List Words
Embitter
To make bitter or sad. See Imbitter.
Miff
A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.
Inviscate
To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter.
Withdraw
To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or the like.
Knife
An instrument consisting of a thin blade, usually of steel and having a sharp edge for cutting, fastened to a handle, but of many different forms and names for different uses; as, table knife, d..
Fed
imp. & p. p. of Feed.
Appliance
The act of applying; application; [Obs.] subservience.
Clasp
To shut or fasten together with, or as with, a clasp; to shut or fasten (a clasp, or that which fastens with a clasp).
Cant hook
A wooden lever with a movable iron hook. hear the end; -- used for canting or turning over heavy logs, etc.
Mechanize
To cause to be mechanical.
Flunky
A contemptuous name for a liveried servant or a footman.
Cribble
A coarse sieve or screen.
Groveler
One who grovels; an abject wretch.
Amanuensis
A person whose employment is to write what another dictates, or to copy what another has written.
Pliers
A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Revoke
To call or bring back; to recall.
Shaper
One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes.
Repeal
To recall; to summon again, as persons.
Annul
To reduce to nothing; to obliterate.
Razor
A keen-edged knife of peculiar shape, used in shaving the hair from the face or the head.
Pliancy
The quality or state of being pliant in sense; as, the pliancy of a rod.
Infirmity
The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
Handiness
The quality or state of being handy.
Maintainer
One who maintains.
Parasite
One who frequents the tables of the rich, or who lives at another's expense, and earns his welcome by flattery; a hanger-on; a toady; a sycophant.
Apostate
One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
Pickax
Alt. of Pickaxe
Clipper
One who clips; specifically, one who clips off the edges of coin.
Brownie
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Lever
More agreeable; more pleasing.
Weapon
An instrument of offensive of defensive combat; something to fight with; anything used, or designed to be used, in destroying, defeating, or injuring an enemy, as a gun, a sword, etc.
Demonetize
To deprive of current value; to withdraw from use, as money.
Lancet
A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
Handmaiden
A maid that waits at hand; a female servant or attendant.
Heartburn
An uneasy, burning sensation in the stomach, often attended with an inclination to vomit. It is sometimes idiopathic, but is often a symptom of often complaints.
Chilling
of Chill
Puppet
A small image in the human form; a doll.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Earache
Ache or pain in the ear.
Hireling
One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary.
Pyrosis
See Water brash, under Brash.
Frostbite
The freezing, or effect of a freezing, of some part of the body, as the ears or nose.
Instrumentality
The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency.
Shears
A cutting instrument.
Awl
A pointed instrument for piercing small holes, as in leather or wood; used by shoemakers, saddlers, cabinetmakers, etc. The blade is differently shaped and pointed for different uses, as in the ..
Pincers
See Pinchers.
Grub
To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
Drudge
To perform menial work; to labor in mean or unpleasant offices with toil and fatigue.
Intermedium
Intermediate space.
Adventurer
One who adventures; as, the merchant adventurers; one who seeks his fortune in new and hazardous or perilous enterprises.
