List Words
Galiot
A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers.
Frigate
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war ..
Sloop
A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, wh..
Lateen
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.
Pungy
A small sloop or shallop, or a large boat with sails.
Implacably
In an implacable manner.
Statically
In a statical manner.
Empyrean
The highest heaven, where the pure element of fire was supposed by the ancients to subsist.
Squarely
In a square form or manner.
Acclivity
A slope or inclination of the earth, as the side of a hill, considered as ascending, in opposition to declivity, or descending; an upward slope; ascent.
Budge
To move off; to stir; to walk away.
Steepness
Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.
Triolet
A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Heliotrope
An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
Venerated
of Venerate
Unprejudiced
Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.
Epopee
Alt. of Epopoeia
Ethical
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
Reverend
Worthy of reverence; entitled to respect mingled with fear and affection; venerable.
Yeomanly
Pertaining to a yeoman; becoming or suitable to, a yeoman; yeomanlike.
Redolent
Diffusing odor or fragrance; spreading sweet scent; scented; odorous; smelling; -- usually followed by of.
Principled
of Principle
Essenced
of Essence
Somerset
A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and lights upon his feet; a turning end over end.
Putrefy
To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Fossilize
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Meritorious
Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Celebrated
of Celebrate
Griffin
An Anglo-Indian name for a person just arrived from Europe.
Turnover
The act or result of turning over; an upset; as, a bad turnover in a carriage.
Tenne
A tincture, rarely employed, which is considered as an orange color or bright brown. It is represented by diagonal lines from sinister to dexter, crossed by vertical lines.
Rotting
of Rot
Erminois
See Note under Ermine, n., 4.
Orle
A bearing, in the form of a fillet, round the shield, within, but at some distance from, the border.
Odorate
Odorous.
Epithalamium
A nuptial song, or poem in honor of the bride and bridegroom.
Primly
In a prim or precise manner.
Immovably
In an immovable manner.
Corvette
A war vessel, ranking next below a frigate, and having usually only one tier of guns; -- called in the United States navy a sloop of war.
Perpetually
In a perpetual manner; constantly; continually.
Perfumed
of Perfume
Fragrant
Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume.
Opponent
Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
Gesture
Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
Perdurability
Durability; lastingness.
Omnisciency
Omniscience.
Endlessness
The quality of being endless; perpetuity.
Spinel
Alt. of Spinelle
Nosegay
A bunch of odorous and showy flowers; a bouquet; a posy.
Perspire
To excrete matter through the skin; esp., to excrete fluids through the pores of the skin; to sweat.
