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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).
Unguentous
Unguentary.
Preservatories
of Preservatory
Economist
One who economizes, or manages domestic or other concerns with frugality; one who expends money, time, or labor, judiciously, and without waste.
Gossip
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
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.
Yellow-eyed
Having yellow eyes.
Inculpate
To blame; to impute guilt to; to accuse; to involve or implicate in guilt.
Punctually
In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.
Free-spoken
Accustomed to speak without reserve.
Conducive
Loading or tending; helpful; contributive; tending to promote.
Gloaming
Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
Algific
Producing cold.
Lubricant
Lubricating.
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.
Freighted
of Freight
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.]
High-mettled
Having abundance of mettle; ardent; full of fire; as, a high-mettled steed.
Judaism
The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.
Hampered
of Hamper
Cavendish
Leaf tobacco softened, sweetened, and pressed into plugs or cakes.
Extraterritorial
Beyond the limits of a territory or particular jurisdiction; exterritorial.
String
The points made in a game.
Misdoubt
To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
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..
Connate
Born with another; being of the same birth.
Antiquation
The act of making antiquated, or the state of being antiquated.
Congregational
Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
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.
Knee-high
Rising or reaching upward to the knees; as, the water is knee-high.
Enfranchising
of Enfranchise
Whiskered
Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers.
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..
Puerile
Boyish; childish; trifling; silly.
Whizzingly
With a whizzing sound.
Reformative
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory.
Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Indagative
Searching; exploring; investigating.
Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Rewardful
Yielding reward.
Evermore
During eternity; always; forever; for an indefinite period; at all times; -- often used substantively with for.
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.
Collectively
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Misguide
To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
Putrescible
Capable of putrefaction; liable to become putrid; as, putrescible substances.
Bicentenary
Of or pertaining to two hundred, esp. to two hundred years; as, a bicentenary celebration.
Disaccommodate
To put to inconvenience; to incommode.
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.
Conspecific
Of the same species.
Oriflamme
The ancient royal standard of France.
Didactical
Fitted or intended to teach; conveying instruction; preceptive; instructive; teaching some moral lesson; as, didactic essays.
Overjump
To jump over; hence, to omit; to ignore.
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.
In vacuo
In a vacuum; in empty space; as, experiments in vacuo.
Didactics
The art or science of teaching.
Indagate
To seek or search out.
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.
Untruthful
Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.
Hereditability
State of being hereditable.
Hummocky
Abounding in hummocks.
Inhuman
Destitute of the kindness and tenderness that belong to a human being; cruel; barbarous; savage; unfeeling; as, an inhuman person or people.
Moppet
A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Amalgamating
of Amalgamate
Easterly
Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
Self-reprovingly
In a self-reproving way.
Shabbily
In a shabby manner.
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.
Contemned
of Contemn
Anthomania
A extravagant fondness for flowers.
Numeration
The act or art of numbering.
Pointing
of Point
Employed
of Employ
Culvert
A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.
Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
Bombardier
One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
Downwards
From a higher place to a lower; in a descending course; as, to tend, move, roll, look, or take root, downward or downwards.
Wantonly
In a wanton manner; without regularity or restraint; loosely; sportively; gayly; playfully; recklessly; lasciviously.
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.
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..
Architectonic
Alt. of Architectonical
Enablement
The act of enabling, or the state of being enabled; ability.
Centimeter
Alt. of Centimetre
Pinking
The act of piercing or stabbing.
Predatory
Characterized by plundering; practicing rapine; plundering; pillaging; as, a predatory excursion; a predatory party.
Bombastry
Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian.
Dilapidate
To bring into a condition of decay or partial ruin, by misuse or through neglect; to destroy the fairness and good condition of; -- said of a building.
Encrust
To incrust. See Incrust.
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.
Earless
Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear.
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 ..
Luculent
Lucid; clear; transparent.
Eerily
In a strange, unearthly way.
Pelagic
Of or pertaining to the ocean; -- applied especially to animals that live at the surface of the ocean, away from the coast.
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.
High-church
Of or pertaining to, or favoring, the party called the High Church, or their doctrines or policy. See High Church, under High, a.
Conchyliologist
Alt. of Conchyliology
Cowardliness
Cowardice.
Partialism
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
Renegado
See Renegade.
Fabulize
To invent, compose, or relate fables or fictions.
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
Anaemia
A morbid condition in which the blood is deficient in quality or in quantity.
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.
Kidneys
of Kidney
Skepticism
An undecided, inquiring state of mind; doubt; uncertainty.
Divisional
That divides; pertaining to, making, or noting, a division; as, a divisional line; a divisional general; a divisional surgeon of police.
Chamfret
A small gutter; a furrow; a groove.
Conciliate
To win ower; to gain from a state of hostility; to gain the good will or favor of; to make friendly; to mollify; to propitiate; to appease.
Well-natured
Good-natured; kind.
Reasoned
of Reason
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 ..
Behappen
To happen to.
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..
Hebraize
To speak Hebrew, or to conform to the Hebrew idiom, or to Hebrew customs.
Penfold
See Pinfold.
Undermanned
Insufficiently furnished with men; short-handed.
Downfall
A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin.
Levanter
One who levants, or decamps.
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.
Fasciculated
Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.
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.
Bellied
Having (such) a belly; puffed out; -- used in composition; as, pot-bellied; shad-bellied.
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.
Cursive
Running; flowing.
Transcriber
One who transcribes, or writes from a copy; a copier; a copyist.
Quietly
In a quiet state or manner; without motion; in a state of rest; as, to lie or sit quietly.
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.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
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.
Semilunate
Semilunar.
Coryphee
A ballet dancer.
Adjuratory
Containing an adjuration.
Blink
To trick; to deceive.
Mortgagee
The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
Outpace
To outgo; to move faster than; to leave behind.
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.
Edgewise
With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.
Vespertine
Of or pertaining to the evening; happening or being in the evening.
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.
Repercussive
Tending or able to repercuss; having the power of sending back; causing to reverberate.
Distinguishable
Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub.
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.
Overlong
Too long.
Petitionary
Supplicatory; making a petition.
Hypochondriacal
Same as Hypochondriac, 2.
Furnished
of Furnish
Slouching
of Slouch
Housewife
A hussy.
Pendency
The quality or state of being pendent or suspended.
Tallowy
Of the nature of tallow; resembling tallow; greasy.
Tallying
of Tally
Caliginous
Affected with darkness or dimness; dark; obscure.
Acrobatic
Pertaining to an acrobat.
Gnide
To rub; to bruise; to break in pieces.
Dextrously
Alt. of Dextrousness
Affectional
Of or pertaining to the affections; as, affectional impulses; an affectional nature.
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Nonelastic
Not having elasticity.
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.
Supervisory
Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
Long-drawn
Extended to a great length.
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.
Attained
of Attain
Crusted
of Crust
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
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.
Claqueur
One of the claque employed to applaud at a theater.
Prepubic
Situated in front of, or anterior to, the pubis; pertaining to the prepubis.
Counter-compony
See Compony.
Witching
of Witch
Glancingly
In a glancing manner; transiently; incidentally; indirectly.
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.
Pretypified
of Pretypify
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.
Osseous
Composed of bone; resembling bone; capable of forming bone; bony; ossific.
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
Phantasmal
Pertaining to, of the nature of, or resembling, a phantasm; spectral; illusive.
Cavalierly
In a supercilious, disdainful, or haughty manner; arrogantly.
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.
Calendarial
Of or pertaining to the calendar or a calendar.
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.
Chimerical
Merely imaginary; fanciful; fantastic; wildly or vainly conceived; having, or capable of having, no existence except in thought; as, chimerical projects.
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.
Malapropos
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
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.
Biparous
Bringing forth two at a birth.
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.
Configure
To arrange or dispose in a certain form, figure, or shape.
Comport
To bear or endure; to put up (with); as, to comport with an injury.
Contentment
The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice is impossible.
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
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
Omitting
of Omit
Facound
Speech; eloquence.
Convexed
Made convex; protuberant in a spherical form.
Obligating
of Obligate
Kilderkin
A small barrel; an old liquid measure containing eighteen English beer gallons, or nearly twenty-two gallons, United States measure.
Crenate
Alt. of Crenated
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.
Tenantable
Fit to be rented; in a condition suitable for a tenant.
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
Innately
Naturally.
Comestible
Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent.
Humanize
To convert into something human or belonging to man; as, to humanize vaccine lymph.
Extortionate
Characterized by extortion; oppressive; hard.
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.
Lissome
Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome.
Assuetude
Accustomedness; habit; habitual use.
Caricaturist
One who caricatures.
Tabulae
of Tabula
Repetitional
Alt. of Repetitionary
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 ..
Ossified
Changed to bone or something resembling bone; hardened by deposits of mineral matter of any kind; -- said of tissues.
Baronage
The whole body of barons or peers.
Decollate
To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Neolithic
Of or pertaining to, or designating, an era characterized by late remains in stone.
Inestimable
Incapable of being estimated or computed; especially, too valuable or excellent to be measured or fully appreciated; above all price; as, inestimable rights or privileges.
Punching
of Punch
Matronlike
Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
Rose
imp. of Rise.
Acquit
To clear one's self.
Conservational
Tending to conserve; preservative.
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Belamy
Good friend; dear friend.
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.
Mercantile
Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Thieve
To practice theft; to steal.
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
Ecclesiastical
Of or pertaining to the church; relating to the organization or government of the church; not secular; as, ecclesiastical affairs or history; ecclesiastical courts.
Discarded
of Discard
Venereal
Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Sleekness
The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.
Nay
To refuse.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Inconsolable
Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Kilometer
Alt. of Kilometre
Reflecting
of Reflect
Yodeling
of Yodle
Stockbroker
A broker who deals in stocks.
Enterprising
Having a disposition for enterprise; characterized by enterprise; resolute, active or prompt to attempt; as, an enterprising man or firm.
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.
Traded
Professional; practiced.
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.
Axiomatic
Alt. of Axiomatical
Laxative
Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
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.
Intermedial
Lying between; intervening; intermediate.
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.
Desultorily
In a desultory manner; without method; loosely; immethodically.
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.
Bed rock
The solid rock underlying superficial formations. Also Fig.
Feodal
Feudal. See Feudal.
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..
Exclusory
Able to exclude; excluding; serving to exclude.
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.
Ballproof
Incapable of being penetrated by balls from firearms.
Evincive
Tending to prove; having the power to demonstrate; demonstrative; indicative.
Rearmost
Farthest in the rear; last.
Bungler
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Tullian
Belonging to, or in the style of, Tully (Marcus Tullius Cicero).
Pinna
A leaflet of a pinnate leaf. See Illust. of Bipinnate leaf, under Bipinnate.
Permeated
of Permeate
Deterring
of Deter
Sundown
The setting of the sun; sunset.
Monocotyl
Any monocotyledonous plant.
Bolognese
Of or pertaining to Bologna.
Nol-pros
To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.
Apposition
The act of adding; application; accretion.
Avocation
A calling away; a diversion.
-ism
A suffix indicating an act, a process, the result of an act or a process, a state; also, a characteristic (as a theory, doctrine, idiom, etc.); as, baptism, galvanism, organism, hypnotism, socia..
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.
Exundate
To overflow; to inundate.
Tear
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Resolvent
Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
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.
Warm-hearted
Having strong affection; cordial; sincere; hearty; sympathetic.
Arian
See Aryan.
Aflutter
In a flutter; agitated.
Munificence
Means of defense; fortification.
Helminth
An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.
Machine
To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Harassment
The act of harassing, or state of being harassed; worry; annoyance; anxiety.
Showman
One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
Corrigible
Capable of being set right, amended, or reformed; as, a corrigible fault.
Assinego
See Asinego.
Ungenerously
In an ungenerous manner.
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.
Malignantly
In a malignant manner.
Consultative
Pertaining to consultation; having the privilege or right of conference.
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.
Mediaeval
Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.
Perfidy
The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
Recalcitrate
To kick against; to show repugnance to; to rebuff.
Habituated
of Habituate
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..
Funicular
Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
Acadian
Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia.
Dote
An imbecile; a dotard.
Kittenish
Resembling a kitten; playful; as, a kittenish disposition.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
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.
Paralyzed
of Paralyze
Coziness
The state or quality of being cozy.
Anaglyptics
The art of carving in low relief, embossing, etc.
Offended
of Offend
Downbear
To bear down; to depress.
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.
Disproved
of Disprove
Greasiness
The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
Heirship
The state, character, or privileges of an heir; right of inheriting.
Recline
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc.; to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand.
Ampliation
Enlargement; amplification.
Modifiability
Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
Gratulatory
Expressing gratulation or joy; congratulatory.
Quadrinomial
A polynomial of four terms connected by the signs plus or minus.
Dravidian
Of or pertaining to the Dravida.
Angiospermous
Having seeds inclosed in a pod or other pericarp.
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
Hydrous
Containing water; watery.
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.
Rifleman
of Rifleman
Arcadia
A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.
Broadened
of Broaden
Existential
Having existence.
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.
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