List Words
Bice
Alt. of Bise
Conveniency
The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.
Chacma
A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]
Bowfin
A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
Quag
A quagmire.
Frizzed
of Friz
Bertha
A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
Obmutescence
A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Denier
One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
Muss
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
Butler
An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Fringy
Aborned with fringes.
Teamed
Yoked in, or as in, a team.
Racker
One who racks.
Ing
A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.
Manger
A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
Aphis
A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Multiaxial
Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to monoaxial.
Groined
Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.
Hygeia
The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.
Bigg
See Big, n. & v.
Satiny
Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.
Nuzzle
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Cornea
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Raceme
A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
Shanty
Jaunty; showy.
Traps
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Soggy
Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
Ave
An ave Maria.
Harpy
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Jester
A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
Astringing
of Astringe
Grilse
A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Female
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
Oxbow
A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a..
Ligule
The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Chitin
A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
Plucky
Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
Chide
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Byre
A cow house.
Ray
To array.
Moolah
Alt. of Moollah
Divot
A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.
Alum
A double sulphate formed of aluminium and some other element (esp. an alkali metal) or of aluminium. It has twenty-four molecules of water of crystallization.
Lurk
To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Crasis
A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
Docent
Serving to instruct; teaching.
Lollop
To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
Spathe
A special involucre formed of one leaf and inclosing a spadix, as in aroid plants and palms. See the Note under Bract, and Illust. of Spadix.
