means of the general strike (as distinguished from thelocal or sectional strike) and direct action of whatever kind (asdistinguished from action which takes effect only through the mediumof political action) -- direct action including any kind of actionthat is directly effective, whether it be a simple strike, a peacefulpublic demonstration, sabotage, or revolutionary violence. By thegeneral strike and direct action syndicalism aims to establish asocial system in which the means and processes of production are inthe control of local organizations of workers, who are manage themfor the common good.", | |
| "HEBDOMATICAL": "Weekly; hebdomadal. [Obs.]", | |
| "COPING": "The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often withsloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping. Gwill.", | |
| "EVAL": "Relating to time or duration. [Obs.]", | |
| "BED ROCK": "The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.", | |
| "CORREI": "A hollow in the side of a hill, where game usually lies. \"Fleetfoot on the correi.\" Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "DEBAUCHED": "Dissolute; dissipated. \"A coarse and debauched look.\" Ld.Lytton.", | |
| "WORD METHOD": "A method of teaching reading in which words are first taken assingle ideograms and later analyzed into their phonetic andalphabetic elements; -- contrasted with the alphabet and sentencemethods.", | |
| "CORRIVALSHIP": "Corivalry. [R.]By the corrivalship of Shager his false friend. Sir T. Herbert.", | |
| "ENGLISHABLE": "Capable of being translated into, or expressed in, English.", | |
| "RATTLE-BRAINED": "Giddy; rattle-headed.", | |
| "POSPOLITE": "A kind of militia in Poland, consisting of the gentry, which,in case of invasion, was summoned to the defense of the country.", | |
| "WEEDERY": "Weeds, collectively; also, a place full of weeds or for growingweeds. [R.] Dr. H. More.", | |
| "BAR IRON": "See under Iron.", | |
| "SEDUCING": "Seductive. \"Thy sweet seducing charms.\" Cowper.-- Se*du\"cing*ly, adv.", | |
| "MUSOMANIA": "See Musicomania.", | |
| "BENEVOLOUS": "Kind; benevolent. [Obs.] T. Puller.", | |
| "PROPYLIC": "Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, propyl; as,propylic alcohol.", | |
| "EXPROBRATE": "To charge upon with reproach; to upbraid. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "LUTHERN": "A dormer window. See Dormer.", | |
| "MELANESIAN": "Of or pertaining to Melanesia.", | |
| "LEATHERWOOD": "A small branching shrub (Dirca palustris), with a white, softwood, and a tough, leathery bark, common in damp woods in theNorthern United States; -- called also moosewood, and wicopy. Gray.", | |
| "PHYTONOMY": "The science of the origin and growth of plants.", | |
| "PICKAPACK": "Pickaback.", | |
| "BY-END": "Private end or interest; secret purpose; selfish advantage.[Written also bye-end.]\"Profit or some other by-end.\" L'Estrange.", | |
| "CONFUSE": "Mixed; confounded. [Obs.] Baret.", | |
| "FRAULEIN": "In Germany, a young lady; an unmarried woman; -- as a title,equivalent to Miss.", | |
| "RAMPANTLY": "In a rampant manner.", | |
| "POCK-PUDDING": "A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly appliedby the Scotch to the English.", | |
| "MISTREATMENT": "Wrong treatment.", | |
| "INTENSIFICATION": "The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.", | |
| "FASTIDIOUS": "Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty;squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.", | |
| "CUCULOID": "Like or belonging to the cuckoos (Cuculid\u00e6).", | |
| "JEOPARD": "To put in jeopardy; to expose to loss or injury; to imperil; tohazard. Sir T. North.A people that jeoparded their lives unto the death. Judg. v. 18.", | |
| "RELIGIOUSNESS": "The quality of being religious.", | |
| "PLAGIUM": "Manstealing; kidnaping.", | |
| "HARMONICALLY": "In harmonical progression.", | |
| "ACREABLE": "Of an acre; per acre; as, the acreable produce.", | |
| "ALCARRAZA": "A vessel of porous earthenware, used for cooling liquids byevaporation from the exterior surface.", | |
| "SQUAWK": "To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly. Squawkingthrush (Zo\u00f6l.), the missel turush; -- so called from its note whenalarmed. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "RUBYTAIL": "A European gold wasp (Chrysis ignita) which has the under sideof the abdomen bright red, and the other parts deep bluish green witha metallic luster. The larva is parasitic in the nests of other waspsand of bees.", | |
| "EMPURPLE": "To tinge or dye of a purple color; to color with purple; toimpurple. \"The deep empurpled ran.\" Philips.", | |
| "ENLARGED": "Made large or larger; extended; swollen.-- En*lar\"ged*ly, adv.-- En*lar\"ged*ness, n.", | |
| "NOISINESS": "The state or quality of being noisy.", | |
| "GARBLE": "Impurities separated from spices, drugs, etc.; -- also calledgarblings.", | |
| "POLYHISTOR": "One versed in various learning. [R.]", | |
| "AHEAP": "In a heap; huddled together. Hood.", | |
| "SUBLUXATION": "An incomplete or partial dislocation.", | |
| "PREMISE": "Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from whichthe conclusion is drawn.", | |
| "OVATE-SUBULATE": "Having an ovate form, but with a subulate tip or extremity.", | |
| "MESEL": "A leper. [Obs.]", | |
| "SHALM": "See Shawm. [Obs.] Knolles.", | |
| "SILICULE": "A silicle.", | |
| "OXYGENIC": "Pertaining to, containing, or resembling, oxygen; producingoxygen.", | |
| "INEFFICACIOUSLY": "without efficacy or effect.", | |
| "DENTEL": "Same as Dentil.", | |
| "CLOSE-STOOL": "A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick andinfirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tightcover.", | |
| "GECKO": "Any lizard of the family Geckonid\u00e6. The geckoes are small,carnivorous, mostly nocturnal animals with large eyes and vertical,elliptical pupils. Their toes are generally expanded, and furnishedwith adhesive disks, by which they can run over walls and ceilings.They are numerous in warm countries, and a few species are found inEurope and the United States. See Wall gecko, Fanfoot.", | |
| "MELODRAMATIST": "One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.", | |
| "PELLIBRANCHIATA": "A division of Nudibranchiata, in which the mantle itself servesas a gill.", | |
| "HOUTOU": "A beautiful South American motmot. Waterton.", | |
| "FELLFARE": "The fieldfare.", | |
| "LENTENTIDE": "The season of Lenten or Lent.", | |
| "UNENTANGLE": "To disentangle.", | |
| "SAXIFRAGACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Saxifragace\u00e6) ofwhich saxifrage is the type. The order includes also the alum root,the hydrangeas, the mock orange, currants and gooseberries, and manyother plants.", | |
| "ASTRO-": "The combining form of the Greek word 'a`stron, meaning star.", | |
| "HECTOR": "A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one whovexes or provokes.", | |
| "IMPHEE": "The African sugar cane (Holcus saccharatus), -- resembling thesorghum, or Chinese sugar cane.", | |
| "DONET": "Same as Donat. Piers Plowman.", | |
| "CHILDING": "Bearing Children; (Fig.) productive; fruitful. [R.] Shak.", | |
| "ANACARDIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, the cashew nut; as, anacardicacid.", | |
| "RIGIDNESS": "The quality or state of being rigid.", | |
| "UNBLEMISHED": "Not blemished; pure; spotless; as, an unblemished reputation orlife. Addison.", | |
| "DIABOLIFY": "To ascribed diabolical qualities to; to change into, or torepresent as, a devil. [R.] Farindon.", | |
| "MACRODACTYL": "One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very longtoes. [Written also macrodactyle.]", | |
| "MESETHMOID": "Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoidbone.-- n. (Anat.)", | |
| "PRIESTLIKE": "Priestly. B. Jonson.", | |
| "INFANTICIDE": "The murder of an infant born alive; the murder or killing of anewly born or young child; child murder.", | |
| "MAYFISH": "A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.", | |
| "FULGURATE": "To flash as lightning. [R.]", | |
| "INEFFECTUAL": "Not producing the proper effect; without effect; inefficient;weak; useless; futile; unavailing; as, an ineffectual attempt; anineffectual expedient. Pope.The peony root has been much commended, . . . and yet has been bymany found ineffectual. Boyle.", | |
| "REMITTER": "The sending or placing back of a person to a title or right hehad before; the restitution of one who obtains possession of propertyunder a defective title, to his rights under some valid title byvirtue of which he might legally have entered into possession only bysuit. Bouvier.", | |
| "UNSOCIABLE": "Not sociable; not inclined to society; averse to companionshipor conversation; solitary; reserved; as, an unsociable person ortemper.-- Un*so\"cia*ble*ness, n.-- Un*so\"cia*bly, adv.", | |
| "EXTUBERATION": "Protuberance. [Obs.] Farindon.", | |
| "WATER HYACINTH": "Either of several tropical aquatic plants of the genusEichhornia, related to the pickerel weed.", | |
| "SPRAINTS": "The dung of an otter.", | |
| "ELECTRIFY": "To become electric.", | |
| "MISCONDUCT": "Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison.", | |
| "OTITIS": "Inflammation of the ear.", | |
| "TANGHINIA": "The ordeal tree. See under Ordeal.", | |
| "PECTINATION": "Comblike toothing.", | |
| "PHYLLODIUM": "A petiole dilated into the form of a blade, and usually withvertical edges, as in the Australian acacias.", | |
| "FRONTLESSLY": "Shamelessly; impudently. [Obs.]", | |
| "CENTILOQUY": "A work divided into a hundred parts. [R.] Burton.", | |
| "WEYLEWAY": "See Welaway. [Obs.]", | |
| "GUFFER": "The eelpout; guffer eel.", | |
| "KEEL": "To cool; to akin or stir [Obs.]While greasy Joan doth keel the pot. Shak.", | |
| "ADMIXTION": "A mingling of different things; admixture. Glanvill.", | |
| "NEUROTOMY": "The division of a nerve, for the relief of neuralgia, or forother purposes. Dunglison.", | |
| "HEMOSTATIC": "Of or relating to stagnation of the blood.", | |
| "UTLARY": "Outlawry. [Obs.] Camden.", | |
| "GOD-FEARING": "Having a reverential and loving feeling towards God; religious.A brave good-fearing man. Tennyson.", | |
| "RETURNLESS": "Admitting no return. Chapman.", | |
| "ALLODIALIST": "One who holds allodial land.", | |
| "TURBAN-TOP": "A kind of fungus with an irregularly wrinkled, somewhatglobular pileus (Helvella, or Gyromitra, esculenta.).", | |
| "PURSE": "To steal purses; to rob. [Obs. & R.]I'll purse: . . . I'll bet at bowling alleys. Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "WAXWORK": "An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens). It bears aprofusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open in the autumn, anddisplay the scarlet coverings of the seeds.", | |
| "HELIOTYPY": "A method of transferring pictures from photographic negativesto hardened gelatin plates from which impressions are produced onpaper as by lithography.", | |
| "FLEDGE": "Feathered; furnished with feathers or wings; able to fly.Hfledge with wings. Milton.", | |
| "RIXATRIX": "A scolding or quarrelsome woman; a scold. Burrill.", | |
| "DIPTEROUS": "Having two wings, as certain insects; belonging to the orderDiptera.", | |
| "GALACTODENSIMETER": "Same as Galactometer.", | |
| "MUTINOUS": "Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized bymutiny; seditious; insubordinate.The city was becoming mutinous. Macaulay.-- Mu\"ti*nous*ly, adv.-- Mu\"ti*nous*ness, n.", | |
| "KODAK": "A kind of portable camera.", | |
| "TETRAZOLE": "A crystalline acid substance, CH2N4, which may be regarded aspyrrol in which nitrogen atoms replace three CH groups; also, any ofvarious derivatives of the same.", | |
| "WET-BULB THERMOMETER": "That one of the two similar thermometers of a psychrometer thebulb of which is moistened; also, the entire instrument.", | |
| "VOLCANIAN": "Volcanic. [R.] Keats.", | |
| "DENTELLI": "Modillions. Spectator.", | |
| "POLYPHEMUS": "A very large American moth (Telea polyphemus) belonging to theSilkworm family (Bombycid\u00e6). Its larva, which is very large, brightgreen, with silvery tubercles, and with oblique white stripes on thesides, feeds on the oak, chestnut, willow, cherry, apple, and othertrees. It produces a large amount of strong silk. Called alsoAmerican silkworm.", | |
| "HIEMS": "Winter. Shak.", | |
| "CALIFORNIA JACK": "A game at cards, a modification of seven-up, or all fours.", | |
| "IMPERISHABILITY": "The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. \"Theimperishability of the universe.\" Milman.", | |
| "STAMEN": "The male organ of flowers for secreting and furnishing thepollen or fecundating dust. It consists of the anther and filament.", | |
| "DECADENT": "Decaying; deteriorating.", | |
| "GLASS-FACED": "Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. [R.] \"Theglass-faced flatterer.\" Shak.", | |
| "PINNIPEDIA": "A suborder of aquatic carnivorous mammals including the sealsand walruses; -- opposed to Fissipedia.", | |
| "HEALTHILY": "In a healthy manner.", | |
| "PURPORT": "To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.They in most grave and solemn wise unfolded Matter which littlepurported. Rowe.", | |
| "CASTOR OIL": "A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds ofthe Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil isinodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.", | |
| "EAGRE": "A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height andviolence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonlycalled the bore. See Bore.", | |
| "FOREBODINGLY": "In a foreboding manner.", | |
| "ILLY": "Etym: [A word not fully approved, but sometimes used for theadverb ill.]", | |
| "IBIDEM": "In the same place; -- abbreviated ibid. or ib.", | |
| "CIRCULINE": "Proceeding in a circle; circular. [Obs.] \"With motioncirculine\". Dr. H. More.", | |
| "EQUESTRIANISM": "The art of riding on horseback; performance on horseback;horsemanship; as, feats equestrianism.", | |
| "SELF-MURDER": "Suicide.", | |
| "MARABOU": "A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp.the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn asornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is theadjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also marabu.]", | |
| "STAR-CROSSED": "Not favored by the stars; ill-fated. [Poetic] Shak.Such in my star-crossed destiny. Massinger.", | |
| "ELAEOLITE": "A variety of hephelite, usually massive, of greasy luster, andgray to reddish color. El\u00e6olite syenite, a kind of syenitecharacterized by the presence of el\u00e6olite.", | |
| "CREAT": "An usher to a riding master.", | |
| "TRACTITE": "A Tractarian.", | |
| "CONICALITY": "Conicalness.", | |
| "QUADRUPLEX": "Fourfold; folded or doubled twice. Quadruplex system (ElectricTelegraph), a system by which four messages, two in each direction,may be sent simultaneously over the wire.", | |
| "BOROUGHMONGER": "One who buys or sells the parliamentary seats of boroughs.", | |
| "TOPPINGLY": "In a topping or proud manner.", | |
| "EARTHBRED": "Low; grovelling; vulgar.", | |
| "COMETOGRAPHER": "One who describes or writes about comets.", | |
| "ANOPHYTE": "A moss or mosslike plant which cellular stems, having usuallyan upward growth and distinct leaves.", | |
| "NORTHEAST": "The point between the north and east, at an equal distance fromeach; the northeast part or region.", | |
| "DISPOST": "To eject from a post; to displace. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode).", | |
| "INVIOLATELY": "In an inviolate manner.", | |
| "PASTEURIZER": "One that Pasteurizes, specif. an apparatus for heating andagitating, fluid.", | |
| "WARELY": "Cautiously; warily. [Obs.]They bound him hand and foot with iron chains, And with continualwatch did warely keep. Spenser.", | |
| "PRAETOR": "See Pretor.", | |
| "MISERATION": "Commiseration. [Obs.]", | |
| "FAWN": "A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.", | |
| "MESSUAGE": "A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage,and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.Cowell. Bouvier.They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, andmessuages in York. Tennyson.", | |
| "SNOB": "A townsman. [Canf]", | |
| "GOSPEL": "Accordant with, or relating to, the gospel; evangelical; as,gospel righteousness. Bp. Warburton.", | |
| "ASTROPHYTON": "A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.", | |
| "AUSCULTATE": "To practice auscultation; to examine by auscultation.", | |
| "FORHALL": "To harass; to torment; to distress. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "SKINNINESS": "Quality of being skinny.", | |
| "FRAGMENTED": "Broken into fragments.", | |
| "LUCUBRATORY": "Composed by candlelight, or by night; of or pertaining to nightstudies; laborious or painstaking. Pope.", | |
| "SIRKEER": "Any one of several species of Asiatic cuckoos of the genusTaccocua, as the Bengal sirkeer (T. sirkee).", | |
| "PROFECTION": "A setting out; a going forward; advance; progression. [Obs.]Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "RISORIAL": "Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorialmuscles.", | |
| "WATER BAILIFF": "An officer of the customs, whose duty it is to search vessels.[Eng.]", | |
| "BELL": "That part of the capital of a column included between theabacus and neck molding; also used for the naked core of nearlycylindrical shape, assumed to exist within the leafage of a capital.", | |
| "BY-INTEREST": "Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.", | |
| "COSTLEWE": "Costly. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PAGURIAN": "Any one of a tribe of anomuran crustaceans, of which Pagurus isa type; the hermit crab. See Hermit crab, under Hermit.", | |
| "PICRATE": "A salt of picric acid.", | |
| "BOD VEAL": "Veal too immature to be suitable for food.", | |
| "HUMBIRD": "Humming bird.", | |
| "SCIOLISTIC": "Of or pertaining to sciolism, or a sciolist; partaking ofsciolism; resembling a sciolist.", | |
| "LINCHI": "An esculent swallow.", | |
| "INEXTRICABLY": "In an inextricable manner.", | |
| "GARRULOUS": "Having a loud, harsh note; noisy; -- said of birds; as, thegarrulous roller.", | |
| "HOIDENISH": "Like, or appropriate to, a hoiden.", | |
| "SEMITONTINE": "Lit., half-tontine; -- used to designate a form of tontine lifeinsurance. See Tontine insurance. --Sem`i*ton*tine\", n.", | |
| "WATER BRAIN": "A disease of sheep; gid.", | |
| "DISBANDMENT": "The act of disbanding.", | |
| "PARIDIGITATE": "Having an evennumber of digits on the hands or the feet. Qwen.", | |
| "SUBSULPHATE": "A sulphate with an excess of the base.", | |
| "CHATTERER": "A bird of the family Ampelid\u00e6 -- so called from its monotonousnote. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arcticregions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a morecommon species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.", | |
| "REGENERATION": "The entering into a new spiritual life; the act of becoming, orof being made, Christian; that change by which holy affectations andpurposes are substituted for the opposite motives in the heart.He saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the HolyChost. Tit. iii. 5.", | |
| "BLITHESOME": "Cheery; gay; merry.The blithesome sounds of wassail gay. Sir W. Scott.-- Blithe\"some*ly, adv.-- Blithe\"some*ness, n.", | |
| "HIBERNO-CELTIC": "The native language of the Irish; that branch of the Celticlanguages spoken by the natives of Ireland. Also adj.", | |
| "PAROTIC": "On the side of the auditory capsule; near the external ear.Parotic region (Zo\u00f6l.), the space around the ears.", | |
| "DELIBER": "To deliberate. [Obs.]", | |
| "BITTERLY": "In a bitter manner.", | |
| "ECARTE": "A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which theplayers may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive othersfrom the pack.", | |
| "MORAINIC": "Of or pertaining to a moranie.", | |
| "COMMONPLACE": "Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, orobservation.", | |
| "SPIRIT": "Rum, whisky, brandy, gin, and other distilled liquors havingmuch alcohol, in distinction from wine and malt liquors.", | |
| "OCTANE": "Any one of a group of metametric hydrocarcons (C8H18) of themethane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile,inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzeneor ligroin.", | |
| "DIABASE": "A basic, dark-colored, holocrystalline, igneous rock,consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar and pyroxene withmagnetic iron; -- often limited to rocks pretertiary in age. Itincludes part of what was early called greenstone.", | |
| "ANTRUSTION": "A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in theirenterprises.", | |
| "ARMAMENTARY": "An armory; a magazine or arsenal. [R.]", | |
| "CETOLOGICAL": "Of or pertaining to cetology.", | |
| "COULOMB": "The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It isthe quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the currentproduced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuithaving a resistance of one ohm, or the quantitty transferred by oneamp\u00e8re in one second. Formerly called weber.", | |
| "HOOSIER": "A nickname given to an inhabitant of the State of Indiana.[U.S.]", | |
| "PAYN": "Bread. Having Piers Plowman.", | |
| "BENJAMIN": "See Benzoin.", | |
| "PRETORTURE": "To torture beforehand. Fuller.", | |
| "SCRUTABLE": "Discoverable by scrutiny, inquiry, or critical examination.[R.] r. H. More.", | |
| "PLACE-KICK": "To make a place kick; to make (a goal) by a place kick. --Place\"-kick`er, n.", | |
| "UNSECRET": "To disclose; to divulge. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "ENCYST": "To inclose in a cyst.", | |
| "STARLING": "Any passerine bird belonging to Sturnus and allied genera. TheEuropean starling (Sturnus vulgaris) is dark brown or greenish black,with a metallic gloss, and spotted with yellowish white. It is asociable bird, and builds about houses, old towers, etc. Called alsostare, and starred. The pied starling of India is Sternopastorcontra.", | |
| "LEG": "The course and distance made by a vessel on one tack or betweentacks.", | |
| "DAUNTER": "One who daunts.", | |
| "FOURTEEN": "Four and ten more; twice seven.", | |
| "DIASPORE": "A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masseswith brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of itsdecrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.", | |
| "TRICROTIC": "Of or pertaining to tricrotism; characterized by tricrotism.", | |
| "NUTRIMENTAL": "Nutritious.", | |
| "EMBLEMENT": "The growing crop, or profits of a crop which has been sown orplanted; -- used especially in the plural. The produce of grass,trees, and the like, is not emblement. Wharton's Law Dict.", | |
| "PENTAGRAM": "A pentacle or a pentalpha. \"Like a wizard pentagram.\" Tennyson.", | |
| "AMIDO": "Containing, or derived from, amidogen. Amido acid, an acid inwhich a portion of the nonacid hydrogen has been replaced by theamido group. The amido acids are both basic and acid.-- Amido group, amidogen, NH2.", | |
| "SEVERALLY": "Separately; distinctly; apart from others; individually.There must be an auditor to check and revise each severally byitself. De Quincey.", | |
| "METAGENIC": "Metagenetic.", | |
| "APPEAL": "To apply for the removal of a cause from an inferior to asuperior judge or court for the purpose of re\u00ebxamination of fordecision. Tomlins.I appeal unto C\u00e6sar. Acts xxv. 11.", | |
| "THROTTLE": "The throttle valve. Throttle lever (Steam Engine), the handlever by which a throttle valve is moved, especially in a locomotive.-- Throttle valve (Steam Engine), a valve moved by hand or by agovernor for regulating the supply of steam to the steam chest. Inone form it consists of a disk turning on a transverse axis.", | |
| "SAVOY": "A variety of the common cabbage (Brassica oleracea major),having curled leaves, -- much cultivated for winter use.", | |
| "SKEET": "A scoop with a long handle, used to wash the sides of a vessel,and formerly to wet the sails or deck.", | |
| "SPLINTERY": "Consisting of splinters; resembling splinters; as, thesplintery fracture of a mineral.", | |
| "MULIEROSE": "Fond of woman. [R.] Charles Reade.", | |
| "PARAPOPHYSIS": "The ventral transverse, or capitular, process of a vertebra.See Vertebra.-- Par*ap`o*phys\"ic*al, a.", | |
| "GRANGERIZE": "To collect (illustrations from books) for decoration of otherbooks. G. A. Sala.", | |
| "VACILLANT": "Vacillating; wavering; fluctuating; irresolute.", | |
| "WHISKER": "That part of the beard which grows upon the sides of the face,or upon the chin, or upon both; as, side whiskers; chin whiskers.", | |
| "LONG-SUFFERANCE": "Forbearance to punish or resent.", | |
| "ASTROLATER": "A worshiper of the stars. Morley.", | |
| "MULCH": "Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground,as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., andto preserve moisture.", | |
| "MADLY": "In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.", | |
| "HYPERSECRETION": "Morbid or excessive secretion, as in catarrh.", | |
| "INERRABILITY": "Freedom or exemption from error; infallibility. Eikon Basilike.", | |
| "ROYALIZATION": "The act of making loyal to a king. [R.] Saintsbury.", | |
| "HARIOLATION": "Prognostication; soothsaying. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "SAPPHO": "Any one of several species of brilliant South American hummingbirds of the genus Sappho, having very bright-colored and deeplyforked tails; -- called also firetail.", | |
| "INFERIORITY": "The state of being inferior; a lower state or condition; as,inferiority of rank, of talents, of age, of worth.A deep sense of our own great inferiority. Boyle.", | |
| "TUCKER": "A fuller. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PORER": "One who pores.", | |
| "HAIRBELL": "See Harebell.", | |
| "THEORETICS": "The speculative part of a science; speculation.At the very first, with our Lord himself, and his apostles, asrepresented to us in the New Testament, morals come beforecontemplation, ethics before theoretics. H. B. Wilson.", | |
| "PRUSSIC": "designating the acid now called hydrocyanic acid, but formerlycalled prussic acid, because Prussian blue is derived from it or itscompounds. See Hydrocyanic.", | |
| "HATCHMENT": "A sort of panel, upon which the arms of a deceased person aretemporarily displayed, -- usually on the walls of his dwelling. It islozenge-shaped or square, but is hung cornerwise. It is used inEngland as a means of giving public notification of the death of thedeceased, his or her rank, whether married, widower, widow, etc.Called also achievement.His obscure funeral; No trophy, sword, or hatchment o'er his bones.Shak.", | |
| "IMPROLIFICATE": "To impregnate. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "IMPERIALIZE": "To invest with imperial authority, character, or style; tobring to the form of an empire. Fuller.", | |
| "CARABAO": "The water buffalo. [Phil. Islands]", | |
| "SLIGHTER": "One who slights.", | |
| "KICKSHAW": "See Kickshaws, the correct singular.", | |
| "RECHOOSE": "To choose again.", | |
| "VARIFY": "To make different; to vary; to variegate. [R.] Sylvester.", | |
| "NORWEGIAN": "Of or pertaining to Norway, its inhabitants, or its language.", | |
| "BURBOT": "A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose twovery small barbels, and a larger one on the chin. [Written alsoburbolt.]", | |
| "INCONVERTIBLENESS": "Inconvertibility.", | |
| "GAINSTAND": "To withstand; to resist. [Obs.]Durst . . . gainstand the force of so many enraged desires. Sir P.Sidney.", | |
| "SODIUM": "A common metallic element of the alkali group, in nature alwaysoccuring combined, as in common salt, in albite, etc. It is isolatedas a soft, waxy, white, unstable metal, so readily oxidized that itcombines violently with water, and to be preserved must be kept underpetroleum or some similar liquid. Sodium is used combined in manysalts, in the free state as a reducer, and as a means of obtainingother metals (as magnesium and aluminium) is an important commercialproduct. Symbol Na (Natrium). Atomic weight 23. Specific gravity0.97. Sodium amalgam, an alloy of sodium and mercury, usuallyproduced as a gray metallic crystalline substance, which is used as areducing agent, and otherwise.-- Sodium bicarbonate, a white crystalline substance, HNaCO3, with aslight alkaline taste resembling that of sodium carbonate. It isfound in many mineral springs and also produced artificially,. It isused in cookery, in baking powders, and as a source of carbonic acidgas (carbon dioxide) for soda water. Called also cooking soda,saleratus, and technically, acid sodium carbonate, primary sodiumcarbonate, sodium dicarbonate, etc.-- Sodium carbonate, a white crystalline substance, Na2CO3.10H2O,having a cooling alkaline taste, found in the ashes of many plants,and produced artifically in large quantities from common salt. It isused in making soap, glass, paper, etc., and as alkaline agent inmany chemical industries. Called also sal soda, washing soda, orsoda. Cf. Sodium bicarbonate, above and Trona. Sodium chloride,common, or table, salt, NaCl.-- Sodium hydroxide, a white opaque brittle solid, NaOH, having afibrous structure, produced by the action of quicklime, or of calciumhydrate (milk of lime), on sodium carbonate. It is a strong alkali,and is used in the manufacture of soap, in making wood pulp forpaper, etc. Called also sodium hydrate, and caustic soda. Byextension, a solution of sodium hydroxide.", | |
| "TYMPANAL": "Tympanic.", | |
| "POT-BELLY": "A protuberant belly.", | |
| "AIR PUMP": "A kind of pump for exhausting air from a vessel or closedspace; also, a pump to condense air of force in into a closed space.", | |
| "DEARY": "A dear; a darling. [Familiar]", | |
| "WAFT": "To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.And now the shouts waft near the citadel. Dryden.", | |
| "HALOED": "Surrounded with a halo; invested with an ideal glory;glorified.Some haloed face bending over me. C. Bront\u00e9.", | |
| "HEY": "High. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PYRIDINE": "A nitrogenous base, C5H5N, obtained from the distillation ofbone oil or coal tar, and by the decomposition of certain alkaloids,as a colorless liquid with a peculiar pungent odor. It is the nucleusof a large number of organic substances, among which severalvegetable alkaloids, as nicotine and certain of the ptoma\u00efnes, may bementioned. See Lutidine.", | |
| "EXTACY": "See Ecstasy. [Obs.]", | |
| "MANSION": "A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.Chaucer.", | |
| "STOCHASTIC": "Conjectural; able to conjecture. [Obs.] Whitefoot.", | |
| "MERLIN": "A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. \u00e6salon).", | |
| "AVOUCH": "Evidence; declaration. [Obs.]The sensible and true avouch Of mine own eyes. Shak.", | |
| "EXTERNALISTIC": "Pertaining to externalism North Am. Rev.", | |
| "MADID": "Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.", | |
| "SEDITIONARY": "An inciter or promoter of sedition. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "FLYAWAY GRASS": "The hair grass (Agrostis scabra). So called from its lightpanicle, which is blown to great distances by the wind.", | |
| "DURGA": "Same as Doorga.", | |
| "KIDDOW": "The guillemot. [Written also kiddaw.] [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PHALANGER": "Any marsupial belonging to Phalangista, Cuscus, Petaurus, andother genera of the family Phalangistid\u00e6. They are arboreal, and thespecies of Petaurus are furnished with lateral parachutes. See Flyingphalanger, under Flying.", | |
| "-ONE": "A suffix indicating that the substance, in the name of which itappears, is a ketone; as, acetone.", | |
| "DECONSECRATE": "To deprive of sacredness; to secularize.-- De*con`se*cra\"tion, n.", | |
| "POSTPONENCE": "The act of postponing, in sense 2. [Obs.] Johnson.", | |
| "QUIN": "A European scallop (Pecten opercularis), used as food. [Prov.Eng.]", | |
| "TONICAL": "Tonic. [R.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "SHARPEN": "To make sharp. Specifically:(a) To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, tosharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.(b) To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more readyor ingenious.The air . . . sharpened his visual ray To objects distant far.Milton.He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens ourskill. Burke.", | |
| "SEQUENTIAL": "Succeeding or following in order.-- Se*quen\"tial*ly, adv.", | |
| "IMPROPER": "To appropriate; to limit. [Obs.]He would in like manner improper and inclose the sunbeams to comfortthe rich and not the poor. Jewel.", | |
| "PERDURE": "To last or endure for a long time; to be perdurable or lasting.[Archaic]The mind perdures while its energizing may construct a thousandlines. Hickok.", | |
| "IMPARADISE": "To put in a state like paradise; to make supremely happy.\"Imparadised in one another's arms.\" Milton.", | |
| "PYROXYLE": "See Pyroxylic, -yl.", | |
| "KEDDAH": "An inclosure constructed to entrap wild elephants; an elephanttrap. [India]", | |
| "EARST": "See Erst. [Obs.] Spenser.", | |
| "OBJURGATION": "The act of objurgating; reproof.While the good lady was bestowing this objurgation on Mr.Ben Allen.Dickens.With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs. Landor.", | |
| "AMIC": "Related to, or derived, ammonia; -- used chiefly as a suffix;as, amic acid; phosphamic acid. Amic acid (Chem.), one of a class ofnitrogenized acids somewhat resembling amides.", | |
| "CONQUEST": "The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance;acquisition. Blackstone.", | |
| "EPITHET": "To describe by an epithet. [R.]Never was a town better epitheted. Sir H. Wotton.", | |
| "TURNICIMORPHAE": "A division of birds including Turnix and allied genera,resembling quails in appearance but differing from them anatomically.", | |
| "OPEN-EYED": "With eyes widely open; watchful; vigilant. Shak.", | |
| "TATAUPA": "A South American tinamou (Crypturus tataupa).", | |
| "ICHTHYOPTERYGIA": "See Ichthyosauria.", | |
| "BULL-ROARER": "A contrivance consisting of a slat of wood tied to the end of athong or string, with which the slat is whirled so as to cause anintermittent roaring noise. It is used as a toy, and among some racesin certain religious rites.", | |
| "PERFECTER": "One who, or that which, makes perfect. \"The . . . perfecter ofour faith.\" Barrow.", | |
| "SHROUDY": "Affording shelter. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "FINOS": "Second best wool from Merino sheep. Gardner.", | |
| "PNEUMOPHORA": "A division of holothurians having an internal gill, orrespiratory tree.", | |
| "LAZAR": "A person infected with a filthy or pestilential disease; aleper. Chaucer.Like loathsome lazars, by the hedges lay. Spenser.Lazar house a lazaretto; also, a hospital for quarantine.", | |
| "COLLEGATARY": "A joint legatee.", | |
| "TEATHE": "See Tath. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "LAMELLICORNIA": "A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called alsoLamellicornes.", | |
| "INNOMINATE": "A term used in designating many parts otherwise unnamed; as,the innominate artery, a great branch of the arch of the aorta; theinnominate vein, a great branch of the superior vena cava. Innominatebone (Anat.), the great bone which makes a lateral half of the pelvisin mammals; hip bone; haunch bone; huckle bone. It is composed ofthree bones, ilium, ischium, and pubis, consolidated into one in theadult, though separate in the fetus, as also in many adult reptilesand amphibians.-- Innominate contracts (Law), in the Roman law, contracts without aspecific name.", | |
| "ENTACKLE": "To supply with tackle. [Obs.] Skelton.", | |
| "AEGEAN": "Of or pertaining to the sea, or arm of the Mediterranean sea,east of Greece. See Archipelago.", | |
| "ACCIDENTALLY": "In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance;unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.", | |
| "VATICINAL": "Of or pertaining to prophecy; prophetic. T. Warton.", | |
| "DISCUBITORY": "Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "STAKE-DRIVER": "The common American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus); -- socalled because one of its notes resembles the sound made in driving astake into the mud. Called also meadow hen, and Indian hen.", | |
| "IULUS": "A genus of chilognathous myriapods. The body is long and round,consisting of numerous smooth, equal segments, each of which bearstwo pairs of short legs. It includes the galleyworms. SeeChilognatha.", | |
| "CIRCUMVOLANT": "Flying around.The circumvolant troubles of humanity. G. Macdonald.", | |
| "GEOMETRICALLY": "According to the rules or laws of geometry.", | |
| "CRUPPER": "To fit with a crupper; to place a crupper upon; as, to cruppera horse.", | |
| "DYNAMISM": "The doctrine of Leibnitz, that all substance involves force.", | |
| "PEDERASTIC": "Of or pertaining to pederasty.", | |
| "QUINNAT": "The California salmon (Oncorhynchus choicha); -- called alsochouicha, king salmon, chinnook salmon, and Sacramento salmon. It isof great commercial importance. [Written also quinnet.]", | |
| "BREADBASKET": "The stomach. [Humorous] S. Foote.", | |
| "BAIL": "A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.]The bail of a canoe . . . made of a human skull. Capt. Cook.", | |
| "BESSEMER STEEL": "Steel made directly from cast iron, by burning out a portion ofthe carbon and other impurities that the latter contains, through theagency of a blast of air which is forced through the molten metal; --so called from Sir Henry Bessemer, an English engineer, the inventorof the process.", | |
| "SHOOP": "imp. of Shape. Shaped. Chaucer.", | |
| "IRRECLAIMABLE": "Incapable of being reclaimed. Addison.-- Ir`re*claim\"a*bly, ad", | |
| "LANDER": "A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive thekibble of ore.", | |
| "TARED": "Weighed; determined; reduced to equal or standard weight; as,tared filter papers, used in weighing precipitates.", | |
| "TOSWINK": "To labor excessively. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "INNAVIGABLE": "Incapable of being navigated; impassable by ships or vessels.Drygen.-- In*nav\"i*ga*bly, adv.", | |
| "DEVOURER": "One who, or that which, devours.", | |
| "EASY-GOING": "Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.", | |
| "HYALOGRAPH": "An instrument for tracing designs on glass.", | |
| "REVALESCENT": "Growing well; recovering strength.", | |
| "BENUMB": "To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; tostupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.The creeping death benumbed her senses first. Dryden.", | |
| "SAUCEBOX": "A saucy, impudent person; especially, a pert child.Saucebox, go, meddle with your lady's fan, And prate not here! A.Brewer.", | |
| "SATURATOR": "One who, or that which, saturates.", | |
| "WESTLING": "A westerner. [R.]", | |
| "PTYALOGOGUE": "A ptysmagogue.", | |
| "KET": "Carrion; any filth. [Prob. Eng.] Halliwell.", | |
| "CO-UNITE": "To unite. [Obs.]", | |
| "RETINUE": "The body of retainers who follow a prince or otherdistinguished person; a train of attendants; a suite.Others of your insolent retinue. Shak.What followers, what retinue canst thou gain Milton.To have at one's retinue, to keep or employ as a retainer; to retain.[Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CASTALIAN": "Of or pertaining to Castalia, a mythical fountain ofinspiration on Mt. Parnassus sacred to the Muses. Milton.", | |
| "TOURNIQUET": "An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentiallyof a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which istightened by a screw or other means.", | |
| "SWOBBER": "Four privileged cards, formerly used in betting at the game ofwhist. [Written also swabber.] Swift.", | |
| "REBOATION": "Repetition of a bellow. [R.] Bp. Patrick.", | |
| "ABNORMAL": "Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type;anomalous; irregular. \"That deviating from the type; anomalous;irregular. \" Froude.", | |
| "CARROM": "See Carom.", | |
| "BUDDHISTIC": "Same as Buddhist, a.", | |
| "OPTATE": "To choose; to wish for; to desire. [Obs.] Cotgrave.", | |
| "LINGUALITY": "The quality of being lingual.", | |
| "AMPERSAND": "A word used to describe the character Halliwell.", | |
| "BEFIT": "To be suitable to; to suit; to become.That name best befits thee. Milton.", | |
| "TREVET": "A stool or other thing supported by three legs; a trivet.", | |
| "DROVY": "Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "BUNGALOW": "A thatched or tiled house or cottage, of a single story,usually surrounded by a veranda. [India]", | |
| "ABLAQUEATION": "The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to exposethem to the air and water. [Obs.] Evelyn.", | |
| "TATTER": "One who makes tatting. Caulfield & S. (Doct. of Needlework).", | |
| "CREDENCE": "The small table by the side of the altar or communion table, onwhich the bread and wine are placed before being consecrated.", | |
| "SHOEBILL": "A large African wading bird (Bal\u00e6niceps rex) allied to thestorks and herons, and remarkable for its enormous broad swollenbill. It inhabits the valley of the White Nile. See Illust. (l.) ofBeak.", | |
| "HAREHOUND": "See Harrier. A. Chalmers.", | |
| "INTENSIVE": "Serving to give force or emphasis; as, an intensive verb orpreposition.", | |
| "PURSE-PROUD": "Affected with purse pride; puffed up with the possession ofriches.", | |
| "BLOWPOINT": "A child's game. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEMORALIZE": "To corrupt or undermine in morals; to destroy or lessen theeffect of moral principles on; to render corrupt or untrustworthy inmorals, in discipline, in courage, spirit, etc.; to weaken in spiritor efficiency.The demoralizing example of profligate power and prosperous crime.Walsh.The vices of the nobility had demoralized the army. Bancroft.", | |
| "MUGWORT": "A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at onetime used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.", | |
| "ROC": "A monstrous bird of Arabian mythology. [Written also rock, andrukh.] Brande & C.", | |
| "LIQUIDAMBER": "See Liquidambar.", | |
| "MANAGEABLE": "Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable;tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.", | |
| "HORRIDLY": "In a horrid manner. Shak.", | |
| "HALF-MAST": "A point some distance below the top of a mast or staff; as, aflag a half-mast (a token of mourning, etc.).", | |
| "EXOSSEOUS": "Boneless. \"Exosseous animals. \" Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "NOISEFUL": "Loud; clamorous. [Obs.] Dryden.", | |
| "SPOLIATORY": "Tending to spoil; destructive; spoliative.", | |
| "CAPITULA": "See Capitulum.", | |
| "IDIOLATRY": "Self-worship; excessive self-esteem.", | |
| "NEWFANGLE": "Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.]So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.", | |
| "ICHTHUS": "In early Christian and eccesiastical art, an emblematic fish,or the Greek word for fish, which combined the initials of the Greekwords", | |
| "TOUCANET": "A small toucan.", | |
| "UNLIVED": "Bereft or deprived of life. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "ROMANCER": "One who romances.", | |
| "REAPPOINTMENT": "The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.", | |
| "CASSAREEP": "A condiment made from the sap of the bitter cassava (Manihotutilissima) deprived of its poisonous qualities, concentrated byboiling, and flavored with aromatics. See Pepper pot.", | |
| "SANGUINOLENCY": "The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.", | |
| "SOMMERSET": "See Somersault.", | |
| "SUGARINESS": "The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.", | |
| "SECRETIST": "A dealer in secrets. [Obs.]", | |
| "FARMERESS": "A woman who farms.", | |
| "LAPSTONE": "A stone for the lap, on which shoemakers beat leather.", | |
| "NEUROMUSCULAR": "Nervomuscular.", | |
| "ALEMANNIC": "Belonging to the Alemanni, a confederacy of warlike Germantribes.", | |
| "DECUSSATE": "To cross at an acute angle; to cut or divide in the form of X;to intersect; -- said of lines in geometrical figures, rays of light,nerves, etc.", | |
| "MANIFESTATION": "The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of beingmanifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, thatwhich manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, themanifestation of God's power in creation.The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed,requires this public manifestation of them at the great day.Atterbury.", | |
| "THEOPNEUSTIC": "Given by the inspiration of the Spirit of God.", | |
| "LATUS RECTUM": "The line drawn through a focus of a conic section parallel tothe directrix and terminated both ways by the curve. It is theparameter of the principal axis. See Focus, and Parameter.", | |
| "FELICITOUS": "Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful;skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.Felicitous words and images. M. Arnold.-- Fe*lic\"i*tous*ly, adv.-- Fe*lic\"i*tous*ness, n.", | |
| "POY NETTE": "A bodkin. [Obs.]", | |
| "PUBIC": "Of or pertaining to the pubes; in the region of the pubes; as,the pubic bone; the pubic region, or the lower part of thehypogastric region. See Pubes.(b) Of or pertaining to the pubis.", | |
| "RADIOLITE": "A hippurite.", | |
| "HYALONEMA": "A genus of hexactinelline sponges, having a long stem composedof very long, slender, transparent, siliceous fibres twisted togetherlike the strands of a color. The stem of the Japanese species (H.Sieboldii), called glass-rope, has long been in use as an ornament.See Glass-rope.", | |
| "EXOGENOUS": "Pertaining to, or having the character of, an exogen; -- theopposite of endogenous.", | |
| "SCHENE": "An Egyptian or Persian measure of length, varying from thirthy-two to sixty stadia.", | |
| "RHYTHMOMETER": "An instrument for marking time in musical movements. SeeMetronome.", | |
| "OBSTIPATION": "Extreme constipation. [Obs.] Hooper.", | |
| "SELF-PERPLEXED": "Perplexed by doubts originating in one's own mind.", | |
| "BRIGANDISH": "Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.", | |
| "GANZ SYSTEM": "A haulage system for canal boats, in which an electriclocomotive running on a monorail has its adhesion materiallyincreased by the pull of the tow rope on a series of inclinedgripping wheels.", | |
| "SOMEWHERE": "In some place unknown or not specified; in one place oranother. \"Somewhere nigh at hand.\" Milton.", | |
| "JEERER": "A scoffer; a railer; a mocker.", | |
| "OVERWAX": "To wax or grow too rapindly or too much. [Obs.] R. ofGloucester.", | |
| "NITROPRUSSIC": "Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, a complex acidcalled nitroprussic acid, obtained indirectly by the action of nitricacid on potassium ferrocyanide (yellow prussiate), as a redcrystalline unstable substance. It forms salts called nitroprussides,which give a rich purple color with alkaline subphides.", | |
| "INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES": "A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, althoughsome are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending fromnorthern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from CentralAsia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.", | |
| "SIMIA": "A Linn\u00e6an genus of Quadrumana which included the types ofnumerous modern genera. By modern writers it is usually restricted tothe genus which includes the orang-outang.", | |
| "WEIVE": "See Waive. [Obs.] Gower.", | |
| "LACTEOUSLY": "In a lacteous manner; after the manner of milk.", | |
| "OSNABURG": "A species of coarse linen, originally made in Osnaburg,Germany.", | |
| "PLAGUE": "An acute malignant contagious fever, that often prevails inEgypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large citiesof Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, thegreat London plague. \"A plague upon the people fell.\" Tennyson.Cattle plague. See Rinderpest.-- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, atoken of something incurable.", | |
| "REDBACK": "The dunlin. [U. S.]", | |
| "GUIDERESS": "A female guide. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "TATOUAY": "An armadillo (Xenurus unicinctus), native of the tropical partsof South America. It has about thirteen movable bands composed ofsmall, nearly square, scales. The head is long; the tail is round andtapered, and nearly destitute of scales; the claws of the fore feetare very large. Called also tatouary, and broad-banded armadillo.", | |
| "DEADWORKS": "The parts of a ship above the water when she is laden.", | |
| "INTERRENAL": "Between the kidneys; as, the interrenal body, an organ found inmany fishes.-- n.", | |
| "OSTEOLITE": "A massive impure apatite, or calcium phosphate.", | |
| "PARASITAL": "Of or pertaining to parasites; parasitic.", | |
| "LONGSPUR": "Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genusCalcarius (or Plectrophanes), and allied genera. The Lapland longspur(C. Lapponicus), the chestnut-colored longspur (C. ornatus), andother species, inhabit the United States.", | |
| "DETECTIVE": "Fitted for, or skilled in, detecting; employed in detectingcrime or criminals; as, a detective officer.", | |
| "DEPARTMENTAL": "Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.", | |
| "DEVIATOR": "One who, or that which, deviates.", | |
| "PUFF-LEG": "Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of thegenus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.", | |
| "PRYTANEUM": "A public building in certain Greek cities; especially, a publichall in Athens regarded as the home of the community, in whichofficial hospitality was extended to distinguished citizens andstrangers.", | |
| "FEHLING": "See Fehling's solution, under Solution.", | |
| "STRIGILLOSE": "Set with stiff, slender bristles.", | |
| "CHEQUING": "A coin. See Sequin. Shak.", | |
| "RATTEEN": "A thick woolen stuff quilled or twilled.", | |
| "HONEYBIRD": "The honey guide.", | |
| "MITRIFORM": "Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriformcalyptra. Gray.", | |
| "SIZE": "Six.", | |
| "PENTADACTYLOID": "Having the form of, or a structure modified from, a pentadactyllimb.", | |
| "REQUISITION": "A formal demand made by one state or government upon anotherfor the surrender or extradition of a fugitive from justice. Kent.(b) (Law) A notarial demand of a debt. Wharton.(c) (Mil.) A demand by the invader upon the people of an invadedcountry for supplies, as of provision, forage, transportation, etc.Farrow.(d) A formal application by one officer to another for things neededin the public service; as, a requisition for clothing, troops, ormoney.", | |
| "SENSIFICATORY": "Susceptible of, or converting into, sensation; as, thesensificatory part of a nervous system. Huxley.", | |
| "POLLINCTOR": "One who prepared corpses for the funeral.", | |
| "LIGE": "To lie; to tell lies. [Obs.]", | |
| "POLARISTIC": "Pertaining to, or exhibiting, poles; having a polar arrangementor disposition; arising from, or dependent upon, the possession ofpoles or polar characteristics; as, polaristic antagonism.", | |
| "SNOWSHOE": "A slight frame of wood three or four feet long and about onethird as wide, with thongs or cords stretched across it, and having asupport and holder for the foot; -- used by persons for walking onsoft snow.", | |
| "UNDERSHERIFFRY": "Undershrievalty. [Obs.]", | |
| "SUBCONTRACT": "A contract under, or subordinate to, a previous contract.", | |
| "SUPERSACRAL": "Situated over, or on the dorsal side of, the sacrum.", | |
| "BURGLARIOUSLY": "With an intent to commit burglary; in the manner of a burglar.Blackstone.", | |
| "HALK": "A nook; a corner. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "THEOSOPHISTICAL": "Of or pertaining to theosophy; theosophical.", | |
| "LUNIFORM": "Resembling the moon in shape.", | |
| "DUNGEON": "A close, dark prison, commondonjon or keep of a castle, thesebeing used as prisons.Down with him even into the deep dungeon. Tyndale.Year after year he lay patiently in a dungeon. Macaulay.", | |
| "RIMPLE": "A fold or wrinkle. See Rumple.", | |
| "MULTIPARTITE": "Divided into many parts; having several parts.", | |
| "VERTICALITY": "The quality or state of being vertical; verticalness. [R.]The different points of the verticality. Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "ONTOGENETIC": "Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena.-- On`to*ge*net\"ic*al*ly, adv.", | |
| "DISCESSION": "Departure. [Obs.]", | |
| "FARCEMENT": "Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.]They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.", | |
| "CHALDRON": "An English dry measure, being, at London, 36 bushels heaped up,or its equivalent weight, and more than twice as much at Newcastle.Now used exlusively for coal and coke.", | |
| "AFFLICTIONLESS": "Free from affliction.", | |
| "CROSS-STONE": "See Harmotome, and Staurotide.", | |
| "ENTOMB": "To deposit in a tomb, as a dead body; to bury; to inter; toinhume. Hooker.", | |
| "LIMEHOUND": "A dog used in hunting the wild boar; a leamer. Spenser.", | |
| "MOPLAH": "One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.", | |
| "VEDETTE": "A sentinel, usually on horseback, stationed on the outpost ofan army, to watch an enemy and give notice of danger; a vidette.", | |
| "ROWDYISH": "Resembling a rowdy in temper or conduct; characteristic of arowdy.", | |
| "SIDEWALK": "A walk for foot passengers at the side of a street or road; afoot pavement. [U.S.]", | |
| "DARTOS": "A thin layer of peculiar contractile tissue directly beneaththe skin of the scrotum.", | |
| "LUSTIHEAD": "See Lustihood. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "DRAKESTONE": "A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skipfrom point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwingstones; -- sometimes called ducks and drakes.Internal earthquakes, that, not content with one throe, run alongspasmodically, like boys playing at what is called drakestone. DeQuincey.", | |
| "TROOP": "Specifically, a small body of cavalry, light horse, ordragoons, consisting usually of about sixty men, commanded by acaptain; the unit of formation of cavalry, corresponding to thecompany in infantry. Formerly, also, a company of horse artillery; abattery.", | |
| "LABYRINTHAL": "Pertaining to, or resembling, a labyrinth; intricate;labyrinthian.", | |
| "LEVATION": "The act of raising; elevation; upward motion, as that producedby the action of a levator muscle.", | |
| "SUBVITALIZED": "Imperfectly vitalized; having naturally but little vital poweror energy.", | |
| "MALISON": "Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic]God's malison on his head who this gainsays. Sir W. Scott.", | |
| "FUNDABLE": "Capable of being funded, or converted into a fund; convertibleinto bonds.", | |
| "MAJORCAN": "Of or pertaining to Majorca.-- n.", | |
| "YOUNG ONE": "A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.", | |
| "LARCH": "A genus of coniferous trees, having deciduous leaves, infascicles (see Illust. of Fascicle).", | |
| "COMMORIENT": "Dying together or at the same time. [R.] Sir G. Buck.", | |
| "DIVET": "See Divot.", | |
| "TETRAMEROUS": "Having the parts arranged in sets of four; as, a tetramerousflower.", | |
| "PUBERTY": "The period when a plant first bears flowers.", | |
| "ETRURIAN": "Of or relating to ancient Etruria, in Italy. \"Etrurian Shades.\"Milton, -- n.", | |
| "INGRIEVE": "To render more grievous; to aggravate. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "RUMOR": "To report by rumor; to tell.'T was rumored My father 'scaped from out the citadel. Dryden.", | |
| "FORFEITER": "One who incurs a penalty of forfeiture.", | |
| "COWARDICE": "Want of courage to face danger; extreme timidity;pusillanimity; base fear of danger or hurt; lack of spirit.The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton.Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.", | |
| "HARMONIZER": "One who harmonizes.", | |
| "ONLINESS": "The state of being alone. [Obs.]", | |
| "DEY": "A servant who has charge of the dairy; a dairymaid. [Obs.]Chaucer.", | |
| "PANEGYRY": "A panegyric. [Obs.] Milton.", | |
| "FORESTALLER": "One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market. Locke.", | |
| "URINIPAROUS": "Producing or preparing urine; as, the uriniparous tubes in thecortical portion of the kidney.", | |
| "UNCOMBINE": "To separate, as substances in combination; to release fromcombination or union. [R.] Daniel.", | |
| "RECONCENTRATION": "The act of reconcentrating or the state of beingreconcentrated; esp., the act or policy of concentrating the ruralpopulation in or about towns and villages for convenience inpolitical or military administration, as in Cuba during therevolution of 1895-98.", | |
| "SPARSELY": "In a scattered or sparse manner.", | |
| "FLOPWING": "The lapwing.", | |
| "CAROLUS": "An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-threeshillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I.Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay.", | |
| "BUNK": "To go to bed in a bunk; -- sometimes with in. [Colloq. U.S.]Bartlett.", | |
| "CONJUNCTIVA": "The mucous membrane which covers the external surface of theball of the eye and the inner surface of the lids; the conjunctivalmembrance.", | |
| "WONDROUS": "In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.For sylphs, yet mindful of their ancient race, Are, as when women,wondrous fond of place. Pope.And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold.Coleridge.", | |
| "JALOUSIE": "A Venetian or slatted inside window blind.", | |
| "BANKERESS": "A female banker. Thackeray.", | |
| "WOMANIZE": "To make like a woman; to make effeminate. [Obs.] V. Knox.", | |
| "SAPINDACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindace\u00e6),including the (Typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, andabout seventy other genera.", | |
| "GALLOWGLASS": "A heavy-armed foot soldier from Ireland and the Western Islesin the time of Edward Shak.", | |
| "CEPHALOCERCAL": "Relating to the long axis of the body.", | |
| "BUTTER-FINGERED": "Apt to let things fall, or to let them slip away; slippery;careless.", | |
| "LUG": "A projecting piece to which anything, as a rod, is attached, oragainst which anything, as a wedge or key, bears, or through which abolt passes, etc.", | |
| "EVASIVE": "Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;avoiding by artifice.Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive ofthe sly request. Pope.Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay.-- E*va\"sive*ly , adv.-- E*va\"sive*ness, n.", | |
| "DRINKABLE": "Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay.Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.", | |
| "TILBURY": "A kind of gig or two-wheeled carriage, without a top or cover.[Written also tilburgh.]", | |
| "PRELAL": "Of or pertaining to printing; typographical. [Obs.] Fuller.", | |
| "COUNTERCASTER": "A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- usedconteptuously.", | |
| "GLORIOSER": "A boaster. [Obs.] Greene.", | |
| "SUPERFINENESS": "The state of being superfine.", | |
| "FECUND": "Fruitful in children; prolific. Graunt.", | |
| "SNARE": "An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, forremoving tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller commonmilitary drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so calledbecause (in order to render it more resonant) it has stretched acrossits lower head a catgut string or strings.", | |
| "INCOMMODATE": "To incommode. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "ROUTISH": "Uproarious; riotous. [Obs.]", | |
| "ALTO-STRATUS": "A cloud formation similar to cirro-stratus, but heavier and ata lower level.", | |
| "GAZELLE": "One of several small, swift, elegantly formed species ofantelope, of the genus Gazella, esp. G. dorcas; -- called alsoalgazel, corinne, korin, and kevel. The gazelles are celebrated forthe luster and soft expression of their eyes. [Written also gazel.]", | |
| "PUMICE STONE": "Same as Pumice.", | |
| "STUD": "A collection of breeding horses and mares, or the place wherethey are kept; also, a number of horses kept for a racing, riding,etc.In the studs of Ireland, where care is taken, we see horses bred ofexcellent shape, vigor, and size. Sir W. Temple.He had the finest stud in England, and his delight was to win platesfrom Tories. Macaulay.", | |
| "DABBLINGLY": "In a dabbling manner.", | |
| "OBJECTIVELY": "In the manner or state of an object; as, a determinate ideaobjectively in the mind.", | |
| "THEANTHROPY": "Theanthropism.", | |
| "OVERWEIGH": "To exceed in weight; to overbalance; to weigh down. Drayton.Hooker.", | |
| "ONEMENT": "The state of being at one or reconciled. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.", | |
| "TENEMENTARY": "Capable of being leased; held by tenants. Spelman.", | |
| "BOROGLYCERIDE": "A compound of boric acid and glycerin, used as an antiseptic.", | |
| "AUGMENTATION": "A additional charge to a coat of arms, given as a mark ofhonor. Cussans.", | |
| "TERRORIST": "One who governs by terrorism or intimidation; specifically, anagent or partisan of the revolutionary tribunal during the Reign ofTerror in France. Burke.", | |
| "CREMOSIN": "See Crimson. [Obs.]", | |
| "SILE": "To strain, as fresh milk. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "LIGNONE": "See Lignin.", | |
| "RECOLLET": "Same as Recollect, n.", | |
| "CIRCAR": "A district, or part of a province. See Sircar. [India]", | |
| "JOURNEYWORK": "Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman athis trade.", | |
| "MALAPROPOS": "Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.", | |
| "SURFACER": "A form of machine for dressing the surface of wood, metal,stone, etc.", | |
| "SOLAND": "A solan goose.", | |
| "BROIL": "A tumult; a noisy quarrel; a disturbance; a brawl; contention;discord, either between individuals or in the state.I will own that there is a haughtiness and fierceness in human naturewhich will which will cause innumerable broils, place men in whatsituation you please. Burke.", | |
| "STURK": "See Stirk. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]", | |
| "POTARGO": "A kind of sauce or pickle. King.", | |
| "VERDICT": "The answer of a jury given to the court concerning any matterof fact in any cause, civil or criminal, committed to theirexamination and determination; the finding or decision of a jury onthe matter legally submitted to them in the course of the trial of acause.", | |
| "FREE-SPOKEN": "Accustomed to speak without reserve. Bacon.-- Free\"-spo`ken-ness, n.", | |
| "REPLANT": "To plant again.", | |
| "MISPERSUASION": "A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "OUTVALUE": "To exceed in value. Boyle.", | |
| "EMUSCATION": "A freeing from moss. [Obs.]", | |
| "YAK": "A bovine mammal (Po\u00ebphagus grunnies) native of the high plainsof Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and itsflanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is longand bushy, often white, and is valued as an ornament and for otherpurposes in India and China. There are several domesticatedvarieties, some of which lack the mane and the long hair on theflanks. Called also chauri gua, grunting cow, grunting ox, sarlac,sarlik, and sarluc. Yak lace, a coarse pillow lace made from thesilky hair of the yak.", | |
| "DELIGHTSOME": "Very pleasing; delightful. \"Delightsome vigor.\" Grew.Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12.-- De*light\"some*ly, adv.-- De*light\"some*ness, n.", | |
| "HEXENE": "Same as Hexylene.", | |
| "SUBMENTUM": "The basal part of the labium of insects. It bears the mentum.", | |
| "MUS": "A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.", | |
| "PRECONSTITUTE": "To constitute or establish beforehand.", | |
| "OFFLET": "A pipe to let off water.", | |
| "WATER MURRAIN": "A kind of murrain affecting cattle. Crabb.", | |
| "TYCHISM": "Any theory which conceives chance as an objective reality;esp., a theory of evolution which considers that variation may bepurely fortuitous.", | |
| "GUIPURE": "A term used for lace of different kinds; most properly for alace of large pattern and heavy material which has no ground or mesh,but has the pattern held together by connecting threads called barsor brides.", | |
| "NON SEQUITUR": "An inference which does not follow from the premises.", | |
| "TRANSCOLATE": "To cause to pass through a sieve or colander; to strain, asthrough a sieve. [Obs.] Harvey.", | |
| "IMPEDITION": "A hindering; a hindrance. [Obs.] Baxier.", | |
| "PLEURODONT": "Having the teeth consolidated with the inner edge of the jaw,as in some lizards.", | |
| "TRUENESS": "The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness;sincerity; exactness; truth.", | |
| "INTERESS": "To interest or affect. [Obs.] Hooker.", | |
| "SUBERIZATION": "Conversion of the cell walls into cork tissue by development ofsuberin; -- commonly taking place in exposed tissues, as when acallus forms over a wound. Suberized cell walls are impervious towater.", | |
| "GIRDER": "One who girds; a satirist.", | |
| "INTERCOMMUNICATE": "To communicate mutually; to hold mutual communication.", | |
| "CLAMANT": "Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. \"Clamant children.\"Thomson.", | |
| "RAYLESS": "Destitute of rays; hence, dark; not illuminated; blind; as, arayless sky; rayless eyes.", | |
| "DECEMLOCULAR": "Having ten cells for seeds.", | |
| "SURAL": "Of or pertaining to the calf of the leg; as, the suralarteries.", | |
| "CLAPTRAP": "Contrived for the purpose of making a show, or gainingapplause; deceptive; unreal.", | |
| "DAG-TAILED": "Daggle-tailed; having the tail clogged with daglocks. \"Dag-tailed sheep.\" Bp. Hall.", | |
| "ALLIGNMENT": "See Alignment.", | |
| "ASTROLATRY": "The worship of the stars.", | |
| "TUFT": "To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.", | |
| "VOLAGE": "Light; giddy. [Obs.]They wroughten all their lust volage. Chaucer.", | |
| "HOWL": "To utter with outcry. \"Go . . . howl it out in deserts.\"Philips.", | |
| "MACRO-CHEMISTRY": "The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions orrelations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.", | |
| "AMATEURISH": "In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like thework of an amateur.-- Am`a*teur\"ish*ly, adv.-- Am`a*teur\"ish*ness, n.", | |
| "EX LIBRIS": "An inscription, label, or the like, in a book indicating itsownership; esp., a bookplate.", | |
| "MAKE-BELIEF": "A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H. Newman.", | |
| "PUNCTIST": "A punctator. E. Henderson.", | |
| "BLOTCHED": "Marked or covered with blotches.To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Drayton.", | |
| "VALIDNESS": "The quality or state of being valid.", | |
| "HARE-HEARTED": "Timorous; timid; easily frightened. Ainsworth.", | |
| "MONTHLY": "A publication which appears regularly once a month.", | |
| "SATION": "A sowing or planting. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.", | |
| "APOSTOLIC DELEGATE": "The diplomatic agent of the pope highest in grade, superior toa nuncio.", | |
| "GANTLET": "A military punishment formerly in use, wherein the offender wasmade to run between two files of men facing one another, who struckhim as he passed. To run the gantlet, to suffer the punishment of thegantlet; hence, to go through the ordeal of severe criticism orcontroversy, or ill-treatment at many hands.Winthrop ran the gantlet of daily slights. Palfrey.", | |
| "ISLE": "See Aisle.", | |
| "LOCULE": "A little hollow; a loculus.", | |
| "FOISTIED": "Fusty. [Obs.]", | |
| "APAIR": "To impair or become impaired; to injure. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CASTANET": "See Castanets.", | |
| "DOER": "An agent or attorney; a factor. Burrill.", | |
| "BRETWALDA": "The official title applied to that one of the Anglo-Saxonchieftains who was chosen by the other chiefs to lead them in theirwarfare against the British tribes. Brande & C.", | |
| "EPENDYMIS": "See Ependyma.", | |
| "ERYNGO": "A plant of the genus Eryngium.", | |
| "FANTASIA": "A continuous composition, not divided into what are calledmovements, or governed by the ordinary rules of musical design, butin which the author's fancy roves unrestricted by set form.", | |
| "FISSIPED": "One of the Fissipedia.", | |
| "POSSESSIVELY": "In a possessive manner.", | |
| "SUBDIVISIBLE": "Susceptible of subdivision.", | |
| "REINTEGRATION": "A renewing, or making whole again. See Redintegration.", | |
| "INSUBSTANTIAL": "Unsubstantial; not real or strong. \"Insubstantial pageant.\"[R.] Shak.", | |
| "EGGPLANT": "A plant (Solanum Melongena), of East Indian origin, allied tothe tomato, and bearing a large, smooth, edible fruit, shapedsomewhat like an egg; mad-apple.", | |
| "MANGY": "Infected with the mange; scabby.", | |
| "TRAUNCE": "See Trance. [Obs.]", | |
| "WATER PARTRIDGE": "The ruddy duck. [Local, U. S.]", | |
| "COMPACTEDLY": "In a compact manner.", | |
| "THOMSON PROCESS": "A process of electric welding in which heat is developed by alarge current passing through the metal.", | |
| "HETERO-": "A combining form signifying other, other than usual, different;as, heteroclite, heterodox, heterogamous.", | |
| "HAILY": "Of hail. \"Haily showers.\" Pope.", | |
| "OVERBID": "To bid or offer beyond, or in excess of. Dryden.", | |
| "SYNCHONDROTOMY": "Symphyseotomy.", | |
| "TRAPPEAN": "Of or pertaining to trap; being of the nature of trap.", | |
| "INEXORABLE": "Not to be persuaded or moved by entreaty or prayer; firm;determined; unyielding; unchangeable; inflexible; relentless; as, aninexorable prince or tyrant; an inexorable judge. \"Inexorableequality of laws.\" Gibbon. \"Death's inexorable doom.\" Dryden.You are more inhuman, more inexorable, O, ten times more than tigersof Hyrcania. Shak.", | |
| "DEBITOR": "A debtor. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "PONTON": "See Pontoon.", | |
| "MACROPUS": "genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.", | |
| "BEDKEY": "An instrument for tightening the parts of a bedstead.", | |
| "COMPOSITIVE": "Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.[R.]", | |
| "SIPUNCULACEA": "A suborder of Gephyrea, including those which have the bodyunarmed and the intestine opening anteriorly.", | |
| "FRETTER": "One who, or that which, frets.", | |
| "COLEMANITE": "A hydrous borate of lime occurring in transparent colorless orwhite crystals, also massive, in Southern California.", | |
| "SABBATARIANISM": "The tenets of Sabbatarians. Bp. Ward. (1673).", | |
| "SUBESOPHAGEAL": "Situated beneath the esophagus. [Written also suboesophageal.]Subesophageal ganglion (Zo\u00f6l.), a large special ganglion situatedbeneath the esophagus of arthropods, annelids, and some otherinvertebrates.", | |
| "HALT": "3d pers. sing. pres. of Hold, contraction for holdeth. [Obs.]Chaucer.", | |
| "DEUTOHYDROGURET": "A compound containing in the molecule two atoms of hydrogenunited with some other element or radical. [Obs.]", | |
| "PREFIX": "That which is prefixed; esp., one or more letters or syllablescombined or united with the beginning of a word to modify itssignification; as, pre- in prefix, con- in conjure.", | |
| "WIND-PLANT": "A windflower.", | |
| "DECLARATORILY": "In a declaratory manner.", | |
| "HAGBERRY": "A plant of the genus Prunus (P. Padus); the bird cherry.[Scot.]", | |
| "NOCTILUCINE": "Of or pertaining to Noctiluca.", | |
| "OUTDOORS": "Abread; out of the house; out of doors.", | |
| "DISOPPILATE": "To open. [Obs.] Holland.", | |
| "VINEAL": "Of or pertaining to vines; containing vines. [R.] Sir T.Browne.", | |
| "OVUM": "A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granularprotoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth developsinto a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent;an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle.", | |
| "BAA": "To cry baa, or bleat as a sheep.He treble baas for help, but none can get. Sir P. Sidney.", | |
| "GRAPERY": "A building or inclosure used for the cultivation of grapes.", | |
| "COWLEECHING": "Healing the distemper of cows.", | |
| "RESINY": "Like resin; resinous.", | |
| "STILPNOMELANE": "A black or greenish black mineral occurring in foliated flates,also in velvety bronze-colored incrustations. It is a hydroussilicate of iron and alumina.", | |
| "QUESTORSHIP": "The office, or the term of office, of a questor.", | |
| "DESULTORINESS": "The quality of being desultory or without order or method;unconnectedness.The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.", | |
| "ALLEYED": "Furnished with alleys; forming an alley. \"An alleyed walk.\" SirW. Scott.", | |
| "STAPHYLOMA": "A protrusion of any part of the globe of the eye; as, astaphyloma of the cornea.", | |
| "BULLCOMBER": "A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typh\u00e6us vulgaris of Europe.", | |
| "STORTHING": "The Parliament of Norway, chosen by indirect election once inthree years, but holding annual sessions.", | |
| "RUGULOSE": "Somewhat rugose.", | |
| "EUPITTONIC": "Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone.", | |
| "DALMANIA": "A genus of trilobites, of many species, common in the UpperSilurian and Devonian rocks.", | |
| "RECHEAT": "A strain given on the horn to call back the hounds when theyhave lost track of the game.", | |
| "SYNCHYSIS": "A derangement or confusion of any kind, as of words in asentence, or of humors in the eye. Sparkling synchysis (Med.), acondition in which the vitreous humor is softened and containssparkling scales of cholesterin.", | |
| "VESTIBULAR": "Of or pertaining to a vestibule; like a vestibule.", | |
| "PASTY": "Like paste, as in color, softness, stickness. \"A pastycomplexion.\" G. Eliot.", | |
| "CENSURE": "To judge. [Obs.] Shak.", | |
| "AVISEMENT": "Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]", | |
| "DISBELIEVE": "Not to believe; to refuse belief or credence to; to hold not tobe true or actual.Assertions for which there is abundant positive evidence are oftendisbelieved, on account of what is called their improbability orimpossibility. J. S. Mill.", | |
| "PRESBYTERY": "A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certaindistrict, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish orchurch, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with thepastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches underits care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.", | |
| "VENETIAN": "Of or pertaining to Venice in Italy. Venetian blind, a blindfor windows, doors, etc., made of thin slats, either fixed at acertain angle in the shutter, or movable, and in the latter case sodisposed as to overlap each other when close, and to show a series ofopen spaces for the admission of air and light when in otherpositions.-- Venetian carpet, an inexpensive carpet, used for passages andstairs, having a woolen warp which conceals the weft; the pattern istherefore commonly made up of simple stripes.-- Venetian chalk, a white compact or steatite, used for marking oncloth, etc.-- Venetian door (Arch.), a door having long, narrow windows orpanes of glass on the sides.-- Venetian glass, a kind of glass made by the Venetians, fordecorative purposes, by the combination of pieces of glass ofdifferent colors fused together and wrought into various ornamentalpatterns.-- Venetian red, a brownish red color, prepared from sulphate ofiron; -- called also scarlet ocher.-- Venetian soap. See Castile soap, under Soap.-- Venetian sumac (Bot.), a South European tree (Rhus Cotinus) whichyields the yellow dyewood called fustet; -- also called smoke tree.-- Venetian window (Arch.), a window consisting of a main windowwith an arched head, having on each side a long and narrow windowwith a square head.", | |
| "QUERPO": "The inner or body garments taken together. See Cuerpo. Dryden.", | |
| "SETEN": "obs. imp. pl. of Sit. Sat. Chaucer.", | |
| "SUPERCARGO": "An officer or person in a merchant ship, whose duty is tomanage the sales, and superintend the commercial concerns, of thevoyage.", | |
| "HACKERY": "A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.", | |
| "LOSABLE": "Such as can be lost.", | |
| "CALICE": "See Chalice.", | |
| "COUNTRIFIED": "Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude.As being one who took no pride, And was a deal too countrified.Lloyd.", | |
| "UNSOLDIERED": "Not equipped like a soldier; unsoldierlike. [Obs.] J. Fletcher.", | |
| "ANTECEDENT": "The earlier events of one's life; previous principles, conduct,course, history. J. H. Newman.If the troops . . . prove worthy of their antecedents, the victory issurely ours. Gen. G. McClellan.", | |
| "WOOLMAN": "One who deals in wool.", | |
| "POURPARLER": "A consultation preliminary to a treaty.", | |
| "DEJERATE": "To swear solemnly; to take an oath. [Obs.] Cockeram.", | |
| "RAINDROP": "A drop of rain.", | |
| "BREADWINNER": "The member of a family whose labor supplies the food of thefamily; one who works for his living. H. Spencer.", | |
| "INSTORE": "To store up; to inclose; to contain. [Obs.] Wyclif.", | |
| "PANELING": "A forming in panels; panelwork. [Written also panelling.]", | |
| "BUNDESRATH": "The federal council of the German Empire. In the Bundesrath andthe Reichstag are vested the legislative functions. The federalcouncil of Switzerland is also so called.", | |
| "INDIVIDUALISTIC": "Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. LondonAthen\u00e6um.", | |
| "FRUMP": "To insult; to flout; to mock; to snub. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.", | |
| "RANDALL GRASS": "The meadow fescue (Festuca elatior). See under Grass.", | |
| "NONPRODUCTION": "A failure to produce or exhibit.", | |
| "BRANCHLET": "A little branch; a twig.", | |
| "IMPETUS": "The aititude through which a heavy body must fall to acquire avelocity equal to that with which a ball is discharged from a piece.", | |
| "OPPOSITELY": "In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner ordirection; adversely.Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.", | |
| "TRIP HAMMER": "A tilt hammer.", | |
| "ABSCONDENCE": "Fugitive concealment; secret retirement; hiding. [R.] Phillips.", | |
| "GANOINE": "A peculiar bony tissue beneath the enamel of a ganoid scale.", | |
| "PANGOLIN": "Any one of several species of Manis, Pholidotus, and relatedgenera, found in Africa and Asia. They are covered with imbricatedscales, and feed upon ants. Called also scaly ant-eater.", | |
| "RESOUN": "Reason. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "DEERHOUND": "One of a large and fleet breed of hounds used in hunting deer;a staghound.", | |
| "TREE CALF": "A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stainedwith a conventional treelike design.", | |
| "SIMILAR": "That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as inquality, form, etc.", | |
| "MORES": "Customs; habits; esp., customs conformity to which is more orless obligatory; customary law.", | |
| "HORSE-LEECH": "A large blood-sucking leech (H\u00e6mopsis vorax), of Europe andNorthern Africa. It attacks the lips and mouths of horses.", | |
| "LAGGING": "The clothing (esp., an outer, wooden covering), as of a steamcylinder, applied to prevent the radiation of heat; a covering oflags; -- called also deading and cleading.", | |
| "INCONVERSANT": "Not conversant; not acquainted; not versed; unfamiliar.", | |
| "MULTIPLICATION": "The process of repeating, or adding to itself, any given numberor quantity a certain number of times; commonly, the process ofascertaining by a briefer computation the result of such repeatedadditions; also, the rule by which the operation is performed; -- thereverse of division.", | |
| "INDAGATOR": "A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.]Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.", | |
| "PRIEDIEU": "A kneeling desk for prayers.", | |
| "FOUNDERSHAFT": "The first shaft sunk. Raymond.", | |
| "ACCURATELY": "In an accurate manner; exactly; precisely; without error ordefect.", | |
| "SWARTINESS": "Swarthiness. [Obs.]", | |
| "MYOLOGY": "That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.", | |
| "-OL": "A suffix denoting that the substance in the name of which itappears belongs to the series of alcohols or hydroxyl derivatives, ascarbinol, glycerol, etc.", | |
| "SHAD-SPIRIT": "See Shadbird (a)", | |
| "RELAPSER": "One who relapses. Bp. Hall.", | |
| "ALBION": "An ancient name of England, still retained in poetry.In that nook-shotten isle of Albion. Shak.", | |
| "CASSOWARY": "A large bird, of the genus Casuarius, found in the east Indies.It is smaller and stouter than the ostrich. Its head is armed with akind of helmet of horny substance, consisting of plates overlappingeach other, and it has a group of long sharp spines on each wingwhich are used as defensive organs. It is a shy bird, and runs withgreat rapidity. Other species inhabit New Guinea, Australia, etc.", | |
| "DECARBONIZER": "He who, or that which, decarbonizes a substance.", | |
| "SAGATHY": "A mixed woven fabric of silk and cotton; or silk and wool;sayette; also, a light woolen fabric.", | |
| "WIDEGAP": "The angler; -- called also widegab, and widegut.", | |
| "CONSIGNIFICANT": "Having joint or equal signification; synonymous. [R.] Spelman.", | |
| "FLOROON": "A border worked with flowers. Wright.", | |
| "TOTIPALMATE": "Having all four toes united by a web;-said of certain seabirds, as the pelican and the gannet. See Illust. under Aves.", | |
| "BALDACHIN": "A structure in form of a canopy, sometimes supported bycolumns, and sometimes suspended from the roof or projecting from thewall; generally placed over an altar; as, the baldachin in St.Peter's.", | |
| "HENDECANE": "A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so calledbecause it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called alsoendecane, undecane.", | |
| "ISOPEPSIN": "Pepsin modified by exposure to a temperature of from 40\u00ba to 60C.", | |
| "INSANABILITY": "The state of being insanable or incurable; insanableness.", | |
| "LIMONIAD": "A nymph of the meadows; -- called also Limniad.", | |
| "LAS": "A lace. See Lace. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "OVEROFFICIOUS": "Too busy; too ready to intermeddle; too officious. Collier.", | |
| "JUDICIOUS": "Of or relating to a court; judicial. [Obs.]His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak.", | |
| "PANOMPHEAN": "Uttering ominous or prophetic voices; divining. [R.]We want no half gods, panomphean Joves. Mrs. Browning.", | |
| "CONNECTIVE": "Connecting, or adapted to connect; involving connection.Connection tissue (Anat.) See Conjunctive tissue, under Conjunctive.", | |
| "CHTHONIC": "Pertaining to the earth; earthy; as, chthonic religions.[The] chthonic character of the wife of Zeus. Max M\u00fcller.", | |
| "SEA OTTER": "An aquatic carnivore (Enhydris lutris, or marina) found in theNorth Pacific Ocean. Its fur is highly valued, especially by theChinese. It is allied to the common otter, but is larger, with feetmore decidedly webbed. Sea-otter's cabbage (Bot.), a gigantic kelp ofthe Pacific Ocean (Nereocystis Lutkeana). See Nereocystis.", | |
| "GLEEMAN": "A name anciently given to an itinerant minstrel or musician.", | |
| "SULKY": "Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.", | |
| "EUDIPLEURA": "The fundamental forms of organic life, that are composed of twoequal and symmetrical halves. Syd. Soc. Lex.", | |
| "GLOVE": "To cover with, or as with, a glove.", | |
| "OCEANOLOGY": "That branch of science which relates to the ocean.", | |
| "LANDLOCK": "To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, withland.", | |
| "ARRHA": "Money or other valuable thing given to evidence a contract; apledge or earnest.", | |
| "SPADEFOOT": "Any species of burrowing toads of the genus Scaphiopus, esp. S.Holbrookii, of the Eastern United States; -- called also spade toad.", | |
| "SUBDENTED": "Indented beneath.", | |
| "DECHRISTIANIZE": "To turn from, or divest of, Christianity.", | |
| "EWER": "A kind of widemouthed pitcher or jug; esp., one used to holdwater for the toilet.Basins and ewers to lave her dainty hands. Shak.", | |
| "SWANIMOTE": "See Swainmote.", | |
| "TRUANTLY": "Like a truant; in idleness.", | |
| "FISSIROSTRAL": "Having the bill cleft beyond the horny part, as in the case ofswallows and goatsuckers.", | |
| "ALLWORK": "Domestic or other work of all kinds; as, a maid of allwork,that is, a general servant.", | |
| "INTERCOMMONAGE": "The right or privilege of intercommoning.", | |
| "ELCESAITE": "One of a sect of Asiatic Gnostics of the time of the EmperorTrajan.", | |
| "COMPRINT": "To print surreptitiously a work belonging to another. E.Phillips.", | |
| "PREESTABLISHMENT": "Settlement beforehand.", | |
| "EMULSIC": "Pertaining to, or produced from, emulsin; as, emulsic acid.Hoblyn.", | |
| "JUDICATIVE": "Having power to judge; judicial; as, the judicative faculty.Hammond.", | |
| "OCTASTYLE": "See Octostyle.", | |
| "SLOT MACHINE": "A machine the operation of which is started by dropping a coininto a slot, for delivering small articles of merchandise, showingone's weight, exhibiting pictures, throwing dice, etc.", | |
| "UWAROWITE": "Ouvarovite.", | |
| "PALULE": "See Palulus or Palus.", | |
| "SCHORL": "Black tourmaline. [Written also shorl.]", | |
| "OBLIGATORINESS": "The quality or state of being obligatory.", | |
| "UNHUMAN": "Not human; inhuman.", | |
| "HORNFOOT": "Having hoofs; hoofed.", | |
| "GALENISM": "The doctrines of Galen.", | |
| "METALLOID": "Having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid;negative.", | |
| "STEERER": "One who steers; as, a boat steerer.", | |
| "ANNALIZE": "To record in annals. Sheldon.", | |
| "LAINERE": "See Lanier. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ALIQUOT": "An aliquot part of a number or quantity is one which willdivide it without a remainder; thus, 5 is an aliquot part of 15.Opposed to aliquant.", | |
| "THYROTOMY": "The operation of cutting into the thyroid cartilage.", | |
| "MARGINELLA": "A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native ofall warm seas.", | |
| "REAVER": "One who reaves. [Archaic]", | |
| "SUPPEDITATION": "Supply; aid afforded. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "IMMODESTY": "Want of modesty, delicacy, or decent reserve; indecency. \"Apiece of immodesty.\" Pope.", | |
| "EREMITISM": "The state of a hermit; a living in seclusion from social life.", | |
| "CLINCH": "To hold fast; to grasp something firmly; to seize or grasp oneanother.", | |
| "PHOTOLITHOGRAPHIC": "Of or pertaining to photolithography; produced byphotolithography.", | |
| "PARSE": "To resolve into its elements, as a sentence, pointing out theseveral parts of speech, and their relation to each other bygovernment or agreement; to analyze and describe grammatically.Let him construe the letter into English, and parse it overperfectly. Ascham.", | |
| "SWAY-BACKED": "Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as theresult of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.", | |
| "LAEVOROTATORY": "Same as Levorotatory. Cf. Dextrorotatory.", | |
| "IGNOMINIOUSLY": "In an ignominious manner; disgracefully; shamefully;ingloriously.", | |
| "HAVENER": "A harbor master. [Obs.]", | |
| "JUNCO": "Any bird of the genus Junco, which includes several species ofNorth American finches; -- called also snowbird, or blue snowbird.", | |
| "SLATY": "Resembling slate; having the nature, appearance, or properties,of slate; composed of thin parallel plates, capable of beingseparated by splitting; as, a slaty color or texture. Slaty cleavage(Min.), cleavage, as of rocks, into thin leaves or plates, like thoseof slate; -- applied especially to those cases in which the planes ofcleavage are not parallel to the planes of stratification. It is nowbelieved to be caused by the compression which the strata haveundergone.-- Slaty gneiss (Min.), a variety of gneiss in which the scales ofmica or crystals of hornblende, which are usually minute, form thinlamin\u00e6, rendering the rock easily cleavable.", | |
| "KURSAAL": "A public hall or room, for the use of visitors at wateringplaces and health resorts in Germany.", | |
| "UNDERRECKON": "To reckon below what is right or proper; to underrate. Bp.Hall.", | |
| "ALCHEMIZE": "To change by alchemy; to transmute. Lovelace.", | |
| "UT": "The first note in Guido's musical scale, now usually supersededby do. See Solmization.", | |
| "BALLOON FISH": "A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having thepower of distending its body by taking air or water into itsdilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.", | |
| "ILLUSTRIOUSNESS": "The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur;glory; fame.", | |
| "MOTHER-OF-PEARL": "The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp.of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. SeePearl.", | |
| "UNPIN": "To loose from pins; to remove the pins from; to unfasten; as,to unpin a frock; to unpin a frame.", | |
| "SLUMBERER": "One who slumbers; a sleeper.", | |
| "STANDISH": "A stand, or case, for pen and ink.I bequeath to Dean Swift, Esq., my large silver standish. Swift.", | |
| "LABURNUM": "A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps.The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It hashandsome racemes of yellow blossoms.", | |
| "CYNICALLY": "In a cynical manner.", | |
| "GOVERNMENTAL": "Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmentalduties.", | |
| "CANTER": "To move in a canter.", | |
| "LOOBY": "An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber. Swift.", | |
| "EYEBROW": "The brow or hairy arch above the eye. Shak.", | |
| "PEDDLE": "To sell from place to place; to retail by carrying around fromcustomer to customer; to hawk; hence, to retail in very smallquantities; as, to peddle vegetables or tinware.", | |
| "TYRANNOUS": "Tyrannical; arbitrary; unjustly severe; despotic. Sir P.Sidney.-- Tyr\"an*nous*ly, adv.", | |
| "MERCAPTAN": "Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcoholradicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containingsulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphuralcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong,repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethylmercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and othermetals.", | |
| "PALMATE": "(Chem.) A salt of palmic acid; a ricinoleate. [Obsoles.]", | |
| "INTROSPECTIONIST": "One given to the introspective method of examining thephenomena of the soul.", | |
| "PERENNIBRANCHIATE": "Having branch\u00e6, or gills, through life; -- said especially ofcertain Amphibia, like the menobranchus. Opposed to caducibranchiate.", | |
| "FRIENDLESS": "Destitute of friends; forsaken.-- Friend\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "JUNO": "The sister and wife of Jupiter, the queen of heaven, and thegoddess who presided over marriage. She corresponds to the GreekHera.Sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes. Shak.", | |
| "PUBLIC SCHOOL": "A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company,water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a publiccalling or to render services more or less essential to the generalpublic convenience or safety.", | |
| "CONSISTENTLY": "In a consistent manner.", | |
| "TEREDO": "A genus of long, slender, wormlike bivalve mollusks which boreinto submerged wood, such as the piles of wharves, bottoms of ships,etc.; -- called also shipworm. See Shipworm. See Illust. in App.", | |
| "FEATHERY": "Pertaining to, or resembling, feathers; covered with, or aswith, feathers; as, feathery spray or snow. Milton.Ye feathery people of mid air. Barry Cornwall.", | |
| "DRAGNET": "A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as infishing.", | |
| "MURINGER": "See Murenger. Jacob.", | |
| "FOOTBATH": "A bath for the feet; also, a vessel used in bathing the feet.", | |
| "PUNCTUALIST": "One who is very exact in observing forms and ceremonies.Milton.", | |
| "HAEMOCYANIN": "Same as H\u00e6macyanin.", | |
| "SCRAWL": "See Crawl. [Obs.] Latimer.", | |
| "CONTRIBUTIONAL": "Pertaining to, or furnishing, a contribution.", | |
| "UNDERHANDEDLY": "In an underhand manner.", | |
| "PROPODITE": "The sixth joint of a typical leg of a crustacean; usually, thepenultimate joint.", | |
| "MANILLE": "See 1st Manilla, 1.", | |
| "ANGIOSPERM": "A plant which has its seeds inclosed in a pericarp.", | |
| "OBSEQUIENCE": "Obsequiousness. [R.]", | |
| "ALLEVIATORY": "Alleviative. Carlyle.", | |
| "ANGULOMETER": "An instrument for measuring external angles.", | |
| "CORA": "The Arabian gazelle (Gazella Arabica), found from persia toNorth Africa.", | |
| "RHIPIDOGLOSSA": "A division of gastropod mollusks having a large number of long,divergent, hooklike, lingual teeth in each transverse row. Itincludes the scutibranchs. See Illustration in Appendix.", | |
| "PHILOSOPHATE": "To play the philosopher; to moralize. [Obs.] Barrow.", | |
| "NONNITROGNOUS": "Devoid of nitrogen; as, a nonnitrogenous principle; anonnitrogenous food. See the Note under Food, n., 1.", | |
| "CREASOTE": "See Creosote.", | |
| "COLPORTAGE": "The distribution of religious books, tracts, etc., bycolporteurs.", | |
| "TACE": "The cross, or church, of St. Antony. See Illust. (6), underCross, n. Mollett.", | |
| "IMPERFORATA": "A division of Foraminifera, including those in which the shellis not porous.", | |
| "STAINLESS": "Free from stain; immaculate. Shak.The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some wasevidence of shame. Crabbe.", | |
| "SERMON": "To speak; to discourse; to compose or deliver a sermon. [Obs.]Holinshed.What needeth it to sermon of it more Chaucer.", | |
| "ATTESTIVE": "Attesting; furnishing evidence.", | |
| "WORLDLY": "With relation to this life; in a worldly manner.Subverting worldly strong and worldly wise By simply meek. Milton.", | |
| "CAMASS": "A blue-flowered liliaceous plant (Camassia esculenta) ofnorthwestern America, the bulbs of which are collected for food bythe Indians. [Written also camas, cammas, and quamash.]", | |
| "GOTE": "A channel for water. [Prov. Eng.] Crose.", | |
| "LONGULITE": "A kind of crystallite having a (slender) acicular form.", | |
| "TRANSVOLATION": "The act of flying beyond or across. Jer. Taylor.", | |
| "DORIC": "Belonging to, or resembling, the oldest and simplest of thethree orders of architecture used by the Greeks, but ranked as secondof the five orders adopted by the Romans. See Abacus, Capital, Order.", | |
| "WEAPONLESS": "Having no weapon.", | |
| "MULTUM": "An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers inorder to economize malt and hops. Craig. Hard multum, a preparationmade from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicatingquality to beer.", | |
| "FLUTE A BEC": "A beak flute, an older form of the flute, played with amouthpiece resembling a beak, and held like a flageolet.", | |
| "GLOWINGLY": "In a glowing manner; with ardent heat or passion.", | |
| "OVEREXQUISITE": "Too exquisite; too exact or nice; too careful.", | |
| "WHIM": "The European widgeon. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "PHASE": "A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycleof changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form ofenlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust.under Moon.", | |
| "MISREHEARSE": "To rehearse or quote incorrectly. Sir T. More.", | |
| "RECOVERY": "The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by averdict and judgment of court.", | |
| "KNOWLECHING": "Knowledge. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "ULTRAISM": "The principles of those who advocate extreme measures, asradical reform, and the like. Dr. H. More.", | |
| "LIME-TWIGGED": "Beset with snares; insnared, as with birdlime. L. Addison.", | |
| "SYNTHETICALLY": "In a synthetic manner.", | |
| "DENTAL": "Formed by the aid of the teeth; -- said of certainarticulations and the letters representing them; as, d t are dentalletters. Dental formula (Zo\u00f6l.), a brief notation used by zo\u00f6logiststo denote the number and kind of teeth of a mammal.-- Dental surgeon, a dentist.", | |
| "UNIVALVE": "A shell consisting of one valve only; a mollusk whose shell iscomposed of a single piece, as the snails and conchs.", | |
| "FREQUENTLY": "At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly;commonly.", | |
| "DRAUGHTHOUSE": "A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. [Obs.] 2Kings x. 27.", | |
| "SPURLING-LINE": "The line which forms the communication between the steeringwheel and the telltale.", | |
| "FILIGREE": "Ornamental work, formerly with grains or breads, but nowcomposed of fine wire and used chiefly in decorating gold and silverto which the wire is soldered, being arranged in designs frequentlyof a delicate and intricate arabesque pattern.", | |
| "HOUSEKEEPING": "Domestic; used in a family; as, housekeeping commodities.", | |
| "ENDOSARC": "The semifluid, granular interior of certain unicellularorganisms, as the inner layer of sarcode in the amoeba; entoplasm;endoplasta.", | |
| "KRYPTON": "An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in airto the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered byRamsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152\u00ba C.; symbol, Kr;atomic weight, 83.0.", | |
| "QUINQUIVALENT": "Same as Pentavalent.", | |
| "CONTINENTAL GLACIER": "A broad ice sheet resting on a plain or plateau and spreadingoutward from a central n\u00e9v\u00e9, or region of accumulation.", | |
| "TOWPATH": "A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- calledalso towing path.", | |
| "QUENELLE": "A kind of delicate forcemeat, commonly poached and used as adish by itself or for garnishing.", | |
| "INOPPORTUNE": "Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportuneoccurrence, remark, etc.No visit could have been more inopportune. T. Hook.", | |
| "SUPERCARPAL": "Situated above, or in the upper part of, the carpus.", | |
| "BALSAMATION": "Having the qualities of balsam; containing, or resembling,balsam; soft; mitigative; soothing; restorative.", | |
| "RETORSION": "Same as Retortion.", | |
| "DASHINGLY": "Conspicuously; showily. [Colloq.]A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.", | |
| "NIGHTGOWN": "A loose gown used for undress; also, a gown used for a sleepinggarnment.", | |
| "ANIMAL": "Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. \"Animalcularlife.\" Tyndall.", | |
| "DEMEPHITIZE": "To purify from mephitic.-- De*meph`i*ti*za\"tion, n.", | |
| "MERCERIZE": "To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of causticalkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length andbecome stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth iskept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster. --Mer`cer*i*za\"tion (#), n.", | |
| "PERIBRANCHIAL": "Surrounding the branchi\u00e6; as, a peribranchial cavity.", | |
| "PRAYERLESS": "Not using prayer; habitually neglecting prayer to God; withoutprayer. \"The next time you go prayerless to bed.\" Baxter.-- Prayer\"less*ly, adv.-- Prayer\"less*ness, n.", | |
| "HAYSTACK": "A stack or conical pile of hay in the open air.", | |
| "SUPERNATURALNESS": "The quality or state of being supernatural.", | |
| "UNSOFT": "Not soft; hard; coarse; rough. [Obs.] \"Bristles of his beardunsoft.\" Chaucer.", | |
| "DUDDER": "To confuse or confound with noise. Jennings.", | |
| "UNAPPROPRIATE": "To take from private possession; to restore to the possessionor right of all; as, to unappropriate a monopoly. [R.] Milton.", | |
| "GRAVES": "The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.", | |
| "BAWCOCK": "A fine fellow; -- a term of endearment. [Obs.] \"How now, mybawcock \" Shak.", | |
| "CIRCUMSCRIPTIVE": "Circumscribing or tending to circumscribe; marcing the limitsor form of.", | |
| "KNOCK-OUT": "Act of knocking out, or state of being knocked out.", | |
| "FREEHOLDER": "The possessor of a freehold.", | |
| "TRISECTED": "Divided into three parts or segments by incisions extending tothe midrib or to the base; -- said of leaves.", | |
| "ENCOLOR": "To color. [R.]", | |
| "ELKWOOD": "The soft, spongy wood of a species of Magnolia (M. Umbrella).", | |
| "SIPHOID": "A siphon bottle. See under Siphon, n.", | |
| "CANTICLE": "The Song of Songs or Song of Solomon, one of the books of theOld Testament.", | |
| "MORPHOLOGIST": "One who is versed in the science of morphology.", | |
| "PONDERABLE": "Capable of being weighed; having appreciable weight.-- Pon\"der*a*ble*ness, n.", | |
| "LITHOCHROMATICS": "See Lithochromics.", | |
| "PRESENTOIR": "An ornamental tray, dish, or the like, used as a salver.", | |
| "EDUCABILITY": "Capability of being educated.", | |
| "POSTABLE": "Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. [Obs.] W. Montagu.", | |
| "-EE": "A suffix used, chiefly in law terms, in a passivesignification, to indicate the direct or indirect object of anaction, or the one to whom an act is done or on whom a right isconferred; as in assignee, donee, alienee, grantee, etc. It iscorrelative to -or, the agent or doer.", | |
| "STRISORES": "A division of passerine birds including the humming birds,swifts, and goatsuckers. It is now generally considered an artificialgroup.", | |
| "GALVANOPUNCTURE": "Same as Electro-puncture.", | |
| "MATCH-COAT": "A coat made of match-cloth.", | |
| "DEMIDEIFY": "To deify in part. Cowper.", | |
| "DULLSOME": "Dull. [R.] Gataker.", | |
| "SQUAMOID": "Resembling a scale; also, covered with scales; scaly.", | |
| "NATATORIAL": "Inclined or adapted to swim; swimming; as, natatorial birds.", | |
| "PRESIDENT": "Precedent. [Obs.] Bacon.", | |
| "MESONASAL": "Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.", | |
| "CHIPPING SQUIRREL": "See Chipmunk.", | |
| "JAGUARONDI": "A South American wild cat (Felis jaguarondi), having a long,slim body and very short legs. Its color is grayish brown, variedwith a blackish hue. It is arboreal in its habits and feeds mostly onbirds.", | |
| "DETENT": "That which locks or unlocks a movement; a catch, pawl, or dog;especially, in clockwork, the catch which locks and unlocks thewheelwork in striking.", | |
| "GEET": "Jet. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "REQUIN": "The man-eater, or white shark (Carcharodon carcharias); -- socalled on account of its causing requiems to be sung.", | |
| "REARGUMENT": "An arguing over again, as of a motion made in court.", | |
| "HOT-HEAD": "A violent, passionate person; a hasty or impetuous person; as,the rant of a hot-head.", | |
| "OBTUND": "To reduce the edge, pungency, or violent action of; to dull; toblunt; to deaden; to quell; as, to obtund the acrimony of the gall.[Archaic] Harvey.They...have filled all our law books with the obtunding story oftheir suits and trials. Milton.", | |
| "ONAGER": "A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones froma bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.", | |
| "RUTILIAN": "Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rurila andallied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata).", | |
| "ILLAQUEABLE": "Capable of being insnared or entrapped. [R.] Cudworth.", | |
| "PLIGHT": "imp. & p. p. of Plight, to pledge. Chaucer.", | |
| "DINGO": "A wild dog found in Australia, but supposed to have introducedat a very early period. It has a wolflike face, bushy tail, and areddish brown color.", | |
| "SCANTNESS": "The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness;insufficiency; scantiness. \"Scantness of outward things.\" Barrow.", | |
| "PINPATCH": "The common English periwinkle. [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "DISACIDIFY": "To free from acid.", | |
| "BROME GRASS": "A genus (Bromus) of grasses, one species of which is the chessor cheat.", | |
| "ENCEPHALON": "The contents of the cranium; the brain.", | |
| "COLEOPTERIST": "One versed in the study of the Coleoptera.", | |
| "ZINGEL": "A small, edible, freshwater European perch (Aspro zingel),having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.", | |
| "HAT": "Hot. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "PRESCINDENT": "Cutting off; abstracting. [R.] Cheyne.", | |
| "HETEROPTERA": "A suborder of Hemiptera, in which the base of the anteriorwings is thickened. See Hemiptera.", | |
| "CAROM": "A shot in which the ball struck with the cue comes in contactwith two or more balls on the table; a hitting of two or more ballswith the player's ball. In England it is called cannon.", | |
| "MENDELIAN": "Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law. -- Men*de\"li*an*ism (#),Men*del\"ism (#), n.", | |
| "GAIETY": "Same as Gayety.", | |
| "CHANGEABILITY": "Changeableness.", | |
| "TONSILOTOMY": "The operation of removing the tonsil, or a portion thereof.", | |
| "PRECONFORMITY": "Anticipative or antecedent conformity. Coleridge.", | |
| "KERITE": "A compound in which tar or asphaltum combined with animal orvegetable oils is vulcanized by sulphur, the product closelyresembling rubber; -- used principally as an insulating material intelegraphy. Knight.", | |
| "ANTARTHRITIC": "A remedy against gout.", | |
| "ANTICLINE": "A structure of bedded rocks in which the beds on both sides ofan axis or axial plane dip away from the axis; an anticlinal.", | |
| "GLUTTON": "A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelid\u00e6,about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to beinordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is anative of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia. Gluttonbird (Zo\u00f6l.), the giant fulmar (Ossifraga gigantea); -- called alsoMother Carey's goose, and mollymawk.", | |
| "GRANDIFIC": "Making great. [R.] Bailey.", | |
| "BASIC STEEL": "Steel produced by the basic process.", | |
| "OVERLIBERALLY": "In an overliberal manner.", | |
| "BIRT": "A fish of the turbot kind; the brill. [Written also burt, bret,or brut.] [Prov. Eng.]", | |
| "DELAY": "A putting off or deferring; procrastination; lingeringinactivity; stop; detention; hindrance.Without any delay, on the morrow I sat on the judgment seat. Actsxxv. 17.The government ought to be settled without the delay of a day.Macaulay.", | |
| "DECOROUS": "Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion;marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, adecorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.A decorous pretext the war. Motley.-- De*co\"rous*ly, adv.-- De*co\"rous*ness, n.", | |
| "ACOLOTHIST": "See Acolythist.", | |
| "LHERZOLITE": "An igneous rock consisting largely of chrysolite, with pyroxeneand picotite (a variety of spinel containing chromium).", | |
| "THEORBIST": "One who plays on a theorbo.", | |
| "FUNGICIDE": "Anything that kills fungi.-- Fun`gi*ci\"dal, n.", | |
| "MONOLITHIC": "Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.", | |
| "MOLEST": "To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; tovex.They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.", | |
| "WAI WU PU": "The Department of Foreign Affairs in the Chinese government.", | |
| "WEIGHBOARD": "Clay intersecting a vein. Weale.", | |
| "LABEL": "A barrulet, or, rarely, a bendlet, with pendants, or points,usually three, especially used as a mark of cadency to distinguish aneldest or only son while his father is still living.", | |
| "GRAIP": "A dungfork. [Scot.] Burns.", | |
| "INDISPENSABLY": "In an indispensable manner. \"Indispensably necessary.\" Bp.Warburton.", | |
| "VENOUS": "Of or pertaining to a vein or veins; as, the venous circulationof the blood.", | |
| "SIKE": "A gutter; a stream, such as is usually dry in summer. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.]", | |
| "SERMONING": "The act of discoursing; discourse; instruction; preaching.[Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "CONTOURNE": "Turned in a direction which is not the usual one; -- said of ananimal turned to the sinister which is usually turned to the dexter,or the like.", | |
| "SEISIN": "See Seizin. Spenser.", | |
| "TRES-TYNE": "In the antler of a stag, the third tyne above the base. Thistyne appears in the third year. In those deer in which the brow tynedoes not divide, the tres-tyne is the second tyne above the base. SeeIllust. under Rucervine, and under Rusine.", | |
| "FLOURY": "Of or resembling flour; mealy; covered with flour. Dickens.", | |
| "ANAMNIOTIC": "Without, or not developing, an amnion.", | |
| "SUGARLESS": "Without sugar; free from sugar.", | |
| "CRUSTACEOLOGY": "That branch of Zo\u00f6logy which treats of the Crustacea;malacostracology; carcinology.", | |
| "DENMARK SATIN": "See under Satin.", | |
| "TRANSCENSION": "The act of transcending, or surpassing; also, passage over.[Obs.] Chapman.", | |
| "DISAGREEABLY": "In a disagreeable manner; unsuitably; offensively.", | |
| "SCOTCHMAN": "A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and otherrigging to prevent chafe by the running gear. Ham. Nav. Encyc.", | |
| "BISMUTHAL": "Containing bismuth.", | |
| "SUBSELLIUM": "One of the stalls of the lower range where there are tworanges. See Illust. of Stall.", | |
| "HENDECATOIC": "Undecylic; pertaining to, or derived from, hendecane; as,hendecatoic acid.", | |
| "JAW-FALL": "Depression of the jaw; hence, depression of spirits. M.Griffith (1660).", | |
| "SHEATHLESS": "Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.", | |
| "AUCUPATION": "Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.", | |
| "TRAWLBOAT": "A boat used in fishing with trawls or trawlnets.", | |
| "SGRAFFITO": "Scratched; -- said of decorative painting of a certain style,in which a white overland surface is cut or scratched through, so asto form the design from a dark ground underneath.", | |
| "INCULCATE": "To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; tourge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.The most obvious and necessary duties of life they have not yet hadauthority enough to enforce and inculcate upon men's minds. S.Clarke.", | |
| "TOME": "As many writings as are bound in a volume, forming part of alarger work; a book; -- usually applied to a ponderous volume.Tomes of fable and of dream. Cowper.A more childish expedient than that to which he now resorted is notto be found in all the tomes of the casuists. Macaulay.", | |
| "HAGUE TRIBUNAL": "The permanent court of arbitration created by the\"International Convention for the Pacific Settle of InternationalDisputes.\", adopted by the International Peace Conference of 1899. Itis composed of persons of known competency in questions ofinternational law, nominated by the signatory powers. From thesepersons an arbitration tribunal is chosen by the parties to adifference submitted to the court. On the failure of the parties toagree directly on the arbitrators, each chooses two arbitrators, anumpire is selected by them, by a third power, or by two powersselected by the parties.", | |
| "FLAVESCENT": "Turning yellow; yellowish.", | |
| "EVENSONG": "A song for the evening; the evening service or form of worship(in the Church of England including vespers and compline); also, thetime of evensong. Wyclif. Milton.", | |
| "BIBLIOMANCY": "A kind of divination, performed by selecting passages ofScripture at hazard, and drawing from them indications concerningfuture events.", | |
| "OXIDULATED": "Existing in the state of a protoxide; -- said of an oxide. [R.]", | |
| "PROLIXITY": "The quality or state of being prolix; great length; minutedetail; as, prolixity in discourses and writings. \"For fulsomeness ofhis prolixitee.\" Chaucer.Idly running on with vain prolixity. Drayton.", | |
| "CILLOSIS": "A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.", | |
| "ARTLY": "With art or skill. [Obs.]", | |
| "AMUSETTE": "A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel.", | |
| "SUBSCRIPT": "Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See underIota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters(suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other lettersto distinguish them; as, a, n, 2, in the symbols Xa, An, Y2. SeeSuffix, n., 2, and Subindex.", | |
| "TAWS": "A leather lash, or other instrument of punishment, used by aschoolmaster. [Written also tawes, tawis, and tawse.] [Scot.]Never use the taws when a gloom can do the turn. Ramsay.", | |
| "UNFORM": "To decompose, or resolve into parts; to destroy the form of; tounmake. [R.] Good.", | |
| "TIMEOUS": "Timely; seasonable. [R. or Scot.] -- Time\"ous*ly, adv. [R. orScot.]", | |
| "OUTFAWN": "To exceed in fawning.", | |
| "HYOSCYAMUS": "A genus of poisonous plants of the Nightshade family; henbane.", | |
| "BRUTIFY": "To make like a brute; to make senseless, stupid, or unfeeling;to brutalize.Any man not quite brutified and void of sense. Barrow.", | |
| "CASHOO": "See Catechu.", | |
| "SANTALACEOUS": "Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Santalace\u00e6), ofwhich the genus Santalum is the type, and which includes the buffalonut and a few other North American plants, and many peculiar plantsof the southern hemisphere.", | |
| "INEFFICACIOUS": "Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effectdesired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent. Boyle.The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . torestrain the growth of disorders. Burke.", | |
| "SUBSPECIES": "A group somewhat lessdistinct than speciesusually are, butbased on characters more important than those which characterizeordinary varieties; often, a geographical variety or race.", | |
| "CARBONIZATION": "The act or process of carbonizing.", | |
| "CRIMINOLOGY": "A treatise on crime or the criminal population.-- Crim`i*nol\"o*gist (-j, n.", | |
| "COULTER": "Same as Colter.", | |
| "MOTTOED": "Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.", | |
| "UNICENTRAL": "Having a single center of growth. Unicentral development, thatform of development which takes place primarily around a singlecentral point, as in the lowest of unicellular organisms.", | |
| "PALMIDACTYLES": "A group of wading birds having the toes webbed, as the avocet.", | |
| "AGILE": "Having the faculty of quick motion in the limbs; apt or readyto move; nimble; active; as, an agile boy; an agile tongue.Shaking it with agile hand. Cowper.", | |
| "MAGNETICNESS": "Magneticalness. [Obs.]", | |
| "OLIGANTHOUS": "Having few flowers.", | |
| "SWEET-BREASTED": "Having a sweet, musical voice, as the nightingale. Cf. Breast,n., 6. [Obs.]", | |
| "OBTAINMENT": "The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.", | |
| "CHICKEN-BREASTED": "Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvatureof the vertebral column.", | |
| "UPHASP": "To hasp or faster up; to close; as, sleep uphasps the eyes.[R.] Stanyhurst.", | |
| "WARNINGLY": "In a warning manner.", | |
| "POSTUMOUS": "See Posthumous. [R.]", | |
| "WAREROOM": "A room in which goods are stored or exhibited for sale.", | |
| "LENTICELLATE": "Producing lenticels; dotted with lenticels.", | |
| "PERICRANIUM": "The periosteum which covers the cranium externally; the regionaround the cranium.", | |
| "SAKI": "Any one of several species of South American monkeys of thegenus Pithecia. They have large ears, and a long hairy tail which isnot prehensile.", | |
| "STARKLY": "In a stark manner; stiffly; strongly.Its onward force too starky pent In figure, bone, and lineament.Emerson.", | |
| "PREDESTINARY": "Predestinarian. [Obs.] Heylin.", | |
| "JURA": "1. A range of mountains between France and Switzerland.", | |
| "SYMMETRY": "The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity inform and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, suchthat an animal may be divided into parts which are structurallysymmetrical.", | |
| "INCONNECTION": "Disconnection.", | |
| "VISIT": "To come to for the purpose of chastising, rewarding,comforting; to come upon with reward or retribution; to appear beforeor judge; as, to visit in mercy; to visit one in wrath.[God] hath visited and redeemed his people. Like i. 68.", | |
| "BOGGARD": "A bogey. [Local, Eng.]", | |
| "DESK": "To shut up, as in a desk; to treasure.", | |
| "ANDALUSITE": "A silicate of aluminium, occurring usually in thick rhombicprisms, nearly square, of a grayish or pale reddish tint. It wasfirst discovered in Andalusia, Spain.", | |
| "RADIOTELEGRAPHY": "Telegraphy using the radiant energy of electrical (Hertzian)waves; wireless telegraphy; -- the term adopted for use by theRadiotelegraphic Convention of 1912.", | |
| "NEVEW": "Nephew. [Obs.] haucer.", | |
| "DISSUASORY": "A dissuasive. [R.]This virtuous and reasonable person, however, has ill luck in all hisdissuasories. Jeffrey.", | |
| "FUSE": "A tube or casing filled with combustible matter, by means ofwhich a charge of powder is ignited, as in blasting; -- called alsofuzee. See Fuze. Fuse hole, the hole in a shell prepared for thereception of the fuse. Farrow.", | |
| "PERVERTIBLE": "Capable of being perverted.", | |
| "ANGULOUS": "Angular; having corners; hooked. [R.]Held together by hooks and angulous involutions. Glanvill.", | |
| "ALLEGE": "To alleviate; to lighten, as a burden or a trouble. [Obs.]Wyclif.", | |
| "BRETFUL": "Brimful. [Obs.] Chaucer.", | |
| "IRON WORKS": ". See under Iron, a.", | |
| "THUMP": "To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as tocause a dull sound.These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers Have in their own landbeaten, bobbed, and thumped. Shak.", | |
| "CYCLOSTOMATA": "Defn:", | |
| "SELF-MURDERER": "A suicide.", | |
| "BOSS": "A projecting ornament placed at the intersection of the ribs ofceilings, whether vaulted or flat, and in other situations.", | |
| "DITROITE": "An igneous rock composed of orthoclase, el\u00e6olite, and sodalite.", | |
| "HASTINGS": "Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease. Mort |
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