List Words
Gyp
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
Plebeian
Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
Verger
One who carries a verge, or emblem of office.
Weald
A wood or forest; a wooded land or region; also, an open country; -- often used in place names.
Observation
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Mummer
One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Moorland
Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Horrifying
of Horrify
Improving
of Improve
Impalpability
The quality of being impalpable.
Confessionary
A confessional.
Ambry
In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc.
Retrovert
To turn back.
Unintelligence
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance.
Swashing
of Swash
Crosspiece
A piece of any structure which is fitted or framed crosswise.
Dagoba
A dome-shaped structure built over relics of Buddha or some Buddhist saint.
Saline
Consisting of salt, or containing salt; as, saline particles; saline substances; a saline cathartic.
Humanism
Human nature or disposition; humanity.
Flite
To scold; to quarrel.
Caviler
Alt. of Caviller
Transversal
Running or lying across; transverse; as, a transversal line.
Talisman
A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, o..
Delta
A tract of land shaped like the letter delta (/), especially when the land is alluvial and inclosed between two or more mouths of a river; as, the delta of the Ganges, of the Nile, or of the Mis..
Morbidity
The quality or state of being morbid.
Flimflam
A freak; a trick; a lie.
Sacristy
An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils, vestments, etc., are kept; a vestry.
Chantry
An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Smallpox
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subs..
Mumps
Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.
Savanna
A tract of level land covered with the vegetable growth usually found in a damp soil and warm climate, -- as grass or reeds, -- but destitute of trees.
Sharper
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester.
Offish
Shy or distant in manner.
Cattle
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Exorhizae
of Exorhiza
Miasma
Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Besetment
The act of besetting, or the state of being beset; also, that which besets one, as a sin.
Adorer
One who adores; a worshiper; one who admires or loves greatly; an ardent admirer.
Watching
of Watch
Ashy
Pertaining to, or composed of, ashes; filled, or strewed with, ashes.
Enshrine
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory.
Spying
of Spy
Bogey
A goblin; a bugbear. See Bogy.
Sanctify
To make sacred or holy; to set apart to a holy or religious use; to consecrate by appropriate rites; to hallow.
Apprehension
The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Seaboard
The seashore; seacoast.
Malady
Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
Scanning
of Scan
Ineptness
Unfitness; ineptitude.
Court-martial
A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
