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Periphrase
To use circumlocution.
Gossip
To run about and tattle; to tell idle tales.
Angelology
A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.
Gloaming
Twilight; dusk; the fall of the evening.
Grogshop
A shop or room where strong liquors are sold and drunk; a dramshop.
Oxygenation
The act or process of combining or of treating with oxygen; oxidation.
Judaism
The religious doctrines and rites of the Jews as enjoined in the laws of Moses.
String
The points made in a game.
Collect
To infer from observed facts; to conclude from premises.
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 ..
Parabola
A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant fro..
Stem
The basal portion of the body of one of the Pennatulacea, or of a gorgonian.
Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Collectively
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
Anaesthetization
The process of anaesthetizing; also, the condition of the nervous system induced by anaesthetics.
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.
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.
Archery
The use of the bow and arrows in battle, hunting, etc.; the art, practice, or skill of shooting with a bow and arrows.
Untruthful
Not truthful; unveracious; contrary to the truth or the fact.
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.
Easterly
Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
Employed
of Employ
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..
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.
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.
Partialism
Partiality; specifically (Theol.), the doctrine of the Partialists.
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.
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 ..
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..
Levanter
One who levants, or decamps.
Hypodermic
Of or pertaining to the parts under the skin.
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.
Prove
To ascertain or establish the genuineness or validity of; to verify; as, to prove a will.
Mortgagee
The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.
Waxwork
Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
Fantoccini
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
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.
Hypochondriacal
Same as Hypochondriac, 2.
Jocularity
Jesting; merriment.
Inference
That which inferred; a truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; a conclusion; a deduction.
Tincture
A slight taste superadded to any substance; as, a tincture of orange peel.
Object
Sight; show; appearance; aspect.
Cut
Overcome by liquor; tipsy.
Witching
of Witch
Athletics
The art of training by athletic exercises; the games and sports of athletes.
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 ..
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.
Shy
Reserved; coy; disinclined to familiar approach.
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.
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.
Coercion
The act or process of coercing.
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.
Nightcap
A cap worn in bed to protect the head, or in undress.
Rose
imp. of Rise.
Component
A constituent part; an ingredient.
Venereal
Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
Nay
To refuse.
Spread
An unlimited expanse of discontinuous points.
Live
To have a spiritual existence; to be quickened, nourished, and actuated by divine influence or faith.
Kilometer
Alt. of Kilometre
Stockbroker
A broker who deals in stocks.
Eclampsia
A fancied perception of flashes of light, a symptom of epilepsy; hence, epilepsy itself; convulsions.
Revealing
of Reveal
Classicist
One learned in the classics; an advocate for the classics.
Laxative
Having a tendency to loosen or relax.
Cock
To turn (the eye) obliquely and partially close its lid, as an expression of derision or insinuation.
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.
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..
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.
Bungler
A clumsy, awkward workman; one who bungles.
Monocotyl
Any monocotyledonous plant.
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.
Tear
To move and act with turbulent violence; to rush with violence; hence, to rage; to rave.
Fourscore
Four times twenty; eighty.
Referendum
A diplomatic agent's note asking for instructions from his government concerning a particular matter or point.
Firecracker
See Cracker., n., 3.
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.
User
One who uses.
Perfidy
The act of violating faith or allegiance; violation of a promise or vow, or of trust reposed; faithlessness; treachery.
Funicular
Consisting of a small cord or fiber.
Ploy
To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy.
Paralyzed
of Paralyze
Disproved
of Disprove
Carrying
of Carry
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.
Contamination
The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
Close
Uttered with a relatively contracted opening of the mouth, as certain sounds of e and o in French, Italian, and German; -- opposed to open.
Cocktail
A beverage made of brandy, whisky, or gin, iced, flavored, and sweetened.
Diminish
To make smaller by a half step; to make (an interval) less than minor; as, a diminished seventh.
Blank
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Roughhewn
Of coarse manners; rude; uncultivated; rough-grained.
List
The lobe of the ear; the ear itself.
Specialty
A particular or peculiar case.
Redeem
To make good by performing fully; to fulfill; as, to redeem one's promises.
Tentative
An essay; a trial; an experiment.
Preternatural
Beyond of different from what is natural, or according to the regular course of things, but not clearly supernatural or miraculous; strange; inexplicable; extraordinary; uncommon; irregular; ..
Prevaricator
One who prevaricates.
Archive
The place in which public records or historic documents are kept.
Caesarism
A system of government in which unrestricted power is exercised by a single person, to whom, as Caesar or emperor, it has been committed by the popular will; imperialism; also, advocacy or su..
Hazard
Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming.
Homocercy
The possession of a homocercal tail.
Main
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
Moderateness
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
Fundamentally
Primarily; originally; essentially; radically; at the foundation; in origin or constituents.
Bristling
of Bristle
Indiscrimination
Want of discrimination or distinction; impartiality.
Inattention
Want of attention, or failure to pay attention; disregard; heedlessness; neglect.
Collectivist
An advocate of collectivism.
Endowed
of Endow
Fabian
Of, pertaining to, or in the manner of, the Roman general, Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus; cautious; dilatory; avoiding a decisive contest.
Imaginative
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
Rigged
of Rig
Nuncupate
To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally.
Misfortune
Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Evening
of Even
Blackguard
The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were ..
Taskmaster
One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer.
Deliberative
Pertaining to deliberation; proceeding or acting by deliberation, or by discussion and examination; deliberating; as, a deliberative body.
Addiction
The state of being addicted; devotion; inclination.
Invented
of Invent
Aesthetics
Alt. of Esthetics
Pellucid
Transparent; clear; limpid; translucent; not opaque.
Martial
Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance.
Undaunted
Not daunted; not subdued or depressed by fear.
Carving
of Carve
Electron
Amber; also, the alloy of gold and silver, called electrum.
Churchgoer
One who attends church.
Condign
Worthy; suitable; deserving; fit.
Bragging
of Brag
Dispensable
Capable of being dispensed or administered.
Appertaining
of Appertain
Bushing
of Bush
Agnosticism
That doctrine which, professing ignorance, neither asserts nor denies.
Composite
Made up of distinct parts or elements; compounded; as, a composite language.
Enviable
Fitted to excite envy; capable of awakening an ardent desire to posses or to resemble.
Hydraulic
Of or pertaining to hydraulics, or to fluids in motion; conveying, or acting by, water; as, an hydraulic clock, crane, or dock.
Autarchy
Self-sufficiency.
Swashbuckler
A bully or braggadocio; a swaggering, boastful fellow; a swaggerer.
Detrain
To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train.
Provided
of Provide
Cock-a-hoop
Boastful; defiant; exulting. Also used adverbially.
Perennially
In a perennial manner.
Commensal
One who eats at the same table.
Emulsion
Any liquid preparation of a color and consistency resembling milk; as: (a) In pharmacy, an extract of seeds, or a mixture of oil and water united by a mucilaginous substance. (b) In photograp..
Introspective
Inspecting within; seeing inwardly; capable of, or exercising, inspection; self-conscious.
Annalist
A writer of annals.
Assertive
Positive; affirming confidently; affirmative; peremptory.
Badminton
A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
Saleswoman
A woman whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Arousing
of Arouse
Centenarian
Of or relating to a hundred years.
Admixture
The act of mixing; mixture.
Cadence
The act or state of declining or sinking.
Occultism
A certain Oriental system of theosophy.
Caravan
A company of travelers, pilgrims, or merchants, organized and equipped for a long journey, or marching or traveling together, esp. through deserts and countries infested by robbers or hostile ..
Forethought
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate.
Rechabite
One of the descendants of Jonadab, the son of Rechab, all of whom by his injunction abstained from the use of intoxicating drinks and even from planting the vine. Jer. xxxv. 2-19. Also, in mo..
Antinomian
Of or pertaining to the Antinomians; opposed to the doctrine that the moral law is obligatory.
Bite
A morsel; as much as is taken at once by biting.
Grocery
The commodities sold by grocers, as tea, coffee, spices, etc.; -- in the United States almost always in the plural form, in this sense.
Equipped
of Equip
Impelling
of Impel
Populate
Populous.
Phonetics
The doctrine or science of sounds; especially those of the human voice; phonology.
Mischance
Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
Nonadmission
Failure to be admitted.
Bicameral
Consisting of, or including, two chambers, or legislative branches.
Embolden
To give boldness or courage to; to encourage.
Misadventure
Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
Gorge
A defile between mountains.
Present
Hence: To endow; to bestow a gift upon; to favor, as with a donation; also, to court by gifts.
Expensive
Occasioning expense; calling for liberal outlay; costly; dear; liberal; as, expensive dress; an expensive house or family.
Fallible
Liable to fail, mistake, or err; liable to deceive or to be deceived; as, all men are fallible; our opinions and hopes are fallible.
Litigation
The act or process of litigating; a suit at law; a judicial contest.
Storekeeper
A man in charge of stores or goods of any kind; as, a naval storekeeper.
Disreputable
Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, ..
Angwantibo
A small lemuroid mammal (Arctocebus Calabarensis) of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
Altarpiece
The painting or piece of sculpture above and behind the altar; reredos.
Cashbook
A book in which is kept a register of money received or paid out.
Envenom
To taint or impregnate with venom, or any substance noxious to life; to poison; to render dangerous or deadly by poison, as food, drink, a weapon; as, envenomed meat, wine, or arrow; also, to ..
Capstan
A vertical cleated drum or cylinder, revolving on an upright spindle, and surmounted by a drumhead with sockets for bars or levers. It is much used, especially on shipboard, for moving or raisin..
Cretaceous
Having the qualities of chalk; abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk.
Bridgehead
A fortification commanding the extremity of a bridge nearest the enemy, to insure the preservation and usefulness of the bridge, and prevent the enemy from crossing; a tete-de-pont.
Bailiwick
The precincts within which a bailiff has jurisdiction; the limits of a bailiff's authority.
Shakerism
Doctrines of the Shakers.
Knock-kneed
Having the legs bent inward so that the knees touch in walking.
Cabaret
A tavern; a house where liquors are retailed.
Vacillate
To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver.
Concocted
of Concoct
Conceited
Endowed with fancy or imagination.
Anarchism
The doctrine or practice of anarchists.
Conviction
The act of convicting; the act of proving, finding, or adjudging, guilty of an offense.
Shrewish
having the qualities of a shrew; having a scolding disposition; froward; peevish.
Armadillo
Any edentate animal if the family Dasypidae, peculiar to America. The body and head are incased in an armor composed of small bony plates. The armadillos burrow in the earth, seldom going abroad..
Negotiable
Capable of being negotiated; transferable by assigment or indorsement to another person; as, a negotiable note or bill of exchange.
Wash
To waste or abrade by the force of water in motion; as, heavy rains wash a road or an embankment.
Conditioning
of Condition
Developer
One who, or that which, develops.
Caterpillar
The larval state of a butterfly or any lepidopterous insect; sometimes, but less commonly, the larval state of other insects, as the sawflies, which are also called false caterpillars. The tr..
Bushman
A woodsman; a settler in the bush.
Psychics
Psychology.
Commixture
The act or process of mixing; the state of being mingled; the blending of ingredients in one mass or compound.
Disgust
To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
Truculent
Fierce; savage; ferocious; barbarous; as, the truculent inhabitants of Scythia.
Hood
An ornamental fold at the back of an academic gown or ecclesiastical vestment; as, a master's hood.
Pick
To peck at, as a bird with its beak; to strike at with anything pointed; to act upon with a pointed instrument; to pierce; to prick, as with a pin.
Well-known
Fully known; generally known or acknowledged.
Temporary
Lasting for a time only; existing or continuing for a limited time; not permanent; as, the patient has obtained temporary relief.
Symptomatic
Alt. of Symptomatical
Swaying
of Sway
Beleaguered
of Beleaguer
Spiccato
Detached; separated; -- a term indicating that every note is to be performed in a distinct and pointed manner.
Bollard
An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Relative
Having relation or reference; referring; respecting; standing in connection; pertaining; as, arguments not relative to the subject.
Amateurish
In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur.
Published
of Publish
Proclaimed
of Proclaim
Procacious
Pert; petulant; forward; saucy.
Precocious
Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees.
Peripatetic
Walking about; itinerant.
Parenthetical
Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark.
Operating
of Operate
Monsoon
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from ..
Habitue
One who habitually frequents a place; as, an habitue of a theater.
Informed
of Inform
Mealy-mouthed
Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Hereinbefore
In the preceding part of this (writing, document, book, etc.).
Headway
The progress made by a ship in motion; hence, progress or success of any kind.
Farewell
Go well; good-by; adieu; -- originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare y..
Extravaganza
A composition, as in music, or in the drama, designed to produce effect by its wild irregularity; esp., a musical caricature.
Evidential
Relating to, or affording, evidence; indicative; especially, relating to the evidences of Christianity.
Electrostatic
Pertaining to electrostatics.
Swordsman
A soldier; a fighting man.
Luscious
Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
Strapped
of Strap
Convincing
of Convince
Conversely
In a converse manner; with change of order or relation; reciprocally.
Comportment
Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.
Coincidental
Coincident.
Coeternal
Equally eternal.
Causeless
1. Self-originating; uncreated.
Crier
One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
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..
Butchered
of Butcher
Catcher
One who, or that which, catches.
Egotist
One addicted to egotism; one who speaks much of himself or magnifies his own achievements or affairs.
Splashy
Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.
Freckled
of Freckle
Allegorical
Belonging to, or consisting of, allegory; of the nature of an allegory; describing by resemblances; figurative.
Phonology
The science or doctrine of the elementary sounds uttered by the human voice in speech, including the various distinctions, modifications, and combinations of tones; phonetics. Also, a treatise ..
Hourglass
An instrument for measuring time, especially the interval of an hour. It consists of a glass vessel having two compartments, from the uppermost of which a quantity of sand, water, or mercury ..
Collective
Formed by gathering or collecting; gathered into a mass, sum, or body; congregated or aggregated; as, the collective body of a nation.
Bromide
A compound of bromine with a positive radical.
Fossilization
The process of converting, or of being converted, into a fossil.
Word
To use words, as in discussion; to argue; to dispute.
Bookish
Given to reading; fond of study; better acquainted with books than with men; learned from books.
Pad
To wear a path by walking.
Notary
One who records in shorthand what is said or done; as, the notary of an ecclesiastical body.
Open
Free or cleared of obstruction to progress or to view; accessible; as, an open tract; the open sea.
Lecturer
One who lectures; an assistant preacher.
Aryan
One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the ..
Beggary
The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.
Checkerboard
A board with sixty-four squares of alternate color, used for playing checkers or draughts.
Dotard
One whose mind is impaired by age; one in second childhood.
Avocado
The pulpy fruit of Persea gratissima, a tree of tropical America. It is about the size and shape of a large pear; -- called also avocado pear, alligator pear, midshipman's butter.
Ignorance
The condition of being ignorant; the want of knowledge in general, or in relation to a particular subject; the state of being uneducated or uninformed.
Swinging
of Swing
Animism
The doctrine, taught by Stahl, that the soul is the proper principle of life and development in the body.
Pythagorism
The doctrines taught by Pythagoras.
Bedfellow
One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
Egotistic
Alt. of Egotistical
Emasculate
To deprive of virile or procreative power; to castrate power; to castrate; to geld.
Crunched
of Crunch
Thermolysis
The resolution of a compound into parts by heat; dissociation by heat.
Protraction
A drawing out, or continuing; the act of delaying the termination of a thing; prolongation; continuance; delay; as, the protraction of a debate.
Educable
Capable of being educated.
Bicycle
A light vehicle having two wheels one behind the other. It has a saddle seat and is propelled by the rider's feet acting on cranks or levers.
Cockchafer
A beetle of the genus Melolontha (esp. M. vulgaris) and allied genera; -- called also May bug, chafer, or dorbeetle.
Homelike
Like a home; comfortable; cheerful; cozy; friendly.
Palindrome
A word, verse, or sentence, that is the same when read backward or forward; as, madam; Hannah; or Lewd did I live, & evil I did dwel.
Coquettish
Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing.
Enrich
To supply with ornament; to adorn; as, to enrich a ceiling by frescoes.
Academe
An academy.
Humming
of Hum
Dangling
of Dangle
Enunciation
The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth.
Ragged
Rough; shaggy; rugged.
Rally
A political mass meeting.
Judicial
Pertaining or appropriate to courts of justice, or to a judge; practiced or conformed to in the administration of justice; sanctioned or ordered by a court; as, judicial power; judicial proce..
Engraver
One who engraves; a person whose business it is to produce engraved work, especially on metal or wood.
Inebriate
To make drunk; to intoxicate.
Reclusive
Affording retirement from society.
Salesman
One who sells anything; one whose occupation is to sell goods or merchandise.
Chronograph
An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity.
Espousal
The act of espousing or betrothing; especially, in the plural, betrothal; plighting of the troths; a contract of marriage; sometimes, the marriage ceremony.
Delimitation
The act or process of fixing limits or boundaries; limitation.
Bulbous
Having or containing bulbs, or a bulb; growing from bulbs; bulblike in shape or structure.
Copartner
One who is jointly concerned with one or more persons in business, etc.; a partner; an associate; a partaker; a sharer.
Sinistral
Of or pertaining to the left, inclining to the left; sinistrous; -- opposed to dextral.
Military
Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military condu..
Philharmonic
Loving harmony or music.
Blockish
Like a block; deficient in understanding; stupid; dull.
Educator
One who educates; a teacher.
Cleanliness
State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.
Countermine
An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.
Lethal
One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
Traverse
A formal denial of some matter of fact alleged by the opposite party in any stage of the pleadings. The technical words introducing a traverse are absque hoc, without this; that is, without t..
Quietism
Peace or tranquillity of mind; calmness; indifference; apathy; dispassion; indisturbance; inaction.
Confraternity
A society of body of men united for some purpose, or in some profession; a brotherhood.
Churchwarden
One of the officers (usually two) in an Episcopal church, whose duties vary in different dioceses, but always include the provision of what is necessary for the communion service.
Asymmetry
Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
Squatting
of Squat
Misrepresentation
Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; -- usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Cabbage
An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometime..
Barring
of Bar
Coldness
The state or quality of being cold.
Vitalization
The act or process of vitalizing, or infusing the vital principle.
Contralto
The part sung by the highest male or lowest female voices; the alto or counter tenor.
Cohabitation
The act or state of dwelling together, or in the same place with another.
Whereupon
Upon which; in consequence of which; after which.
Occurring
of Occur
Microorganism
Any microscopic form of life; -- particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Counterfoil
That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the acco..
Controversial
Relating to, or consisting of, controversy; disputatious; polemical; as, controversial divinity.
Bastardize
To make or prove to be a bastard; to stigmatize as a bastard; to declare or decide legally to be illegitimate.
Metamorphism
The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limes..
Earnings
of Earning
Casuistry
The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules a..
Counseling
of Counsel
Admired
of Admire
Falsification
The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not.
Floorwalker
One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.
Gladiator
Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.
Economical
Pertaining to the household; domestic.
Encouraging
of Encourage
Alternately
In reciprocal succession; succeeding by turns; in alternate order.
Denture
An artificial tooth, block, or set of teeth.
Distressed
of Distress
Foothold
A holding with the feet; firm standing; that on which one may tread or rest securely; footing.
Apology
Something said or written in defense or justification of what appears to others wrong, or of what may be liable to disapprobation; justification; as, Tertullian's Apology for Christianity.
Exhilaration
The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening.
Fighter
One who fights; a combatant; a warrior.
Expropriate
To put out of one's possession; to surrender the ownership of; also, to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
Equivocating
of Equivocate
Bourbon
A member of a family which has occupied several European thrones, and whose descendants still claim the throne of France.
Soldiering
The act of serving as a soldier; the state of being a soldier; the occupation of a soldier.
Ataraxy
Perfect peace of mind, or calmness.
Bickerer
One who bickers.
Spirituality
The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness.
Cadaverous
Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look.
Scaur
A precipitous bank or rock; a scar.
Groveling
of Grovel
Spinet
A keyed instrument of music resembling a harpsichord, but smaller, with one string of brass or steel wire to each note, sounded by means of leather or quill plectrums or jacks. It was formerly m..
Lawyer
One versed in the laws, or a practitioner of law; one whose profession is to conduct lawsuits for clients, or to advise as to prosecution or defence of lawsuits, or as to legal rights and obl..
Parrying
of Parry
Behindhand
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
Admixture
That which is mixed with anything.
Intercessor
One who goes between, or intercedes; a mediator. (a) One who interposes between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them. (b) One who pleads in behalf of another.
Impecunious
Not having money; habitually without money; poor.
On
Denoting performance or action by contact with the surface, upper part, or outside of anything; hence, by means of; with; as, to play on a violin or piano. Hence, figuratively, to work on one's ..
Causidical
Pertaining to an advocate, or to the maintenance and defense of suits.
Christianity
The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
Roost
Fig.; To lodge; to rest; to sleep.
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.
Quietism
The system of the Quietists, who maintained that religion consists in the withdrawal of the mind from worldly interests and anxieties and its constant employment in the passive contemplation of ..
Pass
To take a turn with (a line, gasket, etc.), as around a sail in furling, and make secure.
Work
To form with a needle and thread or yarn; especially, to embroider; as, to work muslin.
Eccentric
A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion ..
Mange
The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Settle
To restore or bring to a smooth, dry, or passable condition; -- said of the ground, of roads, and the like; as, clear weather settles the roads.
Faint
Lacking distinctness; hardly perceptible; striking the senses feebly; not bright, or loud, or sharp, or forcible; weak; as, a faint color, or sound.
Oversupply
An excessive supply.
Entailed
of Entail
Toft
A place where a messuage has once stood; the site of a burnt or decayed house.
Aldine
An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign ..
Pommel
To beat soundly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists.
Proximity
The quality or state of being next in time, place, causation, influence, etc.; immediate nearness, either in place, blood, or alliance.
Pollen
Fine bran or flour.
Endocardium
The membrane lining the cavities of the heart.
Coronary
Of or pertaining to a crown; forming, or adapted to form, a crown or garland.
Smelt
A gull; a simpleton.
Rushed
of Rush
Morocco
A fine kind of leather, prepared commonly from goatskin (though an inferior kind is made of sheepskin), and tanned with sumac and dyed of various colors; -- said to have been first made by the ..
Usury
A premium or increase paid, or stipulated to be paid, for a loan, as of money; interest.
Slav
One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc..
Seesaw
To move with a reciprocating motion; to move backward and forward, or upward and downward.
Pavan
A stately and formal Spanish dance for which full state costume is worn; -- so called from the resemblance of its movements to those of the peacock.
Scroll
Same as Skew surface. See under Skew.
Siege
A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.
Denim
A coarse cotton drilling used for overalls, etc.
Theft
The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same; larceny.
Licit
Lawful.
Never
Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future.
Semen
The seed of plants.
Smock
A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.
Shill
To shell.
Squib
A little pipe, or hollow cylinder of paper, filled with powder or combustible matter, to be thrown into the air while burning, so as to burst there with a crack.
Cuddy
An ass; esp., one driven by a huckster or greengrocer.
Opium
The inspissated juice of the Papaver somniferum, or white poppy.
Rummy
Of or pertaining to rum; characteristic of rum; as a rummy flavor.
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Sleep
To take rest by a suspension of the voluntary exercise of the powers of the body and mind, and an apathy of the organs of sense; to slumber.
Clime
A climate; a tract or region of the earth. See Climate.
Compact
Closely or firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense.
Stirk
A young bullock or heifer.
Thaw
To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
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.
Shell
The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
Haggard
A hag.
Kine
of Cow
Frail
The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail.
Ceremonial
A system of rules and ceremonies, enjoined by law, or established by custom, in religious worship, social intercourse, or the courts of princes; outward form.
Rough
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
Inculcate
To teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions; to urge on the mind; as, Christ inculcates on his followers humility.
Discharge
Act of removing, or getting rid of, an obligation, liability, etc.; fulfillment, as by the payment of a debt, or the performance of a trust or duty.
Unlace
To loose by undoing a lacing; as, to unlace a shoe.
Moldable
Alt. of Mouldable
Nerveless
Destitute of nerves.
Watch
A small timepiece, or chronometer, to be carried about the person, the machinery of which is moved by a spring.
Cocculus Indicus
The fruit or berry of the Anamirta Cocculus, a climbing plant of the East Indies. It is a poisonous narcotic and stimulant.
House
A firm, or commercial establishment.
Pate
See Patte.
Junket
A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.
Seesaw
A plank or board adjusted for this play.
Sober
Serious or subdued in demeanor, habit, appearance, or color; solemn; grave; sedate.
Vie
To stake a sum upon a hand of cards, as in the old game of gleek. See Revie.
Fairway
The navigable part of a river, bay, etc., through which vessels enter or depart; the part of a harbor or channel ehich is kept open and unobstructed for the passage of vessels.
men
of Keelman
Acrocephalic
Characterized by a high skull.
Allocation
An allotment or apportionment; as, an allocation of shares in a company.
Dawn
To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
Eardrum
The tympanum. See Illust. of Ear.
Rowlock
A contrivance or arrangement serving as a fulcrum for an oar in rowing. It consists sometimes of a notch in the gunwale of a boat, sometimes of a pair of pins between which the oar rests on the ..
Journey
The travel or work of a day.
Oarlock
The notch, fork, or other device on the gunwale of a boat, in which the oar rests in rowing. See Rowlock.
Housing
of House
Rapt
Snatched away; hurried away or along.
Stirps
A race, or a fixed and permanent variety.
Publish
To make public; to make known to mankind, or to people in general; to divulge, as a private transaction; to promulgate or proclaim, as a law or an edict.
Emulate
Striving to excel; ambitious; emulous.
Craving
of Crave
Gopher
One of several North American burrowing rodents of the genera Geomys and Thomomys, of the family Geomyidae; -- called also pocket gopher and pouched rat. See Pocket gopher, and Tucan.
Liquefy
To convert from a solid form to that of a liquid; to melt; to dissolve; and technically, to melt by the sole agency of heat.
Necessaries
of Necessary
Spurning
of Spurn
Wassail
An occasion on which such good wishes are expressed in drinking; a drinking bout; a carouse.
Lessee
The person to whom a lease is given, or who takes an estate by lease.
Avocation
Pursuits; duties; affairs which occupy one's time; usual employment; vocation.
Pack
A number or quantity equal to the contents of a pack; hence, a multitude; a burden.
Lour
An Asiatic sardine (Clupea Neohowii), valued for its oil.
Beam
A ray or collection of parallel rays emitted from the sun or other luminous body; as, a beam of light, or of heat.
Kedge
To move (a vessel) by carrying out a kedge in a boat, dropping it overboard, and hauling the vessel up to it.
Locust
Any one of numerous species of long-winged, migratory, orthopterous insects, of the family Acrididae, allied to the grasshoppers; esp., (Edipoda, / Pachytylus, migratoria, and Acridium perigr..
Morn
The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.
Jump
Exactly; pat.
Helper
One who, or that which, helps, aids, assists, or relieves; as, a lay helper in a parish.
Beg
To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.
Friar
A brother or member of any religious order, but especially of one of the four mendicant orders, viz: (a) Minors, Gray Friars, or Franciscans. (b) Augustines. (c) Dominicans or Black Friars. (d) ..
Formulary
Prescribed form or model; formula.
Dago
A nickname given to a person of Spanish (or, by extension, Portuguese or Italian) descent.
Renter
One who rents or leases an estate; -- usually said of a lessee or tenant.
Prompt
To assist or induce the action of; to move to action; to instigate; to incite.
Coca
The dried leaf of a South American shrub (Erythroxylon Coca). In med., called Erythroxylon.
Daemon
Alt. of Daemonic
Egoism
The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego and the relations which it implies or provide..
Hanse
An association; a league or confederacy.
Denary
Containing ten; tenfold; proceeding by tens; as, the denary, or decimal, scale.
Utas
The eighth day after any term or feast; the octave; as, the utas of St. Michael.
Pose
To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as ..
Socinianism
The tenets or doctrines of Faustus Socinus, an Italian theologian of the sixteenth century, who denied the Trinity, the deity of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the native and total deprav..
Must
To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Ruffian
A pimp; a pander; also, a paramour.
Consummate
To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve.
Piety
Veneration or reverence of the Supreme Being, and love of his character; loving obedience to the will of God, and earnest devotion to his service.
Neap
The tongue or pole of a cart or other vehicle drawn by two animals.
Marketing
Articles in, or from, a market; supplies.
Paring
of Pare
Octad
An atom or radical which has a valence of eight, or is octavalent.
Ichor
A thin, acrid, watery discharge from an ulcer, wound, etc.
Submission
The state of being submissive; acknowledgement of inferiority or dependence; humble or suppliant behavior; meekness; resignation.
Mortar
A strong vessel, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.
Inmate
One who lives in the same house or apartment with another; a fellow lodger; esp.,one of the occupants of an asylum, hospital, or prison; by extension, one who occupies or lodges in any place or ..
Growth
That which has grown or is growing; anything produced; product; consequence; effect; result.
Terrace
A balcony, especially a large and uncovered one.
