List Words
Polyscope
An apparatus for affording a view of the different cavities of the body.
Luxate
Luxated.
Schooled
of School
Owned
of Own
Portegue
See Portague.
Aspic
A piece of ordnance carrying a 12 pound shot.
Aviary
A house, inclosure, large cage, or other place, for keeping birds confined; a bird house.
Noiseful
Loud; clamorous.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Plenties
of Plenty
Freed
of Free
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Eccentric
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion ..
Acridness
The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.
Mange
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Supper
To supply with supper.
Sleazy
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Elemi
A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of var..
Violet
Any plant or flower of the genus Viola, of many species. The violets are generally low, herbaceous plants, and the flowers of many of the species are blue, while others are white or yellow, or o..
Peeled
of Peel
Colliflower
See Cauliflower.
Austrian
A native or an inhabitant of Austria.
Rosin
To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Warmthless
Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold.
Noways
In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.
Oversupply
An excessive supply.
Orchid
Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
Hyperphysical
Above or transcending physical laws; supernatural.
Furthest
superl. Most remote; most in advance; farthest. See Further, a.
Copal
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where ..
Completive
Making complete.
Guaiac
Pertaining to, or resembling, guaiacum.
Paradisic
Paradisiacal.
Entailed
of Entail
Meridional
Of or pertaining to the meridian.
Dammar
Alt. of Dammara
Ethmoidal
Pertaining to, or in the region of, the ethmoid bone.
Candy
A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flav..
Nowise
Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.
Chromogen
Any colored compound, supposed to contain one or more chromophores.
Nighness
The quality or state of being nigh.
Conglobed
of Conglobe
Colliquation
A melting together; the act of melting; fusion.
Sheaf
Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, -- usually twenty-four.
Eponym
Alt. of Eponyme
Toft
A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Elaterium
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica E..
Aldine
An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign ..
