List Words
Hood
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
Barleycorn
A grain or "corn" of barley.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Infralabial
Below the lower lip; -- said of certain scales of reptiles and fishes.
Within
In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.
Wide-awake
Fully awake; not drowsy or dull; hence, knowing; keen; alert.
Litigable
Such as can be litigated.
Well-known
Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
Wayfaring
Traveling; passing; being on a journey.
Washed
of Wash
Virtually
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Vicinal
Near; vicine.
Vanished
of Vanish
Upswarm
To rise, or cause to rise, in a swarm or swarms.
Upstairs
Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.
Uppish
Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
Upgrow
To grow up.
Obsequious
Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
Coupure
A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.
Unembarrassed
Not embarrassed.
Trundle
A round body; a little wheel.
Triumphal
Of or pertaining to triumph; used in a triumph; indicating, or in honor of, a triumph or victory; as, a triumphal crown; a triumphal arch.
Transitional
Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Therewithal
Over and above; besides; moreover.
Thereof
Of that or this.
Therefrom
From this or that.
Temporary
Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Taction
The act of touching; touch; contact; tangency.
Symptomatic
Alt. of Symptomatical
Swept
of Sweep
Swaying
of Sway
Supra
Over; above; before; also, beyond; besides; -- much used as a prefix.
Superadded
of Superadd
Beleaguered
of Beleaguer
Subsisting
of Subsist
Subsistent
Having real being; as, a subsistent spirit.
Sub judice
Before the judge, or court; not yet decided; under judicial consideration.
started
of Start
Spiccato
Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
Delineator
One who, or that which, delineates; a sketcher.
Chamberlain
An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Sinistrorse
Turning to the left (of the spectator) in the ascending line; -- the opposite of dextrorse. See Dextrorse.
Similarly
In a similar manner.
Shopkeeper
A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Inspirational
Pertaining to inspiration.
Semiquaver
A note of half the duration of the quaver; -- now usually called a sixsteenth note.
Self-restrained
Restrained by one's self or itself; restrained by one's own power or will.
Self-possessed
Composed or tranquill in mind, manner, etc.; undisturbed.
Save-all
Anything which saves fragments, or prevents waste or loss.
Affranchisement
The act of making free; enfranchisement.
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