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String
The points made in a game.
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 ..
Connate
Born with another; being of the same birth.
Essence
The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of..
Plaintive
Repining; complaining; lamenting.
Mass
A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ..
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Scarabee
A stylized representation of a scarab beetle in stone or faience; -- a symbol of resurrection, used by the ancient Egyptians as an ornament or a talisman, and in modern times used in jewelry, us..
Calumet
A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Brocade
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
Corrigible
Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
Funicular
Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
Heartwood
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguis..
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Specialty
A particular or peculiar case.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Main
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
Fundamentally
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Alderman
A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
Lacquer
A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to ..
Cadence
The act or state of declining or sinking.
Bicameral
Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
Baldric
A broad belt, sometimes richly ornamented, worn over one shoulder, across the breast, and under the opposite arm; less properly, any belt.
Humdrum
Monotonous; dull; commonplace.
Frosted
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Atramentous
Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
Accommodating
of Accommodate
Beakhead
An ornament used in rich Norman doorways, resembling a head with a beak.
Hood
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
Virtually
In a virtual manner; in efficacy or effect only, and not actually; to all intents and purposes; practically.
Spiccato
Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
Headway
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Au fait
Expert; skillful; well instructed.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Doleful
Full of dole or grief; expressing or exciting sorrow; sorrowful; sad; dismal.
Catamenia
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
Enrich
To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
Enunciation
The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Councilman
A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
Grieved
of Grieve
Quietism
Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Cohabitation
The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
Apology
Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
Euphuism
An affectation of excessive elegance and refinement of language; high-flown diction.
Quietism
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of ..
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Yearly
Happening, accruing, or coming every year; annual; as, a yearly income; a yearly feast.
Mark
To put a mark upon; to affix a significant mark to; to make recognizable by a mark; as, to mark a box or bale of merchandise; to mark clothing.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
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.
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.
Sacramental
That which relates to a sacrament.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Formulary
Prescribed form or model; formula.
Sinew
A tendon or tendonous tissue. See Tendon.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Submission
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Flamen
A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis..
Equity
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claim..
Quirky
Full of quirks; tricky; as, a quirky lawyer.
Contraband
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
Stamen
A thread; especially, a warp thread.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Finial
The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
Relief
Release from a post, or from the performance of duty, by the intervention of others, by discharge, or by relay; as, a relief of a sentry.
Rooted
of Root
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Belly
The womb.
Primp
To be formal or affected in dress or manners; -- often with up.
Purfle
To decorate with a wrought or flowered border; to embroider; to ornament with metallic threads; as, to purfle with blue and white.
Flyer
One that uses wings.
Lily
A plant and flower of the genus Lilium, endogenous bulbous plants, having a regular perianth of six colored pieces, six stamens, and a superior three-celled ovary.
Title
The instrument which is evidence of a right.
Umpireship
Umpirage; arbitrament.
Whip
The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.
Crasis
A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Preen
A forked tool used by clothiers in dressing cloth.
Kisser
One who kisses.
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.
Flower
The fairest, freshest, and choicest part of anything; as, the flower of an army, or of a family; the state or time of freshness and bloom; as, the flower of life, that is, youth.
Skin
That part of a sail, when furled, which remains on the outside and covers the whole.
Hourly
Happening or done every hour; occurring hour by hour; frequent; often repeated; renewed hour by hour; continual.
Quit
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Web
The series of barbs implanted on each side of the shaft of a feather, whether stiff and united together by barbules, as in ordinary feathers, or soft and separate, as in downy feathers. See Feat..
Prank
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
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.
Dizen
To dress; to attire.
Pitchy
Partaking of the qualities of pitch; resembling pitch.
Bridal
Of or pertaining to a bride, or to wedding; nuptial; as, bridal ornaments; a bridal outfit; a bridal chamber.
Asset
Any article or separable part of one's assets.
Centennial
The celebration of the hundredth anniversary of any event; a centenary.
Inborn
Born in or with; implanted by nature; innate; as, inborn passions.
Monarchism
The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.
Chapel
A subordinate place of worship
Druid
One of an order of priests which in ancient times existed among certain branches of the Celtic race, especially among the Gauls and Britons.
Coeval
Of the same age; existing during the same period of time, especially time long and remote; -- usually followed by with.
Pill
The peel or skin.
Ament
A species of inflorescence; a catkin.
Truly
In a true manner; according to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to state things truly; the facts are truly represented.
Aoudad
An African sheeplike quadruped (the Ammotragus tragelaphus) having a long mane on the breast and fore legs. It is, perhaps, the chamois of the Old Testament.
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 ..
Fibre
Sinew; strength; toughness; as, a man of real fiber.
Cliche
A stereotype plate or any similar reproduction of ornament, or lettering, in relief.
Goods
See Good, n., 3.
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.
Duffel
A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
Agreed
of Agree
Fain
Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
Deity
The collection of attributes which make up the nature of a god; divinity; godhead; as, the deity of the Supreme Being is seen in his works.
Docile
Teachable; easy to teach; docible.
Minded
of Mind
Plight
To promise; to engage; to betroth.
Bonus
A premium given for a loan, or for a charter or other privilege granted to a company; as the bank paid a bonus for its charter.
Quiddity
The essence, nature, or distinctive peculiarity, of a thing; that which answers the question, Quid est? or, What is it?
Referential
Containing a reference; pointing to something out of itself; as, notes for referential use.
Regime
Mode or system of rule or management; character of government, or of the prevailing social system.
Crassamentum
A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.
Grume
A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood.
Security
Freedom from risk; safety.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Moodiness
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Studded
of Stud
Sash
A scarf or band worn about the waist, over the shoulder, or otherwise; a belt; a girdle, -- worn by women and children as an ornament; also worn as a badge of distinction by military officers, ..
Penance
Repentance.
Confirmation
The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Stiff
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Clabber
Milk curdled so as to become thick.
Burgoo
A kind of oatmeal pudding, or thick gruel, used by seamen.
Propitiate
To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Germinal
Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
Parturient
Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.
Fetal
Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Stamina
of Stamen
Primeval
Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
Hardiness
Capability of endurance.
Indemnify
To save harmless; to secure against loss or damage; to insure.
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.
Eucharist
The act of giving thanks; thanksgiving.
Loaf
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
Decorated
of Decorate
Congruence
Suitableness of one thing to another; agreement; consistency.
Regularity
The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
Metaphor
The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
Openly
In an open manner; publicly; not in private; without secrecy.
Reshape
To shape again.
Parallelism
The quality or state of being parallel.
Resemblance
The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity.
Toughness
The quality or state of being tough.
Edit
To superintend the publication of; to revise and prepare for publication; to select, correct, arrange, etc., the matter of, for publication; as, to edit a newspaper.
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, ..
Subjoin
To add after something else has been said or written; to ANNEX; as, to subjoin an argument or reason.
Scurvy
Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
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.
Lamentation
The act of bewailing; audible expression of sorrow; wailing; moaning.
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.
Corpse
A human body in general, whether living or dead; -- sometimes contemptuously.
Passivity
Passiveness; -- opposed to activity.
Ointment
That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.
Artistic
Alt. of Artistical
Cursing
of Curse
Wholeness
The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
Lamenting
of Lament
Mourning
of Mourn
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Emblem
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Wailing
of Wail
Embargo
An edict or order of the government prohibiting the departure of ships of commerce from some or all of the ports within its dominions; a prohibition to sail.
Scripture
Anything written; a writing; a document; an inscription.
Septuagint
A Greek version of the Old Testament; -- so called because it was believed to be the work of seventy (or rather of seventy-two) translators.
Bible
A book.
Ordinance
Orderly arrangement; preparation; provision.
Douay Bible
A translation of the Scriptures into the English language for the use of English-speaking Roman Catholics; -- done from the Latin Vulgate by English scholars resident in France. The New Testa..
Incarnate
Not in the flesh; spiritual.
Abominable
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Tribulation
That which occasions distress, trouble, or vexation; severe affliction.
Chrismal
Of or pertaining to or used in chrism.
Querulous
Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
Agnus Dei
A figure of a lamb bearing a cross or flag.
Chalice
A cup or bowl; especially, the cup used in the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.
Pax
The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
Embellished
of Embellish
Testament
A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his will as to disposal of his estate and effects after his death.
Ornamental
Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing.
Snappish
Apt to snap at persons or things; eager to bite; as, a snapping cur.
Difficulties
of Difficulty
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..
Aesthetic
Alt. of Aesthetical
Pizzicato
A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)
Foul
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Tetradynamous
Belonging to the order Tetradynamia; having six stamens, four of which are uniformly longer than the others.
Pullback
That which holds back, or causes to recede; a drawback; a hindrance.
Congenital
Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.
Lobbyist
A member of the lobby; a person who solicits members of a legislature for the purpose of influencing legislation.
Stillborn
Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
Dolorous
Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
Lobby
A passage or hall of communication, especially when large enough to serve also as a waiting room. It differs from an antechamber in that a lobby communicates between several rooms, an antechambe..
Principia
First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
Affecting
of Affect
Euchology
A formulary of prayers; the book of offices in the Greek Church, containing the liturgy, sacraments, and forms of prayers.
Poignant
Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent.
Preparatory
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.
Disposal
The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Ticklish
Sensible to slight touches; easily tickled; as, the sole of the foot is very ticklish; the hardened palm of the hand is not ticklish.
Liturgical
Pertaining to, of or the nature of, a liturgy; of or pertaining to public prayer and worship.
Bureaucratic
Alt. of Bureaucratical
Parliamentarian
Of or pertaining to Parliament.
Aristocratic
Alt. of Aristocratical
Ritualistic
Pertaining to, or in accordance with, a ritual; adhering to ritualism.
Liturgic
Alt. of Liturgical
Solicitude
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Proprieties
of Propriety
Amen
An expression used at the end of prayers, and meaning, So be it. At the end of a creed, it is a solemn asseveration of belief. When it introduces a declaration, it is equivalent to truly, ver..
Tessera
A small piece of marble, glass, earthenware, or the like, having a square, or nearly square, face, used by the ancients for mosaic, as for making pavements, for ornamenting walls, and like pu..
Flaminical
Pertaining to a flamen.
Initial
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
Mummy
A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.
Propensity
The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.
Reimbursement
The act reimbursing.
Chancery
In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery..
Formalities
of Formality
Politeness
High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.
Courtliness
The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
Fretwork
Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of light and shade, dark and light, or the like.
Countersign
To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
Oblation
The act of offering, or of making an offering.
Unction
The act of anointing, smearing, or rubbing with an unguent, oil, or ointment, especially for medical purposes, or as a symbol of consecration; as, mercurial unction.
Tourney
A tournament.
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.
Sculpture
The art of carving, cutting, or hewing wood, stone, metal, etc., into statues, ornaments, etc., or into figures, as of men, or other things; hence, the art of producing figures and groups, wh..
Borough
In England, an incorporated town that is not a city; also, a town that sends members to parliament; in Scotland, a body corporate, consisting of the inhabitants of a certain district, erected by..
Inbred
Bred within; innate; as, inbred worth.
Organic
Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters ..
Born
Having from birth a certain character; by or from birth; by nature; innate; as, a born liar.
Joust
To engage in mock combat on horseback, as two knights in the lists; to tilt.
Inky
Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black.
Hone
To pine; to lament; to long.
Grit
Sand or gravel; rough, hard particles.
Gin
Against; near by; towards; as, gin night.
Epidermis
The outer, nonsensitive layer of the skin; cuticle; scarfskin. See Dermis.
Enchase
To incase or inclose in a border or rim; to surround with an ornamental casing, as a gem with gold; to encircle; to inclose; to adorn.
Demobilization
The disorganization or disarming of troops which have previously been mobilized or called into active service; the change from a war footing to a peace footing.
Cruet
A bottle or vessel; esp., a vial or small glass bottle for holding vinegar, oil, pepper, or the like, for the table; a caster.
Bauble
A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Eugenics
The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.
Mend
To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as..
Gently
In a gentle manner.
Softly
In a soft manner.
Overload
To load or fill to excess; to load too heavily.
Petulance
Alt. of Petulancy
Rosette
An imitation of a rose by means of ribbon or other material, -- used as an ornament or a badge.
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.
Meed
That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
Offering
of Offer
Horrid
Rough; rugged; bristling.
Despicable
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Horrible
Exciting, or tending to excite, horror or fear; dreadful; terrible; shocking; hideous; as, a horrible sight; a horrible story; a horrible murder.
Addendum
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Substantially
In a substantial manner; in substance; essentially.
Holystone
A stone used by seamen for scrubbing the decks of ships.
Inlay
To lay within; hence, to insert, as pieces of pearl, iviry, choice woods, or the like, in a groundwork of some other material; to form an ornamental surface; to diversify or adorn with insert..
Demeanor
Management; treatment; conduct.
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.
Rider
One who, or that which, rides.
Face
The width of a pulley, or the length of a cog from end to end; as, a pulley or cog wheel of ten inches face.
Incumbency
The state of being incumbent; a lying or resting on something.
Rudiment
That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
Seat
The place occupied by anything, or where any person or thing is situated, resides, or abides; a site; an abode, a station; a post; a situation.
Bristle
A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
Transfigure
To change the outward form or appearance of; to metamorphose; to transform.
Remuneration
The act of remunerating.
Mood
Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Salvage
The act of saving a vessel, goods, or life, from perils of the sea.
Landmark
A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territor..
Milestone
A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
Recovery
The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.
Disabuse
To set free from mistakes; to undeceive; to disengage from fallacy or deception; to set right.
Enlighten
To make clear to the intellect or conscience; to shed the light of truth and knowledge upon; to furnish with increase of knowledge; to instruct; as, to enlighten the mind or understanding.
Practically
In a practical way; not theoretically; really; as, to look at things practically; practically worthless.
Nub
A jag, or snag; a knob; a protuberance; also, the point or gist, as of a story.
Procreative
Having the power to beget; generative.
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..
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.
Stark
Stiff; rigid.
Primordial
First in order; primary; original; of earliest origin; as, primordial condition.
Autochthonous
Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
Rudimentary
Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Dreadfully
In a dreadful manner; terribly.
Basal
Relating to, or forming, the base.
Feudalism
The feudal system; a system by which the holding of estates in land is made dependent upon an obligation to render military service to the kind or feudal superior; feudal principles and usages.
Inexcusably
With a degree of guilt or folly beyond excuse or justification.
Unsophisticated
Not sophisticated; pure; innocent; genuine.
Pristine
Belonging to the earliest period or state; original; primitive; primeval; as, the pristine state of innocence; the pristine manners of a people; pristine vigor.
Textual
Of, pertaining to, or contained in, the text; as, textual criticism; a textual reading.
Recrudescence
Alt. of Recrudescency
Regeneration
The act of regenerating, or the state of being regenerated.
Garnishment
Ornament; embellishment; decoration.
Blatantly
In a blatant manner.
Ductility
The property of a metal which allows it to be drawn into wires or filaments.
Floriated
Having floral ornaments; as, floriated capitals of Gothic pillars.
Imperilment
The act of imperiling, or the state of being imperiled.
Caprice
An abrupt change in feeling, opinion, or action, proceeding from some whim or fancy; a freak; a notion.
Ra
A roe; a deer.
Mettle
Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
Strictness
Quality or state of being strict.
Apostolic
Alt. of Apostolical
Advancement
The act of advancing, or the state of being advanced; progression; improvement; furtherance; promotion to a higher place or dignity; as, the advancement of learning.
Preference
The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; ..
Enrichment
The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
Prophetic
Alt. of Prophetical
Amelioration
The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
Cretin
One afflicted with cretinism.
Preferment
The act of choosing, or the state of being chosen; preference.
Extravagantly
In an extravagant manner; wildly; excessively; profusely.
Idiot
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person, as distinguished from the educated; an ignoramus.
Indefinitely
In an indefinite manner or degree; without any settled limitation; vaguely; not with certainty or exactness; as, to use a word indefinitely.
Threat
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
Tensility
The quality or state of being tensile, or capable of extension; tensibility; as, the tensility of the muscles.
Menace
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Jeopardy
Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger.
Predisposition
The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as, a predisposition to anger.
Plasticity
The quality or state of being plastic.
Solidity
The state or quality of being solid; density; consistency, -- opposed to fluidity; compactness; fullness of matter, -- opposed to openness or hollowness; strength; soundness, -- opposed to we..
Peril
Danger; risk; hazard; jeopardy; exposure of person or property to injury, loss, or destruction.
Risk
Hazard; danger; peril; exposure to loss, injury, or destruction.
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.
Infinitely
Without bounds or limits; beyond or below assignable limits; as, an infinitely large or infinitely small quantity.
Flagrantly
In a flagrant manner.
Bitterly
In a bitter manner.
Horribly
In a manner to excite horror; dreadfully; terribly.
Miserably
In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.
Mellowness
Quality or state of being mellow.
Sorely
In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.
Perplexity
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.
Hardness
The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.
Cruelly
In a cruel manner.
Merely
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Perfectly
In a perfect manner or degree; in or to perfection; completely; wholly; throughly; faultlessly.
Frightfully
In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree.
Deathly
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
Improperly
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
Purely
In a pure manner (in any sense of the adjective).
Agonizingly
With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
Sotto voce
With a restrained voice or moderate force; in an undertone.
Gravamen
The grievance complained of; the substantial cause of the action; also, in general, the ground or essence of a complaint. Bouvier.
Generality
The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars.
Sadly
Wearily; heavily; firmly.
Legato
Connected; tied; -- a term used when successive tones are to be produced in a closely connected, smoothly gliding manner. It is often indicated by a tie, thus /, /, or /, /, written over or unde..
A cappella
In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.
Emend
To purge of faults; to make better; to correct; esp., to make corrections in (a literary work); to alter for the better by textual criticism, generally verbal.
Edify
To build; to construct.
Decrescendo
With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.
Foster
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relat..
Bequeath
To give or leave by will; to give by testament; -- said especially of personal property.
Amentia
Imbecility; total want of understanding.
Idiocy
The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Nautical
Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.
Cretinism
A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.
Jeweler
One who makes, or deals in, jewels, precious stones, and similar ornaments.
Monody
A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
Androecium
The stamens of a flower taken collectively.
Catkin
An ament; a species of inflorescence, consisting of a slender axis with many unisexual apetalous flowers along its sides, as in the willow and poplar, and (as to the staminate flowers) in the ..
Profanity
The quality or state of being profane; profaneness; irreverence; esp., the use of profane language; blasphemy.
Machinery
Machines, in general, or collectively.
Armament
A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.
Furnishing
of Furnish
Subvention
The act of coming under.
Receptacle
That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as a basket, a vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
Idiot
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.
Isis
The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, and as the gre..
Arboretum
A place in which a collection of rare trees and shrubs is cultivated for scientific or educational purposes.
Flier
One who flies or flees; a runaway; a fugitive.
Filth
Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.
Freighter
One who loads a ship, or one who charters and loads a ship.
Done
of Do
Immediacy
The relation of freedom from the interventionof a medium; immediateness.
Furtherance
The act of furthering or helping forward; promotion; advancement; progress.
Applique
Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
Quarterly
Containing, or consisting of, a fourth part; as, quarterly seasons.
Semimonthly
Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment.
Monthly
Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
Hansard
An official report of proceedings in the British Parliament; -- so called from the name of the publishers.
Annual
Of or pertaining to a year; returning every year; coming or happening once in the year; yearly.
Ashes
The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
Humility
The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own unworthiness through imperfection and sinful..
Insanity
The state of being insane; unsoundness or derangement of mind; madness; lunacy.
Imbecile
Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; esp., mentally wea; feeble-minded; as, hospitals for the imbecile and insane.
Clearing
The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house.
Disturbance
An interruption of a state of peace or quiet; derangement of the regular course of things; disquiet; disorder; as, a disturbance of religious exercises; a disturbance of the galvanic current...
Groundwork
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle.
Sill
The basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure; as, the sills of a house, of a bridge, of a loo..
Substructure
Same as Substruction.
Flooring
of Floor
Pavement
That with which anythingis paved; a floor or covering of solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative interior floor of til..
Answerable
Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable fo..
Solemnize
To perform with solemn or ritual ceremonies, or according to legal forms.
Dictatorial
Pertaining or suited to a dictator; absolute.
Political
Having, or conforming to, a settled system of administration.
Autonomous
Independent in government; having the right or power of self-government.
Strand
One of the twists, or strings, as of fibers, wires, etc., of which a rope is composed.
Democratic
Pertaining to democracy; favoring democracy, or constructed upon the principle of government by the people.
Despotic
Alt. of Despotical
Bossy
Ornamented with bosses; studded.
Governmental
Pertaining to government; made by government; as, governmental duties.
Sacrarium
A sort of family chapel in the houses of the Romans, devoted to a special divinity.
Complainer
One who complains or laments; one who finds fault; a murmurer.
Heteronomous
Subject to the law of another.
Gubernatorial
Pertaining to a governor, or to government.
Federalist
An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the ad..
Parliamentary
Of or pertaining to Parliament; as, parliamentary authority.
Matriarchal
Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.
Patriarchal
Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.
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 ..
Agony
Violent contest or striving.
Turret
A little tower, frequently a merely ornamental structure at one of the angles of a larger structure.
Woe
Grief; sorrow; misery; heavy calamity.
Illustrate
To make clear, bright, or luminous.
Examination
The act of examining, or state of being examined; a careful search, investigation, or inquiry; scrutiny by study or experiment.
Plaque
Any flat, thin piece of metal, clay, ivory, or the like, used for ornament, or for painting pictures upon, as a slab, plate, dish, or the like, hung upon a wall; also, a smaller decoration worn ..
Allusive
Figurative; symbolical.
Nudity
The quality or state of being nude; nakedness.
Bibliolatry
Book worship, esp. of the Bible; -- applied by Roman Catholic divines to the exaltation of the authority of the Bible over that of the pope or the church, and by Protestants to an excessive r..
Reed
Red.
Shaft
The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
Stiffness
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.
Petal
One of the leaves of the corolla, or the colored leaves of a flower. See Corolla, and Illust. of Flower.
God
Good.
Heartrending
Causing intense grief; overpowering with anguish; very distressing.
Pistil
An epistle.
Anther
That part of the stamen containing the pollen, or fertilizing dust, which, when mature, is emitted for the impregnation of the ovary.
Sameliness
Sameness, 2.
Stigma
A mark made with a burning iron; a brand.
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.
Gat
imp. of Get.
Piteous
Pious; devout.
Sheepish
Of or pertaining to sheep.
Investment
The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
Imbecility
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
Missile
Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
Spangled
of Spangle
Appointment
The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made.
Castaway
One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked.
Tragic
Alt. of Tragical
Refuse
To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant.
Rood
A representation in sculpture or in painting of the cross with Christ hanging on it.
Remunerate
To pay an equivalent to for any service, loss, expense, or other sacrifice; to recompense; to requite; as, to remunerate men for labor.
Singsong
Bad singing or poetry.
Crux
Anything that is very puzzling or difficult to explain.
Transform
To change the form of; to change in shape or appearance; to metamorphose; as, a caterpillar is ultimately transformed into a butterfly.
Budding
of Bud
Dilemma
An argument which presents an antagonist with two or more alternatives, but is equally conclusive against him, whichever alternative he chooses.
Plaint
Audible expression of sorrow; lamentation; complaint; hence, a mournful song; a lament.
Inconstant
Not constant; not stable or uniform; subject to change of character, appearance, opinion, inclination, or purpose, etc.; not firm; unsteady; fickle; changeable; variable; -- said of persons or ..
Compensatory
Serving for compensation; making amends.
Repay
To pay back; to refund; as, to repay money borrowed or advanced.
Undifferentiated
Not differentiated; specifically (Biol.), homogenous, or nearly so; -- said especially of young or embryonic tissues which have not yet undergone differentiation (see Differentiation, 3), tha..
Pathetic
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
Funest
Lamentable; doleful.
Law
In general, a rule of being or of conduct, established by an authority able to enforce its will; a controlling regulation; the mode or order according to which an agent or a power acts.
Intermezzo
An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede.
Reimburse
To replace in a treasury or purse, as an equivalent for what has been taken, lost, or expended; to refund; to pay back; to restore; as, to reimburse the expenses of a war.
Plasma
A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
Peevish
Habitually fretful; easily vexed or fretted; hard to please; apt to complain; querulous; petulant.
Howling
of Howl
Inspired
of Inspire
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..
Reparative
Repairing, or tending to repair.
Noisome
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Mush
Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
Puling
of Pule
Requite
To repay; in a good sense, to recompense; to return (an equivalent) in good; to reward; in a bad sense, to retaliate; to return (evil) for evil; to punish.
Fretful
Disposed to fret; ill-humored; peevish; angry; in a state of vexation; as, a fretful temper.
Crucial
Having the form of a cross; appertaining to a cross; cruciform; intersecting; as, crucial ligaments; a crucial incision.
Inanimate
To animate.
Pathos
That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth ..
Seminal
Pertaining to, containing, or consisting of, seed or semen; as, the seminal fluid.
Repulsive
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
Crystal
The material of quartz, in crystallization transparent or nearly so, and either colorless or slightly tinged with gray, or the like; -- called also rock crystal. Ornamental vessels are made of i..
Daily
Happening, or belonging to, each successive day; diurnal; as, daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Reprehensible
Worthy of reprehension; culpable; censurable; blamable.
Cerulean
Sky-colored; blue; azure.
Joyless
Not having joy; not causing joy; unenjoyable.
Uncomfortable
Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position.
Mutter
To utter words indistinctly or with a low voice and lips partly closed; esp., to utter indistinct complaints or angry expressions; to grumble; to growl.
Calamitous
Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable.
Injunction
The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
Unfortunate
Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business.
Retaliatory
Tending to, or involving, retaliation; retaliative; as retaliatory measures.
Cirrose
Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.
Sable
A carnivorous animal of the Weasel family (Mustela zibellina) native of the northern latitudes of Europe, Asia, and America, -- noted for its fine, soft, and valuable fur.
