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Preservatories
of Preservatory
Pudenda
The external organs of generation.
Cherubim
of Cherub
Meninges
The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
Kidneys
of Kidney
Fantoccini
Puppets caused to perform evolutions or dramatic scenes by means of machinery; also, the representations in which they are used.
Belles-lettres
Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.
Commodities
of Commodity
Dummies
of Dummy
Tabulae
of Tabula
Myriopoda
See Myriapoda.
Rifleman
of Rifleman
Espies
of Espy
Houses
of House
Chitterlings
The smaller intestines of swine, etc., fried for food.
Hostilities
of Hostility
Flagella
of Flagellum
Frugalities
of Frugality
Novelties
of Novelty
Bedclothes
Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed.
Commons
The mass of the people, as distinguished from the titled classes or nobility; the commonalty; the common people.
Duties
of Duty
Facetiae
Witty or humorous writings or saying; witticisms; merry conceits.
Catamenia
The monthly courses of women; menstrual discharges; menses.
Gymnasia
of Gymnasium
Chilopoda
One of the orders of myriapods, including the centipeds. They have a single pair of elongated legs attached laterally to each segment; well developed jaws; and a pair of thoracic legs convert..
Earnings
of Earning
Prolegomena
of Prolegomenon
Plenties
of Plenty
Draughts
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).
Flies
of Fly
Fives
A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
Tongs
An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or m..
Sulks
The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks.
Oxen
of Ox
Kine
of Cow
Choses
of Chose
Singles
See Single, n., 2.
men
of Keelman
Necessaries
of Necessary
Acini
of Acinus
Stelmatopoda
Same as Gymnolaemata.
Pities
of Pity
Groats
Dried grain, as oats or wheat, hulled and broken or crushed; in high milling, cracked fragments of wheat larger than grits.
Pylangia
of Pylangium
Jutes
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
Eaves
The edges or lower borders of the roof of a building, which overhang the walls, and cast off the water that falls on the roof.
Prognathi
A comprehensive group of mankind, including those that have prognathous jaws.
Agni
of Agnus
Meatus
A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Bosses
of Boss
Men
pl. of Man.
Pence
pl. of Penny. See Penny.
Grout
Coarse meal; ground malt; pl. groats.
Kie
Kine; cows.
Shoes
of Shoe
Babies
of Baby
That
As a demonstrative pronoun (pl. Those), that usually points out, or refers to, a person or thing previously mentioned, or supposed to be understood. That, as a demonstrative, may precede the ..
Knives
of Knife
Teens
The years of one's age having the termination -teen, beginning with thirteen and ending with nineteen; as, a girl in her teens.
Labia
See Labium.
Traps
Small or portable articles for dress, furniture, or use; goods; luggage; things.
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.
Pampas
Vast plains in the central and southern part of the Argentine Republic in South America. The term is sometimes used in a wider sense for the plains extending from Bolivia to Southern Patagoni..
Cilia
The eyelashes.
Fungi
See Fungus.
Raphides
See Rhaphides.
Caries
of Carib
Phases
of Phase
Gonads
of Gonad
Propyla
of Propylon
Cultus
Established or accepted religious rites or usages of worship; state of religious development. Cf. Cult, 2.
Chops
The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.
Dozen
of Dozen
Bodies
of Body
Deer
Any animal; especially, a wild animal.
Wares
See 4th Ware.
Chaps
The jaws, or the fleshy parts about them. See Chap.
Nates
The buttocks.
Guards
A body of picked troops; as, "The Household Guards."
Goods
See Good, n., 3.
Baths
of Bath
Laymen
of Layman
Adversaria
A miscellaneous collection of notes, remarks, or selections; a commonplace book; also, commentaries or notes.
Sundries
Many different or small things; sundry things.
Pedes
of Pes
Protozoa
The lowest of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom.
Duds
Old or inferior clothes; tattered garments.
Vitals
Organs that are necessary for life; more especially, the heart, lungs, and brain.
Delawares
A tribe of Indians formerly inhabiting the valley of the Delaware River, but now mostly located in the Indian Territory.
Epitheliums
of Epithelium
Hyades
Alt. of Hyads
Stamina
of Stamen
Rotatoria
Same as Rotifera.
Minutiae
of Minutia
Villanelle
of Villanella
Laemodipoda
A division of amphipod Crustacea, in which the abdomen is small or rudimentary and the legs are often reduced to five pairs. The whale louse, or Cyamus, and Caprella are examples.
Difficulties
of Difficulty
Grains
See 5th Grain, n., 2 (b).
Strata
pl. of Stratum.
Goody
A bonbon, cake, or the like; -- usually in the pl.
Ourselves
of Myself
Yourselves
of Yourself
Incunabula
of Incunabulum
Principia
First principles; fundamental beginnings; elements; as. Newton's Principia.
Children
of Child
Dietaries
of Dietary
Civilities
of Civillty
Bass
of Bass
Dignities
of Dignity
Wolves
of Wolf
Proprieties
of Propriety
Formalities
of Formality
Bitters
A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
Leavings
Things left; remnants; relics.
Sunglasses
of Sunglass
Egesta
That which is egested or thrown off from the body by the various excretory channels; excrements; -- opposed to ingesta.
Dejecta
Excrements; as, the dejecta of the sick.
Fistulae
of Fistula
Bacchanalia
A feast or an orgy in honor of Bacchus.
Folia
of Folium
Olfactories
of Olfactory
Sequelae
of Sequela
Marginalia
Marginal notes.
Crossbones
A representation of two of the leg bones or arm bones of a skeleton, laid crosswise, often surmounted with a skull, and serving as a symbol of death.
Nares
The nostrils or nasal openings, -- the anterior nares being the external or proper nostrils, and the posterior nares, the openings of the nasal cavities into the mouth or pharynx.
Canonry
A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.
Kinsmen
of Kinsman
Saturnalia
The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even t..
Asteridea
A class of Echinodermata including the true starfishes. The rays vary in number and always have ambulacral grooves below. The body is star-shaped or pentagonal.
Maxillae
of Maxilla
These
of This
Ophidia
The order of reptiles which includes the serpents.
Unmentionables
The breeches; trousers.
Offspring
The act of production; generation.
Soapsuds
Suds made with soap.
Pounds
of Pound
Nones
The fifth day of the months January, February, April, June, August, September, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ..
Tipstaff
of Tipstaff
Orts
of Ort
Echiuroidea
A division of Annelida which includes the genus Echiurus and allies. They are often classed among the Gephyrea, and called the armed Gephyreans.
Chordata
A comprehensive division of animals including all Vertebrata together with the Tunicata, or all those having a dorsal nervous cord.
Feces
dregs; sediment; excrement. See FAeces.
Ashes
The earthy or mineral particles of combustible substances remaining after combustion, as of wood or coal.
Giblets
The inmeats, or edible viscera (heart, gizzard, liver, etc.), of poultry.
Heathen
of Heathen
Ingesta
That which is introduced into the body by the stomach or alimentary canal; -- opposed to egesta.
Exorhizae
of Exorhiza
Cattle
Quadrupeds of the Bovine family; sometimes, also, including all domestic quadrupeds, as sheep, goats, horses, mules, asses, and swine.
Vermin
An animal, in general.
Sweepings
Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
Ongoing
The act of going forward; progress; (pl.) affairs; business; current events.
Hemorrhoids
Livid and painful swellings formed by the dilation of the blood vessels around the margin of, or within, the anus, from which blood or mucus is occasionally discharged; piles; emerods.
Entremets
A side dish; a dainty or relishing dish usually eaten after the joints or principal dish; also, a sweetmeat, served with a dinner.
Memorabilia
Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Apotheosis
The act of elevating a mortal to the rank of, and placing him among, "the gods;" deification.
Graves
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
Tweezers
Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.
Suds
Water impregnated with soap, esp. when worked up into bubbles and froth.
Ambages
A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech.
Alms
Anything given gratuitously to relieve the poor, as money, food, or clothing; a gift of charity.
Errata
See Erratum.
Preliminaries
of Preliminary
Viscera
pl. of Viscus.
Contents
of Content
Brasses
of Brass
Orreries
of Orrery
Pleiades
The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.
Chore
A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors.
Moneys
of Money
Gallows
of Gallows
Lees
of Lee
Castanets
Two small, concave shells of ivory or hard wood, shaped like spoons, fastened to the thumb, and beaten together with the middle finger; -- used by the Spaniards and Moors as an accompaniment ..
Hysterics
Hysteria.
Speculum
of Speculum
Reliquiae
Remains of the dead; organic remains; relics.
Memories
of Memory
Miscellanea
A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Apologies
of Apology
Ivories
of Ivory
Excreta
Matters to be excreted.
Porphyries
of Porphyry
Analects
Alt. of Analecta
Clothes
of Cloth
Penetralia
The recesses, or innermost parts, of any thing or place, especially of a temple or palace.
Youth
of Youth
Scissors
A cutting instrument resembling shears, but smaller, consisting of two cutting blades with handles, movable on a pin in the center, by which they are held together. Often called a pair of sci..
Lemures
Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters.
Blue
Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
Testes
pl. of Teste, or of Testis.
Doings
of Doing
Notopodia
of Notopodium
Ungulae
of Ungula
Sinus
of Sinus
Gases
of Gas
Bellows
An instrument, utensil, or machine, which, by alternate expansion and contraction, or by rise and fall of the top, draws in air through a valve and expels it through a tube for various purpos..
Foots
The settlings of oil, molasses, etc., at the bottom of a barrel or hogshead.
Nippers
Small pinchers for holding, breaking, or cutting.
Credenda
of Credendum
Pierides
The Muses.
Algae
of Alga
Lights
The lungs of an animal or bird; -- sometimes coarsely applied to the lungs of a human being.
Possibilities
of Possibility
Reins
The kidneys; also, the region of the kidneys; the loins.
Addenda
of Addendum
Pleura
pl. of Pleuron.
Entrails
The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.
Annals
A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened.
Plumule
of Plumula
Card
A piece of pasteboard, or thick paper, blank or prepared for various uses; as, a playing card; a visiting card; a card of invitation; pl. a game played with cards.
Barrack
A building for soldiers, especially when in garrison. Commonly in the pl., originally meaning temporary huts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings.
Mews
An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
Liabilities
of Liability
Groceries
of Grocery
Supplies
of Supply
Pincers
See Pinchers.
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.
Anagogics
Mystical interpretations or studies, esp. of the Scriptures.
Aloes
of Aloe
Times
of Time
Plexus
of Plexus
Moslem
of Moslem
Activities
of Activity
Oats
of Oat
Folks
In Anglo-Saxon times, the people of a group of townships or villages; a community; a tribe.
Sympathies
of Sympathy
Tesserae
of Tessera
Fauces
The narrow passage from the mouth to the pharynx, situated between the soft palate and the base of the tongue; -- called also the isthmus of the fauces. On either side of the passage two memb..
Musae
of Musa
Timpani
of Timpano
Brethren
pl. of Brother.
Archives
of Archive
Salmon
of Salmon
Quantities
of Quantity
Hiatus
of Hiatus
Plectra
of Plectrum
Reptilia
A class of air-breathing oviparous vertebrates, usually covered with scales or bony plates. The heart generally has two auricles and one ventricle. The development of the young is the same as ..
Folk
Alt. of Folks
Amends
Compensation for a loss or injury; recompense; reparation.
Narrows
of Narrow
Environs
The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.
Here
Of them; their.
Entoprocta
A group of Bryozoa in which the anus is within the circle of tentacles. See Pedicellina.
Phylacteries
of Phylactery
Spermatozoa
of Spermatozoon
Necessities
of Necessity
Amenities
of Amenity
Cannon
of Cannon
Tights
Close-fitting garments, especially for the lower part of the body and the legs.
Grouse
Any of the numerous species of gallinaceous birds of the family Tetraonidae, and subfamily Tetraoninae, inhabiting Europe, Asia, and North America. They have plump bodies, strong, well-feathe..
Flatus
of Flatus
Seed
of Seed
Paraphernalia
Something reserved to a wife, over and above her dower, being chiefly apparel and ornaments suited to her degree.
Trappings
That which serves to trap or adorn; ornaments; dress; superficial decorations.
Microzoa
The Infusoria.
Sigillaria
Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.
Boundaries
of Boundary
Yen
of Ye
Neat
Cattle of the genus Bos, as distinguished from horses, sheep, and goats; an animal of the genus Bos; as, a neat's tongue; a neat's foot.
Pleadings
The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is ..
Ceremonies
of Ceremony
Obsequies
See Obsequy.
Numbers
pl. of Number. The fourth book of the Pentateuch, containing the census of the Hebrews.
Proceeds
That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.
Anniversaries
of Anniversary
Auspices
of Auspice
Thanks
of Thank
Calipers
An instrument, usually resembling a pair of dividers or compasses with curved legs, for measuring the diameter or thickness of bodies, as of work shaped in a lathe or planer, timber, masts, shot..
Prime
Donne (#) (pl. ) of Prima donna
Luminaries
of Luminary
Agenda
of Agendum
Die
of Dice
Ton
pl. of Toe.
Manes
The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Scholia
See Scholium.
Straits
of Strait
Teeth
pl. of Tooth.
Victuals
Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.
Data
See Datum.
Assets
Property of a deceased person, subject by law to the payment of his debts and legacies; -- called assets because sufficient to render the executor or administrator liable to the creditors and ..
Facilities
of Facility
Sheep
Any one of several species of ruminants of the genus Ovis, native of the higher mountains of both hemispheres, but most numerous in Asia.
Piles
The small, troublesome tumors or swellings about the anus and lower part of the rectum which are technically called hemorrhoids. See Hemorrhoids. [The singular pile is sometimes used.]
Accouterments
Alt. of Accoutrements
Apparatus
of Apparatus
Hose
of Hose
Congeries
A collection of particles or bodies into one mass; a heap; an aggregation.
Feet
See Foot.
Regalia
That which belongs to royalty. Specifically: (a) The rights and prerogatives of a king. (b) Royal estates and revenues. (c) Ensings, symbols, or paraphernalia of royalty.
Corps
The human body, whether living or dead.
Fasces
A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
Insignia
Distinguishing marks of authority, office, or honor; badges; tokens; decorations; as, the insignia of royalty or of an order.
