List Words
Peccant
Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
Vale
A tract of low ground, or of land between hills; a valley.
Incest
The crime of cohabitation or sexual commerce between persons related within the degrees wherein marriage is prohibited by law.
Equivocatory
Indicating, or characterized by, equivocation.
Hatchel
An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle.
Jug
A vessel, usually of coarse earthenware, with a swelling belly and narrow mouth, and having a handle on one side.
Thicken
To make thick (in any sense of the word).
Infidelity
Want of faith or belief in some religious system; especially, a want of faith in, or disbelief of, the inspiration of the Scriptures, of the divine origin of Christianity.
Begrime
To soil with grime or dirt deeply impressed or rubbed in.
Chicane
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Safe-conduct
That which gives a safe passage
Hedging
of Hedge
Whipcord
A kind of hard-twisted or braided cord, sometimes used for making whiplashes.
Driveway
A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Overscrupulousness
The quality or state of being overscrupulous; excess of scrupulousness.
Annulment
The act of annulling; abolition; invalidation.
Adz
Alt. of Adze
Slackness
The quality or state of being slack.
Internal
Inward; interior; being within any limit or surface; inclosed; -- opposed to external; as, the internal parts of a body, or of the earth.
Dislodgment
The act or process of dislodging, or the state of being dislodged.
Fogged
of Fog
Eradication
The act of plucking up by the roots; a rooting out; extirpation; utter destruction.
Culpa
Negligence or fault, as distinguishable from dolus (deceit, fraud), which implies intent, culpa being imputable to defect of intellect, dolus to defect of heart.
Usher
An officer or servant who has the care of the door of a court, hall, chamber, or the like; hence, an officer whose business it is to introduce strangers, or to walk before a person of rank. Also..
Dicky
A seat behind a carriage, for a servant.
Unalienable
Inalienable; as, unalienable rights.
Looseness
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.
Abjurement
Renunciation.
Contradiction
An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
Archivist
A keeper of archives or records.
Scorer
One who, or that which, scores.
Duenna
The chief lady in waiting on the queen of Spain.
Bugaboo
Alt. of Bugbear
Taw
Tow.
Lecture
The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
Librarian
One who has the care or charge of a library.
Lamia
A monster capable of assuming a woman's form, who was said to devour human beings or suck their blood; a vampire; a sorceress; a witch.
Adventuress
A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
Linked
of Link
Exhortation
The act of practice of exhorting; the act of inciting to laudable deeds; incitement to that which is good or commendable.
Resistive
Serving to resist.
Notopodia
of Notopodium
Sermon
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Nubilous
Cloudy.
Superabundant
Abounding to excess; being more than is sufficient; redundant; as, superabundant zeal.
Butterfly
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.
Punitory
Punishing; tending to punishment; punitive.
Moire
Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.
Mother-of-pearl
The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
Mottle
To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate.
