List Words
Brooklet
A small brook.
Humiliation
The act of humiliating or humbling; abasement of pride; mortification.
Feat
An act; a deed; an exploit.
Unfetter
To loose from fetters or from restraint; to unchain; to unshackle; to liberate; as, to unfetter the mind.
Cataract
A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Unmeet
Not meet or fit; not proper; unbecoming; unsuitable; -- usually followed by for.
Another
One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.
Supernumerary
Exceeding the number stated or prescribed; as, a supernumerary officer in a regiment.
Suspiration
The act of sighing, or fetching a long and deep breath; a deep respiration; a sigh.
Leeway
The lateral movement of a ship to the leeward of her course; drift.
Multifarious
Having multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; of various kinds; diversified; made up of many differing parts; manifold.
Ochlocracy
A form of government by the multitude; a mobocracy.
Parnassus
A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring.
Unfasten
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
Precisianism
The quality or state of being a precisian; the practice of a precisian.
Patriarchy
The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.
Gallantry
Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery.
Poesy
The art of composing poems; poetical skill or faculty; as, the heavenly gift of poesy.
Free will
A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
Downcast
Cast downward; directed to the ground, from bashfulness, modesty, dejection, or guilt.
Emprise
An enterprise; endeavor; adventure.
Militarism
A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
Assize
An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a certain time, for public business.
Wrongdoing
Evil or wicked behavior or action.
Selvage
Alt. of Selvedge
Dart
A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; hence, any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow.
Buntline
One of the ropes toggled to the footrope of a sail, used to haul up to the yard the body of the sail when taking it in.
Fevered
of Fever
Mainsheet
One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
Twill
To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface.
Sunken
of Sink
Insobriety
Want of sobriety, moderation, or calmness; intemperance; drunkenness.
Admonition
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Earing
of Ear
Main
A hand or match at dice.
Chevalier
A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man.
Memoir
Alt. of Memoirs
Deport
To transport; to carry away; to exile; to send into banishment.
Apply
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
Reportage
SAme as Report.
Sortilege
The act or practice of drawing lots; divination by drawing lots.
Aery
An aerie.
Dislocate
To displace; to put out of its proper place. Especially, of a bone: To remove from its normal connections with a neighboring bone; to put out of joint; to move from its socket; to disjoint; a..
Clodpated
Stupid; dull; doltish.
Mangle
To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
Enlightener
One who enlightens or illuminates; one who, or that which, communicates light to the eye, or clear views to the mind.
Hooded
of Hood
Apothegm
Alt. of Apophthegm
Breeching
of Breech
Stalwartly
In a stalwart manner.
