List Words
Devotee
One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Suitor
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
Applicant
One who apples for something; one who makes request; a petitioner.
Dairyman
A man who keeps or takes care of a dairy.
Agio
The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Wayworn
Wearied by traveling.
Viewly
Alt. of Viewsome
Sufficing
of Suffice
Fairish
Tolerably fair.
Assuring
of Assure
Beagle
A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
Bobby
A nickname for a policeman; -- from Sir Robert Peel, who remodeled the police force. See Peeler.
Fuzz
To make drunk.
Portreeve
A port warden.
Knurl
One who, or that which, is crossgrained.
Roxburgh
A style of bookbinding in which the back is plain leather, the sides paper or cloth, the top gilt-edged, but the front and bottom left uncut.
Etruscan
Of or relating to Etruria.
Velvet
A silk fabric, having a short, close nap of erect threads. Inferior qualities are made with a silk pile on a cotton or linen back.
Spotter
One who spots.
Sleuthhound
A hound that tracks animals by the scent; specifically, a bloodhound.
Rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ..
Puritanism
The doctrines, notions, or practice of Puritans.
Crenulate
Alt. of Crenulated
Vandyke
Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.
Belligerency
The quality of being belligerent; act or state of making war; warfare.
Warpath
The route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition.
Ordurous
Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.
Steadiness
The quality or state of being steady.
Inflexibility
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfas..
Fixedness
The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.
Privative
Causing privation; depriving.
Inertia
That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force;..
Steeliness
The quality of being steely.
Tensity
The quality or state of being tense, or strained to stiffness; tension; tenseness.
Immovableness
Quality of being immovable.
Earthquake
A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock sometimes traverses half a hemisphere, destroying cities an..
Purism
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity.
Millet
The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Skid
A shoe or clog, as of iron, attached to a chain, and placed under the wheel of a wagon to prevent its turning when descending a steep hill; a drag; a skidpan; also, by extension, a hook attached..
Voidable
Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed.
Appropinquate
To approach.
Prance
To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
Shunt
To shun; to move from.
Haw
A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.
Absinthe
The plant absinthium or common wormwood.
Farina
A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.
Bared
of Bare
Unalloyed
Not alloyed; not reduced by foreign admixture; unmixed; unqualified; pure; as, unalloyed metals; unalloyed happiness.
Overt
Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
Detectable
Alt. of Detectible
