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Demur
To interpose a demurrer. See Demurrer, 2.
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..
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 ..
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
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).
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Flatwise
With the flat side downward, or next to another object; not edgewise.
Dispensable
Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Enviable
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
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 ..
Impersonal
Not personal; not representing a person; not having personality.
Frosted
Covered with hoarfrost or anything resembling hoarfrost; ornamented with frosting; also, frost-bitten; as, a frosted cake; frosted glass.
Exceptionable
Liable to exception or objection; objectionable.
Diffidence
The state of being diffident; distrust; want of confidence; doubt of the power, ability, or disposition of others.
Behavior
Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the behavior of a ship in a storm; the behavior o..
Execrate
To denounce evil against, or to imprecate evil upon; to curse; to protest against as unholy or detestable; hence, to detest utterly; to abhor; to abominate.
Warrantable
Authorized by commission, precept, or right; justifiable; defensible; as, the seizure of a thief is always warrantable by law and justice; falsehood is never warrantable.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Anesthesia
Alt. of Anesthetic
Beloved
of Belove
Blockade
To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Virtu
A love of the fine arts; a taste for curiosities.
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.
Rate
To settle the relative scale, rank, position, amount, value, or quality of; as, to rate a ship; to rate a seaman; to rate a pension.
Equity
Equality of rights; natural justice or right; the giving, or desiring to give, to each man his due, according to reason, and the law of God to man; fairness in determination of conflicting claim..
See
To accompany in person; to escort; to wait upon; as, to see one home; to see one aboard the cars.
Than
A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the ..
Chill
To become surface-hardened by sudden cooling while solidifying; as, some kinds of cast iron chill to a greater depth than others.
Muss
A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
Chide
To rebuke; to reprove; to scold; to find fault with.
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.
Repulse
The act of repelling or driving back; also, the state of being repelled or driven back.
He
The man or male being (or object personified to which the masculine gender is assigned), previously designated; a pronoun of the masculine gender, usually referring to a specified subject alread..
Until
To; unto; towards; -- used of material objects.
Level
An instrument by which to find a horizontal line, or adjust something with reference to a horizontal line.
Vend
To transfer to another person for a pecuniary equivalent; to make an object of trade; to dispose of by sale; to sell; as, to vend goods; to vend vegetables.
Hurdle
A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for inclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc.; also, in fortification, used as r..
Conflagration
A fire extending to many objects, or over a large space; a general burning.
Mobile
Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
Fetish
A material object supposed among certain African tribes to represent in such a way, or to be so connected with, a supernatural being, that the possession of it gives to the possessor power to ..
Filler
One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling.
Descry
To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover.
Corbel
A bracket supporting a superincumbent object, or receiving the spring of an arch. Corbels were employed largely in Gothic architecture.
Scorn
An object of extreme disdain, contempt, or derision.
Inoffensive
Giving no offense, or provocation; causing no uneasiness, annoyance, or disturbance; as, an inoffensive man, answer, appearance.
Collineation
The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object.
Radiograph
A picture produced by the Rontgen rays upon a sensitive surface, photographic or fluorescent, especially a picture of opaque objects traversed by the rays.
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.
Strabismus
An affection of one or both eyes, in which the optic axes can not be directed to the same object, -- a defect due either to undue contraction or to undue relaxation of one or more of the muscles..
Telescope
An optical instrument used in viewing distant objects, as the heavenly bodies.
Metaphor
The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
Contribute
To give or grant i common with others; to give to a common stock or for a common purpose; to furnish or suply in part; to give (money or other aid) for a specified object; as, to contribute f..
Personalize
To make personal.
Sickening
of Sicken
Canopy
A covering fixed over a bed, dais, or the like, or carried on poles over an exalted personage or a sacred object, etc. chiefly as a mark of honor.
Protesting
of Protest
Distasteful
Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.
Objecting
of Object
Obstructive
Tending to obstruct; presenting obstacles; hindering; causing impediment.
Disparaging
of Disparage
Unbiased
Free from bias or prejudice; unprejudiced; impartial.
Deign
To esteem worthy; to consider worth notice; -- opposed to disdain.
Equitable
Possessing or exhibiting equity; according to natural right or natural justice; marked by a due consideration for what is fair, unbiased, or impartial; just; as an equitable decision; an equi..
Reprehend
To reprove or reprimand with a view of restraining, checking, or preventing; to make charge of fault against; to disapprove of; to chide; to blame; to censure.
Consent
Voluntary accordance with, or concurrence in, what is done or proposed by another; acquiescence; compliance; approval; permission.
Emblem
Inlay; inlaid or mosaic work; something ornamental inserted in a surface.
Ignoble
Of low birth or family; not noble; not illustrious; plebeian; common; humble.
Damnatory
Dooming to damnation; condemnatory.
Deprecatory
Serving to deprecate; tending to remove or avert evil by prayer; apologetic.
Objurgation
The act of objurgating; reproof.
Noumenon
The of itself unknown and unknowable rational object, or thing in itself, which is distinguished from the phenomenon through which it is apprehended by the senses, and by which it is interpreted..
Unprejudiced
Not prejudiced; free from undue bias or prepossession; not preoccupied by opinion; impartial; as, an unprejudiced mind; an unprejudiced judge.
Abominable
Worthy of, or causing, abhorrence, as a thing of evil omen; odious in the utmost degree; very hateful; detestable; loathsome; execrable.
Photomicrograph
An enlarged or macroscopic photograph of a microscopic object. See Microphotograph.
Irreproachable
Not reproachable; above reproach; not deserving reproach; blameless.
Disallow
To refuse to allow; to deny the force or validity of; to disown and reject; as, the judge disallowed the executor's charge.
Blame
An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.
Will
The power of choosing; the faculty or endowment of the soul by which it is capable of choosing; the faculty or power of the mind by which we decide to do or not to do; the power or faculty of pr..
Aim
To point or direct a missile weapon, or a weapon which propels as missile, towards an object or spot with the intent of hitting it; as, to aim at a fox, or at a target.
Repellent
Driving back; able or tending to repel.
Vituperative
Uttering or writing censure; containing, or characterized by, abuse; scolding; abusive.
Abhorrent
Abhorring; detesting; having or showing abhorrence; loathing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts.
Foul
An entanglement; a collision, as in a boat race.
Qualifier
One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
Herself
An emphasized form of the third person feminine pronoun; -- used as a subject with she; as, she herself will bear the blame; also used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or obje..
Her
The form of the objective and the possessive case of the personal pronoun she; as, I saw her with her purse out.
Yourself
An emphasized or reflexive form of the pronoun of the second person; -- used as a subject commonly with you; as, you yourself shall see it; also, alone in the predicate, either in the nominative..
She
This or that female; the woman understood or referred to; the animal of the female sex, or object personified as feminine, which was spoken of.
You
The pronoun of the second person, in the nominative, dative, and objective case, indicating the person or persons addressed. See the Note under Ye.
Himself
An emphasized form of the third person masculine pronoun; -- used as a subject usually with he; as, he himself will bear the blame; used alone in the predicate, either in the nominative or ob..
Myself
I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, ..
Censorious
Addicted to censure; apt to blame or condemn; severe in making remarks on others, or on their writings or manners.
Dolorous
Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.
Them
The objective case of they. See They.
Habeas corpus
A writ having for its object to bring a party before a court or judge; especially, one to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the ..
Impossible
Not possible; incapable of being done, of existing, etc.; unattainable in the nature of things, or by means at command; insuperably difficult under the circumstances; absurd or impracticable; ..
Outward
Alt. of Outwards
Established
of Establish
Dissenting
of Dissent
Gazingstock
A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt.
Plaintiff
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to defendant.
Objector
One who objects; one who offers objections to a proposition or measure.
Gripe
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty.
Admissibility
The quality of being admissible; admissibleness; as, the admissibility of evidence.
Sectarian
Pertaining to a sect, or to sects; peculiar to a sect; bigotedly attached to the tenets and interests of a denomination; as, sectarian principles or prejudices.
Scolding
of Scold
Satisfactory
Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or ..
Posit
To dispose or set firmly or fixedly; to place or dispose in relation to other objects.
Mismatch
To match unsuitably.
Organic
Of or pertaining to an organ or its functions, or to objects composed of organs; consisting of organs, or containing them; as, the organic structure of animals and plants; exhibiting characters ..
Stinking
of Stink
Falter
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley.
Disagree
To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance.
Candor
Whiteness; brightness; (as applied to moral conditions) usullied purity; innocence.
Repulse
To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy.
Despicable
Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless; as, a despicable man; despicable company; a despicable gift.
Altitude
Space extended upward; height; the perpendicular elevation of an object above its foundation, above the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a m..
Sedulous
Diligent in application or pursuit; constant, steady, and persevering in business, or in endeavors to effect an object; steadily industrious; assiduous; as, the sedulous bee.
Contradict
To assert the contrary of; to oppose in words; to take issue with; to gainsay; to deny the truth of, as of a statement or a speaker; to impugn.
Obstacle
That which stands in the way, or opposes; anything that hinders progress; a hindrance; an obstruction, physical or moral.
Recollection
The act of recollecting, or recalling to the memory; the operation by which objects are recalled to the memory, or ideas revived in the mind; reminiscence; remembrance.
Ridicule
Remarks concerning a subject or a person designed to excite laughter with a degree of contempt; wit of that species which provokes contemptuous laughter; disparagement by making a person an o..
Landmark
A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territor..
Ramble
To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world..
Inculpable
Faultless; blameless; innocent.
Dove
of Dive
Innocent
Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
Eyepiece
The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed.
Lens
A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, ..
Reservation
The act of reserving, or keeping back; concealment, or withholding from disclosure; reserve.
Monition
Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Prepossessed
of Prepossess
Doctrinaire
One who would apply to political or other practical concerns the abstract doctrines or the theories of his own philosophical system; a propounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist..
Biased
of Bias
Reproof
Refutation; confutation; contradiction.
Threat
The expression of an intention to inflict evil or injury on another; the declaration of an evil, loss, or pain to come; menace; threatening; denunciation.
Rebuke
To check, silence, or put down, with reproof; to restrain by expression of disapprobation; to reprehend sharply and summarily; to chide; to reprove; to admonish.
Lesson
Anything read or recited to a teacher by a pupil or learner; something, as a portion of a book, assigned to a pupil to be studied or learned at one time.
Magnifier
One who, or that which, magnifies.
Reproof
An expression of blame or censure; especially, blame expressed to the face; censure for a fault; chiding; reproach.
Fairly
In a fair manner; clearly; openly; plainly; fully; distinctly; frankly.
Eyeglass
A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.
Prism
A solid whose bases or ends are any similar, equal, and parallel plane figures, and whose sides are parallelograms.
Camera
A chamber, or instrument having a chamber. Specifically: The camera obscura when used in photography. See Camera, and Camera obscura.
Diversion
The act of turning aside from any course, occupation, or object; as, the diversion of a stream from its channel; diversion of the mind from business.
Distance
The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
Oyster
Any marine bivalve mollusk of the genus Ostrea. They are usually found adhering to rocks or other fixed objects in shallow water along the seacoasts, or in brackish water in the mouth of rivers...
Ridicule
An object of sport or laughter; a laughingstock; a laughing matter.
Vilifying
of Vilify
Ocular
Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof.
Apprehension
The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Observation
The act or the faculty of observing or taking notice; the act of seeing, or of fixing the mind upon, anything.
Differ
To be or stand apart; to disagree; to be unlike; to be distinguished; -- with from.
Grievance
A cause of uneasiness and complaint; a wrong done and suffered; that which gives ground for remonstrance or resistance, as arising from injustice, tyranny, etc.; injury.
Veritable
Agreeable to truth or to fact; actual; real; true; genuine.
Insulation
The act of insulating, or the state of being insulated; detachment from other objects; isolation.
Renitency
The state or quality of being renitent; resistance; reluctance.
Reader
One who reads.
Displeasure
State of disgrace or disfavor; disfavor.
Missile
Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
Sharpshooter
One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
Intolerable
Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerabl..
Truth
The quality or being true; as: -- (a) Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been; or shall be.
Spank
To strike, as the breech, with the open hand; to slap.
Hieroglyphic
A sacred character; a character in picture writing, as of the ancient Egyptians, Mexicans, etc. Specifically, in the plural, the picture writing of the ancient Egyptian priests. It is made up..
Memorabilia
Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Unlawful
Not lawful; contrary to law.
Censurable
Deserving of censure; blamable; culpable; reprehensible; as, a censurable person, or censurable conduct.
Inexpediency
The quality or state of being inexpedient; want of fitness; unsuitableness to the end or object; impropriety; as, the inexpedience of some measures.
Reasonable
Having the faculty of reason; endued with reason; rational; as, a reasonable being.
Swayed
of Sway
Idealism
The quality or state of being ideal.
Prepositional
Of or pertaining to a preposition; of the nature of a preposition.
Noisome
Noxious to health; hurtful; mischievous; unwholesome; insalubrious; destructive; as, noisome effluvia.
Repulsive
Serving, or able, to repulse; repellent; as, a repulsive force.
Victim
A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of.
Authenticated
of Authenticate
Excusable
That may be excused, forgiven, justified, or acquitted of blame; pardonable; as, the man is excusable; an excusable action.
Venial
Capable of being forgiven; not heinous; excusable; pardonable; as, a venial fault or transgression.
Partial
Of, pertaining to, or affecting, a part only; not general or universal; not total or entire; as, a partial eclipse of the moon.
Adorable
Deserving to be adored; worthy of divine honors.
Justifiable
Capable of being justified, or shown to be just.
Cool
To make cool or cold; to reduce the temperature of; as, ice cools water.
Clairvoyant
Pertaining to clairvoyance; discerning objects while in a mesmeric state which are not present to the senses.
Soul
Sole.
Reluctant
Striving against; opposed in desire; unwilling; disinclined; loth.
Provocative
Serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; exciting.
Phenomenal
Relating to, or of the nature of, a phenomenon; hence, extraordinary; wonderful; as, a phenomenal memory.
Opposer
One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
Defendant
Serving, or suitable, for defense; defensive.
They
The plural of he, she, or it. They is never used adjectively, but always as a pronoun proper, and sometimes refers to persons without an antecedent expressed.
Spyglass
A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
Pattern
Anything proposed for imitation; an archetype; an exemplar; that which is to be, or is worthy to be, copied or imitated; as, a pattern of a machine.
Tacit
Done or made in silence; implied, but not expressed; silent; as, tacit consent is consent by silence, or by not interposing an objection.
Attested
of Attest
Question
The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
Exemplar
A model, original, or pattern, to be copied or imitated; a specimen; sometimes; an ideal model or type, as that which an artist conceives.
Obstinacy
A fixedness in will, opinion, or resolution that can not be shaken at all, or only with great difficulty; firm and usually unreasonable adherence to an opinion, purpose, or system; unyielding ..
Picketing
of Picket
Scorn
Extreme and lofty contempt; haughty disregard; that disdain which springs from the opinion of the utter meanness and unworthiness of an object.
Authenticity
The quality of being authentic or of established authority for truth and correctness.
Microscope
An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Substantiated
of Substantiate
Disapprove
To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others.
Vary
To change the aspect of; to alter in form, appearance, substance, position, or the like; to make different by a partial change; to modify; as, to vary the properties, proportions, or nature o..
Blowpipe
A tube for directing a jet of air into a fire or into the flame of a lamp or candle, so as to concentrate the heat on some object.
Insufficiency
The quality or state of being insufficient; want of sufficiency; deficiency; inadequateness; as, the insufficiency of provisions, of an excuse, etc.
Compunction
A pricking; stimulation.
Disesteem
Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute.
Objection
The act of objecting; as, to prevent agreement, or action, by objection.
Glass
A hard, brittle, translucent, and commonly transparent substance, white or colored, having a conchoidal fracture, and made by fusing together sand or silica with lime, potash, soda, or lead oxid..
Silhouette
A representation of the outlines of an object filled in with a black color; a profile portrait in black, such as a shadow appears to be.
Syntax
Connected system or order; union of things; a number of things jointed together; organism.
Something
Anything unknown, undetermined, or not specifically designated; a certain indefinite thing; an indeterminate or unknown event; an unspecified task, work, or thing.
Orpheus
The famous mythic Thracian poet, son of the Muse Calliope, and husband of Eurydice. He is reputed to have had power to entrance beasts and inanimate objects by the music of his lyre.
Each
Every one of the two or more individuals composing a number of objects, considered separately from the rest. It is used either with or without a following noun; as, each of you or each one of ..
Impartial
Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just.
Praxis
Use; practice; especially, exercise or discipline for a specific purpose or object.
Disagreeable
Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; contrary; unsuitable.
Repugnant
Disposed to fight against; hostile; at war with; being at variance; contrary; inconsistent; refractory; disobedient; also, distasteful in a high degree; offensive; -- usually followed by to, ..
Disrespect
Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy.
Certified
of Certify
Unworthy
Not worthy; wanting merit, value, or fitness; undeserving; worthless; unbecoming; -- often with of.
Objectionable
Liable to objection; likely to be objected to or disapproved of; offensive; as, objectionable words.
Carping
of Carp
Blackball
A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
Meat
Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.
Decision
Cutting off; division; detachment of a part.
Masterpiece
Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.
Lecture
The act of reading; as, the lecture of Holy Scripture.
Sermon
A discourse or address; a talk; a writing; as, the sermons of Chaucer.
Midst
The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
Warped
of Warp
Jostle
To run against and shake; to push out of the way; to elbow; to hustle; to disturb by crowding; to crowd against.
Stickle
To separate combatants by intervening.
Entity
A real being, whether in thought (as an ideal conception) or in fact; being; essence; existence.
Pause
A temporary stop or rest; an intermission of action; interruption; suspension; cessation.
Ugly
Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.
Useful
Full of use, advantage, or profit; producing, or having power to produce, good; serviceable for any end or object; helpful toward advancing any purpose; beneficial; profitable; advantageous; as,..
Envisage
To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard.
Effort
An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an objec..
Visualize
To make visual, or visible; to see in fancy.
Reprehension
Reproof; censure; blame; disapproval.
Whirlpool
An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; an..
Contrariety
The state or quality of being contrary; opposition; repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
Gravitate
To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.
Adequate
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition.
Colored
of Color
Filament
A thread or threadlike object or appendage; a fiber; esp. (Bot.), the threadlike part of the stamen supporting the anther.
Gross
Great; large; bulky; fat; of huge size; excessively large.
Magnetism
The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet.
Veil
Something hung up, or spread out, to intercept the view, and hide an object; a cover; a curtain; esp., a screen, usually of gauze, crape, or similar diaphnous material, to hide or protect the fa..
Litigant
Disposed to litigate; contending in law; engaged in a lawsuit; as, the parties litigant.
Recoil
To start, roll, bound, spring, or fall back; to take a reverse motion; to be driven or forced backward; to return.
Discretion
Disjunction; separation.
Swear
To affirm or utter a solemn declaration, with an appeal to God for the truth of what is affirmed; to make a promise, threat, or resolve on oath; also, to affirm solemnly by some sacred object, o..
Especial
Distinguished among others of the same class or kind; special; concerning a species or a single object; principal; particular; as, in an especial manner or degree.
Bezel
The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.
Appropriation
The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground f..
Rebuff
Repercussion, or beating back; a quick and sudden resistance.
Alarm
A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy.
Volition
The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
Admonition
Gentle or friendly reproof; counseling against a fault or error; expression of authoritative advice; friendly caution or warning.
Free will
A will free from improper coercion or restraint.
Immanent
Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, tr..
Fractious
Apt to break out into a passion; apt to scold; cross; snappish; ugly; unruly; as, a fractious man; a fractious horse.
Buoy
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
Indwelling
of Indwell
Homily
A discourse or sermon read or pronounced to an audience; a serious discourse.
Theory
A doctrine, or scheme of things, which terminates in speculation or contemplation, without a view to practice; hypothesis; speculation.
Intention
A stretching or bending of the mind toward of the mind toward an object; closeness of application; fixedness of attention; earnestness.
Frown
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
Disgraceful
Bringing disgrace; causing shame; shameful; dishonorable; unbecoming; as, profaneness is disgraceful to a man.
Ideation
The faculty or capacity of the mind for forming ideas; the exercise of this capacity; the act of the mind by which objects of sense are apprehended and retained as objects of thought.
Jigger
A species of flea (Sarcopsylla, / Pulex, penetrans), which burrows beneath the skin. See Chigoe.
Teaching
of Teach
Attention
The act or state of attending or heeding; the application of the mind to any object of sense, representation, or thought; notice; exclusive or special consideration; earnest consideration, th..
Chute
A framework, trough, or tube, upon or through which objects are made to slide from a higher to a lower level, or through which water passes to a wheel.
Undoubted
Not doubted; not called in question; indubitable; indisputable; as, undoubted proof; undoubted hero.
Documentary
Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing.
Multiplicity
The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.
Real
A small Spanish silver coin; also, a denomination of money of account, formerly the unit of the Spanish monetary system.
Protestation
The act of making a protest; a public avowal; a solemn declaration, especially of dissent.
Phase
That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.
Exclude
To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to ..
Revenge
To inflict harm in return for, as an injury, insult, etc.; to exact satisfaction for, under a sense of injury; to avenge; -- followed either by the wrong received, or by the person or thing w..
Correction
The act of correcting, or making that right which was wrong; change for the better; amendment; rectification, as of an erroneous statement.
Pommel
A knob or ball; an object resembling a ball in form
Reality
The state or quality of being real; actual being or existence of anything, in distinction from mere appearance; fact.
Mirage
An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected imag..
Next
Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
Merchandise
The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
Inattentive
Not attentive; not fixing the mind on an object; heedless; careless; negligent; regardless; as, an inattentive spectator or hearer; an inattentive habit.
Passionless
Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm.
Frozen
of Freeze
Soulless
Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.
Statue
The likeness of a living being sculptured or modeled in some solid substance, as marble, bronze, or wax; an image; as, a statue of Hercules, or of a lion.
Analysis
A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examination of the component parts of a subject, each separately, as ..
Predicate
To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow.
Attenuate
To make thin or slender, as by mechanical or chemical action upon inanimate objects, or by the effects of starvation, disease, etc., upon living bodies.
Discourse
The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning ..
Defense
Alt. of Defence
Darling
One dearly beloved; a favorite.
Fairness
The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.
Triad
A union of three; three objects treated as one; a ternary; a trinity; as, a triad of deities.
Purposeless
Having no purpose or result; objectless.
Inexcitable
Not susceptible of excitement; dull; lifeless; torpid.
Genus
A class of objects divided into several subordinate species; a class more extensive than a species; a precisely defined and exactly divided class; one of the five predicable conceptions, or sort..
Image
An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a visible presentation; a copy; a likeness; a..
Partisan
An adherent to a party or faction; esp., one who is strongly and passionately devoted to a party or an interest.
Volume
A roll; a scroll; a written document rolled up for keeping or for use, after the manner of the ancients.
Minuscule
Any very small, minute object.
Fata Morgana
A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.
Deterrent
Serving to deter.
Berate
To rate or chide vehemently; to scold.
Execrable
Deserving to be execrated; accursed; damnable; detestable; abominable; as, an execrable wretch.
Grub
To dig in or under the ground, generally for an object that is difficult to reach or extricate; to be occupied in digging.
Chill
A moderate but disagreeable degree of cold; a disagreeable sensation of coolness, accompanied with shivering.
Apostate
One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a renegade.
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.
Instance
The act or quality of being instant or pressing; urgency; solicitation; application; suggestion; motion.
Monad
An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Hundred
The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units..
Mumbo Jumbo
An object of superstitious homage and fear.
Beef
An animal of the genus Bos, especially the common species, B. taurus, including the bull, cow, and ox, in their full grown state; esp., an ox or cow fattened for food.
Yoga
A species of asceticism among the Hindoos, which consists in a complete abstraction from all worldly objects, by which the votary expects to obtain union with the universal spirit, and to acquir..
Vertigo
Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an ..
Obscenity
That quality in words or things which presents what is offensive to chasity or purity of mind; obscene or impure lanquage or acts; moral impurity; lewdness; obsceneness; as, the obscenity of a ..
Interested
of Interest
Wander
To ramble here and there without any certain course or with no definite object in view; to range about; to stroll; to rove; as, to wander over the fields.
Modifier
One who, or that which, modifies.
Lust
Pleasure.
Tolerant
Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
Objurgatory
Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory.
Ridiculing
of Ridicule
Contemptuous
Manifesting or expressing contempt or disdain; scornful; haughty; insolent; disdainful.
Zealot
One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one absorbed in devot..
Surgery
The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which..
Objectiveness
Objectivity.
Piece
A fact; an item; as, a piece of news; a piece of knowledge.
Competition
The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for ..
Ratify
To approve and sanction; to make valid; to confirm; to establish; to settle; especially, to give sanction to, as something done by an agent or servant; as, to ratify an agreement, treaty, or ..
Icy
Pertaining to, resembling, or abounding in, ice; cold; frosty.
Persona
Same as Person, n., 8.
Shelf
A flat tablet or ledge of any material set horizontally at a distance from the floor, to hold objects of use or ornament.
Assent
To admit a thing as true; to express one's agreement, acquiescence, concurrence, or concession.
Ultimatum
A final proposition, concession, or condition; especially, the final propositions, conditions, or terms, offered by either of the parties in a diplomatic negotiation; the most favorable terms..
Disinclined
of Disincline
Collector
One who collects things which are separate; esp., one who makes a business or practice of collecting works of art, objects in natural history, etc.; as, a collector of coins.
Condescend
To stoop or descend; to let one's self down; to submit; to waive the privilege of rank or dignity; to accommodate one's self to an inferior.
Tidy
The wren; -- called also tiddy.
Tolerable
Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
Moderate
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Tenable
Capable of being held, naintained, or defended, as against an assailant or objector, or againts attempts to take or process; as, a tenable fortress, a tenable argument.
Viable
Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant.
Beastly
Pertaining to, or having the form, nature, or habits of, a beast.
Brawler
One that brawls; wrangler.
Renitent
Resisting pressure or the effect of it; acting against impulse by elastic force.
Disputant
Disputing; engaged in controversy.
Judicious
Of or relating to a court; judicial.
Master
A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
Acquiesce
To rest satisfied, or apparently satisfied, or to rest without opposition and discontent (usually implying previous opposition or discontent); to accept or consent by silence or by omitting t..
Objectivity
The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective.
Ecstasy
The state of being beside one's self or rapt out of one's self; a state in which the mind is elevated above the reach of ordinary impressions, as when under the influence of overpowering emotion..
Winning
of Win
Cyclorama
A pictorial view which is extended circularly, so that the spectator is surrounded by the objects represented as by things in nature. The realistic effect is increased by putting, in the space ..
Unexceptionable
Not liable to any exception or objection; unobjectionable; faultless; good; excellent; as, a man of most unexceptionable character.
Unimpeachable
Not impeachable; not to be called in question; exempt from liability to accusation; free from stain, guilt, or fault; irreproachable; blameless; as, an unimpeachable reputation; unimpeachable..
Tempting
of Tempt
Toothsome
Grateful to the taste; palatable.
Clack
To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
Qualm
Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
Dissident
No agreeing; dissenting; discordant; different.
Superaltar
A raised shelf or stand on the back of an altar, on which different objects can be placed; a predella or gradino.
Acceptable
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
Unit
A single thing or person.
Counteraction
Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
Joker
One who makes jokes or jests.
Choice
Act of choosing; the voluntary act of selecting or separating from two or more things that which is preferred; the determination of the mind in preferring one thing to another; election.
Classic
Alt. of Classical
Diversified
Distinguished by various forms, or by a variety of aspects or objects; variegated; as, diversified scenery or landscape.
Unfeeling
Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate.
Twisted
of Twist
Respectable
Worthy of respect; fitted to awaken esteem; deserving regard; hence, of good repute; not mean; as, a respectable citizen.
Rebellious
Engaged in rebellion; disposed to rebel; of the nature of rebels or of rebellion; resisting government or lawful authority by force.
Recalcitrant
Kicking back; recalcitrating; hence, showing repugnance or opposition; refractory.
Universal
Of or pertaining to the universe; extending to, including, or affecting, the whole number, quantity, or space; unlimited; general; all-reaching; all-pervading; as, universal ruin; universal g..
Dogmatic
One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
Withstand
To stand against; to oppose; to resist, either with physical or moral force; as, to withstand an attack of troops; to withstand eloquence or arguments.
Scoffing
of Scoff
Vile
Low; base; worthless; mean; despicable.
Insusceptible
Not susceptible; not capable of being moved, affected, or impressed; that can not feel, receive, or admit; as, a limb insusceptible of pain; a heart insusceptible of pity; a mind insusceptibl..
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.
Baseness
The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.
Condemnatory
Condemning; containing or imposing condemnation or censure; as, a condemnatory sentence or decree.
Quintain
An object to be tilted at; -- called also quintel.
Incline
To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
Honest
Decent; honorable; suitable; becoming.
Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
Abusive
Wrongly used; perverted; misapplied.
Dispassion
Freedom from passion; an undisturbed state; apathy.
Person
A character or part, as in a play; a specific kind or manifestation of individual character, whether in real life, or in literary or dramatic representation; an assumed character.
Espy
To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; ..
Drift
A driving; a violent movement.
Arctic
Pertaining to, or situated under, the northern constellation called the Bear; northern; frigid; as, the arctic pole, circle, region, ocean; an arctic expedition, night, temperature.
Materialize
To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
Heartless
Without a heart.
Exception
The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
Motive
That which moves; a mover.
Discountenance
To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
Project
The place from which a thing projects, or starts forth.
Reply
To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
Accede
To approach; to come forward; -- opposed to recede.
Blunt
Having a thick edge or point, as an instrument; dull; not sharp.
Acquisition
The act or process of acquiring.
Damn
To condemn; to declare guilty; to doom; to adjudge to punishment; to sentence; to censure.
Dishonorable
Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.
Argument
Proof; evidence.
Recitation
The act of reciting; rehearsal; repetition of words or sentences.
Translucent
Transmitting rays of light without permitting objects to be distinctly seen; partially transparent.
Recital
The act of reciting; the repetition of the words of another, or of a document; rehearsal; as, the recital of testimony.
Detached
of Detach
Reject
To cast from one; to throw away; to discard.
Benevolent
Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable.
Clairvoyance
A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.
Perversion
The act of perverting, or the state of being perverted; a turning from truth or right; a diverting from the true intent or object; a change to something worse; a turning or applying to a wrong ..
Outrageous
Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious.
Opinionated
Stiff in opinion; firmly or unduly adhering to one's own opinion or to preconceived notions; obstinate in opinion.
Squawk
To utter a shrill, abrupt scream; to squeak harshly.
Indifferent
Not mal/ing a difference; having no influence or preponderating weight; involving no preference, concern, or attention; of no account; without significance or importance.
Slot
A broad, flat, wooden bar; a slat or sloat.
Prejudiced
of Prejudice
Actual
Involving or comprising action; active.
Contest
To make a subject of dispute, contention, litigation, or emulation; to contend for; to call in question; to controvert; to oppose; to dispute.
Subjective
Of or pertaining to a subject.
Goal
The mark set to bound a race, and to or around which the constestants run, or from which they start to return to it again; the place at which a race or a journey is to end.
Resolution
The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of analyzing a complex notion, or solving a v..
See
A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised.
Tangible
Perceptible to the touch; tactile; palpable.
Revolt
To turn away; to abandon or reject something; specifically, to turn away, or shrink, with abhorrence.
Sensitive
Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul.
Sake
Final cause; end; purpose of obtaining; cause; motive; reason; interest; concern; account; regard or respect; -- used chiefly in such phrases as, for the sake of, for his sake, for man's sake, f..
Destiny
That to which any person or thing is destined; predetermined state; condition foreordained by the Divine or by human will; fate; lot; doom.
Derisive
Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision.
Attainable
Capable of being attained or reached by efforts of the mind or body; capable of being compassed or accomplished by efforts directed to the object.
Disappointment
The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration.
Ass
A quadruped of the genus Equus (E. asinus), smaller than the horse, and having a peculiarly harsh bray and long ears. The tame or domestic ass is patient, slow, and sure-footed, and has become t..
Pleading
of Plead
Captious
Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.
Ichnography
A horizontal section of a building or other object, showing its true dimensions according to a geometric scale; a ground plan; a map; also, the art of making such plans.
Aspiration
The act of aspirating; the pronunciation of a letter with a full or strong emission of breath; an aspirated sound.
Remonstrate
To point out; to show clearly; to make plain or manifest; hence, to prove; to demonstrate.
Reaction
Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
Deprecate
To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
Explanation
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty.
Blame
To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; to reproach.
Ostracize
To exile by ostracism; to banish by a popular vote, as at Athens.
Corporeal
Having a body; consisting of, or pertaining to, a material body or substance; material; -- opposed to spiritual or immaterial.
Odious
Hateful; deserving or receiving hatred; as, an odious name, system, vice.
Crude
In its natural state; not cooked or prepared by fire or heat; undressed; not altered, refined, or prepared for use by any artificial process; raw; as, crude flesh.
Life
The state of being which begins with generation, birth, or germination, and ends with death; also, the time during which this state continues; that state of an animal or plant in which all or an..
Rating
of Rate
Attractive
Having the power or quality of attracting or drawing; as, the attractive force of bodies.
Wretch
A miserable person; one profoundly unhappy.
Nasty
Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.
Christcross
The mark of the cross, as cut, painted, written, or stamped on certain objects, -- sometimes as the sign of 12 o'clock on a dial.
Consent
To agree in opinion or sentiment; to be of the same mind; to accord; to concur.
Representation
The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.
Sufficient
Equal to the end proposed; adequate to wants; enough; ample; competent; as, provision sufficient for the family; an army sufficient to defend the country.
Unquestionable
Not questionable; as, an unquestionable title.
Ideal
Existing in idea or thought; conceptional; intellectual; mental; as, ideal knowledge.
Curiosity
The state or quality or being curious; nicety; accuracy; exactness; elaboration.
Validity
The quality or state of being valid; strength; force; especially, power to convince; justness; soundness; as, the validity of an argument or proof; the validity of an objection.
Admissible
Entitled to be admitted, or worthy of being admitted; that may be allowed or conceded; allowable; as, the supposition is hardly admissible.
Obstruction
The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed.
Grudge
To look upon with desire to possess or to appropriate; to envy (one) the possession of; to begrudge; to covet; to give with reluctance; to desire to get back again; -- followed by the direct ..
Pleasure
The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or the enjoyment of something good, delightful,..
Presentable
Capable or admitting of being presented; suitable to be exhibited, represented, or offered; fit to be brought forward or set forth; hence, fitted to be introduced to another, or to go into so..
Invective
Characterized by invection; critical; denunciatory; satirical; abusive; railing.
Substantiate
To make to exist; to make real.
Neutral
Not engaged on either side; not taking part with or assisting either of two or more contending parties; neuter; indifferent.
Ascertained
of Ascertain
Stuff
Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
Intellect
The part or faculty of the human soul by which it knows, as distinguished from the power to feel and to will; sometimes, the capacity for higher forms of knowledge, as distinguished from the pow..
Pleasing
of Please
Protester
One who protests; one who utters a solemn declaration.
Ambition
The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing.
Chilly
Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering.
Equal
Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied to number, degree, quantity, and intensity, and to any subj..
Appetizing
Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food.
Fetid
Having an offensive smell; stinking.
Reprimand
Severe or formal reproof; reprehension, private or public.
Spiritless
Destitute of spirit; wanting animation; wanting cheerfulness; dejected; depressed.
Outline
The line which marks the outer limits of an object or figure; the exterior line or edge; contour.
Martyr
One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
Purpose
That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; ..
Numerous
Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.
Physical
Of or pertaining to nature (as including all created existences); in accordance with the laws of nature; also, of or relating to natural or material things, or to the bodily structure, as opp..
