List Words
Thawed
of Thaw
Baize
A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
Jacob
A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Rifled
of Rifle
Costless
Costing nothing.
Gasket
A line or band used to lash a furled sail securely. Sea gaskets are common lines; harbor gaskets are plaited and decorated lines or bands. Called also casket.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Leaper
One who, or that which, leaps.
Wing-shell
Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Strombus. See Strombus.
Straddle
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Sorrel
Of a yellowish or redish brown color; as, a sorrel horse.
Bonder
One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
Sleigh
Sly.
Scone
A cake, thinner than a bannock, made of wheat or barley or oat meal.
Fibber
One who tells fibs.
Felt
of Feel
Men
pl. of Man.
Poetry
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Decrepitate
To roast or calcine so as to cause a crackling noise; as, to decrepitate salt.
Anyone
One taken at random rather than by selection; anybody. [Commonly written as two words.]
Pence
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
Soph
A contraction of Soph ister.
Pandit
See Pundit.
Kirtle
A garment varying in form and use at different times, and worn doth by men and women.
Quirky
Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.
Erg
The unit of work or energy in the C. G. S. system, being the amount of work done by a dyne working through a distance of one centimeter; the amount of energy expended in moving a body one cen..
Cosy
See Cozy.
Plaid
A rectangular garment or piece of cloth, usually made of the checkered material called tartan, but sometimes of plain gray, or gray with black stripes. It is worn by both sexes in Scotland.
Camel-backed
Having a back like a camel; humpbacked.
Diver
One who, or that which, dives.
Gravid
Being with child; heavy with young; pregnant; fruitful; as, a gravid uterus; gravid piety.
Acidifying
of Acidify
Suburb
An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the sub..
Empale
To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Chilled
Having that cloudiness or dimness of surface that is called "blooming."
Pigsty
A pigpen.
Punner
A punster.
Newly
Lately; recently.
Dabbing
of Dab
Pimped
of Pimp
Foetus
Same as Fetus.
Calico
Plain white cloth made from cotton, but which receives distinctive names according to quality and use, as, super calicoes, shirting calicoes, unbleached calicoes, etc.
Punctiform
Having the form of a point.
Shuck
A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
Durga
Same as Doorga.
Trigintal
A trental.
Nidus
A nest: a repository for the eggs of birds, insects, etc.; a breeding place; esp., the place or substance where parasites or the germs of a disease effect lodgment or are developed.
Zoril
Same as Zorilla.
Vizier-azem
A grand vizier. See under Vizier.
Nixie
See Nix.
