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Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Meninges
The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
Fantoccini
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Myriopoda
See Myriapoda.
Chitterlings
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Bedclothes
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
Commons
The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Facetiae
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
Catamenia
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
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..
Draughts
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Fives
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
Tongs
An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or m..
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Singles
See Single, n., 2.
Stelmatopoda
Same as Gymnolaemata.
Groats
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Jutes
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
Eaves
The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.
Prognathi
A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
Kie
Kine; cows.
Teens
The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Labia
See Labium.
Traps
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
Banns
Notice of a proposed marriage, proclaimed in a church, or other place prescribed by law, in order that any person may object, if he knows of just cause why the marriage should not take place.
Pampas
Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagoni..
Cilia
The eyelashes.
Fungi
See Fungus.
Raphides
See Rhaphides.
Chops
The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Wares
See 4th Ware.
Chaps
The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
Nates
The buttocks.
Guards
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
Goods
See Good, n., 3.
Adversaria
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Sundries
Many different or small things; sundry things.
Protozoa
The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
Duds
Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Vitals
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Delawares
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
Rotatoria
Same as Rotifera.
Laemodipoda
A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Grains
See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
Principia
First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
Bitters
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
Leavings
Things left; remnants; relics.
Egesta
That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.
Dejecta
Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
Bacchanalia
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
Marginalia
Marginal notes.
Crossbones
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Nares
The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
Canonry
A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Saturnalia
The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even t..
Asteridea
A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
Ophidia
The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.
Unmentionables
The breeches; trousers.
Soapsuds
Suds made with soap.
Nones
The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ..
Echiuroidea
A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.
Chordata
A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Feces
dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Ashes
The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
Giblets
The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
Ingesta
That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Cattle
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Sweepings
Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
Hemorrhoids
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
Memorabilia
Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Apotheosis
The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.
Graves
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Tweezers
Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
Suds
Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Ambages
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Errata
See Erratum.
Pleiades
The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
Castanets
Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment ..
Hysterics
Hysteria.
Reliquiae
Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
Miscellanea
A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Excreta
Matters to be excreted.
Analects
Alt. of Analecta
Penetralia
The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.
Scissors
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of sci..
Lemures
Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Foots
The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Nippers
Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
Pierides
The Muses.
Lights
The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
Reins
The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
Entrails
The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Annals
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
Pincers
See Pinchers.
Pliers
A kind of small pinchers with long jaws, -- used for bending or cutting metal rods or wire, for handling small objects such as the parts of a watch, etc.
Anagogics
Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.
Reptilia
A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as ..
Environs
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
Here
Of them; their.
Entoprocta
A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
Tights
Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Paraphernalia
Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.
Trappings
That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Microzoa
The Infusoria.
Sigillaria
Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Pleadings
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is ..
Proceeds
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Calipers
An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot..
Manes
The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Scholia
See Scholium.
Victuals
Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Data
See Datum.
Assets
Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and ..
Piles
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Accouterments
Alt. of Accoutrements
Feet
See Foot.
Regalia
That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
Insignia
Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
