List Words
Pataca
The Spanish dollar; -- called also patacoon.
Griefful
Full of grief or sorrow.
Fleak
A flake; a thread or twist.
Swordplay
Fencing; a sword fight.
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Deprivable
Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed.
Intussusception
The reception of one part within another.
Impecunious
Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
Soldanel
A plant of the genus Soldanella, low Alpine herbs of the Primrose family.
Poyntel
Paving or flooring made of small squares or lozenges set diagonally.
Shellac
See the Note under 2d Lac.
Cashmere
A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, ..
Prolegomena
of Prolegomenon
Dhole
A fierce, wild dog (Canis Dukhunensis), found in the mountains of India. It is remarkable for its propensity to hunt the tiger and other wild animals in packs.
Acolyte
One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
Compost
A mixture; a compound.
Immixture
Freedom from mixture; purity.
Artificiality
The quality or appearance of being artificial; that which is artificial.
Concerning
Important.
Cunningness
Quality of being cunning; craft.
Affectedness
Affectation.
Euphuism
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
On
Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's ..
Causidical
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
Waddling
of Waddle
Litigious
Inclined to judicial contest; given to the practice of contending in law; guarrelsome; contentious; fond of litigation.
Saintliness
Quality of being saintly.
Angelicalness
The quality of being angelic; excellence more than human.
Polarizing
of Polarize
Amative
Full of love; amatory.
Bicolored
Of two colors.
Compliable
Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant.
Interventor
One who intervenes; a mediator; especially (Eccles. Hist.), a person designated by a church to reconcile parties, and unite them in the choice of officers.
Nonresisting
Not making resistance.
Perfervid
Very fervid; too fervid; glowing; ardent.
Rascality
The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud.
Regimented
of Regiment
Scalding
of Scald
Spirituous
Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure.
Versicolor
Alt. of Versicolored
Christianity
The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
Saintship
The character or qualities of a saint.
Factionist
One who promotes faction.
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Neckar nut
See Nicker nut.
Lanier
A strap used to fasten together parts of armor, to hold the shield by, and the like.
Sway-backed
Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Emancipated
of Emancipate
Quietism
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of ..
