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Oxygenation
The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.
String
The points made in a game.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Engagement
That which engages; engrossing occupation; employment of the attention; obligation by pledge, promise, or contract; an enterprise embarked in; as, his engagements prevented his acceptance of ..
Disaccommodate
To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
Bankrupt
A trader who becomes unable to pay his debts; an insolvent trader; popularly, any person who is unable to pay his debts; an insolvent person.
Predatory
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Dilapidate
To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Subordinate
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
Mass
A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ..
Downfall
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Quietly
In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Isatin
An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial ..
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.
Coercion
The act or process of coercing.
Extortionate
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
Nightcap
A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
Matronlike
Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
Discarded
of Discard
Classicist
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
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..
Permeated
of Permeate
Exundate
To overflow; to inundate.
Resolvent
Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
Referendum
A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
Paralyzed
of Paralyze
Disproved
of Disprove
Agitation
A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance of mind which shows itself by physical excitement; perturbation; as, to cause any one agitation.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Uncovered
of Uncover
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Emendatory
Pertaining to emendation; corrective.
Moistening
of Moisten
Fundamentally
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Seeker
One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
Antedated
of Antedate
Fabian
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Evening
of Even
Pretender
One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
Undaunted
Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Monopoly
The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anythi..
Disappointed
Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.
Decomposing
of Decompose
Statutory
Enacted by statute; depending on statute for its authority; as, a statutory provision.
Phonetics
The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Allowed
of Allow
Disreputable
Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, ..
Expense
A spending or consuming; disbursement; expenditure.
Accommodated
of Accommodate
Rejected
of Reject
Accommodating
of Accommodate
Conditioning
of Condition
Truculent
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Vanished
of Vanish
Chamberlain
An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
Inundated
of Inundate
Informed
of Inform
Importunate
Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity.
Entering
of Enter
Coeternal
Equally eternal.
Phonology
The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise ..
Hourglass
An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury ..
Fossilization
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Caudated
Having a tail; having a termination like a tail.
Cowardly
Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.
Displeased
of Displease
Aspirant
Aspiring.
Ragged
Rough; shaggy; rugged.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Delimitation
The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.
Self-control
Control of one's self; restraint exercised over one's self; self-command.
Depredator
One who plunders or pillages; a spoiler; a robber.
Squatting
of Squat
Alluvium
Deposits of earth, sand, gravel, and other transported matter, made by rivers, floods, or other causes, upon land not permanently submerged beneath the waters of lakes or seas.
Stricken
Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
Behindhand
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Sleazy
Wanting firmness of texture or substance; thin; flimsy; as, sleazy silk or muslin.
Oversupply
An excessive supply.
Entailed
of Entail
Capitulation
A reducing to heads or articles; a formal agreement.
Opium
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Compact
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
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.
Logging
The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
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.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Sober
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Dawn
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Housing
of House
Rape
Sexual connection with a woman without her consent. See Age of consent, under Consent, n.
Entitle
To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle a book "Commentaries;" to entitle a man "H..
Droit
A right; law in its aspect of the foundation of rights; also, in old law, the writ of right.
Lour
An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Formulary
Prescribed form or model; formula.
Volunteer
Of or pertaining to a volunteer or volunteers; consisting of volunteers; voluntary; as, volunteer companies; volunteer advice.
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Paid
Receiving pay; compensated; hired; as, a paid attorney.
Raid
A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
Soused
of Souse
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.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Verify
To confirm or establish the authenticity of by examination or competent evidence; to authenciate; as, to verify a written statement; to verify an account, a pleading, or the like.
Ravish
To have carnal knowledge of (a woman) by force, and against her consent; to rape.
Posting
The act of transferring an account, as from the journal to the ledger.
Spine
One of the rigid and undivided fin rays of a fish.
Raider
One who engages in a raid.
Adaptation
The result of adapting; an adapted form.
Hired
of Hire
Looter
A plunderer.
Flyer
One that uses wings.
Now
Existing at the present time; present.
Retire
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Force
To be of force, importance, or weight; to matter.
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Title
The instrument which is evidence of a right.
Pace
To develop, guide, or control the pace or paces of; to teach the pace; to break in.
Soggy
Filled with water; soft with moisture; sodden; soaked; wet; as, soggy land or timber.
Harpy
A fabulous winged monster, ravenous and filthy, having the face of a woman and the body of a vulture, with long claws, and the face pale with hunger. Some writers mention two, others three.
Office
The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the office.
Bolt
To refuse to support, as a nomination made by a party to which one has belonged or by a caucus in which one has taken part.
Sopor
Profound sleep from which a person can be roused only with difficulty.
Infest
Mischievous; hurtful; harassing.
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.
Pick
The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to a..
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Gout
A drop; a clot or coagulation.
Coccyx
The end of the vertebral column beyond the sacrum in man and tailless monkeys. It is composed of several vertebrae more or less consolidated.
Tremble
An involuntary shaking or quivering.
Foray
A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid.
Quit
Released from obligation, charge, penalty, etc.; free; clear; absolved; acquitted.
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Spur
A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side.
Nadir
That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.
Belied
of Belie
Berry
Any small fleshy fruit, as the strawberry, mulberry, huckleberry, etc.
Touter
One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office.
Swoon
To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
Banned
of Ban
Rid
imp. & p. p. of Ride, v. i.
Whet
The act of whetting.
Feud
A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereo..
Oxidate
To oxidize.
Combustion
The state of burning.
Cello
A contraction for Violoncello.
Pallid
Deficient in color; pale; wan; as, a pallid countenance; pallid blue.
Coma
A state of profound insensibility from which it is difficult or impossible to rouse a person. See Carus.
Panic
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Baring
of Bare
Fear
A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
Slowly
In a slow manner; moderately; not rapidly; not early; not rashly; not readly; tardly.
Purged
of Purge
Blaze
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
Avowed
of Avow
Denied
of Deny
Horned
Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn.
Quarter
A division of a town, city, or county; a particular district; a locality; as, the Latin quarter in Paris.
Owner
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Goods
See Good, n., 3.
Baths
of Bath
Assort
To separate and distribute into classes, as things of a like kind, nature, or quality, or which are suited to a like purpose; to classify; as, to assort goods. [Rarely applied to persons.]
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Cowed
of Cow
Hardening
That which hardens, as a material used for converting the surface of iron into steel.
Mayhem
The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.
Self-knowledge
Knowledge of one's self, or of one's own character, powers, limitations, etc.
Deter
To prevent by fear; hence, to hinder or prevent from action by fear of consequences, or difficulty, risk, etc.
Misdated
of Misdate
Overdue
Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.
Quoin
Originally, a solid exterior angle, as of a building; now, commonly, one of the selected pieces of material by which the corner is marked.
Narcotized
of Narcotize
Toe
One of the terminal members, or digits, of the foot of a man or an animal.
Incapacitated
of Incapacitate
Retroaction
Action returned, or action backward.
Early
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early.
Beforehand
In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
Pace
A broad step or platform; any part of a floor slightly raised above the rest, as around an altar, or at the upper end of a hall.
Lupine
A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times. The common species of the Eastern United States is L. perennis. There..
Amalgamation
The act or operation of compounding mercury with another metal; -- applied particularly to the process of separating gold and silver from their ores by mixing them with mercury.
Hypothesis
A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assu..
Comradeship
The state of being a comrade; intimate fellowship.
Emendator
One who emends or critically edits.
Acclimate
To habituate to a climate not native; to acclimatize.
Confirmation
The act of confirming or strengthening; the act of establishing, ratifying, or sanctioning; as, the confirmation of an appointment.
Already
Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously.
Peopling
of People
Reunite
To unite again; to join after separation or variance.
Germinal
Pertaining or belonging to a germ; as, the germinal vesicle.
Parturient
Bringing forth, or about to bring forth, young; fruitful.
Incommodated
of Incommodate
Lodge
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
Fetal
Pertaining to, or connected with, a fetus; as, fetal circulation; fetal membranes.
Population
The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Graduation
The act of graduating, or the state of being graduated; as, graduation of a scale; graduation at a college; graduation in color; graduation by evaporation; the graduation of a bird's tail, etc.
Primeval
Belonging to the first ages; pristine; original; primitive; primary; as, the primeval innocence of man.
Chicanery
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
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 ..
Subscription
Consent or attestation by underwriting the name.
Remit
To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits.
Shear
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Smallness
The quality or state of being small.
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.
Abjection
The act of bringing down or humbling.
Squalor
Squalidness; foulness; filthness; squalidity.
Depravation
Detraction; depreciation.
Reshape
To shape again.
Minutiae
of Minutia
Shorten
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
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.
Slay
To put to death with a weapon, or by violence; hence, to kill; to put an end to; to destroy.
Depravity
The state of being depraved or corrupted; a vitiated state of moral character; general badness of character; wickedness of mind or heart; absence of religious feeling and principle.
Denounce
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Suitor
One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant.
Devotee
One who is wholly devoted; esp., one given wholly to religion; one who is superstitiously given to religious duties and ceremonies; a bigot.
Candidate
One who offers himself, or is put forward by others, as a suitable person or an aspirant or contestant for an office, privilege, or honor; as, a candidate for the office of governor; a candid..
Tavern
A public house where travelers and other transient guests are accomodated with rooms and meals; an inn; a hotel; especially, in modern times, a public house licensed to sell liquor in small q..
Mediate
Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
Contribute
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute f..
Federate
United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Stupor
Great diminution or suspension of sensibility; suppression of sense or feeling; lethargy.
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.
Petrified
of Petrify
Myrrh
A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from th..
Protesting
of Protest
Retardative
Tending, or serving, to retard.
Objecting
of Object
Obstructive
Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Ravishment
The act of carrying away by force or against consent; abduction; as, the ravishment of children from their parents, of a ward from his guardian, or of a wife from her husband.
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.
Sprinkling
of Sprinkle
Congest
To collect or gather into a mass or aggregate; to bring together; to accumulate.
Ungracious
Not gracious; showing no grace or kindness; being without good will; unfeeling.
Discontinued
of Discontinue
Renounced
of Renounce
Divest
To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.
Inroad
The entrance of an enemy into a country with purposes of hostility; a sudden or desultory incursion or invasion; raid; encroachment.
Brag
To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boast; -- often followed by of; as, to brag of ..
Branched
of Branch
Dutiful
Performing, or ready to perform, the duties required by one who has the right to claim submission, obedience, or deference; submissive to natural or legal superiors; obedient, as to parents or ..
Sudatory
Sweating; perspiring.
Fossilize
To convert into a fossil; to petrify; as, to fossilize bones or wood.
Bicuspid
Alt. of Bicuspidate
Obligatory
Binding in law or conscience; imposing duty or obligation; requiring performance or forbearance of some act; -- often followed by on or upon; as, obedience is obligatory on a soldier.
Anthology
A discourse on flowers.
Required
of Require
Compulsory
Having the power of compulsion; constraining.
Inevitable
Not evitable; incapable of being shunned; unavoidable; certain.
Disprove
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Treasurer
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and ..
Perish
To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.
Sink
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Querulous
Given to quarreling; quarrelsome.
Uncrown
To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone.
Behest
That which is willed or ordered; a command; a mandate; an injunction.
Camphor
A tough, white, aromatic resin, or gum, obtained from different species of the Laurus family, esp. from Cinnamomum camphara (the Laurus camphara of Linnaeus.). Camphor, C10H16O, is volatile and ..
Commanding
Exercising authority; actually in command; as, a commanding officer.
Menhir
A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
Synthesize
To combine by synthesis; to unite.
Legalize
To make legal.
Professed
of Profess
Swelter
To oppress with heat.
Expired
of Expire
Funky
Pertaining to, or characterized by, great fear, or funking.
Repellent
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Antiquated
Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law.
Forgotten
of Forget
Eternity
Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
Passed
of Pass
Confessed
of Confess
Congenital
Existing at, or dating from, birth; pertaining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutional; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.
Proprietor
One who has the legal right or exclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.
Terrorism
The act of terrorizing, or state of being terrorized; a mode of government by terror or intimidation.
Human
Belonging to man or mankind; having the qualities or attributes of a man; of or pertaining to man or to the race of man; as, a human voice; human shape; human nature; human sacrifices.
You
The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
Approbatory
Containing or expressing approbation; commendatory.
Demulcent
Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent.
Lenitive
Having the quality of softening or mitigating, as pain or acrimony; assuasive; emollient.
Deification
The act of deifying; exaltation to divine honors; apotheosis; excessive praise.
Legislate
To make or enact a law or laws.
Duck
To thrust or plunge under water or other liquid and suddenly withdraw.
Assuasive
Mitigating; tranquilizing; soothing.
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.
Accolade
A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword.
Laudatory
Of or pertaining praise, or to the expression of praise; as, laudatory verses; the laudatory powers of Dryden.
Laudation
The act of lauding; praise; high commendation.
Encomium
Warm or high praise; panegyric; strong commendation.
Prescribed
of Prescribe
Flattery
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise.
Panegyric
An oration or eulogy in praise of some person or achievement; a formal or elaborate encomium; a laudatory discourse; laudation. See Synonym of Eulogy.
Congratulation
The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure.
Hampering
of Hamper
After
Next; later in time; subsequent; succeeding; as, an after period of life.
Magnification
The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Deepening
of Deepen
Subsequent
Following in time; coming or being after something else at any time, indefinitely; as, subsequent events; subsequent ages or years; a period long subsequent to the foundation of Rome.
Shown
of Show
Established
of Establish
Tightening
of Tighten
Valid
Strong; powerful; efficient.
Riddance
The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
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.
Trustee
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of ..
Atomization
The act of reducing to atoms, or very minute particles; or the state of being so reduced.
Severance
The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation.
Antecedent
The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the antecedent of who.
Gastritis
Inflammation of the stomach, esp. of its mucuos membrane.
Colitis
An inflammation of the large intestine, esp. of its mucous membrane; colonitis.
Peritonitis
Inflammation of the peritoneum.
Bunion
Same as Bunyon.
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Meningitis
Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Dissenting
of Dissent
Nodding
Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
Queenly
Like, becoming, or suitable to, a queen.
Enjoin
To lay upon, as an order or command; to give an injunction to; to direct with authority; to order; to charge.
Aristocratic
Alt. of Aristocratical
Stately
Evincing state or dignity; lofty; majestic; grand; as, statelymanners; a stately gait.
Grimly
Grim; hideous; stern.
Tabulation
The act of forming into a table or tables; as, the tabulation of statistics.
Solicitude
The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire good; anxiety.
Mossback
A veteran partisan; one who is so conservative in opinion that he may be likened to a stone or old tree covered with moss.
Spider
Any one of numerous species of arachnids comprising the order Araneina. Spiders have the mandibles converted into poison fangs, or falcers. The abdomen is large and not segmented, with two or th..
Initial
Of or pertaining to the beginning; marking the commencement; incipient; commencing; as, the initial symptoms of a disease.
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; ..
Sleepy
Drowsy; inclined to, or overcome by, sleep.
Degrading
of Degrade
Vitiation
The act of vitiating, or the state of being vitiated; depravation; corruption; invalidation; as, the vitiation of the blood; the vitiation of a contract.
Thwarting
of Thwart
Lordliness
The state or quality of being lordly.
Courtliness
The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
Seduction
The act of seducing; enticement to wrong doing; specifically, the offense of inducing a woman to consent to unlawful sexual intercourse, by enticements which overcome her scruples; the wrong ..
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.
Whelm
To cover with water or other fluid; to cover by immersion in something that envelops on all sides; to overwhelm; to ingulf.
Waterflood
A flood of water; an inundation.
Vomition
The act or power of vomiting.
Ventilate
To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a mine.
Vapor
Any substance in the gaseous, or aeriform, state, the condition of which is ordinarily that of a liquid or solid.
Unfrock
To deprive or divest or a frock; specifically, to deprive of priestly character or privilege; as, to unfrock a priest.
Blazing
of Blaze
Transude
To pass, as perspirable matter does, through the pores or interstices of textures; as, liquor may transude through leather or wood.
Swath
A line of grass or grain cut and thrown together by the scythe in mowing or cradling.
Shudder
To tremble or shake with fear, horrer, or aversion; to shiver with cold; to quake.
County
An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.
Sultanate
The rule or dominion of a sultan; sultanship.
Commonweal
Commonwealth.
Chieftaincy
Alt. of Chieftainship
Protectorate
Government by a protector; -- applied especially to the government of England by Oliver Cromwell.
Mandatory
Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Kingdom
The rank, quality, state, or attributes of a king; royal authority; sovereign power; rule; dominion; monarchy.
Republic
Common weal.
Dukedom
The territory of a duke.
Province
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
Allegorize
To form or turn into allegory; as, to allegorize the history of a people.
Rodomontade
Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant.
Remittance
The act of transmitting money, bills, or the like, esp. to a distant place, as in satisfaction of a demand, or in discharge of an obligation.
Reflux
Returning, or flowing back; reflex; as, reflux action.
Fermentation
A state of agitation or excitement, as of the intellect or the feelings.
Paying
of Pay
Overmaster
To overpower; to subdue; to vanquish; to govern.
Oust
See Oast.
Chronology
The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates.
Limpet
In a general sense, any hatshaped, or conical, gastropod shell.
Landslide
The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Inundation
The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds.
Henpeck
To subject to petty authority; -- said of a wife who thus treats her husband. Commonly used in the past participle (often adjectively).
Frighten
To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
Emission
The act of sending or throwing out; the act of sending forth or putting into circulation; issue; as, the emission of light from the sun; the emission of heat from a fire; the emission of bank ..
Ejaculation
The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight.
Disenthrone
To dethrone; to depose from sovereign authority.
Disbar
To expel from the bar, or the legal profession; to deprive (an attorney, barrister, or counselor) of his status and privileges as such.
Deposal
The act of deposing from office; a removal from the throne.
Commencement
The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.
Bury
A borough; a manor; as, the Bury of St. Edmond's
Breakage
The act of breaking; a break; a breaking; also, articles broken.
Amortize
To make as if dead; to destroy.
Accelerate
To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
Merged
of Merge
Puckered
of Pucker
Conjoint
United; connected; associated.
Consolidated
of Consolidate
Solidified
of Solidify
Knitted
of Knit
Strangled
of Strangle
Offered
of Offer
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.
Tremolo
The rapid reiteration of tones without any apparent cessation, so as to produce a tremulous effect.
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.
Coact
To force; to compel; to drive.
Almanac
A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, ..
Viola
A genus of polypetalous herbaceous plants, including all kinds of violets.
Overset
of Overset
Altitude
Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a m..
Disuse
To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of.
Blended
of Blend
Shrimp
To contract; to shrink.
Impanelment
The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
Recession
The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand.
Trombone
A powerful brass instrument of the trumpet kind, thought by some to be the ancient sackbut, consisting of a tube in three parts, bent twice upon itself and ending in a bell. The middle part, ben..
Superabundance
The quality or state of being superabundant; a superabundant quantity; redundancy; excess.
Oboe
One of the higher wind instruments in the modern orchestra, yet of great antiquity, having a penetrating pastoral quality of tone, somewhat like the clarinet in form, but more slender, and sound..
Ovation
A lesser kind of triumph allowed to a commander for an easy, bloodless victory, or a victory over slaves.
Triple
Consisting of three united; multiplied by three; threefold; as, a triple knot; a triple tie.
Clarinet
A wind instrument, blown by a single reed, of richer and fuller tone than the oboe, which has a double reed. It is the leading instrument in a military band.
Bravado
Boastful and threatening behavior; a boastful menace.
Undermine
To excavate the earth beneath, or the part of, especially for the purpose of causing to fall or be overthrown; to form a mine under; to sap; as, to undermine a wall.
Deteriorate
To make worse; to make inferior in quality or value; to impair; as, to deteriorate the mind.
Mobilization
The act of mobilizing.
Constriction
The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.
Clarion
A kind of trumpet, whose note is clear and shrill.
Sharpen
To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw.
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.
Impediment
That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect.
Vertebrate
One of the Vertebrata.
Occupancy
The act of taking or holding possession; possession; occupation.
Fanfaronade
A swaggering; vain boasting; ostentation; a bluster.
Substruction
Underbuilding; the foundation, or any preliminary structure intended to raise the lower floor or basement of a building above the natural level of the ground.
Closing
of Close
Ridicule
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an o..
Settee
A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once.
Rudiment
That which is unformed or undeveloped; the principle which lies at the bottom of any development; an unfinished beginning.
Roister
To bluster; to swagger; to bully; to be bold, noisy, vaunting, or turbulent.
Remember
To have ( a notion or idea) come into the mind again, as previously perceived, known, or felt; to have a renewed apprehension of; to bring to mind again; to think of again; to recollect; as, I ..
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.
Morphine
A bitter white crystalline alkaloid found in opium, possessing strong narcotic properties, and much used as an anodyne; -- called also morphia, and morphina.
Converge
To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge.
Submerged
of Submerge
Stripped
of Strip
Fust
A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
Rodeo
A round-up. See Round-up.
Simplify
To make simple; to make less complex; to make clear by giving the explanation for; to show an easier or shorter process for doing or making.
Sleeper
One who sleeps; a slumberer; hence, a drone, or lazy person.
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.
Unseat
To throw from one's seat; to deprive of a seat.
Proposal
That which is proposed, or propounded for consideration or acceptance; a scheme or design; terms or conditions proposed; offer; as, to make proposals for a treaty of peace; to offer proposals fo..
Procreative
Having the power to beget; generative.
Overturn
To subvert; to destroy; to overthrow.
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.
Autochthonous
Aboriginal; indigenous; native.
Rudimentary
Of or pertaining to rudiments; consisting in first principles; elementary; initial; as, rudimental essays.
Basal
Relating to, or forming, the base.
Holiday
A consecrated day; religious anniversary; a day set apart in honor of some person, or in commemoration of some event. See Holyday.
Aquarium
An artificial pond, or a globe or tank (usually with glass sides), in which living specimens of aquatic animals or plants are kept.
Collectanea
Passages selected from various authors, usually for purposes of instruction; miscellany; anthology.
Menagerie
A piace where animals are kept and trained.
Compilation
The act or process of compiling or gathering together from various sources.
Museum
A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Pointer
One who, or that which, points.
Logging
of Log
Matriculation
The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.
Booking
of Book
Monition
Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Insemination
A sowing.
Planning
of Plan
Enrollment
The act of enrolling; registration.
Strangling
of Strangle
Abrogation
The act of abrogating; repeal by authority.
Strictness
Quality or state of being strict.
Selection
The act of selecting, or the state of being selected; choice, by preference.
Boron
A nonmetallic element occurring abundantly in borax. It is reduced with difficulty to the free state, when it can be obtained in several different forms; viz., as a substance of a deep olive col..
Enrichment
The act of making rich, or that which enriches; increase of value by improvements, embellishment, etc.; decoration; embellishment.
Amelioration
The act of ameliorating, or the state of being ameliorated; making or becoming better; improvement; melioration.
Fluke
The European flounder. See Flounder.
Harmonization
The act of harmonizing.
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.
Reconciliation
The act of reconciling, or the state of being reconciled; reconcilenment; restoration to harmony; renewal of friendship.
Menace
The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Palliative
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate.
Grandly
In a grand manner.
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.
Trusteeship
The office or duty of a trustee.
Enlistment
The act or enlisting, or the state of being enlisted; voluntary enrollment to serve as a soldier or a sailor.
Prostitution
The act or practice of prostituting or offering the body to an indiscriminate intercourse with men; common lewdness of a woman.
Modernism
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
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.
Moderation
The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
Errand
A special business intrusted to a messenger; something to be told or done by one sent somewhere for the purpose; often, a verbal message; a commission; as, the servant was sent on an errand; to ..
Revocation
The act of calling back, or the state of being recalled; recall.
Littleness
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.
Staidly
In a staid manner, sedately.
Soberly
In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
Entropy
A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remains constant, but when heat enters or leaves the body the quan..
Loftily
In a lofty manner or position; haughtily.
Solemnly
In a solemn manner; with gravity; seriously; formally.
Egest
To cast or throw out; to void, as excrement; to excrete, as the indigestible matter of the food; in an extended sense, to excrete by the lungs, skin, or kidneys.
Transpire
To pass off in the form of vapor or insensible perspiration; to exhale.
Bo
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
Gravely
In a grave manner.
Excrete
To separate and throw off; to excrete urine.
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