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Craving
of Crave
Dirt
Any foul of filthy substance, as excrement, mud, dust, etc.; whatever, adhering to anything, renders it foul or unclean; earth; as, a wagonload of dirt.
Chicanery
Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry.
Covin
A collusive agreement between two or more persons to prejudice a third.
Insincerity
The quality of being insincere; want of sincerity, or of being in reality what one appears to be; dissimulation; hypocritical; deceitfulness; hollowness; untrustworthiness; as, the insincerit..
Hachure
A short line used in drawing and engraving, especially in shading and denoting different surfaces, as in map drawing. See Hatching.
Priority
The quality or state of being prior or antecedent in time, or of preceding something else; as, priority of application.
Preference
The act of Preferring, or the state of being preferred; the setting of one thing before another; precedence; higher estimation; predilection; choice; also, the power or opportunity of choosing; ..
Jag
A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.
Superiority
The quality, state, or condition of being superior; as, superiority of rank; superiority in merit.
Perjury
False swearing.
Dishonesty
Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame.
Pettifoggery
The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles.
Prelude
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially (Mus.), a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a ..
Chicane
The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry.
Ordering
of Order
Intrigue
To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Precursor
One who, or that which, precedes an event, and indicates its approach; a forerunner; a harbinger.
Swindle
To cheat defraud grossly, or with deliberate artifice; as, to swindle a man out of his property.
Deception
The act of deceiving or misleading.
Parallel
Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
Sleight
Cunning; craft; artful practice.
Urgency
The quality or condition of being urgent; insistence; pressure; as, the urgency of a demand or an occasion.
Chafing
of Chafe
Trickery
The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Ceiling
of Ceil
Chart
A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Preceding
of Precede
Fraud
Deception deliberately practiced with a view to gaining an unlawful or unfair advantage; artifice by which the right or interest of another is injured; injurious stratagem; deceit; trick.
Artfulness
The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.
Artifice
A handicraft; a trade; art of making.
Meridian
Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
Dominion
Sovereign or supreme authority; the power of governing and controlling; independent right of possession, use, and control; sovereignty; supremacy.
Cheat
An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition; imposture.
Collusion
A secret agreement and cooperation for a fraudulent or deceitful purpose; a playing into each other's hands; deceit; fraud; cunning.
Machination
The act of machinating.
Connivance
Intentional failure or forbearance to discover a fault or wrongdoing; voluntary oversight; passive consent or cooperation.
Conspiracy
A combination of men for an evil purpose; an agreement, between two or more persons, to commit a crime in concert, as treason; a plot.
Lead
One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tub..
Topographer
One who is skilled in the science of topography; one who describes a particular place, town, city, or tract of land.
Projection
The act of throwing or shooting forward.
Chorography
the mapping or description of a region or district.
Longitude
Length; measure or distance along the longest line; -- distinguished from breadth or thickness; as, the longitude of a room; rare now, except in a humorous sense.
Scale
The dish of a balance; hence, the balance itself; an instrument or machine for weighing; as, to turn the scale; -- chiefly used in the plural when applied to the whole instrument or apparatus ..
Atlas
One who sustains a great burden.
Map
A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the ..
Legend
That which is appointed to be read; especially, a chronicle or register of the lives of saints, formerly read at matins, and in the refectories of religious houses.
Latitude
Extent from side to side, or distance sidewise from a given point or line; breadth; width.
Cartography
The art or business of forming charts or maps.
Topography
The description of a particular place, town, manor, parish, or tract of land; especially, the exact and scientific delineation and description in minute detail of any place or region.
Index
That which points out; that which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses.
Prostrate
Lying at length, or with the body extended on the ground or other surface; stretched out; as, to sleep prostrate.
Inflation
The act or process of inflating, or the state of being inflated, as with air or gas; distention; expansion; enlargement.
Globe
A round or spherical body, solid or hollow; a body whose surface is in every part equidistant from the center; a ball; a sphere.
Floor
The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
