List Words
Periphrastic
Alt. of Periphrastical
Shriek
To utter a loud, sharp, shrill sound or cry, as do some birds and beasts; to scream, as in a sudden fright, in horror or anguish.
Goddess
A female god; a divinity, or deity, of the female sex.
Capstone
A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
Blandish
To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.
Numbers
pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
Peep
To cry, as a chicken hatching or newly hatched; to chirp; to cheep.
Crabby
Crabbed; difficult, or perplexing.
Heaven
The expanse of space surrounding the earth; esp., that which seems to be over the earth like a great arch or dome; the firmament; the sky; the place where the sun, moon, and stars appear; -- ..
Messmate
An associate in a mess.
Await
To watch for; to look out for.
Incorrect
Not correct; not according to a copy or model, or to established rules; inaccurate; faulty.
Snow
A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted.
Read
Rennet. See 3d Reed.
Horseplay
Rude, boisterous play.
Navy
A fleet of ships; an assemblage of merchantmen, or so many as sail in company.
Superfluous
More than is wanted or is sufficient; rendered unnecessary by superabundance; unnecessary; useless; excessive; as, a superfluous price.
Palliate
Covered with a mant/e; cloaked; disguised.
Mausoleum
A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Desiderative
Denoting desire; as, desiderative verbs.
Suggest
To introduce indirectly to the thoughts; to cause to be thought of, usually by the agency of other objects.
Coheirship
The state of being a coheir.
Gouge
A chisel, with a hollow or semicylindrical blade, for scooping or cutting holes, channels, or grooves, in wood, stone, etc.; a similar instrument, with curved edge, for turning wood.
First
Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign.
Cloaking
of Cloak
Panegyrize
To praise highly; to extol in a public speech; to write or deliver a panegyric upon; to eulogize.
Marvelous
Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Fawn
A young deer; a buck or doe of the first year. See Buck.
Persuasion
The act of persuading; the act of influencing the mind by arguments or reasons offered, or by anything that moves the mind or passions, or inclines the will to a determination.
Gulp
To swallow eagerly, or in large draughts; to swallow up; to take down at one swallow.
Mutable
Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.
Cringe
To draw one's self together as in fear or servility; to bend or crouch with base humility; to wince; hence; to make court in a degrading manner; to fawn.
Guidance
The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.
Tautologic
Tautological.
Tooth
One of the hard, bony appendages which are borne on the jaws, or on other bones in the walls of the mouth or pharynx of most vertebrates, and which usually aid in the prehension and mastication ..
Childish
Of, pertaining to, befitting, or resembling, a child.
Uttermost
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end.
Beslubber
To beslobber.
Summon
To call, bid, or cite; to notify to come to appear; -- often with up.
Flannel
A soft, nappy, woolen cloth, of loose texture.
Beslobber
To slobber on; to smear with spittle running from the mouth. Also Fig.: as, to beslobber with praise.
Mousy
Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
Misinterpret
To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Indelicate
Not delicate; wanting delicacy; offensive to good manners, or to purity of mind; coarse; rude; as, an indelicate word or suggestion; indelicate behavior.
Mouthful
As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
Honesty
Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency.
Lam
To beat soundly; to thrash.
Luxuriance
The state or quality of being luxuriant; rank, vigorous growth; excessive abundance produced by rank growth.
Bugger
One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
Dyspeptic
Alt. of Dyspeptical
