List Words
Paeon
A foot of four syllables, one long and three short, admitting of four combinations, according to the place of the long syllable.
Zooid
Pertaining to, or resembling, an animal.
Fives
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
Never
Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
Coney
A rabbit. See Cony.
Peony
A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
Semen
The seed of plants.
Kevel
A strong cleat to which large ropes are belayed.
Koala
A tailless marsupial (Phascolarctos cinereus), found in Australia. The female carries her young on the back of her neck. Called also Australian bear, native bear, and native sloth.
Ombre
A game at cards, borrowed from the Spaniards, and usually played by three persons.
Smock
A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
Metic
A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
Shill
To shell.
Helve
The handle of an ax, hatchet, or adze.
Tatou
The giant armadillo (Priodontes gigas) of tropical South America. It becomes nearly five feet long including the tail. It is noted for its burrowing powers, feeds largely upon dead animals, and ..
Squib
A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Primo
First; chief.
Hawse
A hawse hole.
Sprat
A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Cuddy
An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
Riggish
Like a rig or wanton.
Venue
A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
Opium
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Immit
To send in; to inject; to infuse; -- the correlative of emit.
Rummy
Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
Tongs
An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or m..
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Wooer
One who wooes; one who courts or solicits in love; a suitor.
Neddy
A pet name for a donkey.
Swart
Sward.
Pubis
The ventral and anterior of the three principal bones composing either half of the pelvis; sharebone; pubic bone.
Mauve
A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Umbra
The conical shadow projected from a planet or satellite, on the side opposite to the sun, within which a spectator could see no portion of the sun's disk; -- used in contradistinction from penum..
Quits
See the Note under Quit, a.
Winch
To wince; to shrink; to kick with impatience or uneasiness.
Waltz
A dance performed by two persons in circular figures with a whirling motion; also, a piece of music composed in triple measure for this kind of dance.
Serge
A woolen twilled stuff, much used as material for clothing for both sexes.
Vesta
One of the great divinities of the ancient Romans, identical with the Greek Hestia. She was a virgin, and the goddess of the hearth; hence, also, of the fire on it, and the family round it.
Snick
A small cut or mark.
Gaming
of Game
Assayed
of Assay
Sleep
To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Sward
Skin; covering.
Clime
A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Ampere
Alt. of Ampere
Compact
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Oxen
of Ox
Toping
of Tope
Jimmy
A short crowbar used by burglars in breaking open doors.
Lithotriptic
Same as Lithontriptic.
