List Words
Kodak
A kind of portable camera.
Tasting
The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Canuck
A Canadian.
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Ruffian
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
Gorse
Furze. See Furze.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Luna
The moon.
Corcule
The heart of the seed; the embryo or germ.
Trowel
A mason's tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them.
Palmer
One who palms or cheats, as at cards or dice.
Baigne
To soak or drench.
Becalm
To keep from motion, or stop the progress of, by the stilling of the wind; as, the fleet was becalmed.
Piety
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
Pupa
Any insect in that stage of its metamorphosis which usually immediately precedes the adult, or imago, stage.
Stelmatopoda
Same as Gymnolaemata.
West India
Alt. of West Indian
Tuyere
A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
Pities
of Pity
Mischief-maker
One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
Smatter
To talk superficially about.
Palea
The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Groats
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Affray
To frighten; to scare; to frighten away.
Foresail
The fore staysail of a sloop, being the triangular sail next forward of the mast.
Nun
The European blue titmouse.
Policing
of Police
Merino
Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.
Radian
An arc of a circle which is equal to the radius, or the angle measured by such an arc.
Pylangia
of Pylangium
Outwear
To wear out; to consume or destroy by wearing.
Setule
A setula.
Sneap
To check; to reprimand; to rebuke; to chide.
Pederast
One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.
Uncurl
To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly.
Neap
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
Wrathy
Very angry.
Jutes
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
Yama
The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormento..
Marketing
Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
Nun
A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Correcting
of Correct
Fatigation
Weariness.
Sibyl
A woman supposed to be endowed with a spirit of prophecy.
Jute
The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and C. capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc.
Odontolite
A fossil tooth colored a bright blue by phosphate of iron. It is used as an imitation of turquoise, and hence called bone turquoise.
Falsism
That which is evidently false; an assertion or statement the falsity of which is plainly apparent; -- opposed to truism.
Venter
One who vents; one who utters, reports, or publishes.
Napery
Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general.
Lyre
A stringed instrument of music; a kind of harp much used by the ancients, as an accompaniment to poetry.