List Words
Heft
Same as Haft, n.
Annexation
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
Benumb
To make torpid; to deprive of sensation or sensibility; to stupefy; as, a hand or foot benumbed by cold.
Publicly
With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made.
Insensitive
Not sensitive; wanting sensation, or wanting acute sensibility.
Congress
A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.
Surd
Net having the sense of hearing; deaf.
Melancholy
Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Pinchpenny
A miserly person.
Numerator
One who numbers.
Debating
of Debate
Cation
An electro-positive substance, which in electro-decomposition is evolved at the cathode; -- opposed to anion.
Isomer
A body or compound which is isomeric with another body or compound; a member of an isomeric series.
Cyclic
Alt. of Cyclical
Acquiescing
of Acquiesce
Foreclose
To shut up or out; to preclude; to stop; to prevent; to bar; to exclude.
Workable
Capable of being worked, or worth working; as, a workable mine; workable clay.
Affiliate
To adopt; to receive into a family as a son; hence, to bring or receive into close connection; to ally.
Implacable
Not placable; not to be appeased; incapable of being pacified; inexorable; as, an implacable prince.
Immature
Not mature; unripe; not arrived at perfection of full development; crude; unfinished; as, immature fruit; immature character; immature plans.
Cocked
of Cock
Imperatorial
Commanding; imperative; authoritative.
Cachinnation
Loud or immoderate laughter; -- often a symptom of hysterical or maniacal affections.
Baste
To beat with a stick; to cudgel.
Handspike
A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
Excitation
The act of exciting or putting in motion; the act of rousing up or awakening.
Pedal
Of or pertaining to the foot, or to feet, literally or figuratively; specifically (Zool.), pertaining to the foot of a mollusk; as, the pedal ganglion.
Vitriolic
Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste. Cf. Vitriol.
Reformed
Corrected; amended; restored to purity or excellence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those w..
Pang
A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.
Hebetude
Dullness; stupidity.
Merited
of Merit
Anal
Pertaining to, or situated near, the anus; as, the anal fin or glands.
Coo
To make a low repeated cry or sound, like the characteristic note of pigeons or doves.
Slaughterous
Destructive; murderous.
Artful
Performed with, or characterized by, art or skill.
Apt
Fit or fitted; suited; suitable; appropriate.
Fatal
Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.
Like
Having the same, or nearly the same, appearance, qualities, or characteristics; resembling; similar to; similar; alike; -- often with in and the particulars of the resemblance; as, they are l..
Ministerial
Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
Condense
To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.
Immemorial
Extending beyond the reach of memory, record, or tradition; indefinitely ancient; as, existing from time immemorial.
Digital
Of or performance to the fingers, or to digits; done with the fingers; as, digital compression; digital examination.
Indiscriminating
Not discriminating.
Drip
To fall in drops; as, water drips from the eaves.
Ultramontane
Being beyond the mountains; specifically, being beyond the Alps, in respect to the one who speaks.
Delighted
of Delight
Madness
The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
Patchwork
Work composed of pieces sewed together, esp. pieces of various colors and figures; hence, anything put together of incongruous or ill-adapted parts; something irregularly clumsily composed; a th..
Bother
To annoy; to trouble; to worry; to perplex. See Pother.
