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Chamfret
A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Downfall
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Compassed
of Compass
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Inconsolable
Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.
Malignantly
In a malignant manner.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Moneyed
Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.
Leisurely
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
Consolatory
Of a consoling or comforting nature.
Embolden
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Thrilled
of Thrill
Bedclothes
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
Knowingly
With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend.
Brimful
Full to the brim; completely full; ready to overflow.
Disserviceable
Calculated to do disservice or harm; not serviceable; injurious; harmful; unserviceable.
Bedfellow
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
Dreamful
Full of dreams.
Homelike
Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Lethal
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
Discomforted
of Discomfort
Encouraging
of Encourage
Blackish
Somewhat black.
Distressed
of Distress
Charmed
of Charm
Sway-backed
Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; -- said of horses and other animals.
Candy
A more or less solid article of confectionery made by boiling sugar or molasses to the desired consistency, and than crystallizing, molding, or working in the required shape. It is often flav..
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Sleep
To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Milksop
A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Buffoon
A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.
Publish
To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Sofa
A long seat, usually with a cushioned bottom, back, and ends; -- much used as a comfortable piece of furniture.
Recomforture
The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort.
Urinal
A vessel for holding urine; especially, a bottle or tube for holding urine for inspection.
Knitback
The plant comfrey; -- so called from its use as a restorative.
Toilet
A covering of linen, silk, or tapestry, spread over a table in a chamber or a dressing room.
Johnny
A familiar diminutive of John.
Terrace
A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
Philomene
The nightingale.
Relief
Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
Circumflex
To mark or pronounce with a circumflex.
Crescent
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
Armful
As much as the arm can hold.
Turbid
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
Rich
Abounding in agreeable or nutritive qualities; -- especially applied to articles of food or drink which are high-seasoned or abound in oleaginous ingredients, or are sweet, luscious, and high..
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Hard
With tension or strain of the powers; violently; with force; tempestuously; vehemently; vigorously; energetically; as, to press, to blow, to rain hard; hence, rapidly; as, to run hard.
Skin
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
Mist
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Caper
To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Frolic
Full of levity; dancing, playing, or frisking about; full of pranks; frolicsome; gay; merry.
Prank
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
Anna
An East Indian money of account, the sixteenth of a rupee, or about 2/ cents.
Fiasco
A complete or ridiculous failure, esp. of a musical performance, or of any pretentious undertaking.
Bicorn
Alt. of Bicornous
Halo
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos ther..
Cozily
Snugly; comfortably.
Panic
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Euchre
A game at cards, that may be played by two, three, or four persons, the highest card (except when an extra card called the Joker is used) being the knave of the same suit as the trump, and calle..
Blaze
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
Fatty
Containing fat, or having the qualities of fat; greasy; gross; as, a fatty substance.
Thalia
That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
Spatter
To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with ..
Almond
The fruit of the almond tree.
Boredom
The state of being bored, or pestered; a state of ennui.
Affluent
Flowing to; flowing abundantly.
Security
Freedom from risk; safety.
Moodiness
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Abstracted
of Abstract
Bouillon
A nutritious liquid food made by boiling beef, or other meat, in water; a clear soup or broth.
Becloud
To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
Circumfluous
Flowing round; surrounding in the manner of a fluid.
Placate
Same as Placard, 4 & 5.
Straggling
of Straggle
Drifting
of Drift
Digression
The act of digressing or deviating, esp. from the main subject of a discourse; hence, a part of a discourse deviating from its main design or subject.
Excursion
A running or going out or forth; an expedition; a sally.
Roaming
of Roam
Circumflexion
The act of bending, or causing to assume a curved form.
Vagary
A wandering or strolling.
Circumlocution
The use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few; indirect or roundabout language; a periphrase.
Bulblet
A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aerial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.
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.
Queerly
In a queer or odd manner.
Successful
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a ..
Semicircle
The half of a circle; the part of a circle bounded by its diameter and half of its circumference.
Distribute
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Conserve
To keep in a safe or sound state; to save; to preserve; to protect.
Morbific
Alt. of Morbifical
Lamentation
The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
Resignation
The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
Sprinkling
of Sprinkle
Rook
Mist; fog. See Roke.
Meaning
That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
Flitting
of Flit
Invidious
Envious; malignant.
Contaminated
of Contaminate
Pernicious
Quick; swift (to burn).
Guardsman
One who guards; a guard.
Insalubrious
Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.
Pathogenic
Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
Foul
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Dolorous
Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
Affecting
of Affect
Poignant
Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.
Bested
of Bestead
Outdone
of Outdo
Slit
of Slit
Stultification
The act of stultifying, or the state of being stultified.
Paling
of Pale
Ramp
To spring; to leap; to bound; to rear; to prance; to become rampant; hence, to frolic; to romp.
Dishabille
An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille.
Thwarting
of Thwart
Mislead
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Involvement
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
Discomfit
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
Unsettle
To move or loosen from a settled position or state; to unfix; to displace; to disorder; to confuse.
Surfacing
of Surface
Stampede
A wild, headlong scamper, or running away, of a number of animals; usually caused by fright; hence, any sudden flight or dispersion, as of a crowd or an army in consequence of a panic.
Spite
Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite.
Satisfactory
Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or ..
Remittance
The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.
Malice
Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
Epidermis
The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Corrugation
The act corrugating; contraction into wrinkles or alternate ridges and grooves.
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Bombardment
An attack upon a fortress or fortified town, with shells, hot shot, rockets, etc.; the act of throwing bombs and shot into a town or fortified place.
Breasting
The curved channel in which a breast wheel turns. It is closely adapted to the curve of the wheel through about a quarter of its circumference, and prevents the escape of the water until it has ..
Circumvention
The act of prevailing over another by arts, address, or fraud; deception; fraud; imposture; delusion.
Handily
In a handy manner; skillfully; conveniently.
Styan
See Sty, a boil.
Pendulate
To swing as a pendulum.
Deracinate
To pluck up by the roots; to extirpate.
Easily
With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.
Petulance
Alt. of Petulancy
Bunkum
Speech-making for the gratification of constituents, or to gain public applause; flattering talk for a selfish purpose; anything said for mere show.
Suburban
Of or pertaining to suburbs; inhabiting, or being in, the suburbs of a city.
Ambient
Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing.
Repulse
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Despicable
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Musing
of Muse
Circumforaneous
Going about or abroad; walking or wandering from house to house.
Cozen
To cheat; to defraud; to beguile; to deceive, usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way.
Overreach
To reach above or beyond in any direction.
Migratory
Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
Nomad
One of a race or tribe that has no fixed location, but wanders from place to place in search of pasture or game.
Face
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
Vagabond
Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Neighboring
of neighbor
Circumflex
A wave of the voice embracing both a rise and fall or a fall and a rise on the same a syllable.
Lane
Alone.
Diversiform
Of a different form; of varied forms.
Retrospect
To look backward; hence, to affect or concern what is past.
Potential
In the theory of gravitation, or of other forces acting in space, a function of the rectangular coordinates which determine the position of a point, such that its differential coefficients with ..
Embracing
of Embrace
Sabbatical
Of or pertaining to the Sabbath; resembling the Sabbath; enjoying or bringing an intermission of labor.
Hogwash
Swill.
Holiday
A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Innocent
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
Festal
Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
Lifted
of Lift
Bespeaking
of Bespeak
Comfit
A dry sweetmeat; any kind of fruit, root, or seed preserved with sugar and dried; a confection.
Preserve
To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
Interruptive
Tending to interrupt; interrupting.
Mountebank
To play the mountebank.
Idiot
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
Prognostication
The act of foreshowing or foretelling something future by present signs; prediction.
Portent
That which portends, or foretoken; esp., that which portends evil; a sign of coming calamity; an omen; a sign.
Fad
A hobby ; freak; whim.
Reconciliation
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Linen
Made of linen; as, linen cloth; a linen stocking.
Promiscuity
Promiscuousness; confusion.
Perplexity
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Semidiameter
Half of a diameter; a right line, or the length of a right line, drawn from the center of a circle, a sphere, or other curved figure, to its circumference or periphery; a radius.
Hardness
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Evenly
With an even, level, or smooth surface; without roughness, elevations, or depression; uniformly; equally; comfortably; impartially; serenely.
Relaxation
The act or process of relaxing, or the state of being relaxed; as, relaxation of the muscles; relaxation of a law.
Entropy
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quan..
Dismally
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
Edify
To build; to construct.
Hallucination
The act of hallucinating; a wandering of the mind; error; mistake; a blunder.
Derangement
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity.
Tomfool
A great fool; a trifler.
Nincompoop
A fool; a silly or stupid person.
Trafficker
One who traffics, or carries on commerce; a trader; a merchant.
Idiot
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
Befriend
To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance.
Avail
To turn to the advantage of; to be of service to; to profit; to benefit; to help; as, artifices will not avail the sinner in the day of judgment.
Assist
To give support to in some undertaking or effort, or in time of distress; to help; to aid; to succor.
Awkward
Wanting dexterity in the use of the hands, or of instruments; not dexterous; without skill; clumsy; wanting ease, grace, or effectiveness in movement; ungraceful; as, he was awkward at a tric..
Poisonous
Having the qualities or effects of poison; venomous; baneful; corrupting; noxious.
Region
One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefini..
Pestiferous
Pest-bearing; pestilential; noxious to health; malignant; infectious; contagious; as, pestiferous bodies.
Oiled
of Oil
Fiction
The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind.
Catastrophic
Of a pertaining to a catastrophe.
Mountebank
One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
Blackleg
A notorious gambler.
Imbecile
Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
Prosperous
Tending to prosperity; favoring; favorable; helpful.
Disturbance
An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current...
Impostor
One who imposes upon others; a person who assumes a character or title not his own, for the purpose of deception; a pretender.
Blistering
of Blister
Comforter
One who administers comfort or consolation.
Rubble
Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.
Afghan
Of or pertaining to Afghanistan.
Bedspread
A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
Rug
A kind of coarse, heavy frieze, formerly used for garments.
Defraud
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor..
Illusion
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
Ingesta
That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Swindler
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Fib
A falsehood; a lie; -- used euphemistically.
Untruth
The quality of being untrue; contrariety to truth; want of veracity; also, treachery; faithlessness; disloyalty.
Falsehood
Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity.
Fuddle
To make foolish by drink; to cause to become intoxicated.
Bamboozle
To deceive by trickery; to cajole by confusing the senses; to hoax; to mystify; to humbug.
Mendacity
The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
Tucker
One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
Fraudulence
Alt. of Fraudulency
Thimblerig
A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Flam
A freak or whim; also, a falsehood; a lie; an illusory pretext; deception; delusion.
Flimflam
A freak; a trick; a lie.
Gyp
A college servant; -- so called in Cambridge, England; at Oxford called a scout.
Trickster
One who tricks; a deceiver; a tricker; a cheat.
Raff
To sweep, snatch, draw, or huddle together; to take by a promiscuous sweep.
Riffraff
Sweepings; refuse; the lowest order of society.
Diverge
To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- oppose..
Ribbed
of Rib
Hoax
A deception for mockery or mischief; a deceptive trick or story; a practical joke.
Chagrined
of Chagrin
Solace
Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief.
Striated
of Striate
Discomfited
of Discomfit
Sell
Self.
Mortified
imp. & p. p. of Mortify.
Ill
Contrary to good, in a physical sense; contrary or opposed to advantage, happiness, etc.; bad; evil; unfortunate; disagreeable; unfavorable.
Injuriousness
The quality of being injurious or hurtful; harmfulness; injury.
Tripos
A tripod.
Retail
The sale of commodities in small quantities or parcels; -- opposed to wholesale; sometimes, the sale of commodities at second hand.
Lethality
The quality of being lethal; mortality.
Distinguish
Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark off by some characteristic.
Defy
To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
Malignancy
The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
Devilment
Deviltry.
Debris
Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.
Menacing
of Menace
Devilry
Conduct suitable to the devil; extreme wickedness; deviltry.
De facto
Actually; in fact; in reality; as, a king de facto, -- distinguished from a king de jure, or by right.
Baneful
Having poisonous qualities; deadly; destructive; injurious; noxious; pernicious.
Tension
The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
Craze
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
Eunuch
A male of the human species castrated; commonly, one of a class of such persons, in Oriental countries, having charge of the women's apartments. Some of them, in former times, gained high offici..
Dangerous
Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.
Wasteful
Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as, wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses.
Subversionary
Promoting destruction.
Desolating
of Desolate
Cataclysmic
Of or pertaining to a cataclysm.
Displeasure
State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
Piteous
Pious; devout.
Devastating
of Devastate
Starlit
Lighted by the stars; starlight.
Economy
The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.
Turbulent
Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
Suicidal
Partaking of, or of the nature of, the crime or suicide.
Meanness
The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Phantasm
An image formed by the mind, and supposed to be real or material; a shadowy or airy appearance; sometimes, an optical illusion; a phantom; a dream.
Self-righteous
Righteous in one's own esteem; pharisaic.
Crux
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Troubled
of Trouble
Septic
Of the seventh degree or order.
Rabbi
Master; lord; teacher; -- a Jewish title of respect or honor for a teacher or doctor of the law.
Disastrous
Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding.
Nausea
Seasickness; hence, any similar sickness of the stomach accompanied with a propensity to vomit; qualm; squeamishness of the stomach; loathing.
Beneficence
The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
Pathetic
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Heartsick
Sick at heart; extremely depressed in spirits; very despondent.
Noisome
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Condolence
Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief.
Unlucky
Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game.
Damaging
of Damage
Maleficent
Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
Fateful
Having the power of serving or accomplishing fate.
Excurse
To journey or pass thought.
Baleful
Full of deadly or pernicious influence; destructive.
Pathos
That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth ..
Discomposed
of Discompose
Iniquitous
Characterized by iniquity; unjust; wicked; as, an iniquitous bargain; an iniquitous proceeding.
Leopard
A large, savage, carnivorous mammal (Felis leopardus). It is of a yellow or fawn color, with rings or roselike clusters of black spots along the back and sides. It is found in Southern Asia and ..
Forlorn
of Forlese
Joyless
Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
Uncomfortable
Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
Doomful
Full of condemnation or destructive power.
Calamitous
Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
Meringue
A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.
Dismayed
of Dismay
Disconsolate
Disconsolateness.
Ashamed
Affected by shame; abashed or confused by guilt, or a conviction or consciousness of some wrong action or impropriety.
Unfortunate
Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business.
Comfortless
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless.
Parameter
A term applied to some characteristic magnitude whose value, invariable as long as one and the same function, curve, surface, etc., is considered, serves to distinguish that function, curve, ..
Dreary
Sorrowful; distressful.
Sorrowful
Full of sorrow; exhibiting sorrow; sad; dejected; distressed.
Disquieted
of Disquiet
Woeful
Alt. of Woful
Pillowcase
A removable case or covering for a pillow, usually of white linen or cotton cloth.
Gerrymandering
of Gerrymander
Cheerless
Without joy, gladness, or comfort.
Candy
To conserve or boil in sugar; as, to candy fruits; to candy ginger.
Apathetic
Alt. of Apathetical
Sensist
One who, in philosophy, holds to sensism.
Countenance
To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
Dismaying
of Dismay
Embarrassing
of Embarrass
Kink
A twist or loop in a rope or thread, caused by a spontaneous doubling or winding upon itself; a close loop or curl; a doubling in a cord.
Gyre
A circular motion, or a circle described by a moving body; a turn or revolution; a circuit.
Quilt
Anything that is quilted; esp., a quilted bed cover, or a skirt worn by women; any cover or garment made by putting wool, cotton, etc., between two cloths and stitching them together; also, any ..
Perturbed
Agitated; disturbed; troubled.
Dishonesty
Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
Belly
That part of the human body which extends downward from the breast to the thighs, and contains the bowels, or intestines; the abdomen.
Crocodile
A large reptile of the genus Crocodilus, of several species. They grow to the length of sixteen or eighteen feet, and inhabit the large rivers of Africa, Asia, and America. The eggs, laid in ..
Indirection
Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.
Circling
of Circle
Incommensurable
Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and dia..
Wrapper
One who, or that which, wraps.
Circularity
The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
Plenary
Full; entire; complete; absolute; as, a plenary license; plenary authority.
Discomfort
To discourage; to deject.
Sleep
imp. of Sleep. Slept.
Awry
Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.
Lament
To express or feel sorrow; to weep or wail; to mourn.
Undone
p. p. of Undo.
Errant
Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
Sacred
Set apart by solemn religious ceremony; especially, in a good sense, made holy; set apart to religious use; consecrated; not profane or common; as, a sacred place; a sacred day; sacred service.
Strolling
of Stroll
Maggot
The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
Modernist
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Dismay
To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
Chagrin
Vexation; mortification.
Falsity
The quality of being false; coutrariety or want of conformity to truth.
Appall
To make pale; to blanch.
Overawe
To awe exceedingly; to subjugate or restrain by awe or great fear.
Facade
The front of a building; esp., the principal front, having some architectural pretensions. Thus a church is said to have its facade unfinished, though the interior may be in use.
Daunt
To overcome; to conquer.
Draughty
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
Auger
A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or gro..
Depressed
of Depress
Addle
Liquid filth; mire.
Disorient
To turn away from the cast; to confuse as to which way is east; to cause to lose one's bearings.
Distribution
The act of distributing or dispensing; the act of dividing or apportioning among several or many; apportionment; as, the distribution of an estate among heirs or children.
Succor
To run to, or run to support; hence, to help or relieve when in difficulty, want, or distress; to assist and deliver from suffering; to relieve; as, to succor a besieged city.
Undress
To divest of clothes; to strip.
Gladden
To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.
Diffraction
The deflection and decomposition of light in passing by the edges of opaque bodies or through narrow slits, causing the appearance of parallel bands or fringes of prismatic colors, as by the ..
Welfare
Well-doing or well-being in any respect; the enjoyment of health and the common blessings of life; exemption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness.
Resuscitate
Restored to life.
Faze
See Feeze.
Insecure
Not secure; not confident of safety or permanence; distrustful; suspicious; apprehensive of danger or loss.
Fruition
Use or possession of anything, especially such as is accompanied with pleasure or satisfaction; pleasure derived from possession or use.
Clover
A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense.
Well-being
The state or condition of being well; welfare; happiness; prosperity; as, virtue is essential to the well-being of men or of society.
Restore
To bring back to its former state; to bring back from a state of ruin, decay, disease, or the like; to repair; to renew; to recover.
Periphery
The outside or superficial portions of a body; the surface.
Perimeter
The outer boundary of a body or figure, or the sum of all the sides.
Hardship
That which is hard to hear, as toil, privation, injury, injustice, etc.
Highroad
A highway; a much traveled or main road.
Roadway
A road; especially, the part traveled by carriages.
Daze
To stupefy with excess of light; with a blow, with cold, or with fear; to confuse; to benumb.
Fluster
To make hot and rosy, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle.
Agape
Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention.
Discompose
To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.
Indigence
The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.
Counterpoised
of Counterpoise
Floored
of Floor
Restful
Being at rest; quiet.
Roomy
Having ample room; spacious; large; as, a roomy mansion; a roomy deck.
Wealthy
Having wealth; having large possessions, or larger than most men, as lands, goods, money, or securities; opulent; affluent; rich.
Gloomy
Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy.
Hostile
Belonging or appropriate to an enemy; showing the disposition of an enemy; showing ill will and malevolence, or a desire to thwart and injure; occupied by an enemy or enemies; inimical; unfri..
Wasting
of Waste
Home
See Homelyn.
Clothes
of Cloth
Whipped
of Whip
Overcast
To cast or cover over; hence, to cloud; to darken.
Corrosive
Eating away; having the power of gradually wearing, changing, or destroying the texture or substance of a body; as, the corrosive action of an acid.
Boulevard
Originally, a bulwark or rampart of fortification or fortified town.
Clouded
of Cloud
Muffler
Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.
Scarf
A cormorant.
Malicious
Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
Mulct
A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
Wrinkled
of Wrinkle
Gusto
Nice or keen appreciation or enjoyment; relish; taste; fancy.
Astound
of Astone
Satisfying
of Satisfy
Puddle
A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool.
Grievous
Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.
Moving
of Move
Degree
A step, stair, or staircase.
Circumferential
Pertaining to the circumference; encompassing; encircling; circuitous.
Entanglement
State of being entangled; intricate and confused involution; that which entangles; intricacy; perplexity.
Zany
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Meat
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
Repose
To cause to stop or to rest after motion; hence, to deposit; to lay down; to lodge; to reposit.
Humanitarianism
The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.
Sadness
Heaviness; firmness.
Peccant
Sinning; guilty of transgression; criminal; as, peccant angels.
Chicane
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Driveway
A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
Graft
A small shoot or scion of a tree inserted in another tree, the stock of which is to support and nourish it. The two unite and become one tree, but the graft determines the kind of fruit.
Candent
Heated to whiteness; glowing with heat.
Benevolence
The disposition to do good; good will; charitableness; love of mankind, accompanied with a desire to promote their happiness.
Redeem
To purchase back; to regain possession of by payment of a stipulated price; to repurchase.
Roily
Turbid; as, roily water.
Stygian
Of or pertaining to the river Styx; hence, hellish; infernal. See Styx.
Frequency
The condition of returning frequently; occurrence often repeated; common occurence; as, the frequency of crimes; the frequency of miracles.
Intercrossing
of Intercross
Ugly
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
Grieve
Alt. of Greeve
Desolation
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
Disorganization
The act of disorganizing; destruction of system.
Unnerve
To deprive of nerve, force, or strength; to weaken; to enfeeble; as, to unnerve the arm.
Nonappearance
Default of apperance, as in court, to prosecute or defend; failure to appear.
Cloudy
Overcast or obscured with clouds; clouded; as, a cloudy sky.
Fiddle
A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Scathing
of Scath
Meanly
Moderately.
Pike
A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet.
Collected
of Collect
Valetudinarian
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Byway
A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
Radiation
The act of radiating, or the state of being radiated; emission and diffusion of rays of light; beamy brightness.
Adequate
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
Flute
A musical wind instrument, consisting of a hollow cylinder or pipe, with holes along its length, stopped by the fingers or by keys which are opened by the fingers. The modern flute is closed ..
Rabbet
To cut a rabbet in; to furnish with a rabbet.
Inconcinnous
Not concinnous; unsuitable; discordant.
Warm
Subject to heat; having prevalence of heat, or little or no cold weather; as, the warm climate of Egypt.
Shine
To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by night.
Palpitation
A rapid pulsation; a throbbing; esp., an abnormal, rapid beating of the heart as when excited by violent exertion, strong emotion, or by disease.
Misplaced
of Misplace
Inactivity
The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.
Fallacy
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
Dispersal
The act or result of dispersing or scattering; dispersion.
Assistance
The act of assisting; help; aid; furtherance; succor; support.
Yarn
Spun wool; woolen thread; also, thread of other material, as of cotton, flax, hemp, or silk; material spun and prepared for use in weaving, knitting, manufacturing sewing thread, or the like.
Rebuff
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Licked
of Lick
Alarm
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Fringe
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consis..
Cataract
A great fall of water over a precipice; a large waterfall.
Street
Originally, a paved way or road; a public highway; now commonly, a thoroughfare in a city or village, bordered by dwellings or business houses.
Likely
Worthy of belief; probable; credible; as, a likely story.
Abash
To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit.
Countersink
To chamfer or form a depression around the top of (a hole in wood, metal, etc.) for the reception of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink ..
Generosity
Noble birth.
Dado
That part of a pedestal included between the base and the cornice (or surbase); the die. See Illust. of Column.
Crescent
The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state.
Can
an obs. form of began, imp. & p. p. of Begin, sometimes used in old poetry. [See Gan.]
Center
A point equally distant from the extremities of a line, figure, or body, or from all parts of the circumference of a circle; the middle point or place.
Trash
That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
Familiar
Of or pertaining to a family; domestic.
Potential
Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
Kidding
of Kid
Duarchy
Government by two persons.
Dreaming
of Dream
Balm
An aromatic plant of the genus Melissa.
Feast
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
Teem
To pour; -- commonly followed by out; as, to teem out ale.
Overspread
of Overspread
Wrapping
of Wrap
Instate
To set, place, or establish, as in a rank, office, or condition; to install; to invest; as, to instate a person in greatness or in favor.
Comfort
To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
Cheerful
Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing.
Rope
A large, stout cord, usually one not less than an inch in circumference, made of strands twisted or braided together. It differs from cord, line, and string, only in its size. See Cordage.
Gashed
of Gash
Amiss
Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill.
Wrap
To snatch up; transport; -- chiefly used in the p. p. wrapt.
Nicety
The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
Stormy
Characterized by, or proceeding from, a storm; subject to storms; agitated with furious winds; biosterous; tempestous; as, a stormy season; a stormy day or week.
Furrowed
of Furrow
Chamfered
of Chamfer
Satisfaction
The act of satisfying, or the state of being satisfied; gratification of desire; contentment in possession and enjoyment; repose of mind resulting from compliance with its desires or demands...
Corona
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
Wicked
Having a wick; -- used chiefly in composition; as, a two-wicked lamp.
Goodly
Excellently.
Mirage
An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected imag..
Revive
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Backbiting
Secret slander; detraction.
Crotchet
A forked support; a crotch.
Unhappy
Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.
Foolery
The practice of folly; the behavior of a fool; absurdity.
Merging
of Merge
