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To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
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.
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Tactics
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Caliginous
Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Inexperience
Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
Intolerance
Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
Nay
To refuse.
Axiomatic
Alt. of Axiomatical
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..
Betid
of Betide
Bobsleigh
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
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
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.
Prevaricator
One who prevaricates.
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Haunting
of Haunt
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.
Meretricious
Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
Pellucid
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
Undaunted
Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Clinical
Alt. of Clinic
Agnosticism
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Franciscan
Belonging to the Order of St. Francis of the Franciscans.
Desuetude
The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Obnubilate
To cloud; to obscure.
Impelling
of Impel
Gorge
A defile between mountains.
Blindfolded
of Blindfold
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 ..
-scope
A combining form usually signifying an instrument for viewing (with the eye) or observing (in any way); as in microscope, telescope, altoscope, anemoscope.
Shrewish
having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
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.
Vanished
of Vanish
Obsequious
Promptly obedient, or submissive, to the will of another; compliant; yielding to the desires of another; devoted.
Unembarrassed
Not embarrassed.
Comportment
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Haunted
of Haunt
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Advertent
Attentive; heedful; regardful.
Guarded
of Guard
Explore
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Dignify
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
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..
Empiricism
The method or practice of an empiric; pursuit of knowledge by observation and experiment.
Agonized
of Agonize
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.
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Stricken
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Obscuring
of Obscure
Finicky
Finical; unduly particular.
Groveling
of Grovel
Behindhand
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
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.
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.
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
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.
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
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.
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.
Tester
A headpiece; a helmet.
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.
Rapt
Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Rape
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
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.
Pack
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
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..
Hardy
Able to withstand the cold of winter.
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 ..
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.
Observer
A sycophantic follower.
Submission
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Sentry
A soldier placed on guard; a sentinel.
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
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..
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.
Hyperpyrexia
A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
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.
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.
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.
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
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.
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.
Mist
Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Tend
To wait, as attendants or servants; to serve; to attend; -- with on or upon.
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
Dusky
Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley.
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 ..
Knobby
Full of, or covered with, knobs or hard protuberances.
Jack
A compact, portable machine for planing metal.
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.
Guttle
To put into the gut; to swallow greedily; to gorge; to gormandize. [Obs.] L'Estrange.
Active
In action; actually proceeding; working; in force; -- opposed to quiescent, dormant, or extinct; as, active laws; active hostilities; an active volcano.
Lummox
A fat, ungainly, stupid person; an awkward bungler.
Pitchy
Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
Apathy
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indiffer..
Bandit
An outlaw; a brigand.
Rough
In a rough manner; rudely; roughly.
Dirt
Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Idly
In a idle manner; ineffectually; vainly; lazily; carelessly; (Obs.) foolishly.
Visual
Of or pertaining to sight; used in sight; serving as the instrument of seeing; as, the visual nerve.
Drier
One who, or that which, dries; that which may expel or absorb moisture; a desiccative; as, the sun and a northwesterly wind are great driers of the earth.
Fetish
A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to ..
Dimly
In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.
Thorax
The part of the trunk between the neck and the abdomen, containing that part of the body cavity the walls of which are supported by the dorsal vertebrae, the ribs, and the sternum, and which ..
Knobbing
Rough dressing by knocking off knobs or projections.
Truly
In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
Feral
Wild; untamed; ferine; not domesticated; -- said of beasts, birds, and plants.
Menial
Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Derby
A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in 1780.
Oath
A solemn affirmation or declaration, made with a reverent appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed.
Ream
Cream; also, the cream or froth on ale.
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Rejoicing
of Rejoice
Deter
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Overdue
Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.
Misdirection
The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
Greenness
The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.
Reflector
One who, or that which, reflects.
Stereoscope
An optical instrument for giving to pictures the appearance of solid forms, as seen in nature. It combines in one, through a bending of the rays of light, two pictures, taken for the purpose ..
Refractor
Anything that refracts
Spectroscope
An optical instrument for forming and examining spectra (as that of solar light, or those produced by flames in which different substances are volatilized), so as to determine, from the posit..
Planetarium
An orrery. See Orrery.
Lustful
Full of lust; excited by lust.
Stiff
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Greeting
of Greet
Becloud
To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud.
Supposition
The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Stamina
of Stamen
Haunt
To frequent; to resort to frequently; to visit pertinaciously or intrusively; to intrude upon.
Graduation
The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
Indiscernible
Not to be discerned; imperceptible; not discoverable or visible.
Hardiness
Capability of endurance.
Chicanery
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Telescope
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Sit
obs. 3d pers. sing. pres. of Sit, for sitteth.
Obduracy
The duality or state of being obdurate; invincible hardness of heart; obstinacy.
Thrombosis
The obstruction of a blood vessel by a clot formed at the site of obstruction; -- distinguished from embolism, which is produced by a clot or foreign body brought from a distance.
Observable
Worthy or capable of being observed; discernible; noticeable; remarkable.
Toughness
The quality or state of being tough.
Detectable
Alt. of Detectible
Overt
Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
Inflexibility
The quality or state of being inflexible, or not capable of being bent or changed; unyielding stiffness; inflexibleness; rigidity; firmness of will or purpose; unbending pertinacity; steadfas..
Rigidity
The quality or state of being rigid; want of pliability; the quality of resisting change of form; the amount of resistance with which a body opposes change of form; -- opposed to flexibility, ..
Spotter
One who spots.
Fuzz
To make drunk.
Chauvinism
Blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism.
Stupor
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
Immodest
Not limited to due bounds; immoderate.
Muffle
A pulley block containing several sheaves.
Unchaste
Not chaste; not continent; lewd.
Sickening
of Sicken
Canopy
A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
Protesting
of Protest
Objecting
of Object
Ketch
An almost obsolete form of vessel, with a mainmast and a mizzenmast, -- usually from one hundred to two hundred and fifty tons burden.
Obstructive
Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Foul-spoken
Using profane, scurrilous, slanderous, or obscene language.
Obedience
The act of obeying, or the state of being obedient; compliance with that which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control.
Assentation
Insincere, flattering, or obsequious assent; hypocritical or pretended concurrence.
Preclude
To put a barrier before; hence, to shut out; to hinder; to stop; to impede.
Cursing
of Curse
Congest
To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
Forbid
of Forbid
Discontinued
of Discontinue
Ignoble
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
Renounced
of Renounce
Damnatory
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Salacious
Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
Detect
Detected.
Contravention
The act of contravening; opposition; obstruction; transgression; violation.
Dutiful
Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or ..
Duteous
Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.
Gesture
Manner of carrying the body; position of the body or limbs; posture.
Opponent
Situated in front; opposite; hence, opposing; adverse; antagonistic.
Fossilize
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Ethical
Of, or belonging to, morals; treating of the moral feelings or duties; containing percepts of morality; moral; as, ethic discourses or epistles; an ethical system; ethical philosophy.
Fixative
That which serves to set or fix colors or drawings, as a mordant.
Litany
A solemn form of supplication in the public worship of various churches, in which the clergy and congregation join, the former leading and the latter responding in alternate sentences. It is usu..
Ordinance
Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
Abominable
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Paternoster
The Lord's prayer, so called from the first two words of the Latin version.
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Will
The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of pr..
Expired
of Expire
Repellent
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Stopple
That which stops or closes the mouth of a vessel; a stopper; as, a glass stopple; a cork stopple.
Vituperative
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Abhorrent
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
Antiquated
Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.
Forgotten
of Forget
Obstructed
of Obstruct
Ithyphallic
Lustful; lewd; salacious; indecent; obscene.
Passed
of Pass
Blinding
of Blind
Foul
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Doctrinal
Pertaining to, or containing, doctrine or something taught and to be believed; as, a doctrinal observation.
Evade
To get away from by artifice; to avoid by dexterity, subterfuge, address, or ingenuity; to elude; to escape from cleverly; as, to evade a blow, a pursuer, a punishment; to evade the force of an ..
Truckling
of Truckle
Indelible
That can not be removed, washed away, blotted out, or effaced; incapable of being canceled, lost, or forgotten; as, indelible characters; an indelible stain; an indelible impression on the memor..
A posteriori
Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from e..
Absorbing
of Absorb
Impedimental
Of the nature of an impediment; hindering; obstructing; impeditive.
Hampering
of Hamper
Outward
Alt. of Outwards
Eyewitness
One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.
Viewer
One who views or examines.
Obsoletism
A disused word or phrase; an archaism.
Infarction
The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.
Barbican
Alt. of Barbacan
Dissenting
of Dissent
Embolism
Intercalation; the insertion of days, months, or years, in an account of time, to produce regularity; as, the embolism of a lunar month in the Greek year.
Viscosity
The quality or state of being viscous.
Congestion
The act of gathering into a heap or mass; accumulation.
Vaguely
In a vague manner.
Plaintiff
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.
Recusant
Obstinate in refusal; specifically, in English history, refusing to acknowledge the supremacy of the king in the churc, or to conform to the established rites of the church; as, a recusant lord...
Objector
One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
Gripe
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
Resistance
The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; ..
Consult
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
Infatuation
The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates.
Mislead
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Archaism
An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
Involvement
The act of involving, or the state of being involved.
Fascination
The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence...
Witch
A cone of paper which is placed in a vessel of lard or other fat, and used as a taper.
Waterspout
A remarkable meteorological phenomenon, of the nature of a tornado or whirlwind, usually observed over the sea, but sometimes over the land.
Inflamed
of Inflame
Submission
The act of submitting; the act of yielding to power or authority; surrender of the person and power to the control or government of another; obedience; compliance.
Spy
To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
Town
Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of ..
Salutation
The act of saluting, or paying respect or reverence, by the customary words or actions; the act of greeting, or expressing good will or courtesy; also, that which is uttered or done in saluting ..
Prosecution
The act or process of prosecuting, or of endeavoring to gain or accomplish something; pursuit by efforts of body or mind; as, the prosecution of a scheme, plan, design, or undertaking; the pr..
Obsequiousness
The quality or state of being obsequious.
History
A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true ..
Night
That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight,..
Stinking
of Stink
Limpet
In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
Jounce
To jolt; to shake, especially by rough riding or by driving over obstructions.
Insincerity
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerit..
Genuflection
The act of bending the knee, particularly in worship.
Exclamation
A loud calling or crying out; outcry; loud or emphatic utterance; vehement vociferation; clamor; that which is cried out, as an expression of feeling; sudden expression of sound or words indi..
Enforcement
The act of enforcing; compulsion.
Emersion
The act of emerging, or of rising out of anything; as, emersion from the sea; emersion from obscurity or difficulties.
Conceal
To hide or withdraw from observation; to cover; to cover or keep from sight; to prevent the discovery of; to withhold knowledge of.
Competitive
Of or pertaining to competition; producing competition; competitory; as, a competitive examination.
Commencement
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
Bury
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
Disencumber
To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
Tergiversate
To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.
Moved
of Move
Inadvertent
Not turning the mind to a matter; heedless; careless; negligent; inattentive.
Stalwart
Alt. of Stalworth
Carelessness
The quality or state of being careless; heedlessness; negligenece; inattention.
Inconsistency
The quality or state of being inconsistent; discordance in respect to sentiment or action; such contrariety between two things that both can not exist or be true together; disagreement; incom..
Hale
Sound; entire; healthy; robust; not impaired; as, a hale body.
Invincible
Incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued; unconquerable; insuperable; as, an invincible army, or obstacle.
Dandruff
A scurf which forms on the head, and comes off in small or particles.
Excrement
Matter excreted and ejected; that which is excreted or cast out of the animal body by any of the natural emunctories; especially, alvine, discharges; dung; ordure.
Horoscopy
The art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.
Whitsun
Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals.
Nonacceptance
A neglect or refusal to accept.
Repulse
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Pertinacious
Holding or adhering to any opinion, purpose, or design, with obstinacy; perversely persistent; obstinate; as, pertinacious plotters; a pertinacious beggar.
Roustabout
A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs.
Despicable
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Horizon
The circle which bounds that part of the earth's surface visible to a spectator from a given point; the apparent junction of the earth and sky.
Auspice
A divining or taking of omens by observing birds; an omen as to an undertaking, drawn from birds; an augury; an omen or sign in general; an indication as to the future.
Sedulous
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
Discernment
The act of discerning.
Scrambled
of Scramble
Shrimp
To contract; to shrink.
Obstructionism
The act or the policy of obstructing progress.
Ovation
A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.
Apparently
Visibly.
Revelation
The act of revealing, disclosing, or discovering to others what was before unknown to them.
Perspicacity
The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.
Notwithstanding
Without prevention, or obstruction from or by; in spite of.
Demeanor
Management; treatment; conduct.
Constriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
Perspicuity
The quality or state of being transparent or translucent.
Obstacle
That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
Impediment
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Fanfaronade
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Memory
The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Animality
Animal existence or nature.
Submerged
of Submerge
Fust
A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Encumbrance
That which encumbers; a burden which impedes action, or renders it difficult and laborious; a clog; an impediment. See Incumbrance.
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 ..
Toadying
of Toady
Zampogna
A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
Interject
To throw in between; to insert; to interpose.
Obstructing
of Obstruct
Obscurely
In an obscure manner.
Formalist
One overattentive to forms, or too much confined to them; esp., one who rests in external religious forms, or observes strictly the outward forms of worship, without possessing the life and s..
Crossroad
A road that crosses another; an obscure road intersecting or avoiding the main road.
Generally
In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently.
Omission
The act of omitting; neglect or failure to do something required by propriety or duty.
Holiday
A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Inhibiting
of Inhibit
Ruddy
Of a red color; red, or reddish; as, a ruddy sky; a ruddy flame.
Prepossessed
of Prepossess
Strangling
of Strangle
Doctrinaire
One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist..
Interruptive
Tending to interrupt; interrupting.
Strictness
Quality or state of being strict.
Slew
imp. of Slay.
Augury
The art or practice of foretelling events by observing the actions of birds, etc.; divination.
Crosswise
In the form of a cross; across; transversely.
Evidently
In an evident manner; clearly; plainly.
Indefinitely
In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.
Broadly
In a broad manner.
Parry
To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
Neurotic
Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.
Blur
To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the..
Enigmatical
Relating to or resembling an enigma; not easily explained or accounted for; darkly expressed; obscure; puzzling; as, an enigmatical answer.
Unregenerate
Alt. of Unregenerated
Honeyed
of Honey
Application
The capacity of being practically applied or used; relevancy; as, a rule of general application.
Reconciliation
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Snobocracy
Snobs, collectively.
Flexibility
The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or of rays of light.
Eyeball
The ball or globe of the eye.
Paleness
The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.
No
Not any; not one; none.
Perplexity
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Camera
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Nastiness
The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.
Hardness
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Disinclination
The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Bon ton
The height of the fashion; fashionable society.
Infraction
The act of infracting or breaking; breach; violation; nonobservance; infringement; as, an infraction of a treaty, compact, rule, or law.
Vagueness
The quality or state of being vague.
Opacity
The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.
Haziness
The quality or state of being hazy.
Indecisiveness
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
Generality
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
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..
Disclaimer
One who disclaims, disowns, or renounces.
Disobedience
Neglect or refusal to obey; violation of a command or prohibition.
License
Authority or liberty given to do or forbear any act; especially, a formal permission from the proper authorities to perform certain acts or to carry on a certain business, which without such ..
Dimness
The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.
Swarthiness
The quality or state of being swarthy; a dusky or dark complexion; tawniness.
Obscurity
The quality or state of being obscure; darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness; unintelligibleness; uncertainty.
Earnestly
In an earnest manner.
Doggedly
In a dogged manner; sullenly; with obstinate resolution.
Persistently
In a persistent manner.
Hysteria
A nervous affection, occurring almost exclusively in women, in which the emotional and reflex excitability is exaggerated, and the will power correspondingly diminished, so that the patient l..
Bystander
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
Plainly
In a plain manner; clearly.
Snail
Any one of numerous species of terrestrial air-breathing gastropods belonging to the genus Helix and many allied genera of the family Helicidae. They are abundant in nearly all parts of the worl..
Resolutely
In a resolute manner; with fixed purpose; boldly; firmly; steadily; with perseverance.
Abstruse
Concealed or hidden out of the way.
Observer
One who observes, or pays attention to, anything; especially, one engaged in, or trained to habits of, close and exact observation; as, an astronomical observer.
Visitor
One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.
Decidedly
In a decided manner; indisputably; clearly; thoroughly.
Bouncing
of Bounce
Inspector
One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a ..
Campanile
A bell tower, esp. one built separate from a church.
Orthopedist
One who prevents, cures, or remedies deformities, esp. in children.
Pinnacle
An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where pinnacles flank a gable or spire, and the li..
Chiropodist
One who treats diseases of the hands and feet; especially, one who removes corns and bunions.
Obstetrician
One skilled in obstetrics; an accoucheur.
Belfry
A movable tower erected by besiegers for purposes of attack and defense.
Crayfish
Any crustacean of the family Astacidae, resembling the lobster, but smaller, and found in fresh waters. Crawfishes are esteemed very delicate food both in Europe and America. The North Americ..
Profanity
The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.
Gawk
A cuckoo.
Oyster
Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers...
Lobster
Any large macrurous crustacean used as food, esp. those of the genus Homarus; as the American lobster (H. Americanus), and the European lobster (H. vulgaris). The Norwegian lobster (Nephrops ..
Looby
An awkward, clumsy fellow; a lubber.
Lubber
A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow; a sturdy drone; a clown.
Pathologist
One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
Ophthalmologist
One skilled in ophthalmology; an oculist.
Specialist
One who devotes himself to some specialty; as, a medical specialist, one who devotes himself to diseases of particular parts of the body, as the eye, the ear, the nerves, etc.
Spectator
One who on; one who sees or beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show.
Pus
The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.
Indecency
The quality or state of being indecent; want of decency, modesty, or good manners; obscenity.
Cumbrous
Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.
Surveillance
Oversight; watch; inspection; supervision.
Looker
One who looks.
Slime
Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud.
Sentinel
One who watches or guards; specifically (Mil.), a soldier set to guard an army, camp, or other place, from surprise, to observe the approach of danger, and give notice of it; a sentry.
Vigilance
The quality or state of being vigilant; forbearance of sleep; wakefulness.
Filth
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Patrol
To go the rounds along a chain of sentinels; to traverse a police district or beat.
Watcher
One who watches; one who sits up or continues; a diligent observer; specifically, one who attends upon the sick during the night.
Watchman
One set to watch; a person who keeps guard; a guard; a sentinel.
Erebus
A place of nether darkness, being the gloomy space through which the souls passed to Hades. See Milton's "Paradise Lost," Book II., line 883.
Blindfold
To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
Interfere
To come in collision; to be in opposition; to clash; as, interfering claims, or commands.
Equivocate
To use words of equivocal or doubtful signification; to express one's opinions in terms which admit of different senses, with intent to deceive; to use ambiguous expressions with a view to misle..
Robber
One who robs; in law, one who feloniously takes goods or money from the person of another by violence or by putting him in fear.
Asphalt
Alt. of Asphaltum
Penetrate
To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.
Convict
Proved or found guilty; convicted.
Signalize
To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish.
Custodial
Relating to custody or guardianship.
Adherence
The quality or state of adhering.
Obscurantist
Same as Obscurant.
Pharisee
One of a sect or party among the Jews, noted for a strict and formal observance of rites and ceremonies and of the traditions of the elders, and whose pretensions to superior sanctity led them t..
Detain
To keep back or from; to withhold.
Illusion
An unreal image presented to the bodily or mental vision; a deceptive appearance; a false show; mockery; hallucination.
Solemnize
To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
Peruse
To observe; to examine with care.
Speculator
One who speculates. Specifically: (a) An observer; a contemplator; hence, a spy; a watcher.
Swindler
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat.
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Repressive
Having power, or tending, to repress; as, repressive acts or measures.
Tailing
The part of a projecting stone or brick inserted in a wall.
Pettifogger
A lawyer who deals in petty cases; an attorney whose methods are mean and tricky; an inferior lawyer.
Perfectionist
One pretending to perfection; esp., one pretending to moral perfection; one who believes that persons may and do attain to moral perfection and sinlessness in this life.
Roiled
of Roil
Commentary
A series of comments or annotations; esp., a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of the Scriptures or of some other work.
Espionage
The practice or employment of spies; the practice of watching the words and conduct of others, to make discoveries, as spies or secret emissaries; secret watching.
Apprehension
The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Spying
of Spy
Talisman
A magical figure cut or engraved under certain superstitious observances of the configuration of the heavens, to which wonderful effects are ascribed; the seal, figure, character, or image, o..
Unintelligence
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance.
Observation
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Boisterous
Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful.
Prevent
To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct.
Dun
A mound or small hill.
Unruly
Not submissive to rule; disregarding restraint; disposed to violate; turbulent; ungovernable; refractory; as, an unruly boy; unruly boy; unruly conduct.
Scurf
Thin dry scales or scabs upon the body; especially, thin scales exfoliated from the cuticle, particularly of the scalp; dandruff.
Hostler
An innkeeper. [Obs.] See Hosteler.
Insubordinate
Not submitting to authority; disobedient; rebellious; mutinous.
Outdated
Being out of date; antiquated.
Encumber
To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is ..
Practicing
of Practice
Turret
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
Disobey
Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authority); to violate, as an order; as, refractory children disobey..
Pencil
An aggregate or collection of rays of light, especially when diverging from, or converging to, a point.
Byroad
A private or obscure road.
Investigation
The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher a..
Scan
To mount by steps; to go through with step by step.
Tire
A tier, row, or rank. See Tier.
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.
Pylon
A low tower, having a truncated pyramidal form, and flanking an ancient Egyptian gateway.
Shaft
The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
Renitency
The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Stanch
A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
Caulk
See Calk.
Stench
To stanch.
Stiffness
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Spire
To breathe.
Stopper
One who stops, closes, shuts, or hinders; that which stops or obstructs; that which closes or fills a vent or hole in a vessel.
Craze
To be crazed, or to act or appear as one that is crazed; to rave; to become insane.
Unfriendly
Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor.
Delayed
of Delay
Stanch
To stop the flowing of, as blood; to check; also, to stop the flowing of blood from; as, to stanch a wound.
Retarded
of Retard
Extinguish
To quench; to put out, as a light or fire; to stifle; to cause to die out; to put an end to; to destroy; as, to extinguish a flame, or life, or love, or hope, a pretense or a right.
Lickerish
Eager; craving; urged by desire; eager to taste or enjoy; greedy.
Goatish
Characteristic of a goat; goatlike.
Asininity
The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with obstinacy.
Turbulent
Disturbed; agitated; tumultuous; roused to violent commotion; as, the turbulent ocean.
Tightness
The quality or condition of being tight.
Desperado
A reckless, furious man; a person urged by furious passions, and regardless of consequence; a wild ruffian.
Belated
of Belate
Twain
Two; -- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque.
Disused
of Disuse
Intangible
Not tangible; incapable of being touched; not perceptible to the touch; impalpable; imperceptible.
Old-fashioned
Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl.
Thanksgiving
The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies.
Impetration
The act of impetrating, or obtaining by petition or entreaty.
Misconstruction
Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
Obituary
That which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch.
Homage
A symbolical acknowledgment made by a feudal tenant to, and in the presence of, his lord, on receiving investiture of fee, or coming to it by succession, that he was his man, or vassal; professi..
Industrious
Given to industry; characterized by diligence; constantly, regularly, or habitually occupied; busy; assiduous; not slothful or idle; -- commonly implying devotion to lawful and useful labor.
Intercession
The act of interceding; mediation; interposition between parties at variance, with a view to reconcilation; prayer, petition, or entreaty in favor of, or (less often) against, another or othe..
Insincere
Not being in truth what one appears to be; not sincere; dissembling; hypocritical; disingenuous; deceitful; false; -- said of persons; also of speech, thought; etc.; as, insincere declarations.
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