List Words
Byre
A cow house.
Chide
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Plucky
Having pluck or courage; characterized by pluck; displaying pluck; courageous; spirited; as, a plucky race.
Chitin
A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
Ligule
The thin and scarious projection from the upper end of the sheath of a leaf of grass.
Oxbow
A frame of wood, bent into the shape of the letter U, and embracing an ox's neck as a kind of collar, the upper ends passing through the bar of the yoke; also, anything so shaped, as a bend in a..
Female
An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or (in a wider sense) which has an ovary and produces ova.
Grilse
A young salmon after its first return from the sea.
Astringing
of Astringe
Jester
A buffoon; a merry-andrew; a court fool.
Harpy
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Ave
An ave Maria.
Soggy
Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
Traps
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Shanty
Jaunty; showy.
Raceme
A flower cluster with an elongated axis and many one-flowered lateral pedicels, as in the currant and chokecherry.
Cornea
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Nuzzle
To noursle or nurse; to foster; to bring up.
Satiny
Like or composed of satin; glossy; as, to have a satiny appearance; a satiny texture.
Bigg
See Big, n. & v.
Hygeia
The goddess of health, daughter of Esculapius.
Groined
Built with groins; as, a groined ceiling; a groined vault.
Multiaxial
Having more than one axis; developing in more than a single line or plain; -- opposed to monoaxial.
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Aphis
A genus of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera and family Aphidae, including numerous species known as plant lice and green flies.
Manger
A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
Ing
A pasture or meadow; generally one lying low, near a river.
Racker
One who racks.
Teamed
Yoked in, or as in, a team.
Fringy
Aborned with fringes.
Butler
An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house.
Muss
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
Denier
One who denies; as, a denier of a fact, or of the faith, or of Christ.
Obmutescence
A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Bertha
A kind of collar or cape worn by ladies.
Frizzed
of Friz
Quag
A quagmire.
Bowfin
A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.
Chacma
A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]
Conveniency
The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety.
Bice
Alt. of Bise
Cankered
Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth.
Rectal
Of or pertaining to the rectum; in the region of the rectum.
Anatropal
Alt. of Anatropous
Silica
Silicon dioxide, SiO/. It constitutes ordinary quartz (also opal and tridymite), and is artifically prepared as a very fine, white, tasteless, inodorous powder.
Plashy
Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
Brawn
A muscle; flesh.
Hello
See Halloo.
Frigg
Alt. of Frigga
Noter
One who takes notice.
