List Words
Discomfort
To discourage; to deject.
Capsized
of Capsize
Dabbling
of Dabble
Topsy-turvy
In an inverted posture; with the top or head downward; upside down; as, to turn a carriage topsy-turvy.
Elegize
To lament in an elegy; to celebrate in elegiac verse; to bewail.
Dirge
A piece of music of a mournful character, to accompany funeral rites; a funeral hymn.
Epicedium
An epicede.
Threnody
A song of lamentation; a threnode.
Covetous
Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.
Auspicious
Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning.
Elegy
A mournful or plaintive poem; a funereal song; a poem of lamentation.
Stringhalt
An habitual sudden twitching of the hinder leg of a horse, or an involuntary or convulsive contraction of the muscles that raise the hock.
Scabies
The itch.
Sainted
of Saint
Gnostic
Knowing; wise; shrewd.
Moaning
of Moan
Scabble
See Scapple.
Ode
A short poetical composition proper to be set to music or sung; a lyric poem; esp., now, a poem characterized by sustained noble sentiment and appropriate dignity of style.
Prothalamium
A song in celebration of a marriage.
Epopoeia
An epic poem; epic poetry.
Roundelay
See Rondeau, and Rondel.
Sonnet
A short poem, -- usually amatory.
Matured
of Mature
Requiem
A mass said or sung for the repose of a departed soul.
Incontestable
Not contestable; not to be disputed; that cannot be called in question or controverted; incontrovertible; indisputable; as, incontestable evidence, truth, or facts.
Spared
of Spare
Excused
of Excuse
Caducity
Tendency to fall; the feebleness of old age; senility.
Viscera
pl. of Viscus.
Soul
Sole.
Tuberculosis
A constitutional disease characterized by the production of tubercles in the internal organs, and especially in the lungs, where it constitutes the most common variety of pulmonary consumptio..
Clairvoyant
Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Breakbone fever
See Dengue.
Lepra
Leprosy.
Sobbing
of Sob
Elephantiasis
A disease of the skin, in which it become enormously thickened, and is rough, hard, and fissured, like an elephant's hide.
Auditory
Of or pertaining to hearing, or to the sense or organs of hearing; as, the auditory nerve. See Ear.
Thrush
Any one of numerous species of singing birds belonging to Turdus and allied genera. They are noted for the sweetness of their songs.
Spiritual
Consisting of spirit; not material; incorporeal; as, a spiritual substance or being.
Doxology
In Christian worship: A hymn expressing praise and honor to God; a form of praise to God designed to be sung or chanted by the choir or the congregation.
Preserved
of Preserve
Offertory
The act of offering, or the thing offered.
Eulogy
A speech or writing in commendation of the character or services of a person; as, a fitting eulogy to worth.
Wake
The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.
Eyebright
A small annual plant (Euphrasia officinalis), formerly much used as a remedy for diseases of the eye.
Anthem
Formerly, a hymn sung in alternate parts, in present usage, a selection from the Psalms, or other parts of the Scriptures or the liturgy, set to sacred music.
Armed
of Arm
Supersensual
Supersensible.
Cholera
One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera.
Deathwatch
A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been ..
