(a.) Without a comb or crest; as, a combless cock.

(pl. ) of Comedy

(n.) A chorus leader; esp. one who provided at his own expense and under his own supervision one of the choruses for the musical contents at Athens.

(a.) Alt. of Anginose

(n.) A breath or blast of wind.

(n.) A divine impartation of knowledge; supernatural impulse; inspiration.

(a.) Angular; having corners; hooked.

(a.) Short of breath; panting.

(n.) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements.

(pl. ) of Abacus

(a.) Troublesome; annoying.

(a.) See Anurous.

(a.) Resembling a goose; silly; simple.

(n.) Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants.

(n.) The period or state of full expansion in a flower.

(pl. ) of Artery

(a.) Facing toward the axis of the flower, as in the introrse anthers of the water lily.

(n.) Alt. of Asbestos

(n.) A variety of amphibole or of pyroxene, occurring in long and delicate fibers, or in fibrous masses or seams, usually of a white, gray, or green-gray color. The name is also given to a similar variety of serpentine.

(n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.

(pl. ) of Agency

(n.) Any imperfect development of the body, or any anomaly of organization.

(n.) Inflammation of the aorta.

(pl. ) of Apathy

(a.) Destitute of skin.

(n.) The service or ceremony of sprinkling with holy water.

(n.) The brush or instrument used in sprinkling holy water; an aspergill.

(a.) Rough; uneven.

(a.) Without voice; voiceless; nonvocal.

(a.) Pertaining to, or caused by, aphthae; characterized by aphtae; as, aphthous ulcers; aphthous fever.

(n.) A genus of grasses, including species called in common language bent grass. Some of them, as redtop (Agrostis vulgaris), are valuable pasture grasses.

(n.) Full demonstration.

(n.) The consequent clause or conclusion in a conditional sentence, expressing the result, and thus distinguished from the protasis or clause which expresses a condition. Thus, in the sentence, "Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him," the former clause is the protasis, and the latter the apodosis.

(n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

(n.) Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

(adv.) Toward the air; upward.

(n.) A female albino.

(n.) Inflammation of the pelvis of the kidney.

() A quadruped, probably the addax, an antelope having a white rump.

() The female of the hen harrier.

() The sea eagle.

(a.) Pyritic.

(n. pl.) The kingfishers.

(pl. ) of Alewife

(pl. ) of Alewife

(pl. ) of Pantry

(n.) The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

(n.) Calm impudence; self-possession.

(n.) The separation of a leaf or floral organ into two more parts.

(pl. ) of Chorus

(pl. ) of Comity

(n.) Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chromium, when this element has a valence lower than that in chromic compounds.

(v. t.) A system or structure of many parts united.

(n.) A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

(n.) The corporal, or communion cloth.

(pl. ) of Circus

(a.) See Cirrose.

(a.) 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.

(pl. ) of Cortex

(a.) Without seed or seeds.

(n.) Seedtime.

(v. t.) To press or squeeze together; to force into a narrower compass; to reduce the volume of by pressure; to compact; to condense; as, to compress air or water.

(v. t.) To embrace sexually.

(n.) A folded piece of cloth, pledget of lint, etc., used to cover the dressing of wounds, and so placed as, by the aid of a bandage, to make due pressure on any part.

(a.) Unseemly.

(a.) Costing nothing.

(n.) The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

(a.) Frequent; numerous.

(n.) A genus of birds allied to the gallinules, but having rudimentary wings and incapable of flight. Notornis Mantelli was first known as a fossil bird of New Zealand, but subsequently a few individuals were found living on the southern island. It is supposed to be now nearly or quite extinct.

(n.) Privation of sense or consciousness, due to a narcotic.

(n.) The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

(adv.) Again; anew; a second time; at once; speedily.

(pl. ) of Frenzy

(pl. ) of Fresco

(n.) A dissertation or digression appended to a work, and containing a more extended exposition of some important point or topic.

(pl. ) of Exegesis

(n.) Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text or portion of Scripture.

(n.) The process of finding the roots of an equation.

(pl. ) of Exequy

(a.) Scanty; small; slender; diminutive.

(a.) Select; choice; hence, extraordinary, excellent.

(n.) Same as Elench.

(pl. ) of Flunky

(pl. ) of Flurry

(n. pl.) See Fluxion, 6(b).

(a.) Without heed or care; inattentive; careless; thoughtless; unobservant.

(a.) Having no foam.

(a.) Without a heel.

(n. pl.) See Doublet, 6 and 7.

(n. pl.) A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

(n. pl.) A game, now more commonly called checkers. See Checkers.

(a.) Destitute of an heir.

(a.) Having no fold.

(n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

(n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

(a.) Without food; barren.

(a.) Destitute of a helmet.

(a.) Without a helm or rudder.

(a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

(a.) Beyond help; irremediable.

(a.) Bringing no help; unaiding.

(a.) Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.

(pl. ) of Notary

(pl. ) of Napery

(a.) Free from pain; without pain.

(pl. ) of Padrone

(pl. ) of Pailful

(a.) Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless.

(n.) Inflammation of a bursa.

(a.) Free from bushes; bare.

(n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

(n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

(n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

(n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

(n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

(n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

(n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.

(n.) A steel cutting instrument, with a long bent shank set in a handle which rests against the shoulder of the operator. It is operated by a thrust movement, and used in paring the hoofs of horses.

(n.) A projecting mass of masonry, used for resisting the thrust of an arch, or for ornament and symmetry.

(n.) Anything which supports or strengthens.

(a.) Without a seam.

(v. t.) To support with a buttress; to prop; to brace firmly.

(a.) Butyraceous.

(n. pl.) The garment for the legs and feet and for the body below the waist, worn in Europe throughout the Middle Ages; applied also to the armor for the same parts, when fixible, as of chain mail.

(n. pl.) Raised pieces of wood of iron around a hatchway, skylight, or other opening in the deck, to prevent water from running bellow; esp. the fore-and-aft pieces of a hatchway frame as distinguished from the transverse head ledges.

(a.) Not wearing a coat; also, not possessing a coat.

(v.) A game, called also daughts, played on a checkerboard by two persons, each having twelve men (counters or checkers) which are moved diagonally. The game is ended when either of the players has lost all his men, or can not move them.

(pl. ) of Coccyx

(pl. ) of Cockney

(n.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

(n.) The larval stage of a tapeworm (Taenia coenurus) which forms bladderlike sacs in the brain of sheep, causing the fatal disease known as water brain, vertigo, staggers or gid.

(n.) A person connected through cognation.

(pl. ) of Content

(n. pl.) See Content, n.

(n.) The state or quality of being cold.

(n. pl.) Young cabbage, used as "greens"; esp. a kind cultivated for that purpose; colewort.

(pl. ) of Chimera

(pl. ) of Chintz

(a.) Destitute of a nose.

(pl. ) of Nostrum

(n. pl.) The Marsipobranchiata.

(a.) Affording pabulum, or food; alimental.

(a.) Consisting of eggs; as, ovarious food.

(n.) Inflammation of the ovaries.

(adv.) From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.

(adv.) See Outward, adv.

(pl. ) of Owlery

(a.) Having no mate.

(n.) Learning; especially, mathematics.

(pl. ) of Matrix

(n.) A genus of extinct, ostrichlike birds of gigantic size, which formerly inhabited New Zealand. See Moa.

(pl. ) of Diocese

(n.) A Greek Cynic philosopher (412?-323 B. C.) who lived much in Athens and was distinguished for contempt of the common aims and conditions of life, and for sharp, caustic sayings.

(a.) See Dioecious.

(n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

(pl. ) of Drachma

(pl. ) of Dipody

(n.) Excessive thirst produced by disease.

(n.) The quality or state of being smug.

(n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

(a.) Destitute of soil or mold.

(n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, tin; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with stannic compounds.

(n.) The science which treats of the general properties of matter; somatology.

(a.) Gloomy; somber.

(a.) Being without stars; having no stars visible; as, a starless night.

(a.) Destitute of the power of song; without song; as, songless birds; songless woods.

(a.) Giving sound when struck; resonant; as, sonorous metals.

(a.) Loud-sounding; giving a clear or loud sound; as, a sonorous voice.

(a.) Yielding sound; characterized by sound; vocal; sonant; as, the vowels are sonorous.

(a.) Impressive in sound; high-sounding.

(a.) Sonant; vibrant; hence, of sounds produced in a cavity, deep-toned; as, sonorous rhonchi.

(a.) Causing sleep; sleepy.

(pl. ) of Soprano

(a.) Without rede or counsel.

(a.) See Racemose.

(pl. ) of Rachis

(pl. ) of Rachis

(n.) Literally, inflammation of the spine, but commonly applied to the rickets. See Rickets.

(n.) A disease which produces abortion in the fruit or seeds.

(n.) The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.

(a.) Full off dregs; foul.

(a.) Wanting the spinal cord.

(n.) A journey or expedition up from the coast, like that of the younger Cyrus into Central Asia, described by Xenophon in his work called "The Anabasis."

(n.) The first period, or increase, of a disease; augmentation.

(pl. ) of Radius

(n. pl.) Alt. of Analecta

(pl. ) of Analysis

(n.) 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 the words which compose a sentence, the tones of a tune, or the simple propositions which enter into an argument. It is opposed to synthesis.

(n.) The separation of a compound substance, by chemical processes, into its constituents, with a view to ascertain either (a) what elements it contains, or (b) how much of each element is present. The former is called qualitative, and the latter quantitative analysis.

(n.) The tracing of things to their source, and the resolving of knowledge into its original principles.

(n.) The resolving of problems by reducing the conditions that are in them to equations.

(n.) A syllabus, or table of the principal heads of a discourse, disposed in their natural order.

(n.) A brief, methodical illustration of the principles of a science. In this sense it is nearly synonymous with synopsis.

(n.) The process of ascertaining the name of a species, or its place in a system of classification, by means of an analytical table or key.

(n.) A genus of echinoderms.

(a.) Not possessing a mouth.

(a.) Destitute of rain; as, a rainless region.

(n.) A muscle of the elbow and forearm.

(a.) Bijugate.

(a.) Having two hands; two-handed.

(n.) Alt. of Barbadoes

(n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides.

(n.) The destruction of life.

(a.) Bringing forth two at a birth.

(n.) The state of being bare.

(a.) Not inverted; orthotropous.

(a.) Having, or consisting of, two branches.

(a.) Destitute of bark.

(n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

(pl. ) of Barony

(a.) Having two bristles.

(a.) Without a base; having no foundation or support.

(n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

(a.) Shameless; unblushing.

(a.) Full of augury; foreboding.

(pl. ) of Augury

(a.) Adventurous.

(pl. ) of Auspice

(a.) Having no plan.

(a.) Covered with, or characterized by, papulae; papulose.

(n.) An imaginary animal borne as a charge, having wings, an eagle's head, and a short tail; -- sometimes represented without wings.

(a.) Without nails; having no nails.

(n.) A fourth part of the coin called an as. See 3d As, 2.

(n.) The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

(pl. ) of Alkali

(a.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects.

(a.) Destitute of winglike membranous expansions, as a stem or petiole; -- opposed to alate.

(n.) A compound cordial, in the form of a confection, deriving its name from the kermes insect, its principal ingredient.

(n.) A shelly plate found in the terminal chambers of ammonite shells. Some authors consider them to be jaws; others, opercula.

(n.) The Water-bearer; the eleventh sign in the zodiac, which the sun enters about the 20th of January; -- so called from the rains which prevail at that season in Italy and the East.

(n.) A constellation south of Pegasus.

(a.) Of or pertaining to an order of plants, of which the genus Arum is the type.

(a.) Cobweblike; extremely thin and delicate, like a cobweb; as, the araneous membrane of the eye. See Arachnoid.

(pl. ) of Arango

(a.) Formed by trees.

(pl. ) of Quarry

(pl. ) of Archive

(n.) The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.

(n.) A fixed star of the first magnitude in the constellation Bootes.

(a.) Burning; ardent.

(pl. ) of Abbacy

(n.) The ethical theory which excludes all relations between virtue and happiness; the science of virtue; -- contrasted with eudemonics.

(n. pl.) Nursers, -- a term applied to those birds whose young are hatched in a very immature and helpless condition, so as to require the care of their parents for some time; -- opposed to praecoces.

(n.) A cell in a honeycomb.

(n.) A small cavity in a coral, shell, or fossil

(n.) A small depression, sac, or vesicle, as the socket of a tooth, the air cells of the lungs, the ultimate saccules of glands, etc.

(n.) A fragrant flower.

(pl. ) of Argosy

(n.) Aridity; dryness.

(n.) Quitch grass.

(a.) Like an amoeba in structure.

(n. pl.) Roman citizens.

(pl. ) of Armilla

(n. pl.) Herring taken and cured or smoked near Quoddy Head, Maine, or near the entrance of Passamaquoddy Ray.

(pl. ) of Armory

(n.) Alt. of Arquebuse

(pl. ) of Blenny

(a.) Not having a beam.

(a.) Not emitting light.

(pl. ) of Aviary

(a.) Avid.

(a.) Without blot.

(n.) The quality of being blue; a blue color.

(n. pl.) Feathers connecting the under surface of the wing and the body, and concealed by the closed wing.

(a.) Of a fine blue color; azure.

(n.) A metrical foot composed of a short syllable and two long ones; according to some, two long and a short.

(n.) A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetable organism.

(a.) Without a back.

(a.) Having no body.

(a.) Without material form; incorporeal.

(n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.

(a.) Rough or rude; coarse; strong; violent; boisterous; noisy.

(n.) The state or quality of being bold.

(n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

(n.) The aurochs or European bison. See Aurochs.

(a.) Destitute of reeds; as, reedless banks.

(pl. ) of Byssus

(pl. ) of Cactus

(a.) Of or pertaining to resin; of the nature of resin; resembling or obtained from resin.

(a.) Never resting; unquiet; uneasy; continually moving; as, a restless child.

(a.) Not satisfied to be at rest or in peace; averse to repose or quiet; eager for change; discontented; as, restless schemers; restless ambition; restless subjects.

(a.) Deprived of rest or sleep.

(a.) Passed in unquietness; as, the patient has had a restless night.

(a.) Not affording rest; as, a restless chair.

(n.) The official staff or wand of Hermes or Mercury, the messenger of the gods. It was originally said to be a herald's staff of olive wood, but was afterwards fabled to have two serpents coiled about it, and two wings at the top.

() Dropping off or disappearing early, as the calyx of a poppy, or the gills of a tadpole.

(a.) Of the color of lavender; pale blue with a slight mixture of gray.

(pl. ) of Caesura

(a.) Destitute of rule; lawless.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a rumor; of the nature of rumors.

(a.) Famous; notorious.

(a.) Murmuring.

(a.) Destitute of a rump.

(n.) Any solid concretion, formed in any part of the body, but most frequent in the organs that act as reservoirs, and in the passages connected with them; as, biliary calculi; urinary calculi, etc.

(n.) A method of computation; any process of reasoning by the use of symbols; any branch of mathematics that may involve calculation.

(a.) Free from rust.

(pl. ) of Calico

(a.) Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

(n. pl.) 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, etc.; or the bore of firearms, tubes, etc.; -- called also caliper compasses, or caliber compasses.

(a.) Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling.

(a.) Sandy; gritty.

(n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.

(n. pl.) Drawers.

(pl. ) of Revery

(n.) A little sac; esp., a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear.

(pl. ) of Sackful

(a.) Quiet; peaceable; harmless; innocent.

(n.) A certain game at cards.

(pl. ) of Canary

(n.) A genus of a single species belonging to the order Uricaceae; hemp.

(n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

(pl. ) of Canopy

(a.) Melodious; musical.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

(n.) The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

(pl. ) of Discus

(a.) Without bones.

(n.) The condition or quality of being bony.

(pl. ) of Bonito

(a.) Without books; unlearned.

(a.) Unavailing; unprofitable; useless; without advantage or success.

(a.) Relating to, or obtained from, borax; containing borax.

(pl. ) of Betony

(n.) See Burnoose.

(pl. ) of Bowery

(v. t.) Readily imbibing fluids or moisture; spongy; as, bibulous blotting paper.

(v. t.) Inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

(n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof.

(pl. ) of Botany

(a.) Bearing fruit twice a year.

(n. pl.) Small patties.

(a.) Without bragging.

(pl. ) of Brahmin

(pl. ) of Brahmin

(pl. ) of Bounty

(pl. ) of Branch

(a.) See Biforate.

(a.) Guilty of bigamy; involving bigamy; as, a bigamous marriage.

(pl. ) of Brandy

(pl. ) of Regatta

(a.) Ramulose.

(n.) Infllammation of the nose; esp., inflammation of the mucous membrane of the nostrils.

(n.) An adventitious whistling or snoring sound heard on auscultation of the chest when the air channels are partially obstructed. By some writers the term rhonchus is used as equivalent to rale in its widest sense. See Rale.

(n.) The condition or quality of being rank.

(n.) Rhythm.

(n.) The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).

(n. pl.) See Rhaphides.

(a.) Not having, or not governed by, reins; hence, not checked or restrained.

(n. pl.) Same as Accipitres. Called also Raptatores.

(n.) The state or quality of being rare.

(pl. ) of Rarity

(n.) The quality or state of being rash.

(a.) Manifesting, exercising, or favoring rigor; allowing no abatement or mitigation; scrupulously accurate; exact; strict; severe; relentless; as, a rigorous officer of justice; a rigorous execution of law; a rigorous definition or demonstration.

(a.) Severe; intense; inclement; as, a rigorous winter.

(a.) Violent.

(a.) Destitute of shoes.

(a.) Hairless.

(pl. ) of Distaff

(pl. ) of Distaff

(pl. ) of Deputy

(a.) Without panes.

(a.) Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.

(a.) Having a hissing sound; hissing; sibilant.

(n.) Extreme pain or suffering; anguish of body or mind; as, to suffer distress from the gout, or from the loss of friends.

(n.) That which occasions suffering; painful situation; misfortune; affliction; misery.

(n.) A state of danger or necessity; as, a ship in distress, from leaking, loss of spars, want of provisions or water, etc.

(n.) The act of distraining; the taking of a personal chattel out of the possession of a wrongdoer, by way of pledge for redress of an injury, or for the performance of a duty, as for nonpayment of rent or taxes, or for injury done by cattle, etc.

(n.) The thing taken by distraining; that which is seized to procure satisfaction.

(n.) To cause pain or anguish to; to pain; to oppress with calamity; to afflict; to harass; to make miserable.

(n.) To compel by pain or suffering.

(n.) To seize for debt; to distrain.

(a.) Free from sickness.

(n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

(n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

(adv.) Toward the side; sidewise.

(a.) Having two kinds of young, as certain annelids.

(n.) Feeling desire; eagerly wishing; solicitous; eager to obtain; covetous.

(a.) Producing only two eggs for a clutch, as certain birds do.

(n.) Free excretion of urine.

(n.) Silkiness.

(n.) Having a savor; savory.

(n.) A nickname for a surgeon.

(n.) One line or radius falling perpendicularly on another; as, the catheti of a right-angled triangle, that is, the two sides that include the right angle.

(a.) Consisting of scabs; rough; itchy; leprous; as, scabious eruptions.

(a.) Any plant of the genus Scabiosa, several of the species of which are common in Europe. They resemble the Compositae, and have similar heads of flowers, but the anthers are not connected.

(a.) Rough to the touch, like a file; having small raised dots, scales, or points; scabby; scurfy; scaly.

(a.) Fig.: Harsh; unmusical.

(pl. ) of Caudex

(pl. ) of Caudex

(a.) Having no brim; as, brimless caps.

(a.) Attentive to examine probable effects and consequences of acts with a view to avoid danger or misfortune; prudent; circumspect; wary; watchful; as, a cautious general.

(pl. ) of Cavity

(pl. ) of Scapula

(a.) Thin, dry, membranous, and not green.

(a.) Free from scar.

(n.) One of the subdivisions of the trachea or windpipe; esp. one of the two primary divisions.

(n.) Holland gin.

(pl. ) of Brother

(pl. ) of Brother

(pl. ) of Centrum

(a.) Without shame.

(a.) Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.

(a.) Knowing superficially or imperfectly.

(n.) An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.

(n.) A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.

(n. pl.) 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 scissors.

(a.) Hard; indurated; sclerotic.

(pl. ) of Scolex

(pl. ) of Scopula

(n.) The art of making things of baked clay; as pottery, tiles, etc.

(n.) Work formed of clay in whole or in part, and baked; as, vases, urns, etc.

(n.) A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

(n.) A monster, in the shape of a three-headed dog, guarding the entrance into the infernal regions, Hence: Any vigilant custodian or guardian, esp. if surly.

(n.) A genus of East Indian serpents, allied to the pythons; the bokadam.

(a.) Inclining or nodding downward; pendulous; drooping; -- said of a bud, flower, fruit, or the capsule of a moss.

(a.) Scoriaceous.

(n.) A city of Belgium, giving its name to a kind of carpet, a kind of lace, etc.

(pl. ) of Cervix

(pl. ) of Cervix

(pl. ) of Chalaza

(a.) Sinewy.

(v. t.) To decline or fail to prosecute; to allow to be dropped (said of a suit); to enter judgment against (a plaintiff who fails to prosecute); as, the plaintiff was non-prossed.

(n.) The quality or state of being open.

(a.) Without stop or delay.

(n.) The navel.

(n.) The state of being alone.

(a.) Untiring.

(a.) Designating certain compounds of titanium in which that element has a lower valence as contrasted with titanic compounds.

(n.) The state or quality of being holy; perfect moral integrity or purity; freedom from sin; sanctity; innocence.

(n.) The state of being hallowed, or consecrated to God or to his worship; sacredness.

(n.) Gin made in Holland.

(n.) See Holland.

(a.) Destitute of a home.

(a.) Free from toil.

(pl. ) of Indigo

(pl. ) of Tomato

(a.) Destitute of a tomb.

(pl. ) of Homily

(a.) Having no tone; unmusical.

(a.) Same as Inermis.

(n.) A female Greek.

(a.) Causing grief or sorrow; painful; afflictive; hard to bear; offensive; harmful.

(a.) Characterized by great atrocity; heinous; aggravated; flagitious; as, a grievous sin.

(a.) Full of, or expressing, grief; showing great sorrow or affliction; as, a grievous cry.

(n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

(a.) Destitute of tact.

(a.) Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly.

(a.) Having no tail.

(pl. ) of Grotto

(n.) The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

(pl. ) of Diploma

(n.) A lens of glass to assist the sight. Eyeglasses are used singly or in pairs.

(n.) Eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, etc.

(n.) The retina.

(n.) A glass eyecup. See Eyecup.

(a.) Incapable of being tamed; wild; untamed; untamable.

(n.) The quality or state of being tame.

(n. pl.) Coarse meal.

(n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them.

(n.) A genus of wading birds comprising the wood ibises.

(n.) The act of whispering; a whisper; a murmur.

(pl. ) of Guanaco

(n.) The infernal regions, described in the Iliad as situated as far below Hades as heaven is above the earth, and by later writers as the place of punishment for the spirits of the wicked. By the later poets, also, the name is often used synonymously with Hades, or the Lower World in general.

(n.) The quality or state of being tart.

(n. pl.) See Grudgeons.

(n.) Skill; adroitness.

(a.) Same as Epigaeous.

(pl. ) of Stratum

(pl. ) of Epipubis

(n.) A cartilage or bone in front of the pubis in some amphibians and other animals.

(n.) That part which embraces the main action of a play, poem, and the like, and leads on to the catastrophe; -- opposed to protasis.

(n.) The period of violence in a fever or disease; paroxysm.

(n.) A flat muscle of the back of the neck.

(pl. ) of Epitome

(a.) Strigose.

(pl. ) of Equity

(pl. ) of Dropsy

(pl. ) of Drosky

(n. pl.) Stars not included in any constellation; -- called also informed, or unformed, stars.

(n.) A female Druid; a prophetess.

(a.) Without a spot; especially, free from reproach or impurity; pure; untainted; innocent; as, a spotless mind; spotless behavior.

(n.) A long, winding constellation extending southward from Taurus and containing the bright star Achernar.

(v. t.) The dung of an otter.

(n.) See Note under Ermine, n., 4.

(n.) A figure o/ speech by which a strong affirmation of the contrary, is implied under the form o/ an earnest interrogation, as in the following lines; -

(a.) Having to duct or outlet; as, a ductless gland.

(n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

(n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

(a.) Not proceeding from the true source, or from the source pretended; not genuine; false; adulterate.

(a.) Not legitimate; bastard; as, spurious issue.

(a.) Having no spurs.

(a.) Having no regard to self; unselfish.

(n.) Selfishness.

(n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

(n.) One half of the axis of an /llipse or other figure.

(pl. ) of County

(n.) A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

(n.) The half of a lens divided along a plane passing through its axis.

(v. t.) Very desirous; eager to obtain; -- used in a good sense.

(v. t.) Inordinately desirous; excessively eager to obtain and possess (esp. money); avaricious; -- in a bad sense.

(a.) Deceitful; collusive; fraudulent; dishonest.

(n.) The state or quality of being cozy.

(n.) A meeting of individuals, whether friendly or hostile; an encounter.

(n.) A sudden encounter; a collision; a shock; -- said of things.

(n.) The coming together of a male and female in sexual commerce; the act of coition.

(n.) A gathering or assembly; a conference.

(n.) A formal assembly, as of princes, deputies, representatives, envoys, or commissioners; esp., a meeting of the representatives of several governments or societies to consider and determine matters of common interest.

(n.) The collective body of senators and representatives of the people of a nation, esp. of a republic, constituting the chief legislative body of the nation.

(n.) The lower house of the Spanish Cortes, the members of which are elected for three years.

(pl. ) of Acalephan

(n.) A genus of herbaceous prickly plants, found in the south of Europe, Asia Minor, and India; bear's-breech.

(n.) An ornament resembling the foliage or leaves of the acanthus (Acanthus spinosus); -- used in the capitals of the Corinthian and Composite orders.

(a.) Not producing fruit; unfruitful.

(a.) Same as Acaulescent.

(a.) Destitute of snow.

(n. pl.) An instrument for cropping and holding the snuff of a candle.

(n.) The quality or state of being snug.

(pl. ) of Cranium

(pl. ) of Cranny

(n. pl.) Suds made with soap.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the senses, or sensible objects; addressing the senses; suggesting pictures or images of sense.

(a.) Highly susceptible to influence through the senses.

(a.) Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.

(a.) Destitute of socks or shoes.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a cantor; as, the cantoris side of a choir; a cantoris stall.

(n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

(a.) Destitute of a rind.

(n. pl.) Alt. of Ratlins

(n.) A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.

(n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.

(a.) Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture.

(a.) Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire.

(n.) A female rival.

(a.) Destitute of roads.

(n.) A second access or approach; a return.

(pl. ) of Remedy

(a.) Being without rocks.

(n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.

(n.) A reredos.

(n.) The fourth or digestive stomach of a ruminant, which leads from the third stomach omasum. See Ruminantia.

(a.) Having no roof; as, a roofless house.

(a.) Having no house or home; shelterless; homeless.

(pl. ) of Roomful

(a.) Being without room or rooms.

(a.) Inattentive to duty; careless; neglectful; indifferent.

(a.) Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless.

(a.) Destitute of roots.

(n.) Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

(pl. ) of Rosary

(n.) The quality of being rosy.

(pl. ) of Rostrum

(pl. ) of Rouleau

(n.) Proctitis.

(n.) A rectoress.

(v. t.) To discontinue by entering a nolle prosequi; to decline to prosecute.

(n.) The quality of being oily.

(a.) Having small nodes or knots; diminutively nodose.

(n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

(a.) Destitute of sails.

(n.) A female saint.

(pl. ) of Salary

(a.) Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please.

(a.) Fitted to harass, perplex, or insnare; insidious; troublesome.

(a.) Pertaining to saliva; of the nature of saliva.

(pl. ) of Clavis

(a.) Destitute of claws.

(a.) Destitute of salt; insipid.

(n.) The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

(n.) A genus of shrubs and trees; the elder.

(n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.

(n.) A species of Galium (G. Aparine), having a fruit set with hooked bristles, which adhere to whatever they come in contact with; -- called also, goose grass, catchweed, etc.

(n.) A genus of flowering plants, of many species, mostly climbers, having feathery styles, which greatly enlarge in the fruit; -- called also virgin's bower.

(n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.

(n.) Inflammation of the fleshy or muscular substance of the heart. See Endocarditis and Pericarditis.

(pl. ) of Cardo

(a.) Free from care or anxiety. hence, cheerful; light-hearted.

(a.) Having no care; not taking ordinary or proper care; negligent; unconcerned; heedless; inattentive; unmindful; regardless.

(a.) Without thought or purpose; without due care; without attention to rule or system; unstudied; inconsiderate; spontaneous; rash; as, a careless throw; a careless expression.

(a.) Not receiving care; uncared for.

(n.) The state of being sane; sanity.

(a.) Of the shape of a fig; as, a caricous tumor.

(n. pl.) Same as Carl, 3.

(n.) A genus of tropical and subtropical trees with pinnate leaves and panicled flowers. The fruits of some species are used instead of soap, and their round black seeds are made into necklaces.

(a.) Having flavor or taste; yielding a taste.

(n.) A small organ at the upper part of the vulva, homologous to the penis in the male.

(a.) Consisting of, or like, flesh; carnous; fleshy.

(pl. ) of Sarcoma

(n.) Abnormal formation of flesh.

(n.) Sarcoma.

(a.) Insatiable.

(a.) That does not cloy.

(n. pl.) A garment worn by men, covering the hips and thighs; smallclothes.

(n. pl.) Trousers; pantaloons.

(n.) See Sandress.

(n. pl.) An Appalachian tribe of Indians which originally inhabited the regions near the Catawba river and the head waters of the Santee.

(n.) A woman who caters.

(pl. ) of Colony

(n.) A statue of gigantic size. The name was especially applied to certain famous statues in antiquity, as the Colossus of Nero in Rome, the Colossus of Apollo at Rhodes.

(n.) Any man or beast of gigantic size.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, chlorine; -- said of those compounds of chlorine in which this element has a valence of three, the next lower than in chloric compounds; as, chlorous acid, HClO2.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the electro-negative character of chlorine; hence, electro-negative; -- opposed to basylous or zincous.

(n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians (Southern Appalachian), in early times noted for their pursuit of agriculture, and for living at peace with the white settlers. They are now one of the civilized tribes of the Indian Territory.

(a.) Comatose.

(n.) A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.

(pl. ) of Squacco

() Covered with, or consisting of, scales; resembling a scale; scaly; as, the squamose cones of the pine; squamous epithelial cells; the squamous portion of the temporal bone, which is so called from a fancied resemblance to a scale.

() Of or pertaining to the squamosal bone; squamosal.

(n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

(n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.

(n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

(n.) The noise produced by a sudden discharge of wind from the bowels.

(n.) Same as Crepitation, 2.

(n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

(n.) A state of distress or trouble.

(a.) Relating to, or partaking of the nature of, the disease called tetter; herpetic.

(a.) Without date; having no fixed time.

(n.) The state of being destitute of life, vigor, spirit, activity, etc.; dullness; inertness; languor; coldness; vapidness; indifference; as, the deadness of a limb, a body, or a tree; the deadness of an eye; deadness of the affections; the deadness of beer or cider; deadness to the world, and the like.

(n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

(n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, saffron; deep reddish yellow.

(n.) The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price.

(n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.

(n.) A genus of poisonous serpents, including the rattlesnakes.

(pl. ) of Crotch

(a.) Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrane like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis.

(pl. ) of Crutch

(a.) Free from debt.

(pl. ) of Chimney

(a.) Suitable to a character, or to the time, place, and occasion; marked with decorum; becoming; proper; seemly; befitting; as, a decorous speech; decorous behavior; a decorous dress for a judge.

(pl. ) of Decury

(pl. ) of Cullis

(a.) Not performing, or not having performed, deeds or exploits; inactive.

(pl. ) of Cultus

(n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

(n.) Craft; insidiousness.

(n.) Affected refusal; coyness.

(a.) Rendering action or motion difficult or toilsome; serving to obstruct or hinder; burdensome; clogging.

(a.) Giving trouble; vexatious.

(n.) A kind of lichen, of the genus Cladonia.

(a.) Consisting of copper or resembling copper; coppery.

(pl. ) of Curacy

(a.) Having no curb or restraint.

(pl. ) of Squilla

(n.) Duskiness.

(a.) Without dust; as a dustless path.

(pl. ) of Duumvir

(n. pl.) Necessaries or supples; an allowance to a person out of an estate or other thing for support; as of wood to a tenant for life, etc., of sustenance to a man confined for felony of his estate, or alimony to a woman divorced out of her husband's estate.

(n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.

(n.) The moving moral, as well as physical, forces of any kind, or the laws which relate to them.

(n.) That department of musical science which relates to, or treats of, the power of tones.

(pl. ) of Plateau

(v. t.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope.

(a.) Spiritless; weak; worthless.

(a.) Tasteless; insipid.

(n. pl.) Earnings.

(n.) Glandular inflammation.

(pl. ) of Tawdry

(n.) A genus of South American fresh-water fishes, including the Gymnotus electricus, or electric eel. It has a greenish, eel-like body, and is possessed of electric power.

(a.) Resembling or containing gypsum; partaking of the qualities of gypsum.

(a.) Destitute of feet; as, feetless birds.

(n.) The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

(pl. ) of Hackney

(a.) Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling.

(a.) Wicked; felonious.

(pl. ) of Felony

(n.) The doctrine of arts in general; such branches of learning as respect the arts.

(a.) Not fruitful or prolific; barren; as, a teemless earth.

(a.) Destitute of hair.

(a.) Free from odor.

(pl. ) of Nobody

(a.) Having no hood.

(a.) Destitute of hoofs.

(pl. ) of Torteau

(a.) Injurious; wrongful.

(a.) Imploying tort, or privat injury for which the law gives damages; involing tort.

(a.) Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.

(a.) Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.

(a.) Injurious: tortious.

(a.) Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.

(a.) Same as Torose.

(a.) Destitute of hope; having no expectation of good; despairing.

(a.) Giving no ground of hope; promising nothing desirable; desperate; as, a hopeless cause.

(a.) Unhoped for; despaired of.

(n.) A former French money of account worth 20 sous, or a franc. It was thus called in distinction from the Paris livre, which contained 25 sous.

(a.) Curved inwards; hooked.

(a.) Having no town.

(a.) Of very bad report; having a reputation of the worst kind; held in abhorrence; guilty of something that exposes to infamy; base; notoriously vile; detestable; as, an infamous traitor; an infamous perjurer.

(a.) Causing or producing infamy; deserving detestation; scandalous to the last degree; as, an infamous act; infamous vices; infamous corruption.

(a.) Branded with infamy by conviction of a crime; as, at common law, an infamous person can not be a witness.

(a.) Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous.

(pl. ) of Infamy

(a.) Having no horn.

(v. t.) A blowing or breathing into; inflation; inspiration.

(pl. ) of Hosanna

(a.) Inhospitable.

(v. t.) To apply to, in conjunction with mechanical pressure, for the purpose of giving a smooth and glosay surface, or to express oil, etc.; as, to hotpress paper, linen, etc.

(n.) Inflammation of the muscles.

(n.) A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.

(n.) A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.

(n.) A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves.

(n.) A Portuguese gold coin of the value of eight dollars, named from the figure of King John which it bears; -- often contracted into joe; as, a joe, or a half joe.

(pl. ) of Johnny

(n.) The wife of a mayor.

(n.) The state or quality of being mazy.

(n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

(n.) A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.

(a.) Having no meat; without food.

(pl. ) of Meatus

(n.) The quality or state of being wild; an uncultivated or untamed state; disposition to rove or go unrestrained; rudeness; savageness; irregularity; distraction.

(n.) The state or quality of being lank.

(a.) Having no want; abundant; fruitful.

(a.) Having the form or nature of vapor.

(a.) Full of vapors or exhalations.

(a.) Producing vapors; hence, windy; flatulent.

(a.) Unreal; unsubstantial; vain; whimsical.

(n.) A variety; -- used in giving scientific names, and often abbreviated to var.

(n.) Unwary; incautious; unheeding; careless; unaware.

(n.) The quality or state of being wary; care to foresee and guard against evil; cautiousness.

(n.) Warmth.

(n.) The quality or state of being vast.

(a.) Having no wart.

(a.) Vigorous; lively; active; vegete.

(n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

(a.) Having no veil.

(a.) Having no veins; as, a veinless leaf.

(n. pl.) The hunting spiders, which run after, or leap upon, their prey.

(a.) Venomous.

(a.) Venereous.

(a.) Full of venom; noxious to animal life; poisonous; as, the bite of a serpent may be venomous.

(a.) Having a poison gland or glands for the secretion of venom, as certain serpents and insects.

(a.) Noxious; mischievous; malignant; spiteful; as, a venomous progeny; a venomous writer.

(a.) Free from waves; undisturbed; not agitated; as, the waveless sea.

(n.) The quality or state of being wavy.

(n.) Quality or state of being waxy.

(n. pl.) An order of birds, including only the penguins, in which the wings are without quills, and not suited for flight.

(n.) A hydrous phosphate of alumina containing a little copper; calaite. It has a blue, or bluish green, color, and usually occurs in reniform masses with a botryoidal surface.

(n.) A woman who performs the duties of a tutor; an instructress.

(n. pl.) Small pinchers used to pluck out hairs, and for other purposes.

(pl. ) of Twenty

(a.) Having no twigs.

(a.) Free from itching.

(adv.) Up the stairs; in or toward an upper story.

(a.) Being above stairs; as, an upstairs room.

(a.) Destitute of pores; very close or compact in texture; solid.

(n.) Any urn-shaped organ of a plant.

(a.) Practicing usury; taking illegal or exorbitant interest for the use of money; as, a usurious person.

(a.) Partaking of usury; containing or involving usury; as, a usurious contract.

(a.) Excessively fond of, or submissive to, a wife; being a dependent husband.

(pl. ) of Vagary

(adv.) In the first place; first in order.

(n.) Anciently, a snake, called dart snake; now, one of a genus of reptiles closely allied to the lizards.

(n.) 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.

(pl. ) of Energy

(a.) Lacking nerve or force; enervated.

(a.) Without fame or renown.

(pl. ) of Family

(a.) Pertaining to an engine.

(a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.

(n.) See Ghastness.

(n.) A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

(n.) Hence: Any fragments separated from the body to which they belonged; any product of disintegration.

(n.) A sunstroke.

(n.) The act of exposing to a sun bath. [Obs.] Cf. Insolation.

(pl. ) of Sirocco

(n.) A she-devil.

(n.) A king of Corinth, son of Aeolus, famed for his cunning. He was killed by Theseus, and in the lower world was condemned by Pluto to roll to the top of a hill a huge stone, which constantly rolled back again, making his task incessant.

(n.) State of being dewy.

() A grass with leaves having edges furnished with very minute hooked prickles, which form a cutting edge; one or more species of Leersia.

(n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

(n.) Alt. of Dextrousness

(n.) A disease which is attended with a persistent, excessive discharge of urine. Most frequently the urine is not only increased in quantity, but contains saccharine matter, in which case the disease is generally fatal.

(pl. ) of Skerry

(pl. ) of Dieresis

(n.) The separation or resolution of one syllable into two; -- the opposite of synaeresis.

(n.) A mark consisting of two dots [/], placed over the second of two adjacent vowels, to denote that they are to be pronounced as distinct letters; as, cooperate, aerial.

(pl. ) of Skinful

(a.) Having no skin, or a very thin skin; as, skinless fruit.

(pl. ) of Dialysis

(n.) Diaeresis. See Diaeresis, 1.

(n.) Same as Asyndeton.

(n.) Debility.

(n.) A solution of continuity; division; separation of parts.

(n.) The separation of different substances in solution, as crystalloids and colloids, by means of their unequal diffusion, especially through natural or artificial membranes.

(v. t.) An English game resembling ninepins, but played by throwing wooden disks, instead of rolling balls, at the pins.

(n.) A genus of plants containing some of the most popular of cultivated flowers, including the pink, carnation, and Sweet William.

(n.) A foot of five syllables (usually / -- -/ -).

(n.) A female doctor.

(a.) Without a doge.

(a.) Slangy.

(n. pl.) A part of the ocean near the equator, abounding in calms, squalls, and light, baffling winds, which sometimes prevent all progress for weeks; -- so called by sailors.

(n.) The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines.

(a.) Growing in pairs or twins.

(a.) See Dioecian, and Dioecious.

(n.) A narrative or history; a recital or relation.

(n.) Same as Diaeresis.

(a.) Full of grief; sad; sorrowful; doleful; dismal; as, a dolorous object; dolorous discourses.

(a.) Occasioning pain or grief; painful.

(n.) The quality or state of being slim.

(a.) Pertaining to a second marriage, that is, one after the death of the first wife or the first husband.

(a.) Sexually reproductive.

(pl. ) of Domino

(a.) Without a door.

(a.) Having two angles.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Digynia; having two styles.

(n.) A double iambus; a foot consisting of two iambuses (/ / / /).

(n.) The quality or state of being slow.

(a.) Composed of, or having, two parts of each kind.

(a.) Doubtful.

(n.) Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

(pl. ) of Nimbus

(n. pl.) A game played with nine pins, or pieces of wood, set on end, at which a wooden ball is bowled to knock them down; bowling.

(a.) Destitute of fangs or tusks.

(a.) Having no gate.

(a.) Destitute of ornament.

(a.) Having no stem; (Bot.) acaulescent.

(a.) Being without a soul, or without greatness or nobleness of mind; mean; spiritless.

(n.) A narrowing of the opening or hollow of any passage, tube, or orifice; as, stenosis of the pylorus. It differs from stricture in being applied especially to diffused rather than localized contractions, and in always indicating an origin organic and not spasmodic.

(n.) The quality or state of being sour.

(pl. ) of Dishful

(pl. ) of Sternum

(n.) Extending far and wide; vast in extent.

(n.) Inclosing an extended space; having large or ample room; not contracted or narrow; capacious; roomy; as, spacious bounds; a spacious church; a spacious hall.

(pl. ) of Spadix

(pl. ) of Spadix

(pl. ) of Spado

(a.) Antimonious.

(a.) Incapable of being spanned.

(n.) A variety of chalcedony containing water.

(n.) Alt. of Sparagrass

(pl. ) of Enmity

(a.) Spathose.

(a.) Exceeding the usual rule, norm, or measure; out of due proportion; inordinate; abnormal.

(a.) Exceedingly wicked; outrageous; atrocious; monstrous; as, an enormous crime.

(a.) Presenting a pleasing appearance; pleasing in form or look; showy.

(a.) Apparently right; superficially fair, just, or correct, but not so in reality; appearing well at first view; plausible; as, specious reasoning; a specious argument.

(v. t.) A goad; hence, something that rouses the mind or spirits; an incentive; as, the hope of gain is a powerful stimulus to labor and action.

(v. t.) That which excites or produces a temporary increase of vital action, either in the whole organism or in any of its parts; especially (Physiol.), any substance or agent capable of evoking the activity of a nerve or irritable muscle, or capable of producing an impression upon a sensory organ or more particularly upon its specific end organ.

(n.) An East Indian long-tailed bearded monkey (Semnopithecus entellus) regarded as sacred by the natives. It is remarkable for the caplike arrangement of the hair on the head. Called also hoonoomaun and hungoor.

(pl. ) of Stipes

(a.) Without stirring; very quiet; motionless.

(pl. ) of Entity

(n. pl.) The internal parts of animal bodies; the bowels; the guts; viscera; intestines.

(n. pl.) Parings and refuse of hides, skins, etc., from which glue is made.

(n.) The doctrine of the sphere; the science of the properties and relations of the circles, figures, and other magnitudes of a sphere, produced by planes intersecting it; spherical geometry and trigonometry.

(n. pl.) The internal parts; as, the entrails of the earth.

(a.) Not to be stopped.

(a.) Defamatory.

(a.) Incapable of cure; incurable.

(pl. ) of Curioso

(n. pl.) An order of running birds including the ostrich, emu, and allies; the Ratitaae.

(n. pl.) A group of running spiders; the wolf spiders.

(n.) The quality of bing curt.

(a.) Flowing down; falling off.

(pl. ) of Custos

(n. pl.) Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc.

(n.) The quality of being deft.

(n.) Acuteness; cunning.

(n.) A condition in which, from insufficient a/ration of the blood, the surface of the body becomes blue. See Cyanopathy.

(n.) The circulation or movement of protoplasmic granules within a living vegetable cell.

(pl. ) of Shanny

(pl. ) of Shanty

(a.) Haughty; disdainful.

(n.) A name given to an elementary book for learners of Latin or Greek.

(n.) Inflammation of the bladder.

(n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians who occupied Western New York and part of Ohio, but were driven away and widely dispersed by the Iroquois.

(n.) The quality of being daft.

(pl. ) of Dainty

(n.) A city of Syria.

(n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

(n.) The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

(a.) Having no seat.

(n.) A female demon.

(n.) A Roman silver coin of the value of about fourteen cents; the "penny" of the New Testament; -- so called from being worth originally ten of the pieces called as.

(pl. ) of Shindy

(pl. ) of Shipful

(a.) Destitute of ships.

(a.) Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

(pl. ) of Ninety

(pl. ) of Monody

(a.) Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter.

(n.) The quality or state of being nigh.

(n.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence of urine.

(n. pl.) The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town.

(pl. ) of Spinney

(pl. ) of Spinny

(n.) An extinct marine reptile from the coal measures of Nova Scotia; -- so named because supposed to be of the earliest known reptiles.

(n.) A figure of speech in which the parts of a sentence or clause are repeated in inverse order

(pl. ) of Gayety

(a.) Double; in pairs.

(a.) Pertaining to gems; of the nature of gems; resembling gems.

(a.) The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

(a.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

(a.) Conciseness of style.

(a.) The state of being fast or swift.

(a.) Proud; haughty; disdainful.

(n.) Of or performance to trap; resembling trap, or partaking of its form or qualities; trappy.

(pl. ) of Trayful

(a.) Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.

(a.) Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.

(a.) Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.

(a.) Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.

(a.) Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.

(a.) The organs of generation; the sexual organs; the private parts.

(n.) A woman who favors or gives countenance.

(pl. ) of Treaty

(pl. ) of Genius

(a.) Destructive; fatal.

(a.) Frondose.

(n.) 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.

(n.) An ellipse.

(pl. ) of Frustum

(pl. ) of Fuchsia

(pl. ) of Fulcrum

(n.) The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

(a.) Free from fumes.

(pl. ) of Fungus

(a.) Embryonic; undeveloped.

(a.) Honorably discharged from the performance of public duty on account of age, infirmity, or long and faithful services; -- said of an officer of a college or pastor of a church.

(n.) A veteran who has honorably completed his service.

(n. pl.) Hemorrhoids; piles; tumors; boils.

(n.) See Empress.

(pl. ) of Emphasis

(n.) A particular stress of utterance, or force of voice, given in reading and speaking to one or more words whose signification the speaker intends to impress specially upon his audience.

(n.) A peculiar impressiveness of expression or weight of thought; vivid representation, enforcing assent; as, to dwell on a subject with great emphasis.

(a.) Futile; trifling.

(n.) The exterior curve of an arch; esp., the upper curved face of the whole body of voussoirs. See Intrados.

(a.) Without a lip.

(a.) Lacking bile.

(a.) Colorless; achromatic.

(a.) Without chyle.

(a.) Without chyme.

(n.) Acidity; sourness.

(n.) A short sword or saber.

(pl. ) of Gadfly

(a.) See Exsuccous.

(n.) An eruption of pustules.

(n.) An ornament on a frieze or capital, consisting of festoons of fruit, flowers, leaves, etc.

(a.) Feigned, as a story or fable; related in fable; devised; invented; not real; fictitious; as, a fabulous description; a fabulous hero.

(a.) Passing belief; exceedingly great; as, a fabulous price.

(a.) Not producing gain; unprofitable.

(n.) A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

(pl. ) of Galaxy

(n.) A large galley, having some features of the galleon, as broadside guns; esp., such a vessel used by the southern nations of Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. See Galleon, and Galley.

(a.) Given to faction; addicted to form parties and raise dissensions, in opposition to government or the common good; turbulent; seditious; prone to clamor against public measures or men; -- said of persons.

(a.) Pertaining to faction; proceeding from faction; indicating, or characterized by, faction; -- said of acts or expressions; as, factious quarrels.

(n.) A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks.

(a.) Not liable to fade; unfading.

(n.) Same as Galleass.

(n. pl.) High boots or buskins; in Scotland, short spatterdashes or riding trousers, worn over the other clothing.

(a.) Destitute of game.

(n.) Endurance; pluck.

(a.) Not attracting notice; not conspicuous.

(pl. ) of Moneron

(a.) Destitute of trees.

(a.) Free from fear.

(a.) Without germs.

(n. pl.) Magistrates in Sparta, who with the ephori and kings, constituted the supreme civil authority.

(a.) Dexterous; neat.

(n.) A woman of extraordinary size.

(v. i.) To pass beyond a limit or boundary; hence, to depart; to go.

(v. i.) To commit a trespass; esp., to enter unlawfully upon the land of another.

(v. i.) To go too far; to put any one to inconvenience by demand or importunity; to intrude; as, to trespass upon the time or patience of another.

(v. i.) To commit any offense, or to do any act that injures or annoys another; to violate any rule of rectitude, to the injury of another; hence, in a moral sense, to transgress voluntarily any divine law or command; to violate any known rule of duty; to sin; -- often followed by against.

(v.) Any injury or offence done to another.

(v.) Any voluntary transgression of the moral law; any violation of a known rule of duty; sin.

(v.) An unlawful act committed with force and violence (vi et armis) on the person, property, or relative rights of another.

(v.) An action for injuries accompanied with force.

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods in which the shell has the outer lip dilated into a broad wing. It includes many large and handsome species commonly called conch shells, or conchs. See Conch.

(pl. ) of Strophe

(a.) Scrofulous; having struma.

(pl. ) of Ginkgo

(n.) Molasses.

(n.) A foot of three long syllables.

(n.) The quality or state of being vain.

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid.

(a.) Without a wife; unmarried.

(n.) A female waiter or attendant; a waiting maid or waiting woman.

(a.) Of or pertaining to vanadium; obtained from vanadium; -- said of an acid containing one equivalent of vanadium and two of oxygen.

(a.) Having no property in land.

(pl. ) of Vanity

(n.) Quality or state of being nice.

(n.) The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York.

(pl. ) of Moiety

(n.) The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness.

(n.) That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect.

(pl. ) of Verity

(n.) Any one of many species of marine gastropods belonging to Vermetus and allied genera, of the family Vermetidae. Their shells are regularly spiral when young, but later in life the whorls become separate, and the shell is often irregularly bent and contorted like a worm tube.

(n.) The state or quality of being lazy.

(a.) Having no leaves or foliage; bearing no foliage.

(a.) Free from weeds or noxious matter.

(pl. ) of Weekly

(pl. ) of Earning

(a.) Without ease.

(n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

(n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

(n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

(n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

(n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

(n.) A genus of South American amaryllidaceous plants with large and beautiful white blossoms.

(n.) The science of improving stock, whether human or animal.

(a.) Having no fork.

(pl. ) of Eulogy

(n.) A genus of small beetles, one species of which (E. viti) is very injurious to the vines in the wine countries of Europe.

(n.) A genus of small European and American trees; the spindle tree. The bark is used as a cathartic.

(a.) Without echo or response.

(a.) Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape.

(pl. ) of Formula

(pl. ) of Fornix

(n.) A fortified place; a large and permanent fortification, sometimes including a town; a fort; a castle; a stronghold; a place of defense or security.

(v. t.) To furnish with a fortress or with fortresses; to guard; to fortify.

(adv.) Toward a part or place before or in front; onward; in advance; progressively; -- opposed to backward.

(adv.) Same as Forward.

(n. pl.) A group of hymenopterous insects including the sand wasps. They excavate cells in earth, where they deposit their eggs, with the bodies of other insects for the food of the young when hatched.

(n.) A woman who feeds and cherishes; a nurse.

(n.) The quality or condition of being foul.

(n.) An explicit declaration.

(n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

(a.) Given to eating; voracious; devouring.

(n.) The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

(a.) Without an edge; not sharp; blunt; obtuse; as, an edgeless sword or weapon.

(n.) A female editor.

(a.) Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star.

(a.) Undistinguished; not noted or famous.

(a.) Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer.

(a.) Unnamable; indescribable; inexpressible.

(n.) A plant (Zostera marina), with very long and narrow leaves, growing abundantly in shallow bays along the North Atlantic coast.

(n.) The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

(n.) The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

(n.) A coarse and sour taste in grapes.

(n.) The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

(a.) Like a wild beast; fierce.

(pl. ) of Frenum

(n.) See Effigy.

(pl. ) of Effigy

(n.) A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.

(a.) Unknowing; also, unknown; unmeaning.

(pl. ) of Vertex

(pl. ) of Vertex

(n.) The condition or quality of being lean.

(pl. ) of Vestry

(n. pl.) Things left; remnants; relics.

(n. pl.) Refuse; offal.

(n.) A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers.

(n.) A woman who wins a victory; a female victor.

(n. pl.) Food for human beings, esp. when it is cooked or prepared for the table; that which supports human life; provisions; sustenance; meat; viands.

(a.) Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen.

(pl. ) of Legacy

(n.) The quality or state of being wet; moisture; humidity; as, the wetness of land; the wetness of a cloth.

(n.) A watery or moist state of the atmosphere; a state of being rainy, foggy, or misty; as, the wetness of weather or the season.

(pl. ) of Stucco

(a.) Given to study; devoted to the acquisition of knowledge from books; as, a studious scholar.

(a.) Given to thought, or to the examination of subjects by contemplation; contemplative.

(a.) Earnest in endeavors; aiming sedulously; attentive; observant; diligent; -- usually followed by an infinitive or by of; as, be studious to please; studious to find new friends and allies.

(a.) Planned with study; deliberate; studied.

(a.) Favorable to study; suitable for thought and contemplation; as, the studious shade.

(a.) Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.

(a.) Pertaining to, consisting of or resembling, ice; icy.

(pl. ) of Actinia

(n.) The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

(a.) Resembling tow; having long, loose scales, or matted filaments, like tow; stupose.

(n.) One of the natural groups, more important than an order, into which some classes are divided; as, the angiospermous subclass of exogens.

(n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.

(n.) A highly contagious and very destructive disease of horses, asses, mules, etc., characterized by a constant discharge of sticky matter from the nose, and an enlargement and induration of the glands beneath and within the lower jaw. It may transmitted to dogs, goats, sheep, and to human beings.

(a.) Glairy.

(a.) Of a sea-green color; of a dull green passing into grayish blue.

(a.) Covered with a fine bloom or fine white powder easily rubbed off, as that on a blue plum, or on a cabbage leaf.

(a.) Having a corky texture.

(n.) A subdivision of a genus, comprising one or more species which differ from other species of the genus in some important character or characters; as, the azaleas now constitute a subgenus of Rhododendron.

(n.) The quality of being glib.

(n.) The quality or state of being trim; orderliness; compactness; snugness; neatness.

(pl. ) of Tripos

(n.) Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds.

(n.) Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious.

(n.) Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink.

(n.) Moodiness; sullenness.

(n.) The art of engraving on precious stones.

(n.) A demon or fiend; especially, a lascivious spirit supposed to have sexual intercourse with the men by night; a succuba. Cf. Incubus.

(n.) The nightmare. See Nightmare, 2.

(pl. ) of Trophy

(n. pl.) A garment worn by men and boys, extending from the waist to the knee or to the ankle, and covering each leg separately.

(a.) Consisting of sweat.

(n. pl.) Same as Trousers.

(n.) The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

(n. pl.) A plant (Sarracenia flava) with long, hollow leaves.

(n.) A female supplicant.

(a.) Pertaining to the goiter; affected with the goiter; of the nature of goiter or bronchocele.

(a.) Destitute of gold.

(n.) A genus of trees; the plane tree.

(n.) The quality or state of being wily; craftiness; cunning; guile.

(n.) genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.

(pl. ) of Madam

(pl. ) of Iambus

(a.) Of or like ichor; thin; watery; serous; sanious.

(a.) Undulating; undulatory.

(a.) Destitute of an idea.

(n.) The interior curve of an arch; esp., the inner or lower curved face of the whole body of voussoirs taken together. See Extrados.

(n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

(a.) Appropriate; suitable; proper; fit; adequate.

(a.) Same as Ungulate.

(n.sing. & pl.) A tribe of North American Indians, which formerly occupied the region between the Wabash and Mississippi rivers.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a large natural order of endogenous plants (Iridaceae), which includes the genera Iris, Ixia, Crocus, Gladiolus, and many others.

(a.) Of or pertaining to iridium; -- applied specifically to compounds in which iridium has a low valence.

(n. sing. & pl.) A powerful and warlike confederacy of Indian tribes, formerly inhabiting Central New York and constituting most of the Five Nations. Also, any Indian of the Iroquois tribes.

(adv.) With difficulty. See Uneath.

(pl. ) of Madame

(pl. ) of Journey

(n.) The quality or state of being meek.

(n.) Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

(n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.

(n.) A large fish; the tarpum.

(n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

(v. i.) To take a roundabout course; to work warily or by indirect means.

(n.) A machine for raising weights, consisting of a horizontal cylinder or roller moving on its axis, and turned by a crank, lever, or similar means, so as to wind up a rope or chain attached to the weight. In vessels the windlass is often used instead of the capstan for raising the anchor. It is usually set upon the forecastle, and is worked by hand or steam.

(n.) An apparatus resembling a winch or windlass, for bending the bow of an arblast, or crossbow.

(v. t. & i.) To raise with, or as with, a windlass; to use a windlass.

(a.) Having no wind; calm.

(a.) Wanting wind; out of breath.

(n.) A wild ass found in Thibet; the kiang.

(a.) Having no feet.

(a.) Without a ford.

(a.) Destitute of herbs or of vegetation.

(n.) A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."

(n.) A constellation in the northern hemisphere, near Lyra.

(pl. ) of Heresy

(n.) Venus when she is the evening star; Hesper.

(n.) Evening.

(a.) Hoary with white pubescence.

(pl. ) of Hiatus

(n.) A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.

(a.) Having no tide.

(n.) The quality or state of being tidy.

(n.) A California composite plant (Layia platyglossa), the flower of which has yellow rays tipped with white.

(n.) The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

(n.) A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.

(pl. ) of Tilery

(a.) Partaking of, made of, or pertaining to, iron; like iron.

(a.) Temerarious.

(n.) The quality of being half; incompleteness.

(n.) A genus of marine shells; the ear-shells. See Abalone.

(a.) Quenching thirst, as certain fruits.

(n.) An urgent and distressing sensation, as if a discharge from the intestines must take place, although none can be effected; -- always referred to the lower extremity of the rectum.

(n. pl.) Balancers; the rudimentary hind wings of Diptera.

(a.) Rare or subtile; tenuous; -- opposed to dense.

(a.) Affected with fever or ague; feverish.

(a.) Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse.

(a.) Having the tendency to produce fever; as, a feverous disposition of the year.

(pl. ) of Fiasco

(a.) Fictitious.

(pl. ) of Terebra

(a.) Without a hand.

(pl. ) of Termes

(a.) Endless; boundless.

(a.) The quality or condition of being fine.

(a.) Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.

(a.) The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

(a.) Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

(n.) Literally, a boundary; a border; a limit.

(n.) The Roman divinity who presided over boundaries, whose statue was properly a short pillar terminating in the bust of a man, woman, satyr, or the like, but often merely a post or stone stuck in the ground on a boundary line.

(n.) Hence, any post or stone marking a boundary; a term. See Term, 8.

(n.) Either end of a railroad line; also, the station house, or the town or city, at that place.

(pl. ) of Termite

(a.) Having no term or end; unlimited; boundless; unending; as, termless time.

(a.) Inexpressible; indescribable.

(a.) Consisting of earth; earthy; as, terreous substances; terreous particles.

(n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

(n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

(n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

(a.) Free from harm; unhurt; as, to give bond to save another harmless.

(a.) Free from power or disposition to harm; innocent; inoffensive.

(a.) Destitute of fire.

(n. pl.) The fore parts of the wales, which encompass the bow of a vessel, and are fastened to the stem.

(n.) A female harper.

(n.) A mass of nervous matter on either side of the third ventricle of the brain; -- called also optic thalamus.

(n.) Same as Thallus.

(n.) The receptacle of a flower; a torus.

(a.) Detached from substance.

(a.) Infirm; unstable.

(n.) The state or quality of being firm.

(a.) Of or pertaining to thallium; derived from, or containing, thallium; specifically, designating those compounds in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with the thallic compounds.

(v.) Early fruit or vegetables; especially, early pease.

(a.) Having little or nothing.

(a.) Destitute of haze.

(n.) The quality or state of being hazy.

(a.) Without hire.

(a.) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.

(a.) Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave.

(a.) Having no end; interminable; unending.

(a.) Having the leaves so placed that the upper part of each one covers the base of the leaf next above it, as in hepatic mosses of the genus Frullania. See Succubous.

(a.) Destitute of a hive.

(a.) Timid.

(a.) Fearful of danger; timid; deficient in courage.

(a.) Indicating, or caused by, fear; as, timorous doubts.

(n.) A ringing, whistling, or other imaginary noise perceived in the ears; -- called also tinnitus aurium.

(n.) See Molasses.

(a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life.

(a.) Same as Yttric.

(n.) The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.

(pl. ) of Melody

(pl. ) of Memento

(a.) Having no wings; not able to ascend or fly.

(a.) Wanting zeal.

(pl. ) of Memory

(n.) The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.

(n. pl.) The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

(n.) A crescent.

(n.) A lens convex on one side and concave on the other.

(n.) The quality of being wiry.

(n.) Wisdom.

(n.) See Matross.

(n.) A genus of Actinaria, including numerous species, found mostly in tropical seas. The zooids or polyps resemble small, elongated actinias united together at their bases by fleshy stolons, and thus forming extensive groups. The tentacles are small and bright colored.

(a.) Blameless.

(a.) Not having a zone; ungirded.

(a.) Being without a moon or moonlight.

(n.) The science of government; that part of ethics which has to do with the regulation and government of a nation or state, the preservation of its safety, peace, and prosperity, the defense of its existence and rights against foreign control or conquest, the augmentation of its strength and resources, and the protection of its citizens in their rights, with the preservation and improvement of their morals.

(n.) The management of a political party; the conduct and contests of parties with reference to political measures or the administration of public affairs; the advancement of candidates to office; in a bad sense, artful or dishonest management to secure the success of political candidates or parties; political trickery.

(pl. ) of Polity

(pl. ) of Pollex

(n.) A remarkable genus of marine worms having tentacles around the mouth. It is usually classed with the gephyreans. Its larva (Actinotrocha) undergoes a peculiar metamorphosis.

(a.) Going before in time; being or happening before something else; antecedent; prior; as, previous arrangements; a previous illness.

(a.) Of the nature of a polypus; having many feet or roots, like the polypus; affected with polypus.

(n.) That branch of science which relates to the mind; mental philosophy.

(n.) A wasting or consumption of the tissues. The term was formerly applied to many wasting diseases, but is now usually restricted to pulmonary phthisis, or consumption. See Consumption.

(n. pl.) The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

(n.) The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

(a.) Homologous with a leaf; as, the sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils are phyllous organs.

(n.) A female prince; a woman having sovereign power, or the rank of a prince.

(n.) The daughter of a sovereign; a female member of a royal family.

(n.) The consort of a prince; as, the princess of Wales.

(n.) A lady superior of a priory of nuns, and next in dignity to an abbess.

(pl. ) of Priory

(n.) Same as Ceramics.

(n.) The state of being pied.

(n. pl.) The Muses.

(pl. ) of Pigsty

(n.) The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

(a.) Abounding in people; full of inhabitants; containing many inhabitants in proportion to the extent of the country.

(a.) Popular; famous.

(a.) Common; vulgar.

(a.) Numerous; in large number.

(n.) A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

(n.) Porosity.

(a.) Like a pill; small; insignificant.

(n. pl.) That which comes forth or results; effect; yield; issue; product; sum accruing from a sale, etc.

(n. pl.) An order of large birds; the Ratitae; -- called also Proceri.

(n. pl.) An instrument having two handles and two grasping jaws working on a pivot; -- used for griping things to be held fast, drawing nails, etc.

(pl. ) of Pinery

(n.) Quality or state of being pink.

(n.) See Portass.

(pl. ) of Portico

(a.) Iniquitous.

(n.) The study of human nature.

(pl. ) of Injury

(n.) The state or quality of being inky; blackness.

(n. pl.) Many different or small things; sundry things.

(n.) A convex lens of glass for producing heat by converging the sun's rays into a focus.

(a.) Covered with knobby or wartlike prominences; knobbed.

(a.) Consisting of, or bearing, tubers; resembling a tuber.

(n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

(a.) Resembling, or in the form of, a tube; longitudinally hollow; specifically (Bot.), having a hollow cylindrical corolla, often expanded or toothed at the border; as, a tubulose flower.

(a.) Containing, or consisting of, small tubes; specifically (Bot.), composed wholly of tubulous florets; as, a tubulous compound flower.

(a.) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.

(a.) Having no goods.

(n.) The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

(a.) Swelling; protuberant.

(a.) Inflated; bombastic.

(n.) Imposing through splendid or various colors; showy; fine; magnificent.

(a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.

(a.) Without tune; inharmonious; unmusical.

(a.) Not employed in making music; as, tuneless harps.

(a.) Not expressed in music or poetry; unsung.

(n. pl.) A group of roving Turanian tribes occupying Eastern Siberia and the Amoor valley. They resemble the Mongols.

(pl. ) of Supply

(a.) Destitute of turf.

(v. t.) To overpower and crush; to subdue; to put down; to quell.

(v. t.) To keep in; to restrain from utterance or vent; as, to suppress the voice; to suppress a smile.

(v. t.) To retain without disclosure; to conceal; not to reveal; to prevent publication of; as, to suppress evidence; to suppress a pamphlet; to suppress the truth.

(v. t.) To stop; to restrain; to arrest the discharges of; as, to suppress a diarrhea, or a hemorrhage.

(pl. ) of Turnkey

(a.) Abounding in grace or mercy; manifesting love,. or bestowing mercy; characterized by grace; beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor; condescending; as, his most gracious majesty.

(n.) The state of being sure; certainty.

(pl. ) of Surety

(a.) Abounding in beauty, loveliness, or amiability; graceful; excellent.

(a.) Produced by divine grace; influenced or controlled by the divine influence; as, gracious affections.

(n.) A compendium containing the heads of a discourse, and the like; an abstract.

(n.) The art or the science of drawing; esp. of drawing according to mathematical rules, as in perspective, projection, and the like.

(n.) A continuous fever.

(pl. ) of Synonym

(pl. ) of Synopsis

(n.) A general view, or a collection of heads or parts so arranged as to exhibit a general view of the whole; an abstract or summary of a discourse; a syllabus; a conspectus.

(n.) Syntax.

(n.) The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary.

(pl. ) of Syrinx

(n.) A political union, confederation, or league.

(pl. ) of Syzygy

(n.) The quality of being gray.

(a.) Moist; humid; watery.

(a.) Subject to be governed by humor or caprice; irregular; capricious; whimsical.

(a.) Full of humor; jocular; exciting laughter; playful; as, a humorous story or author; a humorous aspect.

(a.) Without a hump.

(n.) A woman who hunts or follows the chase; as, the huntress Diana.

(a.) Doing no injury; harmless; also, unhurt; without injury or harm.

(n.) An ulcer or fistula in the inner corner of the eye.

(n.) The great wild-oat grass or other cornfield weed.

(n.) A genus of plants, called also hardgrass.

(n. pl.) A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant.

(n. pl.) Any one of the temporary courts held for the election of members of the British Parliament.

(n. pl.) The platform on which candidates for Parliament formerly stood in addressing the electors.

(a.) Glowing; agitated, as with heat.

(adv.) Without design or preparation; suddenly; without premeditation, unexpectedly.

(v. t.) To interest or affect.

(n.) Supervention of sleep.

(a.) Unctuous.

(a.) Of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy.

(a.) Having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals.

(a.) Bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid.

(n.) A female porter.

(pl. ) of Pintado

(n.) The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.

(a.) Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical.

(n.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis.

(n.) Inflammation of a nerve.

(n.) A functional nervous affection or disease, that is, a disease of the nerves without any appreciable change of nerve structure.

(a.) Abounding with fleas.

(n.) Same as Pterylosis.

(a.) Of great price; costly; as, a precious stone.

(a.) Of great value or worth; very valuable; highly esteemed; dear; beloved; as, precious recollections.

(a.) Particular; fastidious; overnice.

(n.) Itching.

(n.) A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.

(n.) Psychology.

(a.) Frosty; pruinose.

(pl. ) of Proviso

(n.) A South Africa genus of Carnivora, allied to the hyenas, but smaller and having weaker jaws and teeth. It includes the aard-wolf.

(n. pl.) Potash.

(pl. ) of Potato

(n.) A proposition; a maxim.

(n.) The introductory or subordinate member of a sentence, generally of a conditional sentence; -- opposed to apodosis. See Apodosis.

(n.) The first part of a drama, of a poem, or the like; the introduction; opposed to epitasis.

(n. pl.) A kind of loose trousers worn over others to protect them from soiling.

(n. pl.) Waterproof leggings.

(n.) Same as Bee glue, under Bee.

(adv.) Frequently; often.

(n.) A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance

(n.) In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc.

(n.) In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.

(n.) In business of any kind; as, the progress of a negotiation; the progress of art.

(n.) In knowledge; in proficiency; as, the progress of a child at school.

(n.) Toward ideal completeness or perfection in respect of quality or condition; -- applied to individuals, communities, or the race; as, social, moral, religious, or political progress.

(n.) A journey of state; a circuit; especially, one made by a sovereign through parts of his own dominions.

(v. i.) To make progress; to move forward in space; to continue onward in course; to proceed; to advance; to go on; as, railroads are progressing.

(v. i.) To make improvement; to advance.

(v. t.) To make progress in; to pass through.

(pl. ) of Mastiff

(n.) Inflammation of the breast.

(a.) Bearing no mast; as, a mastless oak or beech.

(a.) Having no mast; as, a mastless vessel.

(n.) Inflammation of the womb.

(pl. ) of Luxury

(v. impers.) It seems to me; I think. See Me.

(a.) Bright; shining; luminous.

(pl. ) of Lustrum

(a.) Lacking vigor; weak; spiritless.

(a.) Free from sexual lust.

(a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.

(a.) Cloying; fulsome.

(a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

(a.) Being without lungs.

(n.) A marquis.

(n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

(a.) Shining; emitting or reflecting light; brilliant; bright; as, the is a luminous body; a luminous color.

(a.) Illuminated; full of light; bright; as, many candles made the room luminous.

(a.) Enlightened; intelligent; also, clear; intelligible; as, a luminous mind.

(pl. ) of Lunacy

(adv.) Alt. of Manywise

(a.) Being without luck; unpropitious; unfortunate; unlucky; meeting with ill success or bad fortune; as, a luckless gamester; a luckless maid.

(a.) Void of love; void of tenderness or kindness.

(a.) Not attracting love; unattractive.

(pl. ) of Mestino

(pl. ) of Mestizo

(pl. ) of Manteau

(n.) The quality or state of being loud.

(a.) Free from loss.

(n.) A curvature of the spine forwards, usually in the lumbar region.

(n.) Any abnormal curvature of the bones.

(n.) pl. of Madame and Madam.

(a.) Having no mane.

(n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

(n.) Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

(n.) A genus of mammals, including the skunks.

(n.) An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds.

(n.) Solitude; seclusion.

(n.) A daddy longlegs.

(n.) Length.

(adv.) Lengthwise.

(n.) The quality or state of being limp.

(n.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

(a.) Destitute of limbs.

(n.) The state or quality of being limy.

(n.) The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

(n.) Appearance or form; guise.

(n.) That which closely resembles; a portrait.

(n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.

(n.) Alt. of Likerousness

(a.) Made of wood; consisting of wood; of the nature of, or resembling, wood; woody.

(pl. ) of Malady

(a.) Having no peer or equal; matchless; superlative.

(n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

(a.) Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

(a.) Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate.

(pl. ) of Mutiny

(n.) The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.

(a.) Without a point or pointed process; blunt.

(pl. ) of Nicety

(a.) Having no head; beheaded; as, a headless body, neck, or carcass.

(a.) Destitute of a chief or leader.

(a.) Destitute of understanding or prudence; foolish; rash; obstinate.

(pl. ) of Theory

(pl. ) of Flamen

(pl. ) of Hearty

(pl. ) of Heathen

(a.) Destitute of heat; cold.

(n.) The quality or state of being flat.

(n.) Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

(n.) Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

(n.) Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.

(n.) Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

(a.) Windy; generating wind.

(pl. ) of Flatus

(a.) Free from flaws.

(n.) The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

(pl. ) of Thirty

(n.) Compression, especially constriction of vessels by an external cause.

(n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain.

(n.) A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person.

(a.) Having turns, windings, or flexures.

(a.) Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.

(a.) Wavering; not steady; flickering.

(n. pl.) Small pieces or splinters; fragments.

(adv.) Alt. of Edgewise

(pl. ) of Ellipsis

(pl. ) of Flitch

(n.) A clot of blood formed of a passage of a vessel and remaining at the site of coagulation.

(n.) A tumor produced by the escape of blood into the subcutaneous cellular tissue.

(a.) Stormy.

(n.) A woman who makes public addresses.

(a.) Cloudy.

(n.) See Nucleus, 3 (a).

(pl. ) of Nudity

(conj.) Nevertheless.

(pl. ) of Orchis

(n.) Inflammation of the testicles.

(n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

(a.) Consisting of a great number of units or individual objects; being many; as, a numerous army.

(a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.

(n.) A crustacean larva having three pairs of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennae, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.

(a.) Causing, or fitted to cause, nausea; sickening; loathsome; disgusting; exciting abhorrence; as, a nauseous drug or medicine.

(a.) Of or pertaining to ordure; filthy.

(n.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

(n.) The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper.

(n.) A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting New Mexico and Arizona, allied to the Apaches. They are now largely engaged in agriculture.

(pl. ) of Nuptial

(n.) The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

(n.) The state or quality of being neat.

(a.) See Orgillous.

(a.) Cloudy; hazy; misty.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or having the appearance of, a nebula; nebular; cloudlike.

(pl. ) of Orrery

(n.) Mortification or gangrene of bone, or the death of a bone or portion of a bone in mass, as opposed to its death by molecular disintegration. See Caries.

(n.) A disease of trees, in which the branches gradually dry up from the bark to the center.

(a.) Having no need.

(a.) Not wanted; unnecessary; not requiste; as, needless labor; needless expenses.

(a.) Without sufficient cause; groundless; cuseless.

(a.) Possessing vigor; full of physical or mental strength or active force; strong; lusty; robust; as, a vigorous youth; a vigorous plant.

(a.) Exhibiting strength, either of body or mind; powerful; strong; forcible; energetic; as, vigorous exertions; a vigorous prosecution of a war.

(pl. ) of Wherry

(imp. & p. p.) of Violate

(pl. ) of Whimsy

(pl. ) of Whimsy

(pl. ) of Whinny

(pl. ) of Whisky

(pl. ) of Whisky

(a.) Having the qualities of a viper; malignant; venomous; as, a viperous tongue.

(pl. ) of Virago

(a.) Possessing or exhibiting virtue.

(a.) Exhibiting manly courage and strength; valorous; valiant; brave.

(a.) Having power or efficacy; powerfully operative; efficacious; potent.

(a.) Having moral excellence; characterized by morality; upright; righteous; pure; as, a virtuous action.

(a.) Chaste; pure; -- applied especially to women.

(n.) The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.

(n.) Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean.

(n.) The contents or substance of the ovum; egg yolk. See Illust. of Ovum.

(n.) Perisperm in an early condition.

(a.) Consisting of, or resembling, glass; glassy; as, vitreous rocks.

(a.) Of or pertaining to glass; derived from glass; as, vitreous electricity.

(pl. ) of Vivary

(n.) The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.

(a.) Containing or involving a libel; defamatory; containing that which exposes some person to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule; as, a libelous pamphlet.

(a.) Having no desire or inclination; indifferent; heedless; spiritless.

(pl. ) of Litany

(n.) A smooth kind of cartridge paper used for making cards.

(n.) The spasmodic contraction of the intestines which causes colic.

(n.) Any twisting or displacement of the intestines causing obstruction; ileus. See Ileus.

(pl. ) of Vortex

(pl. ) of Vortex

(n.) A woman who is a votary.

(pl. ) of Votary

(a.) See Lickerish.

(pl. ) of Livery

(n.) Inflammation of the vulva.

(a.) Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.

(a.) Matchless.

(a.) Without a mate.

(a.) Destitute of a lock.

(a.) Divided by internal partitions into cells, as the pith of the pokeweed.

(pl. ) of Pastry

(pl. ) of Osmanli

(n.) Inflammation of bone.

(a.) Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods.

(a.) Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.

(pl. ) of Occiput

(a.) Alt. of Ochreous

(a.) Of or pertaining to ocher; containing or resembling ocher; as, ocherous matter; ocherous soil.

(n.) A general morbid condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof.

(a.) See Ocherous.

(n.) One of a peculiar kind of spines covering the surface of certain starfishes. They are pillarlike, with a flattened summit which is covered with minute spinules or granules. See Illustration in Appendix.

(pl. ) of Ottoman

(pl. ) of Oddity

(adv.) Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

(v. t.) To go over or beyond; to cross; as, to overpass a river; to overpass limits.

(v. t.) To pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard.

(v. t.) To surpass; to excel.

(v. i.) To pass over, away, or off.

(n.) That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus.

(adv.) Over the sea; abroad.

(n.) The quality or state of being ugly.

(a.) Having the nature or character of an ulcer; discharging purulent or other matter.

(a.) Affected with an ulcer or ulcers; ulcerated.

(a.) Being without a lamp, or without light; hence, being without appreciation; dull.

(pl. ) of Lamprey

(n.) A genus of coleopterous insects, including the glowworms.

(pl. ) of Lamella

(n.) The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

(a.) Having a dense covering of long hair, like the foot of a hare.

(a.) Milky; resembling milk.

(a.) Lacteal; conveying chyle; as, lacteous vessels.

(pl. ) of Lacunar

(a.) Laborious.

(a.) Free from knots; without knots.

(a.) Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking.

(a.) Daring; reckless; dangerous.

(n.) The duck mole. See under Duck.

(n. pl.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky.

(n. pl.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus.

(pl. ) of Plenty

(pl. ) of Pleopod

(pl. ) of Paries

(n. pl.) The walls of a cavity or an organ; as, the abdominal parietes; the parietes of the cranium.

(n. pl.) The sides of an ovary or of a capsule.

(pl. ) of Plexus

(n.) In a wonderful or surprising manner or degree; wonderfully.

(a.) Wonderful; astonishing; admirable; marvelous; such as excite surprise and astonishment; strange.

(a.) Unaccustomed.

(n.) Greatness.

(adv.) In the middle of a ship; -- properly amidships.

(n. pl.) The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel.

(pl. ) of Midwife

(a.) Having no wood; destitute of wood.

(n.) Anger; madness; insanity; rage.

(n.) The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

(n.) The god of dreams.

(a.) Not using words; not speaking; silent; speechless.

(a.) Without a pang; painless.

(a.) Without work; not laboring; as, many people were still workless.

(a.) Not carried out in practice; not exemplified in fact; as, workless faith.

(n.) Alt. of Mortrew

(n. pl.) Thin shreds of leather shaved off in dressing skins.

(pl. ) of Worthy

(a.) Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.

(a.) Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.

(n.) See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.

(pl. ) of Movable

(a.) Motionless; fixed.

(a.) Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful.

(a.) Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment.

(n. pl.) Same as Hurons.

(a.) Yellow; specifically (Ethnol.), of or pertaining to those races of man which have yellowish, red, auburn, or brown hair.

(n.) Greatness; extent.

(n.) The quality of being miry.

(pl. ) of Misery

(v. t. & i.) To guess wrongly.

(n. pl.) A degraded Papuan race, inhabiting Luzon and some of the other east Indian Islands. They resemble negroes, but are smaller in size. They are mostly nomads.

(pl. ) of Nereid

(pl. ) of Nereis

(n.) A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.

(n.) A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it.

(n.) A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart.

(n.) A woman filling the place, but without the rights, of a wife; a concubine; a loose woman with whom one consorts habitually.

(n.) A title of courtesy formerly prefixed to the name of a woman, married or unmarried, but now superseded by the contracted forms, Mrs., for a married, and Miss, for an unmarried, woman.

(n.) A married woman; a wife.

(n.) The old name of the jack at bowls.

(v. i.) To wait upon a mistress; to be courting.

(n.) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.

(n.) A writ for removing records from one court to another.

(a.) Without a palpus.

(n.) Same as Setterwort.

(pl. ) of Parody

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, lead; -- used specifically to designate those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with plumbic compounds.

(n.) The quality or state of being pert.

(a.) Abounding in rain; rainy; pluvial.

(a.) Admitting passage; capable of being penetrated by another body or substance; permeable; as, a pervious soil.

(a.) Capable of being penetrated, or seen through, by physical or mental vision.

(a.) Capable of penetrating or pervading.

(a.) Open; -- used synonymously with perforate, as applied to the nostrils or birds.

(n.) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

(n.) See Grebe.

(a.) Having petals; petaled; -- opposed to apetalous.

(n. pl.) An order, or suborder, of birds, including more that half of all the known species. It embraces all singing birds (Oscines), together with many other small perching birds.

(pl. ) of Pfennig

(n.) The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.

(a.) Having no pass; impassable.

(pl. ) of Passus

(a.) Rich in gifts.

(pl. ) of Kavass

(pl. ) of Kecksy

(n.) The quality or state of being keen.

(n.) A bone or cartilage, of some animals, situated in the middle line in front of the pubic bones.

(pl. ) of Phenix

(a.) Without a pole; as, a poleless chariot.

(n.) The art or practice of disputation or controversy, especially on religious subjects; that branch of theological science which pertains to the history or conduct of ecclesiastical controversy.

(pl. ) of Policy

(n.) A condition of the penis in which the prepuce can not be drawn back so as to uncover the glans penis.

(n.) The sweetbread, a gland connected with the intestine of nearly all vertebrates. It is usually elongated and light-colored, and its secretion, called the pancreatic juice, is discharged, often together with the bile, into the upper part of the intestines, and is a powerful aid in digestion. See Illust. of Digestive apparatus.

(n.) A genus of endogenous plants. See Screw pine.

(a.) Destitute of pith, or of strength; feeble.

(a.) Destitute of pity; hard-hearted; merciless; as, a pitilessmaster; pitiless elements.

(a.) Exciting no pity; as, a pitiless condition.

(n. pl.) A tribe of Indians inhabiting the pampas of South America.

(a.) Having no king.

(n. pl.) A collective name for the Indians of several tribes formerly living along the Klamath river, in California and Oregon, but now restricted to a reservation at Klamath Lake; -- called also Clamets and Hamati.

(a.) Destitute of kindness; unnatural.

(a.) The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.

(a.) A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.

(n.) See Dynamics.

(pl. ) of Premise

(pl. ) of Premium

(adv.) In these days; at the present time.

(n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

(pl. ) of Piracy

(pl. ) of Pallium