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Inculpate
To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.
Disaffection
State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
String
The points made in a game.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
Gnomon
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
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.
Disloyal
Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a subject disloyal to the king; a husband disloya..
Encrust
To incrust. See Incrust.
Tontine
An annuity, with the benefit of survivorship, or a loan raised on life annuities with the benefit of survivorship. Thus, an annuity is shared among a number, on the principle that the share of ..
Tricennial
Of or pertaining to thirty years; consisting of thirty years; occurring once in every thirty years.
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 ..
Outrider
A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
Mortgagee
The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
Distinguishable
Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
Figurine
A very small figure, whether human or of an animal; especially, one in terra cotta or the like; -- distinguished from statuette, which is applied to small figures in bronze, marble, etc.
Isatin
An orange-red crystalline substance, C8H5NO2, obtained by the oxidation of indigo blue. It is also produced from certain derivatives of benzoic acid, and is one important source of artificial ..
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
It
As an indefinite object after some intransitive verbs, or after a substantive used humorously as a verb; as, to foot it (i. e., to walk).
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..
Configure
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
Contentment
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Lithotrity
The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
Inexperience
Absence or want of experience; lack of personal and experimental knowledge; as, the inexperience of youth.
Calumet
A kind of pipe, used by the North American Indians for smoking tobacco. The bowl is usually made of soft red stone, and the tube is a long reed often ornamented with feathers.
Wallop
A thick piece of fat.
Aspirate
To pronounce with a breathing, an aspirate, or an h sound; as, we aspirate the words horse and house; to aspirate a vowel or a liquid consonant.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Estimate
To from an opinion of, as to amount,, number, etc., from imperfect data, comparison, or experience; to make an estimate of; to calculate roughly; to rate; as, to estimate the cost of a trip, the..
Pinna
A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
Letterpress
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Helminth
An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Glover
One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
Phylogeny
The history of genealogical development; the race history of an animal or vegetable type; the historic exolution of the phylon or tribe, in distinction from ontogeny, or the development of th..
Dote
An imbecile; a dotard.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Terpsichore
The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Recline
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
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.
Utopianism
The ideas, views, aims, etc., of a Utopian; impracticable schemes of human perfection; optimism.
Inutility
Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
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.
List
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
Copyhold
A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Archive
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Concerto
A composition (usually in symphonic form with three movements) in which one instrument (or two or three) stands out in bold relief against the orchestra, or accompaniment, so as to display its ..
Metamorphose
To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
Belly-god
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
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..
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 ..
Miscall
To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Light-footed
Having a light, springy step; nimble in running or dancing; active; as, light-foot Iris.
Populate
Populous.
Nonresident
A nonresident person; one who does not reside in the State or jurisdiction.
Cellaret
A receptacle, as in a dining room, for a few bottles of wine or liquor, made in the form of a chest or coffer, or a deep drawer in a sideboard, and usually lined with metal.
Litigation
The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
Endolymph
The watery fluid contained in the membranous labyrinth of the internal ear.
Absenteeism
The state or practice of an absentee; esp. the practice of absenting one's self from the country or district where one's estate is situated.
Atramentous
Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
Rhotacism
An oversounding, or a misuse, of the letter r; specifically (Phylol.), the tendency, exhibited in the Indo-European languages, to change s to r, as wese to were.
Cosine
The sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.
Armadillo
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad..
Capitulate
To settle or draw up the heads or terms of an agreement, as in chapters or articles; to agree.
Esemplastic
Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity.
Miscarry
To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
Distrust
To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistrust.
Disgust
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
Euphonical
Pertaining to, or exhibiting, euphony; agreeable in sound; pleasing to the ear; euphonious; as, a euphonic expression; euphonical orthography.
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.
Within
In the inner or interior part of; inside of; not without; as, within doors.
Monsoon
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from ..
Inwardly
In the inner parts; internally.
Hogback
An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.
Excepting
of Except
Ringmaster
One in charge of the performances (as of horses) within the ring in a circus.
Marriageable
Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable.
Coinstantaneous
Happening at the same instant.
Au fait
Expert; skillful; well instructed.
Foliage
To adorn with foliage or the imitation of foliage; to form into the representation of leaves.
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 ..
Dotard
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Animism
The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
Billingsgate
A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.
Euphemism
A figure in which a harts or indelicate word or expression is softened; a way of describing an offensive thing by an inoffensive expression; a mild name for something disagreeable.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Inebriate
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Explore
To seek for or after; to strive to attain by search; to look wisely and carefully for.
Bulbous
Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Dignify
To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Chilopoda
One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs convert..
Traverse
A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without t..
Squatting
of Squat
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Microorganism
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Bastardize
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Earnings
of Earning
Casuistry
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules a..
Ascertain
To render (a person) certain; to cause to feel certain; to make confident; to assure; to apprise.
Asterisk
The figure of a star, thus, /, used in printing and writing as a reference to a passage or note in the margin, to supply the omission of letters or words, or to mark a word or phrase as having ..
Stealth
The act of stealing; theft.
Hunch
To thrust out a hump or protuberance; to crook, as the back.
Cashmere
A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the goats of Cashmere, Thibet, and the Himalayas. Some cashmere, of fine quality, ..
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.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Turgid
Distended beyond the natural state by some internal agent or expansive force; swelled; swollen; bloated; inflated; tumid; -- especially applied to an enlarged part of the body; as, a turgid limb..
Electrotype
A facsimile plate made by electrotypy for use in printing; also, an impression or print from such plate. Also used adjectively.
Gutta-percha
A concrete juice produced by various trees found in the Malayan archipelago, especially by the Isonandra, / Dichopsis, Gutta. It becomes soft, and unpressible at the tamperature of boiling wa..
Tropic
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from atropine and certain other alkaloids, as a white crystalline substance slightly soluble in water.
Usury
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Pavan
A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
Resin
Any one of a class of yellowish brown solid inflammable substances, of vegetable origin, which are nonconductors of electricity, have a vitreous fracture, and are soluble in ether, alcohol, a..
Poppy
Any plant or species of the genus Papaver, herbs with showy polypetalous flowers and a milky juice. From one species (Papaver somniferum) opium is obtained, though all the species contain it to ..
Tapir
Any one of several species of large odd-toed ungulates belonging to Tapirus, Elasmognathus, and allied genera. They have a long prehensile upper lip, short ears, short and stout legs, a short, ..
Stoat
The ermine in its summer pelage, when it is reddish brown, but with a black tip to the tail. The name is sometimes applied also to other brown weasels.
Tulle
In plate armor, a suspended plate in from of the thigh. See Illust. of Tasses.
Peony
A plant, and its flower, of the ranunculaceous genus Paeonia. Of the four or five species, one is a shrub; the rest are perennial herbs with showy flowers, often double in cultivation.
Sprat
A small European herring (Clupea sprattus) closely allied to the common herring and the pilchard; -- called also garvie. The name is also applied to small herring of different kinds.
Opium
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Clime
A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Zebu
A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large dewlap, and a la..
Thaw
To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
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.
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.
Fief
An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Subreader
An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
Surtax
An additional or extra tax.
men
of Keelman
Eardrum
The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
Tum-tum
A dish made in the West Indies by beating boiled plantain quite soft in a wooden mortar.
Sojourn
To dwell for a time; to dwell or live in a place as a temporary resident or as a stranger, not considering the place as a permanent habitation; to delay; to tarry.
Pine
To inflict pain upon; to torment; to torture; to afflict.
Jesuitical
Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods.
Joist
A piece of timber laid horizontally, or nearly so, to which the planks of the floor, or the laths or furring strips of a ceiling, are nailed; -- called, according to its position or use, binding..
Otter
Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Th..
Lessee
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Dancer
One who dances or who practices dancing.
Siva
One of the triad of Hindoo gods. He is the avenger or destroyer, and in modern worship symbolizes the reproductive power of nature.
Lour
An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Beam
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
Kedge
To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Mall
A place where justice is administered.
Vishnu
A divinity of the modern Hindu trimurti, or trinity. He is regarded as the preserver, while Brahma is the creator, and Siva the destroyer of the creation.
Bowel
One of the intestines of an animal; an entrail, especially of man; a gut; -- generally used in the plural.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Rejoin
To join again; to unite after separation.
Egoism
The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provide..
Socinianism
The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total deprav..
Furze
A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
Esnecy
A prerogative given to the eldest coparcener to choose first after an inheritance is divided.
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.
Tuyere
A nozzle, mouthpiece, or fixture through which the blast is delivered to the interior of a blast furnace, or to the fire of a forge.
Palea
The interior chaff or husk of grasses.
Yama
The king of the infernal regions, corresponding to the Greek Pluto, and also the judge of departed souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormento..
Behight
To give in trust; to commit; to intrust.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Isobar
A line connecting or marking places upon the surface of the earth where height of the barometer reduced to sea level is the same either at a given time, or for a certain period (mean height), as..
Equity
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claim..
Proper
Pertaining to one of a species, but not common to the whole; not appellative; -- opposed to common; as, a proper name; Dublin is the proper name of a city.
Meatus
A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Monteith
A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
Savior
One who saves, preserves, or delivers from destruction or danger.
Curtail
The scroll termination of any architectural member, as of a step, etc.
Straddle
To stand with the ends staggered; -- said of the spokes of a wagon wheel where they join the hub.
Men
pl. of Man.
Poetry
The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
Vandal
One of a Teutonic race, formerly dwelling on the south shore of the Baltic, the most barbarous and fierce of the northern nations that plundered Rome in the 5th century, notorious for destroy..
Guile
Craft; deceitful cunning; artifice; duplicity; wile; deceit; treachery.
Contraband
Goods or merchandise the importation or exportation of which is forbidden.
React
To act or perform a second time; to do over again; as, to react a play; the same scenes were reacted at Rome.
F
The name of the fourth tone of the model scale, or scale of C. F sharp (F /) is a tone intermediate between F and G.
Fire
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
Consider
To think seriously; to make examination; to reflect; to deliberate.
Icicle
A pendent, and usually conical, mass of ice, formed by freezing of dripping water; as, the icicles on the eaves of a house.
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.
Meson
The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral ed..
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.
Shrub
A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.
Script
Type made in imitation of handwriting.
Sleet
The part of a mortar extending from the chamber to the trunnions.
Booby
A swimming bird (Sula fiber or S. sula) related to the common gannet, and found in the West Indies, nesting on the bare rocks. It is so called on account of its apparent stupidity. The name is a..
Revenue
The annual yield of taxes, excise, customs, duties, rents, etc., which a nation, state, or municipality collects and receives into the treasury for public use.
Tubulated
Made in the form of a small tube; provided with a tube, or elongated opening.
That
As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the ..
Avenge
To take vengeance for; to exact satisfaction for by punishing the injuring party; to vindicate by inflicting pain or evil on a wrongdoer.
Quay
A mole, bank, or wharf, formed toward the sea, or at the side of a harbor, river, or other navigable water, for convenience in loading and unloading vessels.
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Bast
The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
Salary
Saline
Epopt
One instructed in the mysteries of a secret system.
Hyperpyrexia
A condition of excessive fever; an elevation of temperature in a disease, in excess of the limit usually observed in that disease.
Cry
Loud expression of triumph or wonder or of popular acclamation or favor.
Crescent
The emblem of the increasing moon with horns directed upward, when used in a coat of arms; -- often used as a mark of cadency to distinguish a second son and his descendants.
Am
The first person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mode, present tense. See Be.
Waylay
To lie in wait for; to meet or encounter in the way; especially, to watch for the passing of, with a view to seize, rob, or slay; to beset in ambush.
His
Belonging or pertaining to him; -- used as a pronominal adjective or adjective pronoun; as, tell John his papers are ready; formerly used also for its, but this use is now obsolete.
Lector
A reader of lections; formerly, a person designated to read lessons to the illiterate.
Overdo
To do too much; to exceed what is proper or true in doing; to exaggerate; to carry too far.
Foist
A light and fast-sailing ship.
Cobalt
A tough, lustrous, reddish white metal of the iron group, not easily fusible, and somewhat magnetic. Atomic weight 59.1. Symbol Co.
Retina
The delicate membrane by which the back part of the globe of the eye is lined, and in which the fibers of the optic nerve terminate. See Eye.
Feel
To perceive by the mind; to have a sense of; to experience; to be affected by; to be sensible of, or sensetive to; as, to feel pleasure; to feel pain.
Joule
A unit of work which is equal to 107 units of work in the C. G. S. system of units (ergs), and is practically equivalent to the energy expended in one second by an electric current of one ampere..
Matte
A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according ..
Retire
To withdraw from a public station, or from business; as, having made a large fortune, he retired.
Scylla
A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was forme..
Mastic
A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.
Brad
A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied fin..
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.
Berber
A member of a race somewhat resembling the Arabs, but often classed as Hamitic, who were formerly the inhabitants of the whole of North Africa from the Mediterranean southward into the Sahara, a..
Homer
A carrier pigeon remarkable for its ability to return home from a distance.
Ovary
That part of the pistil which contains the seed, and in most flowering plants develops into the fruit. See Illust. of Flower.
Cyma
A member or molding of the cornice, the profile of which is wavelike in form.
Joss
A Chinese household divinity; a Chinese idol.
Title
The instrument which is evidence of a right.
Unless
Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it be not; were it not that; except; as, we shall fail unless we a..
Cisco
The Lake herring (Coregonus Artedi), valuable food fish of the Great Lakes of North America. The name is also applied to C. Hoyi, a related species of Lake Michigan.
Chacma
A large species of African baboon (Cynocephalus porcarius); -- called also ursine baboon. [See Illust. of Baboon.]
Bask
To lie in warmth; to be exposed to genial heat.
Cornea
The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
Lurk
To lie hid; to lie in wait.
Excel
To go beyond or surpass in good qualities or laudable deeds; to outdo or outgo, in a good sense.
Anticous
Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.
Redroot
A name of several plants having red roots, as the New Jersey tea (see under Tea), the gromwell, the bloodroot, and the Lachnanthes tinctoria, an endogenous plant found in sandy swamps from Rh..
Olympiad
A period of four years, by which the ancient Greeks reckoned time, being the interval from one celebration of the Olympic games to another, beginning with the victory of Cor/bus in the foot r..
Flake
To separate in flakes; to peel or scale off.
Sneak
To creep or steal (away or about) privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company.
Saphenous
Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the saphenous veins; as, the saphenous nerves; the saphenous opening, an opening in the broad fascia of the thigh through which the internal saphenous vei..
Brief
Briefly.
Crape
A thin, crimped stuff, made of raw silk gummed and twisted on the mill. Black crape is much used for mourning garments, also for the dress of some clergymen.
Uvula
The pendent fleshy lobe in the middle of the posterior border of the soft palate.
Aorist
A tense in the Greek language, which expresses an action as completed in past time, but leaves it, in other respects, wholly indeterminate.
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..
Draughtsman
One who drinks drams; a tippler.
Don
Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
Record
An official contemporaneous memorandum stating the proceedings of a court of justice; a judicial record.
Cusp
A triangular protection from the intrados of an arch, or from an inner curve of tracery.
Firkin
A varying measure of capacity, usually being the fourth part of a barrel; specifically, a measure equal to nine imperial gallons.
Gout
A drop; a clot or coagulation.
Bier
A handbarrow or portable frame on which a corpse is placed or borne to the grave.
Plum
The edible drupaceous fruit of the Prunus domestica, and of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree.
Osmose
The tendency in fluids to mix, or become equably diffused, when in contact. It was first observed between fluids of differing densities, and as taking place through a membrane or an intervening ..
Groom
A boy or young man; a waiter; a servant; especially, a man or boy who has charge of horses, or the stable.
Avatar
The descent of a deity to earth, and his incarnation as a man or an animal; -- chiefly associated with the incarnations of Vishnu.
Lecher
A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
Amadou
A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is ..
Paddle
The broad part of a paddle, with which the stroke is made; hence, any short, broad blade, resembling that of a paddle.
Zero
A cipher; nothing; naught.
Floe
A low, flat mass of floating ice.
Fixture
State of being fixed; fixedness.
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.
Kale
A variety of cabbage in which the leaves do not form a head, being nearly the original or wild form of the species.
Belong
To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain.
Peri
An imaginary being, male or female, like an elf or fairy, represented as a descendant of fallen angels, excluded from paradise till penance is accomplished.
Christ
The Anointed; an appellation given to Jesus, the Savior. It is synonymous with the Hebrew Messiah.
Cinque
Five; the number five in dice or cards.
Ileac
Pertaining to the ileum.
Rigarion
See Irrigation.
Berg
A large mass or hill, as of ice.
Tuscan
Of or pertaining to Tuscany in Italy; -- specifically designating one of the five orders of architecture recognized and described by the Italian writers of the 16th century, or characteristic ..
Alias
Otherwise; otherwise called; -- a term used in legal proceedings to connect the different names of any one who has gone by two or more, and whose true name is for any cause doubtful; as, Smith, ..
Ghetto
The Jews'quarter in an Italian town or city.
Apathy
Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indiffer..
Dermal
Pertaining to the integument or skin of animals; dermic; as, the dermal secretions.
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.
Ambush
A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare.
Ossify
To form into bone; to change from a soft animal substance into bone, as by the deposition of lime salts.
Dulse
A seaweed of a reddish brown color, which is sometimes eaten, as in Scotland. The true dulse is Sarcophyllis edulis; the common is Rhodymenia. [Written also dillisk.]
Ethics
The science of human duty; the body of rules of duty drawn from this science; a particular system of principles and rules concerting duty, whether true or false; rules of practice in respect to ..
Halo
A luminous circle, usually prismatically colored, round the sun or moon, and supposed to be caused by the refraction of light through crystals of ice in the atmosphere. Connected with halos ther..
Throne
To place on a royal seat; to enthrone.
Catgut
A cord of great toughness made from the intestines of animals, esp. of sheep, used for strings of musical instruments, etc.
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..
Quinquefid
Sharply cut about halfway to the middle or base into five segments; as, a quinquefid leaf or corolla.
Signboard
A board, placed on or before a shop, office, etc., on which ssome notice is given, as the name of a firm, of a business, or the like.
Kerf
A notch, channel, or slit made in any material by cutting or sawing.
Dirt
Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Nacre
A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.
Cocoon
An oblong case in which the silkworm lies in its chrysalis state. It is formed of threads of silk spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepar..
Grippe
The influenza or epidemic catarrh.
Brandy
A strong alcoholic liquor distilled from wine. The name is also given to spirit distilled from other liquors, and in the United States to that distilled from cider and peaches. In northern Europ..
Cist
A box or chest. Specifically: (a) A bronze receptacle, round or oval, frequently decorated with engravings on the sides and cover, and with feet, handles, etc., of decorative castings. (b) A cin..
Fagged
of Fag
Margin
A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
Be
To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.
Borax
A white or gray crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors on porcelain, and as a soap. It occurs native in certain minera..
Panic
A plant of the genus Panicum; panic grass; also, the edible grain of some species of panic grass.
Psora
A cutaneous disease; especially, the itch.
Mayor
The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
Colon
That part of the large intestines which extends from the caecum to the rectum. [See Illust of Digestion.]
Align
To adjust or form to a line; to range or form in line; to bring into line; to aline.
Fear
A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.
Uptown
To or in the upper part of a town; as, to go uptown.
Boozy
A little intoxicated; fuddled; stupid with liquor; bousy.
Ceil
To overlay or cover the inner side of the roof of; to furnish with a ceiling; as, to ceil a room.
Secure
Overconfident; incautious; careless; -- in a bad sense.
Blaze
To shine with flame; to glow with flame; as, the fire blazes.
Coward
Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.
Assail
To attack with violence, or in a vehement and hostile manner; to assault; to molest; as, to assail a man with blows; to assail a city with artillery.
Smile
To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
Pall
Same as Pawl.
Burgh
A borough or incorporated town, especially, one in Scotland. See Borough.
Bougie
A long, flexible instrument, that is
Inhere
To be inherent; to stick (in); to be fixed or permanently incorporated with something; to cleave (to); to belong, as attributes or qualities.
Cashew
A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at t..
Mahdi
Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear.
Amber
A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpi..
Prude
A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.
Evince
To conquer; to subdue.
Thalia
That one of the nine Muses who presided over comedy.
Owner
One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not.
Jonah
The Hebrew prophet, who was cast overboard as one who endangered the ship; hence, any person whose presence is unpropitious.
Trawl
To take fish, or other marine animals, with a trawl.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
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.]
Snivel
To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise.
Betroth
To contract to any one for a marriage; to engage or promise in order to marriage; to affiance; -- used esp. of a woman.
Agreed
of Agree
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
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.
Swat
of Sweat
Greenhouse
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
Bash
To abash; to disconcert or be disconcerted or put out of countenance.
Windfall
Anything blown down or off by the wind, as fruit from a tree, or the tree itself, or a portion of a forest prostrated by a violent wind, etc.
Prenotion
A notice or notion which precedes something else in time; previous notion or thought; foreknowledge.
Creole
One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of..
Chromatoscope
A reflecting telescope, part of which is made to rotate eccentrically, so as to produce a ringlike image of a star, instead of a point; -- used in studying the scintillation of the stars.
Mesoderm
The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.
Ape
A quadrumanous mammal, esp. of the family Simiadae, having teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of th..
Overshoot
To shoot over or beyond.
Deductible
Capable of being deducted, taken away, or withdrawn.
Pretzel
A kind of German biscuit or cake in the form of a twisted ring, salted on the outside.
Fondling
of Fondle
Bail bond
A bond or obligation given by a prisoner and his surety, to insure the prisoner's appearance in court, at the return of the writ.
Concertina
A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two he..
Insurance
The act of insuring, or assuring, against loss or damage by a contingent event; a contract whereby, for a stipulated consideration, called premium, one party undertakes to indemnify or guaran..
Accrue
To increase; to augment.
Howbeit
Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.
Upwind
To wind up.
Rise
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light, as dough, and the like.
Transmitter
One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
Inwards
Toward the inside; toward the center or interior; as, to bend a thing inward.
Scavenger
A person whose employment is to clean the streets of a city, by scraping or sweeping, and carrying off the filth. The name is also applied to any animal which devours refuse, carrion, or anythin..
Rectum
The terminal part of the large intestine; -- so named because supposed by the old anatomists to be straight. See Illust. under Digestive.
Vitals
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Although
Grant all this; be it that; supposing that; notwithstanding; though.
Betimes
In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early.
Speedily
In a speedy manner.
Swiftly
In a swift manner; with quick motion or velocity; fleetly.
Linger
To delay; to loiter; to remain or wait long; to be slow or reluctant in parting or moving; to be slow in deciding; to be in suspense; to hesitate.
Anoint
To smear or rub over with oil or an unctuous substance; also, to spread over, as oil.
Abdomen
The belly, or that part of the body between the thorax and the pelvis. Also, the cavity of the belly, which is lined by the peritoneum, and contains the stomach, bowels, and other viscera. In ..
Economically
With economy; with careful management; with prudence in expenditure.
Rumen
The first stomach of ruminants; the paunch; the fardingbag. See Illust. below.
Gizzard
The second, or true, muscular stomach of birds, in which the food is crushed and ground, after being softened in the glandular stomach (crop), or lower part of the esophagus; the gigerium.
Manyplies
The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous..
Immediately
In an immediate manner; without intervention of any other person or thing; proximately; directly; -- opposed to mediately; as, immediately contiguous.
Apace
With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.
Stiff
Not liquid or fluid; thick and tenacious; inspissated; neither soft nor hard; as, the paste is stiff.
Delawares
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
Momentarily
Every moment; from moment to moment.
Summarily
In a summary manner.
Forthwith
Immediately; without delay; directly.
Cohabit
To inhabit or reside in company, or in the same place or country.
Formerly
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
Casement
A window sash opening on hinges affixed to the upright side of the frame into which it is fitted. (Poetically) A window.
Instantly
Without the least delay or interval; at once; immediately.
Tourniquet
An instrument for arresting hemorrhage. It consists essentially of a pad or compress upon which pressure is made by a band which is tightened by a screw or other means.
Promptly
In a prompt manner.
Propitiate
To appease to render favorable; to make propitious; to conciliate.
Arrogate
To assume, or claim as one's own, unduly, proudly, or presumptuously; to make undue claims to, from vanity or baseless pretensions to right or merit; as, the pope arrogated dominion over king..
Colonize
To plant or establish a colony or colonies in; to people with colonists; to migrate to and settle in.
Impaction
The driving of one fragment of bone into another so that the fragments are not movable upon each other; as, impaction of the skull or of the hip.
Unspell
To break the power of (a spell); to release (a person) from the influence of a spell; to disenchant.
Lodge
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
Population
The act or process of populating; multiplication of inhabitants.
Outwards
From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.
Immediateness
The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes.
Fold
That which is folded together, or which infolds or envelops; embrace.
Aporia
A figure in which the speaker professes to be at a loss what course to pursue, where to begin to end, what to say, etc.
Transubstantiation
A change into another substance.
Ticker
One who, or that which, ticks, or produces a ticking sound, as a watch or clock, a telegraphic sounder, etc.
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.
Impanation
Embodiment in bread; the supposed real presence and union of Christ's material body and blood with the substance of the elements of the eucharist without a change in their nature; -- distingu..
Reinstate
To place again in possession, or in a former state; to restore to a state from which one had been removed; to instate again; as, to reinstate a king in the possession of the kingdom.
Skive
The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.
Football
An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.
Embark
To cause to go on board a vessel or boat; to put on shipboard.
Erratum
An error or mistake in writing or printing.
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.
Telescope
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Loaf
Any thick lump, mass, or cake; especially, a large regularly shaped or molded mass, as of bread, sugar, or cake.
Shear
To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
Overdraw
To exaggerate; to overdo.
Lounge
To spend time lazily, whether lolling or idly sauntering; to pass time indolently; to stand, sit, or recline, in an indolent manner.
Chime
To cause to sound in harmony; to play a tune, as upon a set of bells; to move or strike in harmony.
Tattle
To prate; to talk idly; to use many words with little meaning; to chat.
Inform
To give form or share to; to give vital ororganizing power to; to give life to; to imbue and actuate with vitality; to animate; to mold; to figure; to fashion.
Reenact
To enact again.
Refill
To fill, or become full, again.
Reestablish
To establish anew; to fix or confirm again; to restore; as, to reestablish a covenant; to reestablish health.
Graphotype
A process for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is ..
Shorten
To make short or shorter in measure, extent, or time; as, to shorten distance; to shorten a road; to shorten days of calamity.
Vignette
To make, as an engraving or a photograph, with a border or edge insensibly fading away.
Teg
A sheep in its second year; also, a doe in its second year.
Denounce
To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize.
Prance
To spring or bound, as a horse in high mettle.
Inertia
That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force;..
Beagle
A small hound, or hunting dog, twelve to fifteen inches high, used in hunting hares and other small game. See Illustration in Appendix.
Agio
The premium or percentage on a better sort of money when it is given in exchange for an inferior sort. The premium or discount on foreign bills of exchange is sometimes called agio.
Policeman
A member of a body of police; a constable.
Introspect
To look into or within; to view the inside of.
Mediate
Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
Bile
A yellow, or greenish, viscid fluid, usually alkaline in reaction, secreted by the liver. It passes into the intestines, where it aids in the digestive process. Its characteristic constituents a..
Collude
To have secretly a joint part or share in an action; to play into each other's hands; to conspire; to act in concert.
Partake
To take a part, portion, lot, or share, in common with others; to have a share or part; to participate; to share; as, to partake of a feast with others.
Pancreas
The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often ..
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..
Connive
To open and close the eyes rapidly; to wink.
Fraternize
To associate or hold fellowship as brothers, or as men of like occupation or character; to have brotherly feelings.
Federalize
To unite in compact, as different States; to confederate for political purposes; to unite by or under the Federal Constitution.
Participate
Acting in common; participating.
Marry
To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the p..
Coincide
To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
Federate
United by compact, as sovereignties, states, or nations; joined in confederacy; leagued; confederate; as, federate nations.
Intellectualist
One who overrates the importance of the understanding.
Imprison
To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine.
Eleatic
Of or pertaining to a certain school of Greek philosophers who taught that the only certain science is that which owes nothing to the senses, and all to the reason.
Distribute
To divide among several or many; to deal out; to apportion; to allot.
Encage
To confine in a cage; to coop up.
Mouldy
Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
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..
Gravy
The juice or other liquid matter that drips from flesh in cooking, made into a dressing for the food when served up.
Mishandle
To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Zion
A hill in Jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the Israelites, became the royal residence of David and his successors.
Fairyland
The imaginary land or abode of fairies.
Snowy
White like snow.
Galleass
A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.
Stratify
To form or deposit in strata, or layers, as substances in the earth; to arrange in strata.
Buy
To acquire the ownership of (property) by giving an accepted price or consideration therefor, or by agreeing to do so; to acquire by the payment of a price or value; to purchase; -- opposed to ..
Bilander
A small two-masted merchant vessel, fitted only for coasting, or for use in canals, as in Holland.
Schooner
Originally, a small, sharp-built vessel, with two masts and fore-and-aft rig. Sometimes it carried square topsails on one or both masts and was called a topsail schooner. About 1840, longer v..
Mismanage
To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Directly
In a direct manner; in a straight line or course.
Layer
One who, or that which, lays.
Vermicide
A medicine which destroys intestinal worms; a worm killer.
Yaw
A movement of a vessel by which she temporarily alters her course; a deviation from a straight course in steering.
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Rune
A letter, or character, belonging to the written language of the ancient Norsemen, or Scandinavians; in a wider sense, applied to the letters of the ancient nations of Northern Europe in general..
Emblem
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Sunshine
The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.
Joy
The passion or emotion excited by the acquisition or expectation of good; pleasurable feelings or emotions caused by success, good fortune, and the like, or by a rational prospect of possessi..
Olfaction
The sense by which the impressions made on the olfactory organs by the odorous particles in the atmosphere are perceived.
Rob
The inspissated juice of ripe fruit, obtained by evaporation of the juice over a fire till it acquires the consistence of a sirup. It is sometimes mixed with honey or sugar.
Durability
The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or diss..
Omnipresence
Presence in every place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity.
Lamellated
Composed of, or furnished with, thin plates or scales. See Illust. of Antennae.
Antitype
That of which the type is the pattern or representation; that which is represented by the type or symbol.
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 ..
Secede
To withdraw from fellowship, communion, or association; to separate one's self by a solemn act; to draw off; to retire; especially, to withdraw from a political or religious body.
Laminate
Consisting of, or covered with, laminae, or thin plates, scales, or layers, one over another; laminated.
Duteous
Fulfilling duty; dutiful; having the sentiments due to a superior, or to one to whom respect or service is owed; obedient; as, a duteous son or daughter.
Putrefy
To render putrid; to cause to decay offensively; to cause to be decomposed; to cause to rot.
Triolet
A short poem or stanza of eight lines, in which the first line is repeated as the fourth and again as the seventh line, the second being, repeated as the eighth.
Frigate
Originally, a vessel of the Mediterranean propelled by sails and by oars. The French, about 1650, transferred the name to larger vessels, and by 1750 it had been appropriated for a class of war ..
Dhow
A coasting vessel of Arabia, East Africa, and the Indian Ocean. It has generally but one mast and a lateen sail.
Ambergris
A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macroce..
Scent
To perceive by the olfactory organs; to smell; as, to scent game, as a hound does.
Unriddle
To read the riddle of; to solve or explain; as, to unriddle an enigma or a mystery.
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.
Vulgate
An ancient Latin version of the Scripture, and the only version which the Roman Church admits to be authentic; -- so called from its common use in the Latin Church.
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.
Disprove
To prove to be false or erroneous; to confute; to refute.
Magnificat
The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.
Psalm
A sacred song; a poetical composition for use in the praise or worship of God.
Tenderloin
A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles.
Provost
A person who is appointed to superintend, or preside over, something; the chief magistrate in some cities and towns; as, the provost of Edinburgh or of Glasgow, answering to the mayor of other ..
Doge
The chief magistrate in the republics of Venice and Genoa.
Manna
The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
Beryl
A mineral of great hardness, and, when transparent, of much beauty. It occurs in hexagonal prisms, commonly of a green or bluish green color, but also yellow, pink, and white. It is a silicate o..
Photogravure
A photoengraving; also, the process by which such a picture is produced.
Sink
Hence, to enter so as to make an abiding impression; to enter completely.
Pax
The kiss of peace; also, the embrace in the sanctuary now substituted for it at High Mass in Roman Catholic churches.
Virus
Contagious or poisonous matter, as of specific ulcers, the bite of snakes, etc.; -- applied to organic poisons.
Disinfectant
That which disinfects; an agent for removing the causes of infection, as chlorine.
Fumigant
Fuming.
Antiseptic
Alt. of Antiseptical
