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Bantling
A young or small child; an infant. [Slightly contemptuous or depreciatory.]
Periphrase
To use circumlocution.
Rotchet
The European red gurnard (Trigla pini).
Economist
One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Lithographer
One who lithographs; one who practices lithography.
Accompanier
He who, or that which, accompanies.
Angelology
A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.
Cornice
Any horizontal, molded or otherwise decorated projection which crowns or finishes the part to which it is affixed; as, the cornice of an order, pedestal, door, window, or house.
Gloaming
Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
Breasting
of Breast
Experimentation
The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
Solomon
One of the kings of Israel, noted for his superior wisdom and magnificent reign; hence, a very wise man.
Tete-a-tete
Private conversation; familiar interview or conference of two persons.
Grogshop
A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.
Disaffection
State of being disaffected; alienation or want of affection or good will, esp. toward those in authority; unfriendliness; dislike.
Oxygenation
The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.
Dynamitard
A political dynamiter. [A form found in some newspapers.]
Judaism
The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.
Cavendish
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
String
The points made in a game.
Misdoubt
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
Pendice
A sloping roof; a lean-to; a penthouse.
Gnomon
The index of the hour circle of a globe.
Bachelordom
The state of bachelorhood; the whole body of bachelors.
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 ..
Nestorian
relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced; aged; as, Nestorian caution.
Predella
The step, or raised secondary part, of an altar; a superaltar; hence, in Italian painting, a band or frieze of several pictures running along the front of a superaltar, or forming a border or..
Antiquation
The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.
Fabliau
One of the metrical tales of the Trouveres, or early poets of the north of France.
Subscriber
One who subscribes; one who contributes to an undertaking by subscribing.
Enfranchising
of Enfranchise
Parabola
A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant fro..
Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Auriscope
An instrument for examining the condition of the ear.
Forecastle
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks.
Artillery
Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.
Apostleship
The office or dignity of an apostle.
Bicentenary
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
Ratifier
One who, or that which, ratifies; a confirmer.
Brawn
Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm.
Anaesthetization
The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
Oriflamme
The ancient royal standard of France.
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.
Long-sufferance
Forbearance to punish or resent.
Fault-finder
One who makes a practice of discovering others' faults and censuring them; a scold.
Pawnbroker
One who makes a business of lending money on the security of personal property pledged or deposited in his keeping.
Nickname
A name given in contempt, derision, or sportive familiarity; a familiar or an opprobrious appellation.
Didactics
The art or science of teaching.
Archery
The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
Exciseman
An officer who inspects and rates articles liable to excise duty.
Hereditability
State of being hereditable.
Moppet
A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Amalgamating
of Amalgamate
Demission
The act of demitting, or the state of being demitted; a letting down; a lowering; dejection.
Sans-culottism
Extreme republican principles; the principles or practice of the sans-culottes.
Maxilla
The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
True-penny
An honest fellow.
Anthomania
A extravagant fondness for flowers.
Numeration
The act or art of numbering.
Pointing
of Point
Culvert
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Bombardier
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
Spinozist
A believer in Spinozism.
Irritability
The state or quality of being irritable; quick excitability; petulance; fretfulness; as, irritability of temper.
Spurn
Disdainful rejection; contemptuous tratment.
Charlatanism
Charlatanry.
Enablement
The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
Centimeter
Alt. of Centimetre
Pinking
The act of piercing or stabbing.
Bombastry
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Fifteen
Five and ten; one more than fourteen.
Preengagement
Prior engagement, obligation, or attachment, as by contract, promise, or affection.
Essence
The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of..
Superphosphate
An acid phosphate.
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 ..
Tactics
Hence, any system or method of procedure.
Subordinate
Placed in a lower order, class, or rank; holding a lower or inferior position.
Plaintive
Repining; complaining; lamenting.
Conchyliologist
Alt. of Conchyliology
Cowardliness
Cowardice.
Partialism
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
Renegado
See Renegade.
Sempervirent
Always fresh; evergreen.
Diphenyl
A white crystalline substance, C6H5.C6H5, obtained by leading benzene through a heated iron tube. It consists of two benzene or phenyl radicals united.
Bridechamber
The nuptial apartment.
Silvering
of Silver
Furfurol
A colorless oily liquid, C4H3O.CHO, of a pleasant odor, obtained by the distillation of bran, sugar, etc., and regarded as an aldehyde derivative of furfuran; -- called also furfural.
Tilter
One who tilts, or jousts; hence, one who fights.
Supervene
To come as something additional or extraneous; to occur with reference or relation to something else; to happen upon or after something else; to be added; to take place; to happen.
Builder
One who builds; one whose occupation is to build, as a carpenter, a shipwright, or a mason.
Harefoot
A long, narrow foot, carried (that is, produced or extending) forward; -- said of dogs.
Dysphoria
Impatience under affliction; morbid restlessness; dissatisfaction; the fidgets.
Meninges
The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
Slipper
One who, or that which, slips.
Chronologer
Same as Chronologist.
Skepticism
An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
Chamfret
A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
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 ..
Headtire
A headdress.
Capybara
A large South American rodent (Hydrochaerus capybara) Living on the margins of lakes and rivers. It is the largest extant rodent, being about three feet long, and half that in height. It some..
Penfold
See Pinfold.
Downfall
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Decollation
The act of beheading or state of one beheaded; -- especially used of the execution of St. John the Baptist.
Hypodermic
Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.
Freethinker
One who speculates or forms opinions independently of the authority of others; esp., in the sphere or religion, one who forms opinions independently of the authority of revelation or of the chur..
Outrider
A summoner whose office is to cite men before the sheriff.
Flashiness
The quality of being flashy.
Quadrireme
A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
Dialogue
A written composition in which two or more persons are represented as conversing or reasoning on some topic; as, the Dialogues of Plato.
Transcriber
One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Cannoneer
Alt. of Cannonier
Avidity
Greediness; strong appetite; eagerness; intenseness of desire; as, to eat with avidity.
Peculiarize
To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession.
Shibboleth
A word which was made the criterion by which to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii.
Coryphee
A ballet dancer.
Adjuratory
Containing an adjuration.
Mortgagee
The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
Waxwork
Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
Hogherd
A swineherd.
Messiah
The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
Catechist
One who instructs by question and answer, especially in religions matters.
Countrywoman
A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.
Fantoccini
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
Dogmatizer
One who dogmatizes; a bold asserter; a magisterial teacher.
Shrinkage
The act of shrinking; a contraction into less bulk or measurement.
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.
Petitionary
Supplicatory; making a petition.
Slouching
of Slouch
Housewife
A hussy.
Pendency
The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
Tallying
of Tally
Dextrously
Alt. of Dextrousness
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
excoriating
of Eccoriate
Auriscopy
Examination of the ear by the aid of the auriscope.
Jocularity
Jesting; merriment.
Alexipharmac
Alt. of Alexipharmacal
Juniper
Any evergreen shrub or tree, of the genus Juniperus and order Coniferae.
Fleeing
of Flee
Inference
That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Employer
One who employs another; as, an employer of workmen.
Tincture
A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
Flectional
Capable of, or pertaining to, flection or inflection.
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 ..
Claqueur
One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Witching
of Witch
Gunning
The act or practice of hunting or shooting game with a gun.
Hyperdulia
Veneration or worship given to the Virgin Mary as the most exalted of mere creatures; higher veneration than dulia.
Brackishness
The quality or state of being brackish, or somewhat salt.
Disclosing
of Disclose
Sketching
of Sketch
Coppice
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Gin
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as, gan tell. See Gan.
Athletics
The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
Half-sword
Half the length of a sword; close fight.
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).
Sippet
A small sop; a small, thin piece of toasted bread soaked in milk, broth, or the like; a small piece of toasted or fried bread cut into some special shape and used for garnishing.
Emolument
The profit arising from office, employment, or labor; gain; compensation; advantage; perquisites, fees, or salary.
Cuprous
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, copper; containing copper; -- said of those compounds of copper in which this element is present in its highest proportion.
Centering
of Centre
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..
Immatureness
The state or quality of being immature; immaturity.
Insensibleness
Insensibility.
Rouncy
A common hackney horse; a nag.
Galilee
A porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were ..
Melodics
The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
Vacuousness
The quality or state of being vacuous; emptiness; vacuity.
Ragout
A dish made of pieces of meat, stewed, and highly seasoned; as, a ragout of mutton.
Misbehavior
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Inscriber
One who inscribes.
Logger
One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.
Aeroscope
An apparatus designed for collecting spores, germs, bacteria, etc., suspended in the air.
Quietness
The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.
Doziness
The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.
Canonist
A professor of canon law; one skilled in the knowledge and practice of ecclesiastical law.
Speeder
One who, or that which, speeds.
Annotation
A note, added by way of comment, or explanation; -- usually in the plural; as, annotations on ancient authors, or on a word or a passage.
Jading
of Jade
Omitting
of Omit
Facound
Speech; eloquence.
Obligating
of Obligate
Kilderkin
A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
Absurdness
Absurdity.
Hermitess
A female hermit.
Lithotrity
The operation of breaking a stone in the bladder into small pieces capable of being voided.
Embaying
of Embay
Meetinghouse
A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Faytour
See Faitour.
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.
Contrapuntist
One skilled in counterpoint.
Exorcism
The act of exorcising; the driving out of evil spirits from persons or places by conjuration; also, the form of conjuration used.
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.
Ramollescence
A softening or mollifying.
Coercion
The act or process of coercing.
Blasphemer
One who blasphemes.
Extractor
One who, or that which, extracts
Demolisher
One who, or that which, demolishes; as, a demolisher of towns.
Fishmonger
A dealer in fish.
Wallop
A thick piece of fat.
Moisture
A moderate degree of wetness.
Superintendence
The act of superintending; care and oversight for the purpose of direction; supervision.
Nightcap
A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
Damnability
The quality of being damnable; damnableness.
Intolerance
Want of capacity to endure; as, intolerance of light.
Ropewalker
A ropedancer.
Barren
A tract of barren land.
Cuticle
A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
Gentlemanliness
The state of being gentlemanly; gentlemanly conduct or manners.
Assuetude
Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.
Caricaturist
One who caricatures.
Earthworm
Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also ..
Baronage
The whole body of barons or peers.
Punching
of Punch
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Belamy
Good friend; dear friend.
Figurant
One who dances at the opera, not singly, but in groups or figures; an accessory character on the stage, who figures in its scenes, but has nothing to say; hence, one who figures in any scene,..
Mixing
of Mix
Acquiring
of Acquire
Sleekness
The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Kilometer
Alt. of Kilometre
Reflecting
of Reflect
Yodeling
of Yodle
Stockbroker
A broker who deals in stocks.
Eclampsia
A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Revealing
of Reveal
Madrigalist
A composer of madrigals.
Bedroom
A room or apartment intended or used for a bed; a lodging room.
Birdling
A little bird; a nestling.
Consortship
The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership.
Antidotal
Having the quality an antidote; fitted to counteract the effects of poison.
Cutlet
A piece of meat, especially of veal or mutton, cut for broiling.
Classicist
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Aquarius
The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.
Whitening
of Whiten
Ala
A winglike organ, or part.
Decolorant
A substance which removes color, or bleaches.
Coparcener
One who has an equal portion with others of an inheritance.
Increate
To create within.
Titulary
A person invested with a title, in virtue of which he holds an office or benefice, whether he performs the duties of it or not.
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
Subsulphate
A sulphate with an excess of the base.
Buddhist
One who accepts the teachings of Buddhism.
Crenelation
The act of crenelating, or the state of being crenelated; an indentation or an embrasure.
Brocade
Silk stuff, woven with gold and silver threads, or ornamented with raised flowers, foliage, etc.; -- also applied to other stuffs thus wrought and enriched.
Centumvirate
The office of a centumvir, or of the centumviri.
Contesting
of Contest
Gaspereau
The alewife.
Landsman
One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
Previse
To inform beforehand; to warn.
Inexcitability
The quality of being inexcitable; insusceptibility to excitement.
Tun
A weight of 2,240 pounds. See Ton.
Myriopoda
See Myriapoda.
Ellipsis
Omission; a figure of syntax, by which one or more words, which are obviously understood, are omitted; as, the virtues I admire, for, the virtues which I admire.
Drummer
One who solicits custom; a commercial traveler.
Bungler
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Pinna
A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
Deterring
of Deter
Sundown
The setting of the sun; sunset.
Monocotyl
Any monocotyledonous plant.
Apposition
The act of adding; application; accretion.
Avocation
A calling away; a diversion.
Letterpress
Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations.
Disinterment
The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Scribbler
One who scribbles; a petty author; a writer of no reputation; a literary hack.
Fourscore
Four times twenty; eighty.
Referendum
A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
Porcupine
Any Old Word rodent of the genus Hystrix, having the back covered with long, sharp, erectile spines or quills, sometimes a foot long. The common species of Europe and Asia (Hystrix cristata) is ..
Restaurant
An eating house.
Firecracker
See Cracker., n., 3.
Arian
See Aryan.
Munificence
Means of defense; fortification.
Helminth
An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Harassment
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Showman
One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Assinego
See Asinego.
Bobsleigh
A short sled, mostly used as one of a pair connected by a reach or coupling; also, the compound sled so formed.
Glover
One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves.
User
One who uses.
Gyrating
of Gyrate
Discriminator
One who discriminates.
Calculus
Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.
Perfidy
The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
Haunter
One who, or that which, haunts.
Inamorato
A male lover.
Flanking
of Flank
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.
Kittenish
Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.
Larceny
The unlawful taking and carrying away of things personal with intent to deprive the right owner of the same; theft. Cf. Embezzlement.
Cerement
A cerecloth used for the special purpose of enveloping a dead body when embalmed.
Juniority
The state or quality of being junior.
Coziness
The state or quality of being cozy.
Anaglyptics
The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.
Anonymity
The quality or state of being anonymous; anonymousness; also, that which anonymous.
Terpsichore
The Muse who presided over the choral song and the dance, especially the latter.
Greasiness
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
Heirship
The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
Ampliation
Enlargement; amplification.
Modifiability
Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
Quadrinomial
A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.
Quaternity
The number four.
Matador
The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
Sumption
A taking.
Tube-shell
Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
Binnacle
A case or box placed near the helmsman, containing the compass of a ship, and a light to show it at night.
Decemvir
A member of any body of ten men in authority.
Carrying
of Carry
Corsage
The waist or bodice of a lady's dress; as, a low corsage.
Delicateness
The quality of being delicate.
Bitterweed
A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
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.
Arcadia
A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.
Inutility
Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects.
Contamination
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
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.
Outguard
A guard or small body of troops at a distance from the main body of an army, to watch for the approach of an enemy; hence, anything for defense placed at a distance from the thing to be defen..
Heartwood
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguis..
Cullibility
Gullibility.
Erin
An early, and now a poetic, name of Ireland.
Dubitancy
Doubt; uncertainty.
Cocktail
A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
Primeness
The quality or state of being first.
Dramshop
A shop or barroom where spirits are sold by the dram.
Anglicanism
Strong partiality to the principles and rites of the Church of England.
Pamphleteer
A writer of pamphlets; a scribbler.
Indice
Index; indication.
Centigramme
The hundredth part of a gram; a weight equal to .15432 of a grain. See Gram.
Depravement
Depravity.
Earmarking
of Earmark
Acheron
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf.
Concessive
Implying concession; as, a concessive conjunction.
Alleviator
One who, or that which, alleviates.
Desponding
of Despond
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.
Sustainment
The act of sustaining; maintenance; support.
Demonomy
The dominion of demons.
List
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
Toupettit
The crested titmouse.
Naturalism
A state of nature; conformity to nature.
Specialty
A particular or peculiar case.
Evidentness
State of being evident.
Transgressor
One who transgresses; one who breaks a law, or violates a command; one who violates any known rule or principle of rectitude; a sinner.
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.
Prig
To cheapen.
Bossing
of Boss
Tentative
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Antimacassar
A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.
Moistening
of Moisten
Rejoinder
An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
Sermonizing
of Sermonize
Loge
A lodge; a habitation.
Gladdening
of Gladden
Abutment
State of abutting.
Foreyard
The lowermost yard on the foremast.
Prevaricator
One who prevaricates.
Polemics
The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.
Camisole
A short dressing jacket for women.
Archive
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Foreignism
Anything peculiar to a foreign language or people; a foreign idiom or custom.
Caesarism
A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or su..
Merchandiser
A trader.
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Homocercy
The possession of a homocercal tail.
Raciness
The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.
Stibium
The technical name of antimony.
Moneyed
Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.
Moderateness
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
Gunpowder
A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting.
Snapper
One who, or that which, snaps; as, a snapper up of trifles; the snapper of a whip.
Driller
One who, or that which, drills.
Cylindroid
A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical.
Agama
A genus of lizards, one of the few which feed upon vegetable substances; also, one of these lizards.
Sauntering
of Saunter
Seeker
One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
Absenting
of Absent
Astriction
The act of binding; restriction; also, obligation.
Sorriness
The quality or state of being sorry.
Chitterlings
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Draftsman
See Draughtsman.
Bristling
of Bristle
Bluffness
The quality or state of being bluff.
Acetate
A salt formed by the union of acetic acid with a base or positive radical; as, acetate of lead, acetate of potash.
Haunting
of Haunt
Alderman
A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity.
Begetter
One who begets; a father.
Conservatism
The disposition and tendency to preserve what is established; opposition to change; the habit of mind; or conduct, of a conservative.
Indiscrimination
Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality.
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 ..
Bullion
Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.
Malefactor
An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
Disappointing
of Disappoint
Inattention
Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.
Hatchery
A house for hatching fish, etc.
Fouling
of Foul
Collectivist
An advocate of collectivism.
Curculio
One of a large group of beetles (Rhynchophora) of many genera; -- called also weevils, snout beetles, billbeetles, and billbugs. Many of the species are very destructive, as the plum curculio..
Disinterestedness
The state or quality of being disinterested; impartiality.
Undiscerning
Want of discernment.
Anatomizing
of Anatomize
Buzzing
of Buzz
Anthesis
The period or state of full expansion in a flower.
Misfortune
Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Meetness
Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
Rivulet
A small stream or brook; a streamlet.
Evening
of Even
Administering
of Administer
Doubtfulness
State of being doubtful.
Cantrip
A charm; an incantation; a shell; a trick; adroit mischief.
Peculation
The act or practice of peculating, or of defrauding the public by appropriating to one's own use the money or goods intrusted to one's care for management or disbursement; embezzlement.
Hogshead
An English measure of capacity, containing 63 wine gallons, or about 52/ imperial gallons; a half pipe.
Backgammon
A game of chance and skill, played by two persons on a "board" marked off into twenty-four spaces called "points". Each player has fifteen pieces, or "men", the movements of which from point to ..
Pretender
One who lays claim, or asserts a title (to something); a claimant.
Pannier
A bread basket; also, a wicker basket (used commonly in pairs) for carrying fruit or other things on a horse or an ass
Blackguard
The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were ..
Debarring
of Debar
Baseboard
A board, or other woodwork, carried round the walls of a room and touching the floor, to form a base and protect the plastering; -- also called washboard (in England), mopboard, and scrubboard.
Counterclaim
A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
Taskmaster
One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
Poltroon
An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.
Addiction
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
Chiliastic
Millenarian.
Malison
Malediction; curse; execration.
Cuirass
A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle
Wagering
of Wager
Aesthetics
Alt. of Esthetics
Lowliness
The state or quality of being lowly; humility; humbleness of mind.
Unifying
of Unify
Catacaustic
Relating to, or having the properties of, a caustic curve formed by reflection. See Caustic, a.
Caduceus
The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled abo..
Arranging
of Arrange
Coveter
One who covets.
Annulling
of Annul
Carving
of Carve
Larcenist
One who commits larceny.
Abetment
The act of abetting; as, an abetment of treason, crime, etc.
Dissidence
Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion.
Electron
Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Churchgoer
One who attends church.
Belly-god
One whose great pleasure it is to gratify his appetite; a glutton; an epicure.
Desirer
One who desires, asks, or wishes.
Chaffer
One who chaffs.
Brahmin
A person of the highest or sacerdotal caste among the Hindoos.
Bibliopegist
A bookbinder.
Perpetuation
The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
Purloiner
One who purloins.
Disherison
The act of disheriting, or debarring from inheritance; disinhersion.
Oenophilist
A lover of wine.
Directing
of Direct
Hauberk
A coat of mail; especially, the long coat of mail of the European Middle Ages, as contrasted with the habergeon, which is shorter and sometimes sleeveless. By old writers it is often used syn..
Elfishness
The quality of being elfish.
Coadjutress
Alt. of Coadjutrix
Babbler
An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets.
Glycerin
Alt. of Glycerine
Irascibility
The quality or state of being irascible; irritability of temper; irascibleness.
Fixity
Fixedness; as, fixity of tenure; also, that which is fixed.
Bragging
of Brag
Bloodshedder
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
Bractlet
A bract on the stalk of a single flower, which is itself on a main stalk that support several flowers.
Exciter
One who, or that which, excites.
Benefactress
A woman who confers a benefit.
Rareness
The state or quality of being rare.
Appertaining
of Appertain
Bushing
of Bush
Contriver
One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.
Edification
The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or spiritual improvement; instruction.
Agnosticism
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Eudaemonics
That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics.
Bunting
A bird of the genus Emberiza, or of an allied genus, related to the finches and sparrows (family Fringillidae).
Drizzle
To rain slightly in very small drops; to fall, as water from the clouds, slowly and in fine particles; as, it drizzles; drizzling drops or rain.
Irrationality
The quality or state of being irrational.
Aerator
That which supplies with air; esp. an apparatus used for charging mineral waters with gas and in making soda water.
Curtaining
of Curtain
Dromedary
The Arabian camel (Camelus dromedarius), having one hump or protuberance on the back, in distinction from the Bactrian camel, which has two humps.
Deluder
One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor.
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..
Bashfulness
The quality of being bashful.
Equilibrist
One who balances himself in unnatural positions and hazardous movements; a balancer.
Autarchy
Self-sufficiency.
Swashbuckler
A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Detrain
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Friendless
Destitute of friends; forsaken.
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 ..
Hurrying
of Hurry
Bandmaster
The conductor of a musical band.
Commensal
One who eats at the same table.
Nephalism
Total abstinence from spirituous liquor.
Baccarat
A French game of cards, played by a banker and punters.
Aretaics
The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.
Cavalryman
One of a body of cavalry.
Emulsion
Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photograp..
Ventose
A ventouse.
Analyzation
The act of analyzing, or separating into constituent parts; analysis.
Annalist
A writer of annals.
Consilience
Act of concurring; coincidence; concurrence.
Badminton
A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
Disunity
A state of separation or disunion; want of unity.
