List Words
Demarcation
The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Dodging
of Dodge
Lemures
Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Dagger
A short weapon used for stabbing. This is the general term: cf. Poniard, Stiletto, Bowie knife, Dirk, Misericorde, Anlace.
Reap
To cut with a sickle, scythe, or reaping machine, as grain; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting.
Facetious
Given to wit and good humor; merry; sportive; jocular; as, a facetious companion.
Seeming
of Seem
Sea wrack
See Wrack.
Satisfying
of Satisfy
Bickering
of Bicker
Puddle
A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
Miracle
A wonder or wonderful thing.
Estate
Settled condition or form of existence; state; condition or circumstances of life or of any person; situation.
Unhand
To loose from the hand; to let go.
Objectionable
Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Fencing
/); p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fence
Hawser
A large rope made of three strands each containing many yarns.
Remembrance
The act of remembering; a holding in mind, or bringing to mind; recollection.
Pessimist
One who advocates the doctrine of pessimism; -- opposed to optimist.
Grievous
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Catenary
Alt. of Catenarian
Shading
of Shade
Impressed
of Impress
Etched
of Etch
Dumpish
Dull; stupid; sad; moping; melancholy.
Sober
Temperate in the use of spirituous liquors; habitually temperate; as, a sober man.
Mortuary
A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation..
Cul-de-sac
A passage with only one outlet, as a street closed at one end; a blind alley; hence, a trap.
Moving
of Move
Griseous
Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.
Yak
A bovine mammal (Poephagus grunnies) native of the high plains of Central Asia. Its neck, the outer side of its legs, and its flanks, are covered with long, flowing, fine hair. Its tail is long ..
Silver-gray
Having a gray color with a silvery luster; as, silver-gray hair.
Degree
A step, stair, or staircase.
Overnice
Excessively nice; fastidious.
Hamstring
One of the great tendons situated in each side of the ham, or space back of the knee, and connected with the muscles of the back of the thigh.
Witness
Attestation of a fact or an event; testimony.
Circumferential
Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Cornet
An obsolete rude reed instrument (Ger. Zinken), of the oboe family.
Fashioning
of Fashion
Entanglement
State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Echoed
of Echo
Fee-faw-fum
A nonsensical exclamation attributed to giants and ogres; hence, any expression calculated to impose upon the timid and ignorant.
Appetition
Desire; a longing for, or seeking after, something.
Iterate
Uttered or done again; repeated.
Blackwash
A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
China
A country in Eastern Asia.
Irreversible
Incapable of being reversed or turned about or back; incapable of being made to run backward; as, an irreversible engine.
Cake
A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
Piccolo
A small, shrill flute, the pitch of which is an octave higher than the ordinary flute; an octave flute.
Brickyard
A place where bricks are made, especially an inclosed place.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
