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Inference
That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
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.
Perpetuation
The act of making perpetual, or of preserving from extinction through an endless existence, or for an indefinite period of time; continuance.
Desuetude
The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
Discontinuance
The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or interc..
Protraction
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
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.
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Margin
A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
Stay
Strictly, a part in tension to hold the parts together, or stiffen them.
Supposition
The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved.
Connotation
The act of connoting; a making known or designating something additional; implication of something more than is asserted.
Allusion
A figurative or symbolical reference.
Tread
Way; track; path.
Incessancy
The quality of being incessant; unintermitted continuance; unceasingness.
Resignation
The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission.
Innuendo
An oblique hint; a remote allusion or reference, usually derogatory to a person or thing not named; an insinuation.
Meaning
That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
Perpetuity
The quality or state of being perpetual; as, the perpetuity of laws.
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..
Eternity
Infinite duration, without beginning in the past or end in the future; also, duration without end in the future; endless time.
Standard
An inverted knee timber placed upon the deck instead of beneath it, with its vertical branch turned upward from that which lies horizontally.
Survival
A living or continuing longer than, or beyond the existence of, another person, thing, or event; an outliving.
Longevity
Long duration of life; length of life.
Cannonade
The act of discharging cannon and throwing ball, shell, etc., for the purpose of destroying an army, or battering a town, ship, or fort; -- usually, an attack of some continuance.
Abidance
The state of abiding; abode; continuance; compliance (with).
Subscript
Written below or underneath; as, iota subscript. (See under Iota.) Specifically (Math.), said of marks, figures, or letters (suffixes), written below and usually to the right of other letters to..
Addendum
A thing to be added; an appendix or addition.
Postscript
A paragraph added to a letter after it is concluded and signed by the writer; an addition made to a book or composition after the main body of the work has been finished, containing something ..
Allegory
A figurative sentence or discourse, in which the principal subject is described by another subject resembling it in its properties and circumstances. The real subject is thus kept out of view..
Suffix
A letter, letters, syllable, or syllables added or appended to the end of a word or a root to modify the meaning; a postfix.
Discontinuation
Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.
Closing
of Close
Relinquishment
The act of relinquishing.
Cessation
A ceasing or discontinuance, as of action, whether temporary or final; a stop; as, a cessation of the war.
Sequent
Following; succeeding; in continuance.
Plateau
A flat surface; especially, a broad, level, elevated area of land; a table-land.
Non sequitur
An inference which does not follow from the premises.
Time-honored
Honored for a long time; venerable, and worthy of honor, by reason of antiquity, or long continuance.
Abeyance
Expectancy; condition of being undetermined.
Forbearance
The act of forbearing or waiting; the exercise of patience.
Surcease
Cessation; stop; end.
Subtlety
The quality or state of being subtle, or sly; cunning; craftiness; artfulness.
Delicacy
The state or condition of being delicate; agreeableness to the senses; delightfulness; as, delicacy of flavor, of odor, and the like.
Differentiation
The act of differentiating.
Parenthesis
A word, phrase, or sentence, by way of comment or explanation, inserted in, or attached to, a sentence which would be grammatically complete without it. It is usually inclosed within curved l..
Demarcation
The act of marking, or of ascertaining and setting a limit; separation; distinction.
Segregation
The act of segregating, or the state of being segregated; separation from others; a parting.
Pause
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Diuturnal
Of long continuance; lasting.
Episode
A separate incident, story, or action, introduced for the purpose of giving a greater variety to the events related; an incidental narrative, or digression, separable from the main subject, b..
Intimation
The act of intimating; also, the thing intimated.
Undercurrent
A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
Stint
Any one of several species of small sandpipers, as the sanderling of Europe and America, the dunlin, the little stint of India (Tringa minuta), etc. Called also pume.
Codicil
A clause added to a will.
Refrain
To hold back; to restrain; to keep within prescribed bounds; to curb; to govern.
Nicety
The quality or state of being nice (in any of the senses of that word.).
Stair
One step of a series for ascending or descending to a different level; -- commonly applied to those within a building.
Supplement
That which supplies a deficiency, or meets a want; a store; a supply.
Hairsplitting
Making excessively nice or trivial distinctions in reasoning; subtle.
Tedious
Involving tedium; tiresome from continuance, prolixity, slowness, or the like; wearisome.
Tinge
To imbue or impregnate with something different or foreign; as, to tinge a decoction with a bitter taste; to affect in some degree with the qualities of another substance, either by mixture, ..
Presupposition
The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption.
Cancellation
The act, process, or result of canceling; as, the cansellation of certain words in a contract, or of the contract itself.
Continuity
the state of being continuous; uninterupted connection or succession; close union of parts; cohesion; as, the continuity of fibers.
Lengthening
of Lengthen
Endurance
A state or quality of lasting or duration; lastingness; continuance.
Continuance
A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay.
Repetition
The act of repeating; a doing or saying again; iteration.
Persistence
Alt. of Persistency
Stability
The state or quality of being stable, or firm; steadiness; firmness; strength to stand without being moved or overthrown; as, the stability of a structure; the stability of a throne or a cons..
Colophon
An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the last page of a book.
Sustenance
The act of sustaining; support; maintenance; subsistence; as, the sustenance of the body; the sustenance of life.
Residence
The act or fact of residing, abiding, or dwelling in a place for some continuance of time; as, the residence of an American in France or Italy for a year.
Existence
The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existence of the soul; immortal existence.
Plane
Any tree of the genus Platanus.
Refinement
The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
Meaning
of Mean
Peroration
The concluding part of an oration; especially, a final summing up and enforcement of an argument.
Live
To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation for a continuance of existence; as, animals and..
Appendix
Something appended or added; an appendage, adjunct, or concomitant.
Waiver
The act of waiving, or not insisting on, some right, claim, or privilege.
Inveteracy
Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom, habit, or disease; -- usually in a bad sense; as..
Pursuance
The act of pursuing or prosecuting; a following out or after.
Symbolism
The act of symbolizing, or the state of being symbolized; as, symbolism in Christian art is the representation of truth, virtues, vices, etc., by emblematic colors, signs, and forms.
Permanence
Alt. of Permanency
Implication
The act of implicating, or the state of being implicated.
Gradation
The act of progressing by regular steps or orderly arrangement; the state of being graded or arranged in ranks; as, the gradation of castes.
Perseverance
The act of persevering; persistence in anything undertaken; continued pursuit or prosecution of any business, or enterprise begun.
Expiration
The act of expiring
Series
A number of things or events standing or succeeding in order, and connected by a like relation; sequence; order; course; a succession of things; as, a continuous series of calamitous events.
Progression
The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward.
Antiquity
The quality of being ancient; ancientness; great age; as, a statue of remarkable antiquity; a family of great antiquity.
Step
To move the foot in walking; to advance or recede by raising and moving one of the feet to another resting place, or by moving both feet in succession.
Constancy
The state or quality of being constant or steadfast; freedom from change; stability; fixedness; immutability; as, the constancy of God in his nature and attributes.
Coloration
The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
Duration
The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists.
Overtone
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the ..
Hint
To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner; as, to hint a suspicion.
Differential
Relating to or indicating a difference; creating a difference; discriminating; special; as, differential characteristics; differential duties; a differential rate.
Failure
Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops.
Discontinue
To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.
Remove
To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.
Abjuration
The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return.
Close
To stop, or fill up, as an opening; to shut; as, to close the eyes; to close a door.
Infinity
Unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity.
Stop
To close, as an aperture, by filling or by obstructing; as, to stop the ears; hence, to stanch, as a wound.
Tag
Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
Space
Extension, considered independently of anything which it may contain; that which makes extended objects conceivable and possible.
Separation
The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.
Chorus
A band of singers and dancers.
Short-lived
Not living or lasting long; being of short continuance; as, a short-lived race of beings; short-lived pleasure; short-lived passion.
Shade
Comparative obscurity owing to interception or interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused by the intervention of something between the space contemplated and the source of light...
Maintenance
The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Inference
The act or process of inferring by deduction or induction.
Conclusion
The last part of anything; close; termination; end.
Intermittence
Act or state of intermitting; intermission.
Stay
A large, strong rope, employed to support a mast, by being extended from the head of one mast down to some other, or to some part of the vessel. Those which lead forward are called fore-and-aft ..
Coda
A few measures added beyond the natural termination of a composition.
Sense
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition ..
Proportion
The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or o..
Shadow
Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tre..
Incompleteness
The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.
Standing
of Stand
Prolongation
The act of lengthening in space or in time; extension; protraction.
Suspension
The act of suspending, or the state of being suspended; pendency; as, suspension from a hook.
Epilogue
A speech or short poem addressed to the spectators and recited by one of the actors, after the conclusion of the play.
Grade
A step or degree in any series, rank, quality, order; relative position or standing; as, grades of military rank; crimes of every grade; grades of flour.
Continuation
That act or state of continuing; the state of being continued; uninterrupted extension or succession; prolongation; propagation.
Distinction
A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division.
Intermission
The act or the state of intermitting; the state of being neglected or disused; disuse; discontinuance.
Point
To appoint.
Touch
To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.
Nuance
A shade of difference; a delicate gradation.
Period
A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, ..
Extension
The act of extending or the state of being extended; a stretching out; enlargement in breadth or continuation of length; increase; augmentation; expansion.
Expression
The act of expressing; the act of forcing out by pressure; as, the expression of juices or oils; also, of extorting or eliciting; as, a forcible expression of truth.
Consequence
That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause; a result.
Age
The whole duration of a being, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind; lifetime.
Termination
The act of terminating, or of limiting or setting bounds; the act of ending or concluding; as, a voluntary termination of hostilities.
End
The extreme or last point or part of any material thing considered lengthwise (the extremity of breadth being side); hence, extremity, in general; the concluding part; termination; close; limit;..
Reach
To retch.
Progress
A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance
Tread
To set the foot; to step.
Import
To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring (wares or merchandise) into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed to ..
Flow
imp. sing. of Fly, v. i.
Run
of Run
Notch
A hollow cut in anything; a nick; an indentation.
Pitch
A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.
Rung
of Ring
Ratio
The relation which one quantity or magnitude has to another of the same kind. It is expressed by the quotient of the division of the first by the second; thus, the ratio of 3 to 6 is expressed b..
Assumption
The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
Extent
Extended.
Interval
A space between things; a void space intervening between any two objects; as, an interval between two houses or hills.
Mark
A license of reprisals. See Marque.
Scope
That at which one aims; the thing or end to which the mind directs its view; that which is purposed to be reached or accomplished; hence, ultimate design, aim, or purpose; intention; drift; obje..
Caliber
Alt. of Calibre
Compass
A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.
Level
A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface of still water; -- this is the true level, an..
Standard
A flag; colors; a banner; especially, a national or other ensign.
Height
The condition of being high; elevated position.
Suggestion
The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
Division
The act or process of diving anything into parts, or the state of being so divided; separation.
Undertone
A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual.
Leap
A basket.
Presumption
The act of presuming, or believing upon probable evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon incomplete proof.
Scale
The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus ..
Prescriptive
Consisting in, or acquired by, immemorial or long-continued use and enjoyment; as, a prescriptive right of title; pleading the continuance and authority of long custom.
Check
A word of warning denoting that the king is in danger; such a menace of a player's king by an adversary's move as would, if it were any other piece, expose it to immediate capture. A king so men..
Cut
of Cut
Renunciation
The act of renouncing.
Amount
To go up; to ascend.
Measure
A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is ..
Way
Away.
Irregularity
The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
Afterthought
Reflection after an act; later or subsequent thought or expedient.
Round
To whisper.
Peg
A small, pointed piece of wood, used in fastening boards together, in attaching the soles of boots or shoes, etc.; as, a shoe peg.
Range
To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order; to rank; as, to range soldiers in line.
