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A common name for various kinds of vehicles, as a Scythian dwelling on wheels, or a chariot.
Flagellum
A young, flexible shoot of a plant; esp., the long trailing branch of a vine, or a slender branch in certain mosses.
Ex officio
From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.
Octavo
A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eight leaves; hence, indicating more or less definitely a size of book so made; -- usually written 8vo or 8¡.
Elbowchair
A chair with arms to support the elbows; an armchair.
Suture
The act of sewing; also, the line along which two things or parts are sewed together, or are united so as to form a seam, or that which resembles a seam.
Whorl
A circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem.
Procreativeness
The power of generating.
Phoebe
The pewee, or pewit.
Tirade
A declamatory strain or flight of censure or abuse; a rambling invective; an oration or harangue abounding in censorious and bitter language.
Hemlock
The name of several poisonous umbelliferous herbs having finely cut leaves and small white flowers, as the Cicuta maculata, bulbifera, and virosa, and the Conium maculatum. See Conium.
Woolsack
A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.
Ambiguous
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous express..
Screed
A strip of plaster of the thickness proposed for the coat, applied to the wall at intervals of four or five feet, as a guide.
Pentagram
A pentacle or a pentalpha.
Gilding
of Gild
Exteriority
Surface; superficies; externality.
Randan
The product of a second sifting of meal; the finest part of the bran.
Floridity
The quality of being florid; floridness.
Hover
A cover; a shelter; a protection.
Pentarchy
A government in the hands of five persons; five joint rulers.
Hoy
A small coaster vessel, usually sloop-rigged, used in conveying passengers and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port.
Categorize
To insert in a category or list; to class; to catalogue.
Quincunx
An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to f..
Puffball
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Bonanza
In mining, a rich mine or vein of silver or gold; hence, anything which is a mine of wealth or yields a large income.
Proceeding
of Proceed
Productivity
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness.
Diffusiveness
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity.
Quizzical
Relating to quizzing: given to quizzing; of the nature of a quiz; farcical; sportive.
Enlightenment
Act of enlightening, or the state of being enlightened or instructed.
Loyally
In a loyal manner; faithfully.
Unable
Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable f..
Guillotine
A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim.
Horsewoman
A woman who rides on horseback.
Inflow
To flow in.
Undercurrent
A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
Melpomene
The Muse of tragedy.
Expulsive
Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel.
Sledge
A strong vehicle with low runners or low wheels; or one without wheels or runners, made of plank slightly turned up at one end, used for transporting loads upon the snow, ice, or bare ground; a ..
Sclerotic
Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.
Artless
Wanting art, knowledge, or skill; ignorant; unskillful.
Excitable
Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
Tautology
A repetition of the same meaning in different words; needless repetition of an idea in different words or phrases; a representation of anything as the cause, condition, or consequence of itse..
Temerarious
Unreasonably adventurous; despising danger; rash; headstrong; audacious; reckless; heedless.
Haymow
A mow or mass of hay laid up in a barn for preservation.
Constantly
With constancy; steadily; continually; perseveringly; without cessation; uniformly.
Pinnace
A small vessel propelled by sails or oars, formerly employed as a tender, or for coast defence; -- called originally, spynace or spyne.
Bus
An omnibus.
Unadvised
Not prudent; not discreet; ill advised.
