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Rotchet
The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Experimentation
The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
Disaffection
State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
Cavendish
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
String
The points made in a game.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Gnomon
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
Engagement
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of ..
Misguide
To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
Brawn
Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
Bankrupt
A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
Nickname
A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Archery
The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
Employed
of Employ
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Predatory
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Preengagement
Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection.
Essence
The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of..
Tactics
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Diphenyl
A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
Furfurol
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.
Mass
A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ..
Downfall
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Dialogue
A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
Quietly
In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Blink
To trick; to deceive.
Globe-shaped
Shaped like a globe.
Caliginous
Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Acrobatic
Pertaining to an acrobat.
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Globate
Alt. of Globated
Employer
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Isatin
An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial ..
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Witching
of Witch
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Athletics
The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
It
As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Obligating
of Obligate
Inexperience
Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
Calumet
A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Fishmonger
A dealer in fish.
Wallop
A thick piece of fat.
Intolerance
Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
Mixing
of Mix
Nay
To refuse.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Stockbroker
A broker who deals in stocks.
Enterprising
Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
Axiomatic
Alt. of Axiomatical
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Estimate
To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the..
Ellipsis
Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
Bungler
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Betid
of Betide
Letterpress
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Tear
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Machine
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Harassment
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Bobsleigh
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
Dote
An imbecile; a dotard.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Paralyzed
of Paralyze
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.
Uncovered
of Uncover
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
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.
List
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
Transgressor
One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.
Prig
To cheapen.
Tentative
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Prevaricator
One who prevaricates.
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Able-bodied
Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.
Astriction
The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation.
Haunting
of Haunt
Conservatism
The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Excursive
Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy.
Bullion
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
Malefactor
An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
Inattention
Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.
Undiscerning
Want of discernment.
Flatwise
With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Meretricious
Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
Blackguard
The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were ..
Hobnailed
See with hobnails, as a shoe.
Athletic
Of or pertaining to athletes or to the exercises practiced by them; as, athletic games or sports.
Pellucid
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
Undaunted
Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Dissidence
Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
Debutant
Alt. of Debutante
Clinical
Alt. of Clinic
Dispensable
Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Grizzly
Somewhat gray; grizzled.
Agnosticism
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Enviable
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Retund
To blunt; to turn, as an edge; figuratively, to cause to be obtuse or dull; as, to retund confidence.
Monopoly
The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anythi..
Disappointed
Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
Autarchy
Self-sufficiency.
Provided
of Provide
Lacquer
A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to ..
Introspective
Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
Annalist
A writer of annals.
Pyrrhonism
Skepticism; universal doubt.
Magnesia
A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used i..
Toilette
See Toilet, 3.
Impersonal
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
Franciscan
Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
Lettuce
A composite plant of the genus Lactuca (L. sativa), the leaves of which are used as salad. Plants of this genus yield a milky juice, from which lactucarium is obtained. The commonest wild lettuc..
Judiciously
In a judicious manner; with good judgment; wisely.
Refutable
Admitting of being refuted or disproved; capable of being proved false or erroneous.
Analeptic
Restorative; giving strength after disease.
Betrayal
The act or the result of betraying.
Beslabber
To beslobber.
Caravan
A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile ..
Leisurely
Characterized by leisure; taking abundant time; not hurried; as, a leisurely manner; a leisurely walk.
Desuetude
The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Forgetting
of Forget
Antinomian
Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
Ineffaceable
Incapable of being effaced; indelible; ineradicable.
Obnubilate
To cloud; to obscure.
Bite
A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
Overstep
To step over or beyond; to transgress.
Hibernation
The act or state of hibernating.
Equipped
of Equip
Impelling
of Impel
Gorge
A defile between mountains.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Blindfolded
of Blindfold
Storekeeper
A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Disreputable
Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, ..
Altarpiece
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
Envenom
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to ..
Expense
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Bailiwick
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
Sabbath
A season or day of rest; one day in seven appointed for rest or worship, the observance of which was enjoined upon the Jews in the Decalogue, and has been continued by the Christian church with ..
Frosted
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Cabaret
A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Conceited
Endowed with fancy or imagination.
Anarchism
The doctrine or practice of anarchists.
-scope
A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
Accommodating
of Accommodate
Exceptionable
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Adjustable
Capable of being adjusted.
Reproachablr
Opprobrius; scurrilous.
Breakable
Capable of being broken.
Metamorphic
Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Shrewish
having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Armadillo
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad..
Wash
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Disable
Lacking ability; unable.
Conditioning
of Condition
Diffidence
The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Burglary
Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not.
Truculent
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Hood
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Vanished
of Vanish
Uppish
Proud; arrogant; assuming; putting on airs of superiority.
Obsequious
Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
Unembarrassed
Not embarrassed.
Transitional
Of or pertaining to transition; involving or denoting transition; as, transitional changes; transitional stage.
Temporary
Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Symptomatic
Alt. of Symptomatical
Shopkeeper
A trader who sells goods in a shop, or by retail; -- in distinction from one who sells by wholesale.
Peripatetic
Walking about; itinerant.
Monsoon
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from ..
Invasive
Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive.
Informed
of Inform
Grizzled
Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black.
Disciplined
of Discipline
Importunate
Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.
Hogback
An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Headway
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Frontal
Belonging to the front part; being in front
Extravaganza
A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
Evidential
Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.
Convincing
of Convince
Ringmaster
One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Comportment
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Brittle
Easily broken; apt to break; fragile; not tough or tenacious.
Behavior
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior o..
Avaricious
Actuated by avarice; greedy of gain; immoderately desirous of accumulating property.
Powdery
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
Antipole
The opposite pole; anything diametrically opposed.
Antipodal
Pertaining to the antipodes; situated on the opposite side of the globe.
Bedclothes
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
Checkered
of Checker
Splashy
Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Haunted
of Haunt
Heart-robbing
Depriving of thought; ecstatic.
Plotting
of Plot
Execrate
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Pad
To wear a path by walking.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Advertent
Attentive; heedful; regardful.
Disrobe
To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure.
Commons
The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Displeased
of Displease
Checkerboard
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Declivitous
Alt. of Declivous
Swinging
of Swing
Emasculate
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Insatiable
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
Guarded
of Guard
Reynard
An appelation applied after the manner of a proper name to the fox. Same as Renard.
Warrantable
Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Inebriate
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Explore
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Benumbed
of Benumb
Titanic
Of or relating to Titans, or fabled giants of ancient mythology; hence, enormous in size or strength; as, Titanic structures.
Bulbous
Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Dignify
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Sinistral
Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
Acrobat
One who practices rope dancing, high vaulting, or other daring gymnastic feats.
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.
Self-control
Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
Tobacco
An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, pecul..
Depredator
One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Traverse
A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without t..
Quietism
Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Empiricism
The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Agonized
of Agonize
Microorganism
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Controversial
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Anesthesia
Alt. of Anesthetic
Beloved
of Belove
Earnings
of Earning
Casuistry
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules a..
Animadvert
To take notice; to observe; -- commonly followed by that.
Knobbed
Containing knobs; full of knobs; ending in a nob. See Illust of Antenna.
Abysmal
Pertaining to, or resembling, an abyss; bottomless; unending; profound.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Brobdingnagian
Colossal; of extraordinary height; gigantic.
Apology
Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
Stricken
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Behemoth
An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
Colossal
Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
Knurled
Full of knots; gnarled.
Obscuring
of Obscure
Finicky
Finical; unduly particular.
Charbon
A small black spot or mark remaining in the cavity of the corner tooth of a horse after the large spot or mark has become obliterated.
Inspirer
One who, or that which, inspirer.
Sufferance
Negative consent by not forbidding or hindering; toleration; permission; allowance; leave.
Groveling
of Grovel
Lawyer
One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obl..
Behindhand
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
Handsome
Evincing a becoming generosity or nobleness of character; liberal; generous.
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Shellac
See the Note under 2d Lac.
Saintliness
Quality of being saintly.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Quietism
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of ..
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Eccentric
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion ..
Mange
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Sleazy
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Elemi
A fragrant gum resin obtained chiefly from tropical trees of the genera Amyris and Canarium. A. elemifera yields Mexican elemi; C. commune, the Manila elemi. It is used in the manufacture of var..
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Copal
A resinous substance flowing spontaneously from trees of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and South America (Trachylobium Hornemannianum, T. verrucosum, and Hymenaea Courbaril), and dug from earth where ..
Entailed
of Entail
Nowise
Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.
Conglobed
of Conglobe
Elaterium
A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber (Ecballium agreste, formerly called Momordica E..
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Gutta-percha
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling wa..
Tropic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
Usury
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Lifter
One who, or that which, lifts.
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Thank
A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.
Virtu
A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.
Resin
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, a..
Poppy
Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to ..
Shall
To owe; to be under obligation for.
Theft
The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Maize
A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
Squib
A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Opium
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
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.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Twinge
To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.
Frail
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
Ceremonial
A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
Rough
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Sacramental
That which relates to a sacrament.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Rifler
One who rifles; a robber.
Tester
A headpiece; a helmet.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Sober
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Fairway
The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
Cop
A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
Coot
A wading bird with lobate toes, of the genus Fulica.
Eardrum
The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
Peasant
A countryman; a rustic; especially, one of the lowest class of tillers of the soil in European countries.
Journey
The travel or work of a day.
Virile
Having the nature, properties, or qualities, of an adult man; characteristic of developed manhood; hence, masterful; forceful; specifically, capable of begetting; -- opposed to womanly, feminine..
Housing
of House
Camper
One who lodges temporarily in a hut or camp.
Rapt
Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Rape
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Scarab
Alt. of Scarabee
Sailor
One who follows the business of navigating ships or other vessels; one who understands the practical management of ships; one of the crew of a vessel; a mariner; a common seaman.
Dancer
One who dances or who practices dancing.
Pack
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
Brigandish
Like a brigand or freebooter; robberlike.
Beam
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Beg
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Friar
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) ..
Formulary
Prescribed form or model; formula.
Poller
One who polls; specifically: (a) One who polls or lops trees. (b) One who polls or cuts hair; a barber. [R.] (c) One who extorts or plunders. [Obs.] Baex. (d) One who registplws votplws, or o..
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Hardy
Able to withstand the cold of winter.
Where
Whether.
Sublet
of Sublet
Bogy
A specter; a hobgoblin; a bugbear.
Globed
of Globe
Railer
One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
Pose
To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as ..
Tasting
The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Ruffian
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Piety
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
Marketing
Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
Nun
A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience.
Paring
of Pare
Ichor
A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.
Observer
A sycophantic follower.
Submission
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Mortar
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Terrace
A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
Alternate
That which alternates with something else; vicissitude.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Slinky
Thin; lank.
Isobar
A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as..
Raid
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
Equity
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claim..
Proper
Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
Umber
A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before ..
Dacoit
One of a class of robbers, in India, who act in gangs.
Listen
To give close attention with the purpose of hearing; to give ear; to hearken; to attend.
Jacob
A Hebrew patriarch (son of Isaac, and ancestor of the Jews), who in a vision saw a ladder reaching up to heaven (Gen. xxviii. 12); -- also called Israel.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Straddle
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Sleigh
Sly.
Verify
To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Jaunt
To jolt; to jounce.
Abram-man
One of a set of vagabonds who formerly roamed through England, feigning lunacy for the sake of obtaining alms.
Plebe
The common people; the mob.
Moses
A large flatboat, used in the West Indies for taking freight from shore to ship.
Sentry
A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Icicle
A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.
Opobalsamum
The old name of the aromatic resinous juice of the Balsamodendron opobalsamum, now commonly called balm of Gilead. See under Balm.
Pung
A kind of plain sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners.
Oak
Any tree or shrub of the genus Quercus. The oaks have alternate leaves, often variously lobed, and staminate flowers in catkins. The fruit is a smooth nut, called an acorn, which is more or l..
Hang
To hold or bear in a suspended or inclined manner or position instead of erect; to droop; as, he hung his head in shame.
None
No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also partitively, or as a plural, not any.
Sleet
The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Booby
A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is a..
Lynx
Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears.
Spine
One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
Wholly
In a whole or complete manner; entirely; completely; perfectly.
Skate
A metallic runner with a frame shaped to fit the sole of a shoe, -- made to be fastened under the foot, and used for moving rapidly on ice.
Fealty
Fidelity to one's lord; the feudal obligation by which the tenant or vassal was bound to be faithful to his lord; the special oath by which this obligation was assumed; fidelity to a superior po..
Adaptation
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Huge
Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference.
Hyperpyrexia
A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
Rubato
Robbed; borrowed.
Spry
Having great power of leaping or running; nimble; active.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
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.
Inquisitor
A member of the Court of Inquisition.
Belly
The womb.
Waylay
To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
Treacle
A sovereign remedy; a cure.
His
Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
Ovoid
Alt. of Ovoidal
Foist
A light and fast-sailing ship.
Cobalt
A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Retina
The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.
Flyer
One that uses wings.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Nobody
No person; no one; not anybody.
Winter
The season of the year in which the sun shines most obliquely upon any region; the coldest season of the year.
Matte
A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according ..
Wing
Any similar member or instrument used for the purpose of flying.
Than
A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the ..
Force
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Turbid
Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine.
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Laurel
An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
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..
Tailed
Having a tail; having (such) a tail or (so many) tails; -- chiefly used in composition; as, bobtailed, longtailed, etc.
Cyclas
A long gown or surcoat (cut off in front), worn in the Middle Ages. It was sometimes embroidered or interwoven with gold. Also, a rich stuff from which the gown was made.
Pace
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Humbly
With humility; lowly.
Whip
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Torpor
Loss of motion, or of the motion; a state of inactivity with partial or total insensibility; numbness.
Hello
See Halloo.
Brawn
A muscle; flesh.
Plashy
Watery; abounding with puddles; splashy.
Obmutescence
A becoming dumb; loss of speech.
Muss
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
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.
Chide
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
Divot
A thin, oblong turf used for covering cottages, and also for fuel.
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Kisser
One who kisses.
Ordure
Dung; excrement; faeces.
Bolt
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Autumn
The third season of the year, or the season between summer and winter, often called "the fall." Astronomically, it begins in the northern temperate zone at the autumnal equinox, about September ..
Webby
Of or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs.
Banns
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
Gent
Gentle; noble; of gentle birth.
Snatch
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch; -- often with at; as, to snatch at a rope.
English
Collectively, the people of England; English people or persons.
Tun
A large cask; an oblong vessel bulging in the middle, like a pipe or puncheon, and girt with hoops; a wine cask.
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.
Uvula
The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Flower
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
Skin
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Cape
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Draughtsman
One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Mist
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Pons
A bridge; -- applied to several parts which connect others, but especially to the pons Varolii, a prominent band of nervous tissue situated on the ventral side of the medulla oblongata and conne..
Don
Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
Waggle
To reel, sway, or move from side to side; to move with a wagging motion; to waddle.
Navvy
Originally, a laborer on canals for internal navigation; hence, a laborer on other public works, as in building railroads, embankments, etc.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Lauded
of Laud
Duffer
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
Buttonbush
A shrub (Cephalanthus occidentalis) growing by the waterside; -- so called from its globular head of flowers. See Capitulum.
Butte
A detached low mountain, or high rising abruptly from the general level of the surrounding plain; -- applied to peculiar elevations in the Rocky Mountain region.
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
He
The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject alread..
Gout
A drop; a clot or coagulation.
Tremble
An involuntary shaking or quivering.
Dusky
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
Caper
To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.
Dunce
One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.
Cobra
See Copra.
Anvil
An iron block, usually with a steel face, upon which metals are hammered and shaped.
Osmose
The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening ..
Cavort
To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.
Groom
A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
Saucy
Showing impertinent boldness or pertness; transgressing the rules of decorum; treating superiors with contempt; impudent; insolent; as, a saucy fellow.
Prying
of Pry
Until
To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.
Cilia
The eyelashes.
Knobby
Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Quit
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Web
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feat..
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Spur
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Lecher
A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
Vend
To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Paddle
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
Zero
A cipher; nothing; naught.
Jack
A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
Floe
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Ogre
An imaginary monster, or hideous giant of fairy tales, who lived on human beings; hence, any frightful giant; a cruel monster.
Hurdle
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as r..
Violate
To do violence to, as to anything that should be held sacred or respected; to profane; to desecrate; to break forcibly; to trench upon; to infringe.
Keno
A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
Samson
An Israelite of Bible record (see Judges xiii.), distinguished for his great strength; hence, a man of extraordinary physical strength.
Sylph
An imaginary being inhabiting the air; a fairy.
Guttle
To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Barber
One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.
Active
In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
Kobold
A kind of domestic spirit in German mythology, corresponding to the Scottish brownie and the English Robin Goodfellow.
Mowed
of Mow
Adage
An old saying, which has obtained credit by long use; a proverb.
Lummox
A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
Accent
To mark emphatically; to emphasize.
Berg
A large mass or hill, as of ice.
Random Quote
"Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. 'Are you feeling all right?' I asked her. 'I feel all sleepy,' she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was...in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunised against measles. ...I dedicated two of my books to Olivia, the first was ‘James and the Giant Peach’. That was when she was still alive. The second was ‘The BFG’, dedicated to her memory after she had died from measles. You will see her name at the beginning of each of these books. And I know how happy she would be if only she could know that her death had helped to save a good deal of illness and death among other children."
I just checked google books for BFG, and the dedication is there.
https://www.google.com.au/books/edition/_/quybcXrFhCIC?hl=en&gbpv=1
Roald Dahl, 1986
