List Words
Pyrosis
See Water brash, under Brash.
Hireling
One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
Earache
Ache or pain in the ear.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Puppet
A small image in the human form; a doll.
Chilling
of Chill
Heartburn
An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Handmaiden
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Lancet
A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
Demonetize
To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
Weapon
An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
Lever
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Brownie
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Clipper
One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
Pickax
Alt. of Pickaxe
Apostate
One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
Parasite
One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
Maintainer
One who maintains.
Handiness
The quality or state of being handy.
Infirmity
The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
Pliancy
The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.
Razor
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
Annul
To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Repeal
To recall; to summon again, as persons.
Shaper
One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
Revoke
To call or bring back; to recall.
Pliers
A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Amanuensis
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Groveler
One who grovels; an abject wretch.
Cribble
A coarse sieve or screen.
Flunky
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
Mechanize
To cause to be mechanical.
Cant hook
A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
Clasp
To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
Appliance
The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
Fed
imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Knife
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, d..
Withdraw
To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Inviscate
To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
Miff
A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.
Embitter
To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Badger
An itinerant licensed dealer in commodities used for food; a hawker; a huckster; -- formerly applied especially to one who bought grain in one place and sold it in another.
Fash
To vex; to tease; to trouble.
Incanous
Hoary with white pubescence.
Plague
That which smites, wounds, or troubles; a blow; a calamity; any afflictive evil or torment; a great trail or vexation.
Vex
To to/s back and forth; to agitate; to disquiet.
Dog
A quadruped of the genus Canis, esp. the domestic dog (C. familiaris).
Harry
To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land.
Chivy
To goad, drive, hunt, throw, or pitch.
Exasperate
To irritate in a high degree; to provoke; to enrage; to exscite or to inflame the anger of; as, to exasperate a person or his feelings.
