List Words
Slate
Any rock or stone having a slaty structure.
Conjoin
To unite; to join; to league.
Rooted
of Root
Lynx
Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
Sacker
One who sacks; one who takes part in the storm and pillage of a town.
Devoir
Duty; service owed; hence, due act of civility or respect; -- now usually in the plural; as, they paid their devoirs to the ladies.
Domino
A kind of hood worn by the canons of a cathedral church; a sort of amice.
Rouser
One who, or that which, rouses.
Spine
One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
That
As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the ..
Isopod
Having the legs similar in structure; belonging to the Isopoda.
Stirp
Stock; race; family.
Joseph
An outer garment worn in the 18th century; esp., a woman's riding habit, buttoned down the front.
Naggy
Irritable; touchy.
Often
Frequently; many times; not seldom.
Overgo
To travel over.
Femalist
A gallant.
Avenge
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Wholly
In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Embay
To bathe; to soothe or lull as by bathing.
Raider
One who engages in a raid.
Bister
Alt. of Bistre
Beady
Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening.
Buyer
One who buys; a purchaser.
Fallibly
In a fallible manner.
Aldern
Made of alder.
Quay
A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
Knives
of Knife
Ligula
See Ligule.
Endoneurium
The delicate bands of connective tissue among nerve fibers.
Bireme
An ancient galley or vessel with two banks or tiers of oars.
Pregnantly
In a pregnant manner; fruitfully; significantly.
Skate
A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
Fealty
Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior po..
Underworker
One who underworks.
Rep
A fabric made of silk or wool, or of silk and wool, and having a transversely corded or ribbed surface.
Brachyural
Alt. of Brachyurous
Circumflex
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
Twelve
One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen.
Capful
As much as will fill a cap.
Hamate
Hooked; bent at the end into a hook; hamous.
Larval
Of or pertaining to a larva.
Three
One more than two; two and one.
Aulnage
Alt. of Aulnager
Adaptation
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Headlong
Steep; precipitous.
Bast
The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Ness
A promontory; a cape; a headland.
Huge
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
