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Valuation
The act of valuing, or of estimating value or worth; the act of setting a price; estimation; appraisement; as, a valuation of lands for the purpose of taxation.
Thigh
The proximal segment of the hind limb between the knee and the trunk. See Femur.
Stepsister
A daughter of one's stepfather or stepmother by a former marriage.
Trifler
One who trifles.
Defrauder
One who defrauds; a cheat; an embezzler; a peculator.
Pallet
A small and mean bed; a bed of straw.
Seneschal
An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of ..
Growler
One who growls.
Elucubrate
See Lucubrate.
Hindgut
The posterior part of the alimentary canal, including the rectum, and sometimes the large intestine also.
Lung
An organ for aerial respiration; -- commonly in the plural.
Duodenum
The part of the small intestines between the stomach and the jejunum. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus, under Digestive.
Comforter
One who administers comfort or consolation.
Keeper
One who, or that which, keeps; one who, or that which, holds or has possession of anything.
Bumptiousness
Conceitedness.
Contumely
Rudeness compounded of haughtiness and contempt; scornful insolence; despiteful treatment; disdain; contemptuousness in act or speech; disgrace.
Sickness
The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.
Analyzing
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Idler
One who idles; one who spends his time in inaction; a lazy person; a sluggard.
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Rubble
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Lingerer
One who lingers.
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Stepmother
The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
Triangulation
The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determi..
Malingerer
In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or i..
Stepfather
The husband of one's mother by a subsequent marriage.
Ancestorial
Ancestral.
Afghan
Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.
Bedspread
A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
Granite
A crystalline, granular rock, consisting of quartz, feldspar, and mica, and usually of a whitish, grayish, or flesh-red color. It differs from gneiss in not having the mica in planes, and the..
Coverlid
A coverlet.
Audacity
Reckless daring; presumptuous impudence; -- implying a contempt of law or moral restraints.
Ancestral
Of, pertaining to, derived from, or possessed by, an ancestor or ancestors; as, an ancestral estate.
Groundsel
An annual composite plant (Senecio vulgaris), one of the most common and widely distributed weeds on the globe.
Mater
See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Maternal
Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
Procreator
One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.
Sullage
Drainage of filth; filth collected from the street or highway; sewage.
Guardian
One who guards, preserves, or secures; one to whom any person or thing is committed for protection, security, or preservation from injury; a warden.
Inter
To deposit and cover in the earth; to bury; to inhume; as, to inter a dead body.
Stylobate
The uninterrupted and continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Giblets
The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
Concatenate
To link together; to unite in a series or chain, as things depending on one another.
Critique
The art of criticism.
Tarsus
The ankle; the bones or cartilages of the part of the foot between the metatarsus and the leg, consisting in man of seven short bones.
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Mule
A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
