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Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Tontine
An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of ..
Subordinate
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
Adjuratory
Containing an adjuration.
Malapropos
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Naturalization
The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized.
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
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..
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.
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
List
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
Specialty
A particular or peculiar case.
Evening
of Even
Coadjutress
Alt. of Coadjutrix
Commensal
One who eats at the same table.
Analeptic
Restorative; giving strength after disease.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Accommodating
of Accommodate
Adjustable
Capable of being adjusted.
Conviction
The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
Metamorphic
Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Conditioning
of Condition
Checkered
of Checker
Collective
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Bedfellow
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
Protraction
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
Acolyte
One who has received the highest of the four minor orders in the Catholic church, being ordained to carry the wine and water and the lights at the Mass.
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.
Proximity
The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
Electrotype
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Helper
One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
Beg
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
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.
Suburb
An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the sub..
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Adaptation
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
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.
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 ..
Entreat
To invite; to entertain.
Idiom
An expression conforming or appropriate to the peculiar structural form of a language; in extend use, an expression sanctioned by usage, having a sense peculiar to itself and not agreeing with t..
Cape
A piece or point of land, extending beyond the adjacent coast into the sea or a lake; a promontory; a headland.
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Fixture
State of being fixed; fixedness.
An
This word is properly an adjective, but is commonly called the indefinite article. It is used before nouns of the singular number only, and signifies one, or any, but somewhat less emphatically...
Mobile
Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
Dried
of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
Margin
A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
Align
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Cone
A solid of the form described by the revolution of a right-angled triangle about one of the sides adjacent to the right angle; -- called also a right cone. More generally, any solid having a ..
Quarter
A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
Coadjutant
Mutually assisting or operating; helping.
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Hardening
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Adjoining
of Adjoin
Conterminous
Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous.
Creole
One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of..
Impermanent
Not permanent.
Mutuality
Reciprocity of consideration.
Grammatic
Grammatical.
Acclimate
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
Idem
The same; the same as above; -- often abbreviated id.
Propitiate
To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Reunite
To unite again; to join after separation or variance.
Endways
Alt. of Endwise
Suited
of Suit
Accompaniment
That which accompanies; something that attends as a circumstance, or which is added to give greater completeness to the principal thing, or by way of ornament, or for the sake of symmetry.
Alignment
The act of adjusting to a line; arrangement in a line or lines; the state of being so adjusted; a formation in a straight line; also, the line of adjustment; esp., an imaginary line to regulate ..
Postpone
To defer to a future or later time; to put off; also, to cause to be deferred or put off; to delay; to adjourn; as, to postpone the consideration of a bill to the following day, or indefinite..
Familiarize
To make familiar or intimate; to habituate; to accustom; to make well known by practice or converse; as, to familiarize one's self with scenes of distress.
Reshape
To shape again.
Reorganize
To organize again or anew; as, to reorganize a society or an army.
Voidable
Capable of being avoided, or of being adjudged void, invalid, and of no force; capable of being either avoided or confirmed.
Mediate
Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
Subjoin
To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Diversify
To make diverse or various in form or quality; to give variety to; to variegate; to distinguish by numerous differences or aspects.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
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.
Resignation
The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
Lateen
Of or pertaining to a peculiar rig used in the Mediterranean and adjacent waters, esp. on the northern coast of Africa. See below.
Pontiff
A high priest.
Helpmate
A helper; a companion; specifically, a wife.
Pope
Any ecclesiastic, esp. a bishop.
Bishop
A spiritual overseer, superintendent, or director.
Per
Through; by means of; through the agency of; by; for; for each; as, per annum; per capita, by heads, or according to individuals; per curiam, by the court; per se, by itself, of itself. Per is a..
By
In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.
After
Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.
Magnification
The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Dissociation
The act of dissociating or disuniting; a state of separation; disunion.
Dissenting
of Dissent
Coadjuvant
Cooperating.
Supplementary
Added to supply what is wanted; additional; being, or serving as, a supplement; as, a supplemental law; a supplementary sheet or volume.
Auxiliary
Conferring aid or help; helping; aiding; assisting; subsidiary; as auxiliary troops.
Thickness
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Enjoin
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
Concerted
of Concert
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...
Mobility
The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.
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; ..
Complicity
The state of being an accomplice; participation in guilt.
Adjudicate
To adjudge; to try and determine, as a court; to settle by judicial decree.
Presume
To venture, go, or act, by an assumption of leave or authority not granted; to go beyond what is warranted by the circumstances of the case; to venture beyond license; to take liberties; -- o..
Mortgage
A conveyance of property, upon condition, as security for the payment of a debt or the preformance of a duty, and to become void upon payment or performance according to the stipulated terms; al..
Mismatch
To match unsuitably.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Gum
The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
Excise
In inland duty or impost operating as an indirect tax on the consumer, levied upon certain specified articles, as, tobacco, ale, spirits, etc., grown or manufactured in the country. It is also l..
Self-adjusting
Capable of assuming a desired position or condition with relation to other parts, under varying circumstances, without requiring to be adjusted by hand; -- said of a piece in machinery.
Self-acting
Acting of or by one's self or by itself; -- said especially of a machine or mechanism which is made to perform of or for itself what is usually done by human agency; automatic; as, a self-act..
Calibrate
To ascertain the caliber of, as of a thermometer tube; also, more generally, to determine or rectify the graduation of, as of the various standards or graduated instruments.
Protuberance
That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation.
Siphon
The sucking proboscis of certain parasitic insects and crustaceans.
Addendum
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Systematize
To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas.
Volubility
The quality or state of being voluble (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Suffix
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Neighboring
of neighbor
Closing
of Close
Accident
Literally, a befalling; an event that takes place without one's foresight or expectation; an undesigned, sudden, and unexpected event; chance; contingency; often, an undesigned and unforeseen ..
Spontaneous
Proceding from natural feeling, temperament, or disposition, or from a native internal proneness, readiness, or tendency, without constraint; as, a spontaneous gift or proportion.
Garnishment
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
Bastion
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curt..
Planning
of Plan
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..
Strictness
Quality or state of being strict.
Augmentation
The act or process of augmenting, or making larger, by addition, expansion, or dilation; increase.
Amelioration
The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
Idiot
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
Ordination
The act of ordaining, appointing, or setting apart; the state of being ordained, appointed, etc.
Neurotic
Of or pertaining to the nerves; seated in the nerves; nervous; as, a neurotic disease.
Harmonization
The act of harmonizing.
Reconciliation
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Impermanence
Alt. of Impermanency
Plasticity
The quality or state of being plastic.
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.
Deterioration
The process of growing worse, or the state of having grown worse.
Properly
In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.
Versatility
The quality or state of being versatile; versatileness.
Mutability
The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation.
Transience
Alt. of Transiency
Diversion
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Diagonal
Joining two not adjacent angles of a quadrilateral or multilateral figure; running across from corner to corner; crossing at an angle with one of the sides.
Purely
In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
Psychosis
Any vital action or activity.
Bystander
One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting.
Alcoholic
Of or pertaining to alcohol, or partaking of its qualities; derived from, or caused by, alcohol; containing alcohol; as, alcoholic mixtures; alcoholic gastritis; alcoholic odor.
Pipette
A small glass tube, often with an enlargement or bulb in the middle, and usually graduated, -- used for transferring or delivering measured quantities.
Furnishing
of Furnish
Idiot
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
Wonted
of Wont
Attendant
Being present, or in the train; accompanying; in waiting.
Insanity
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
Clearing
The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
Commissioner
A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to ..
Strangeness
The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
Triangulation
The series or network of triangles into which the face of a country, or any portion of it, is divided in a trigonometrical survey; the operation of measuring the elements necessary to determi..
Pietist
One of a class of religious reformers in Germany in the 17th century who sought to revive declining piety in the Protestant churches; -- often applied as a term of reproach to those who make a ..
Railway
A road or way consisting of one or more parallel series of iron or steel rails, patterned and adjusted to be tracks for the wheels of vehicles, and suitably supported on a bed or substructure.
Coterminous
Bordering; conterminous; -- followed by with.
Prolong
To extend in space or length; as, to prolong a line.
Scanning
of Scan
Unintelligence
Absence or lack of intelligence; unwisdom; ignorance.
Revivalist
A clergyman or layman who promotes revivals of religion; an advocate for religious revivals; sometimes, specifically, a clergyman, without a particular charge, who goes about to promote reviv..
Outspread
To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. / adj.
Inability
The quality or state of being unable; lack of ability; want of sufficient power, strength, resources, or capacity.
Curate
One who has the cure of souls; originally, any clergyman, but now usually limited to one who assists a rector or vicar.
Incapacity
Want of capacity; lack of physical or intellectual power; inability.
Infelicity
The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness.
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 ..
Quinsy
An inflammation of the throat, or parts adjacent, especially of the fauces or tonsils, attended by considerable swelling, painful and impeded deglutition, and accompanied by inflammatory fever. ..
Beard
The hair that grows on the chin, lips, and adjacent parts of the human face, chiefly of male adults.
tracking
of Track
Poorness
The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).
Syntactic
Alt. of Syntactical
Functional
Pertaining to, or connected with, a function or duty; official.
Reed
Red.
Prelate
A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
Inaptitude
Want of aptitude.
Patriarch
The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish histo..
Adjusting
of Adjust
Anomaly
Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
Structural
Of or pertaining to structure; affecting structure; as, a structural error.
Meek
Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.
Substantive
Betokening or expressing existence; as, the substantive verb, that is, the verb to be.
Coadjutor
One who aids another; an assistant; a coworker.
Rector
A ruler or governor.
Primate
The chief ecclesiastic in a national church; one who presides over other bishops in a province; an archbishop.
Archbishop
A chief bishop; a church dignitary of the first class (often called a metropolitan or primate) who superintends the conduct of the suffragan bishops in his province, and also exercises episcopal..
Portion
A part assigned; allotment; share; fate.
Papa
A child's word for father.
Surrender
To yield to the power of another; to give or deliver up possession of (anything) upon compulsion or demand; as, to surrender one's person to an enemy or to an officer; to surrender a fort or a ..
Participial
Having, or partaking of, the nature and use of a participle; formed from a participle; as, a participial noun.
Restorative
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
Curative
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure.
Vocative
Of or pertaining to calling; used in calling; specifically (Gram.), used in address; appellative; -- said of that case or form of the noun, pronoun, or adjective, in which a person or thing i..
Rectify
To make or set right; to correct from a wrong, erroneous, or false state; to amend; as, to rectify errors, mistakes, or abuses; to rectify the will, the judgment, opinions; to rectify disorde..
Prepositional
Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.
Intransitive
Not passing farther; kept; detained.
Adjectival
Of or relating to the relating to the adjective; of the nature of an adjective; adjective.
Nominal
Of or pertaining to a name or names; having to do with the literal meaning of a word; verbal; as, a nominal definition.
Therapeutic
Alt. of Therapeutical
Equalizing
of Equalize
Invocation
The act or form of calling for the assistance or presence of some superior being; earnest and solemn entreaty; esp., prayer offered to a divine being.
Standardize
To reduce to a normal standard; to calculate or adjust the strength of, by means of, and for uses in, analysis.
Equalize
To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes.
Crochet
A kind of knitting done by means of a hooked needle, with worsted, silk, or cotton; crochet work. Commonly used adjectively.
Catheter
The name of various instruments for passing along mucous canals, esp. applied to a tubular instrument to be introduced into the bladder through the urethra to draw off the urine.
Siphon
A device, consisting of a pipe or tube bent so as to form two branches or legs of unequal length, by which a liquid can be transferred to a lower level, as from one vessel to another, over an ..
Compensate
To make equal return to; to remunerate; to recompense; to give an equivalent to; to requite suitably; as, to compensate a laborer for his work, or a merchant for his losses.
Seashore
The coast of the sea; the land that lies adjacent to the sea or ocean.
Combined
of Combine
Intricate
Entangled; involved; perplexed; complicated; difficult to understand, follow, arrange, or adjust; as, intricate machinery, labyrinths, accounts, plots, etc.
Enable
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Embroidery
Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering.
Contents
of Content
Alienation
The act of alienating, or the state of being alienated.
Clause
A separate portion of a written paper, paragraph, or sentence; an article, stipulation, or proviso, in a legal document.
Noncommittal
A state of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.
Naturalized
of Naturalize
Accustomed
of Accustom
Inured
of Inure
Continue
To remain in a given place or condition; to remain in connection with; to abide; to stay.
Tarantula
Any one of several species of large spiders, popularly supposed to be very venomous, especially the European species (Tarantula apuliae). The tarantulas of Texas and adjacent countries are la..
Defer
To put off; to postpone to a future time; to delay the execution of; to delay; to withhold.
Incapable
Wanting in ability or qualification for the purpose or end in view; not large enough to contain or hold; deficient in physical strength, mental or moral power, etc.; not capable; as, incapable o..
Protuberate
To swell, or be prominent, beyond the adjacent surface; to bulge out.
Plead
of Plead
Dismissal
Dismission; discharge.
Abut
To project; to terminate or border; to be contiguous; to meet; -- with on, upon, or against; as, his land abuts on the road.
Inefficiency
The quality of being inefficient; want of power or energy sufficient; want of power or energy sufficient for the desired effect; inefficacy; incapacity; as, he was discharged from his position ..
Fixture
That which is fixed or attached to something as a permanent appendage; as, the fixtures of a pump; the fixtures of a farm or of a dwelling, that is, the articles which a tenant may not take a..
Keeping
of Keep
They
The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.
Adjure
To charge, bind, or command, solemnly, as if under oath, or under the penalty of a curse; to appeal to in the most solemn or impressive manner; to entreat earnestly.
Sublimation
The act or process of subliming, or the state or result of being sublimed.
Penitentiary
Relating to penance, or to the rules and measures of penance.
Adjoin
To join or unite to; to lie contiguous to; to be in contact with; to attach; to append.
Widening
of Widen
Remedial
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
Repair
To return.
Rim
The border, edge, or margin of a thing, usually of something circular or curving; as, the rim of a kettle or basin.
Vary
To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature o..
Pooling
of Pool
Incapability
The quality of being incapable; incapacity.
Solder
A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.
Melancholia
A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
Connecting
of Connect
Criterion
A standard of judging; any approved or established rule or test, by which facts, principles opinions, and conduct are tried in forming a correct judgment respecting them.
Adjacent
Lying near, close, or contiguous; neighboring; bordering on; as, a field adjacent to the highway.
Revival
Reanimation from a state of langour or depression; -- applied to the health, spirits, and the like.
Alteration
The act of altering or making different.
Prefix
To put or fix before, or at the beginning of, another thing; as, to prefix a syllable to a word, or a condition to an agreement.
Trimming
of Trim
Interjection
The act of interjecting or throwing between; also, that which is interjected.
Deployment
The act of deploying; a spreading out of a body of men in order to extend their front.
Croft
A small, inclosed field, adjoining a house; a small farm.
Disjunctive
Tending to disjoin; separating; disjoining.
Hardened
of Harden
Invoke
To call on for aid or protection; to invite earnestly or solemnly; to summon; to address in prayer; to solicit or demand by invocation; to implore; as, to invoke the Supreme Being, or to invoke ..
Adaptation
The act or process of adapting, or fitting; or the state of being adapted or fitted; fitness.
Adjusted
of Adjust
Overhaul
To haul or drag over; hence, to turn over for examination; to inspect; to examine thoroughly with a view to corrections or repairs.
Signature
A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.
Nearness
The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.
Juxtapose
To place in juxtaposition.
Decision
Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Shelve
To furnish with shelves; as, to shelve a closet or a library.
Quasi
As if; as though; as it were; in a manner sense or degree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an impli..
Intervale
A tract of low ground between hills, or along the banks of a stream, usually alluvial land, enriched by the overflowings of the river, or by fertilizing deposits of earth from the adjacent hills..
Dole
grief; sorrow; lamentation.
Harden
To make hard or harder; to make firm or compact; to indurate; as, to harden clay or iron.
Implore
To call upon, or for, in supplication; to beseech; to prey to, or for, earnestly; to petition with urency; to entreat; to beg; -- followed directly by the word expressing the thing sought, or ..
Pendant
Something which hangs or depends; something suspended; a hanging appendage, especially one of an ornamental character; as to a chandelier or an eardrop; also, an appendix or addition, as to a bo..
Deform
To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure.
Synchronize
To agree in time; to be simultaneous.
Valetudinarian
Of infirm health; seeking to recover health; sickly; weakly; infirm.
Reconstruct
To construct again; to rebuild; to remodel; to form again or anew.
Contrariety
The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
Wildwood
A wild or unfrequented wood. Also used adjectively; as, wildwood flowers; wildwood echoes.
Debenture
A writing acknowledging a debt; a writing or certificate signed by a public officer, as evidence of a debt due to some person; the sum thus due.
Deem
To decide; to judge; to sentence; to condemn.
Unseemly
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent.
Ill-timed
Done, attempted, or said, at an unsuitable or unpropitious time.
Unseasonable
Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts..
Unapt
Inapt; slow; dull.
Pray
See Pry.
Misplaced
of Misplace
Reparation
The act of renewing, restoring, etc., or the state of being renewed or repaired; as, the reparation of a bridge or of a highway; -- in this sense, repair is oftener used.
Garnish
To decorate with ornamental appendages; to set off; to adorn; to embellish.
Inapt
Unapt; not apt; unsuitable; inept.
Untimely
Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
Equate
To make equal; to reduce to an average; to make such an allowance or correction in as will reduce to a common standard of comparison; to reduce to mean time or motion; as, to equate payments; ..
Conversion
The act of turning or changing from one state or condition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change.
Premium
A reward or recompense; a prize to be won by being before another, or others, in a competition; reward or prize to be adjudged; a bounty; as, a premium for good behavior or scholarship, for d..
Append
To hang or attach to, as by a string, so that the thing is suspended; as, a seal appended to a record; the inscription was appended to the column.
Filiation
The relationship of a son or child to a parent, esp. to a father.
Yielding
of Yield
Swear
To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, o..
Inappropriate
Not instrument (to); not appropriate; unbecoming; unsuitable; not specially fitted; -- followed by to or for.
Tenderness
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).
Adornment
An adorning; an ornament; a decoration.
Bordering
of Border
Fringe
An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of the warp, projecting beyond the woven fabric; but more commonly made separate and sewed on, consis..
Apply
To lay or place; to put or adjust (one thing to another); -- with to; as, to apply the hand to the breast; to apply medicaments to a diseased part of the body.
Contiguity
The state of being contiguous; intimate association; nearness; proximity.
Illumination
The act of illuminating, or supplying with light; the state of being illuminated.
Inapposite
Not apposite; not fit or suitable; not pertinent.
Ineffective
Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal.
Ancillary
Subservient or subordinate, like a handmaid; auxiliary.
Inept
Not apt or fit; unfit; unsuitable; improper; unbecoming.
Infelicitous
Not felicitous; unhappy; unfortunate; not fortunate or appropriate in application; not well said, expressed, or done; as, an infelicitous condition; an infelicitous remark; an infelicitous de..
Unable
Not able; not having sufficient strength, means, knowledge, skill, or the like; impotent' weak; helpless; incapable; -- now usually followed by an infinitive or an adverbial phrase; as, unable f..
Settle
A seat of any kind.
Capable
Possessing ability, qualification, or susceptibility; having capacity; of sufficient size or strength; as, a room capable of holding a large number; a castle capable of resisting a long assault...
Other
Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used).
Equipment
The act of equipping, or the state of being equipped, as for a voyage or expedition.
Complicate
Composed of two or more parts united; complex; complicated; involved.
Switch
A small, flexible twig or rod.
Improvement
The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration; as, the improvement of the mind, of land, roads, etc.
Furnish
To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to adorn; as, to furnish a family with provisions; to furnish one with arms for defense..
Softness
The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.
Resilience
Alt. of Resiliency
Circumstance
That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.
Rehabilitation
The act of rehabilitating, or the state of being rehabilitated.
Convert
To cause to turn; to turn.
Contiguous
In actual contact; touching; also, adjacent; near; neighboring; adjoining.
Unfit
To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; as, sickness unfits a man for labor; sin un..
Mutuality
The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.
Adapt
Fitted; suited.
Supplement
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
Link
A torch made of tow and pitch, or the like.
Alter
To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
Extra
Beyond what is due, usual, expected, or necessary; additional; supernumerary; also, extraordinarily good; superior; as, extra work; extra pay.
Appendant
Hanging; annexed; adjunct; concomitant; as, a seal appendant to a paper.
Contingency
Union or connection; the state of touching or contact.
Revive
To return to life; to recover life or strength; to live anew; to become reanimated or reinvigorated.
Accession
A coming to; the act of acceding and becoming joined; as, a king's accession to a confederacy.
Corrective
Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties.
Next
Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
Hexad
An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as a..
Compatriot
One of the same country, and having like interests and feeling.
Confederate
United in a league; allied by treaty; engaged in a confederacy; banded together; allied.
Subsidiary
Furnishing aid; assisting; auxiliary; helping; tributary; especially, aiding in an inferior position or capacity; as, a subsidiary stream.
Adjuvant
A substance added to an immunogenic agent to enhance the production of antibodies.
Quartet
Alt. of Quartette
Accidental
Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
Habituate
To make accustomed; to accustom; to familiarize.
Octet
A composition for eight parts, usually for eight solo instruments or voices.
Diminish
To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase.
Comrade
A mate, companion, or associate.
Assimilation
The act or process of assimilating or bringing to a resemblance, likeness, or identity; also, the state of being so assimilated; as, the assimilation of one sound to another.
Sort
Chance; lot; destiny.
Coadjuvancy
Joint help; cooperation.
Synergy
Combined action
Heptad
An atom which has a valence of seven, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, seven monad atoms or radicals; as, iodine is a heptad in iodic acid. Also ..
Agglutination
The act of uniting by glue or other tenacious substance; the state of being thus united; adhesion of parts.
Accommodation
The act of fitting or adapting, or the state of being fitted or adapted; adaptation; adjustment; -- followed by to.
Collaboration
The act of working together; united labor.
Communism
A scheme of equalizing the social conditions of life; specifically, a scheme which contemplates the abolition of inequalities in the possession of property, as by distributing all wealth equally..
Duet
A composition for two performers, whether vocal or instrumental.
Sextet
Alt. of Sextetto
Syllable
An elementary sound, or a combination of elementary sounds, uttered together, or with a single effort or impulse of the voice, and constituting a word or a part of a word. In other terms, it ..
Quintet
Alt. of Quintette
Teamwork
Work done by a team, as distinguished from that done by personal labor.
Morale
The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit, hope, and confidence; mental state, as of a b..
Linkage
The act of linking; the state of being linked; also, a system of links.
Trio
Three, considered collectively; three in company or acting together; a set of three; three united.
Revamp
To vamp again; hence, to patch up; to reconstruct.
Crave
To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.
Resolve
To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.
Timing
of Time
Consort
One who shares the lot of another; a companion; a partner; especially, a wife or husband.
Solidarity
An entire union or consolidation of interests and responsibilities; fellowship; community.
Congruity
The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency.
Neighbor
A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
Septet
Alt. of Septette
Assistant
Helping; lending aid or support; auxiliary.
Epithet
An adjective expressing some quality, attribute, or relation, that is properly or specially appropriate to a person or thing; as, a just man; a verdant lawn.
Season
One of the divisions of the year, marked by alternations in the length of day and night, or by distinct conditions of temperature, moisture, etc., caused mainly by the relative position of the e..
Item
Also; as an additional article.
Element
One of the simple substances, as supposed by the ancient philosophers; one of the imaginary principles of matter.
Accelerator
One who, or that which, accelerates. Also as an adj.; as, accelerator nerves.
Able
Fit; adapted; suitable.
Proficient
One who has made considerable advances in any business, art, science, or branch of learning; an expert; an adept; as, proficient in a trade; a proficient in mathematics, music, etc.
Collateral
Coming from, being on, or directed toward, the side; as, collateral pressure.
Echelon
An arrangement of a body of troops when its divisions are drawn up in parallel lines each to the right or the left of the one in advance of it, like the steps of a ladder in position for climbin..
Funnel
A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.
Locution
Speech or discourse; a phrase; a form or mode of expression.
Renewal
The act of renewing, or the state of being renewed; as, the renewal of a treaty.
Unbecoming
Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper.
Adjutage
Same as Ajutage.
Standpipe
A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to ..
Local
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region; as, a local custom.
Medicinal
Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
Mitigation
The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity,..
Plastic
Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator.
Officiate
To act as an officer in performing a duty; to transact the business of an office or public trust; to conduct a public service.
Ambidextrous
Having the faculty of using both hands with equal ease.
Magpie
Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
Impropriety
The quality of being improper; unfitness or unsuitableness to character, time place, or circumstances; as, impropriety of behavior or manners.
Addict
Addicted; devoted.
Acquiescence
A silent or passive assent or submission, or a submission with apparent content; -- distinguished from avowed consent on the one hand, and on the other, from opposition or open discontent; qu..
Adjournal
Adjournment; postponement.
Nipple
The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.
Recess
A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
Conditioned
of Condition
Inadequate
Not adequate; unequal to the purpose; insufficient; deficient; as, inadequate resources, power, conceptions, representations, etc.
Revolution
The act of revolving, or turning round on an axis or a center; the motion of a body round a fixed point or line; rotation; as, the revolution of a wheel, of a top, of the earth on its axis, etc...
Conjugation
the act of uniting or combining; union; assemblage.
Esprit
Spirit.
Moderate
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Messuage
A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Pauper
A poor person; especially, one development on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pouper immigrants, pouper labor.
Fitted
of Fit
Contributory
Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
Tube
A hollow cylinder, of any material, used for the conveyance of fluids, and for various other purposes; a pipe.
Uniformity
The quality or state of being uniform; freedom from variation or difference; resemblance to itself at all times; sameness of action, effect, etc., under like conditions; even tenor; as, the u..
Add
To give by way of increased possession (to any one); to bestow (on).
Acquiesce
To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting t..
Judicature
The state or profession of those employed in the administration of justice; also, the dispensing or administration of justice.
Equation
A making equal; equal division; equality; equilibrium.
Compliance
The act of complying; a yielding; as to a desire, demand, or proposal; concession; submission.
Umpire
A person to whose sole decision a controversy or question between parties is referred; especially, one chosen to see that the rules of a game, as cricket, baseball, or the like, are strictly ..
Revival
The act of reviving, or the state of being revived.
Connection
The act of connecting, or the state of being connected; junction; union; alliance; relationship.
Sentence
Sense; meaning; significance.
Concert
To plan together; to settle or adjust by conference, agreement, or consultation.
Attune
To tune or put in tune; to make melodious; to adjust, as one sound or musical instrument to another; as, to attune the voice to a harp.
Concord
A state of agreement; harmony; union.
Dissident
No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Problem
A question proposed for solution; a matter stated for examination or proof; hence, a matter difficult of solution or settlement; a doubtful case; a question involving doubt.
Choice
Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Regulate
To adjust by rule, method, or established mode; to direct by rule or restriction; to subject to governing principles or laws.
Half-caste
One born of a European parent on the one side, and of a Hindoo or Mohammedan on the other. Also adjective; as, half-caste parents.
Judge
A public officer who is invested with authority to hear and determine litigated causes, and to administer justice between parties in courts held for that purpose.
Seasoned
of Season
Trained
of Train
Harmonize
To agree in action, adaptation, or effect on the mind; to agree in sense or purport; as, the parts of a mechanism harmonize.
Recalcitrant
Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
Plus
More, required to be added; positive, as distinguished from negative; -- opposed to minus.
Ineffectuality
Ineffectualness.
Maladjustment
A bad adjustment.
Nonconforming
Not conforming; declining conformity; especially, not conforming to the established church of a country.
Lieutenant
An officer who supplies the place of a superior in his absence; a representative of, or substitute for, another in the performance of any duty.
Protract
To draw out or lengthen in time or (rarely) in space; to continue; to prolong; as, to protract an argument; to protract a war.
Resistance
The act of resisting; opposition, passive or active.
Ingredient
That which enters into a compound, or is a component part of any combination or mixture; an element; a constituent.
Sector
A part of a circle comprehended between two radii and the included arc.
Straighten
To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
Concurrence
The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination.
Remake
To make anew.
Deduction
Act or process of deducing or inferring.
Hypochondriac
Of or pertaining to hypochondria, or the hypochondriac regions.
Meliorate
To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
Annexation
The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold.
Ministerial
Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
Limit
That which terminates, circumscribes, restrains, or confines; the bound, border, or edge; the utmost extent; as, the limit of a walk, of a town, of a country; the limits of human knowledge or ..
Damn
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Contrary
Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
Element
One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based.
Coaptation
The adaptation or adjustment of parts to each other, as of a broken bone or dislocated joint.
Serving
of Serve
Contingent
Possible, or liable, but not certain, to occur; incidental; casual.
Degeneration
The act or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration.
Correspondence
Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.
Rebuild
To build again, as something which has been demolished; to construct anew; as, to rebuild a house, a wall, a wharf, or a city.
Assuage
To soften, in a figurative sense; to allay, mitigate, ease, or lessen, as heat, pain, or grief; to appease or pacify, as passion or tumult; to satisfy, as appetite or desire.
Qualification
The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified.
Sciatica
Neuralgia of the sciatic nerve, an affection characterized by paroxysmal attacks of pain in the buttock, back of the thigh, or in the leg or foot, following the course of the branches of the ..
Circumscribe
to write or engrave around.
Malleable
Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Shift
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
Rapport
Relation; proportion; conformity; correspondence; accord.
Waive
A waif; a castaway.
Better
Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.
Elasticity
The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; t..
Prink
To dress or adjust one's self for show; to prank.
Colonnade
A series or range of columns placed at regular intervals with all the adjuncts, as entablature, stylobate, roof, etc.
Resolution
The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a v..
Canon
A law or rule.
Veranda
An open, roofed gallery or portico, adjoining a dwelling house, forming an out-of-door sitting room. See Loggia.
Conform
Of the same form; similar in import; conformable.
Secondary
Suceeding next in order to the first; of second place, origin, rank, rank, etc.; not primary; subordinate; not of the first order or rate.
Key
An instrument by means of which the bolt of a lock is shot or drawn; usually, a removable metal instrument fitted to the mechanism of a particular lock and operated by turning in its place.
Regulation
The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
Tractable
Capable of being easily led, taught, or managed; docile; manageable; governable; as, tractable children; a tractable learner.
Negotiate
To transact business; to carry on trade.
Submissive
Inclined or ready to submit; acknowledging one's inferiority; yielding; obedient; humble.
Table
A smooth, flat surface, like the side of a board; a thin, flat, smooth piece of anything; a slab.
Mediocrity
The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.
Naturalize
To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study.
Stem
Alt. of Steem
Modulation
The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
Begging
of Beg
Share
The part (usually an iron or steel plate) of a plow which cuts the ground at the bottom of a furrow; a plowshare.
Amplification
The act of amplifying or enlarging in dimensions; enlargement; extension.
Concordance
Agreement; accordance.
Aid
To support, either by furnishing strength or means in cooperation to effect a purpose, or to prevent or to remove evil; to help; to assist.
