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dorsibranchiata | a division of chaetopod annelids in which the branchiae are along the back, on each side, or on the parapodia. [see illusts. under annelida and chaetopoda.] |
dosing | of dose |
exciting | of excite |
excoriating | of eccoriate |
exuding | of exude |
faux pas | a false step; a mistake or wrong measure. |
fayed | of fay |
felicitating | of felicitate |
fertileness | fertility. |
fetch | to bring one's self; to make headway; to veer; as, to fetch about; to fetch to windward. |
fetichism | alt. of fetishism |
fetters | of fetter |
feuter | to set close; to fix in rest, as a spear. |
fibre | a tough vegetable fiber used as a substitute for bristles in making brushes. the piassava and the ixtle are both used under this name. |
fifing | of fife |
form | a suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform. |
gainstanding | of gainstand |
guaranteed | of guarantee |
has | of have |
hast | of have |
have | of have-of have |
ical | relating to the patriarch abraham.-of or pertaining to the brahmans or to their doctrines and worship. |
ies | of pettifoggery |
indices | of index |
jarring | of jar |
kin | a diminutive suffix; as, manikin; lambkin. |
lectern | see lecturn. |
liad | a celebrated greek epic poem, in twenty-four books, on the destruction of ilium, the ancient troy. the iliad is ascribed to homer. |
lucernarida | a division of acalephs, including lucernaria and allied genera; -- called also calycozoa.-a more extensive group of acalephs, including both the true lucernarida and the discophora. |
lullaby | a song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep; that which quiets.-hence: good night; good-by. |
men | of keelman |
misspense | a spending improperly; a wasting. |
morassy | marshy; fenny. |
neatness | the state or quality of being neat. |
nebulation | the condition of being nebulated; also, a clouded, or ill-defined, color mark. |
necklaced | wearing a necklace; marked as with a necklace. |
neckland | a neck of land. |
necklet | a necklace. |
needleful | as much thread as is used in a needle at one time. |
needlefuls | of needleful |
neighbor | to adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.-to associate intimately with. |
nephrolithic | of or pertaining to gravel, or renal calculi. |
newsboy | a boy who distributes or sells newspaper. |
nidi | of nidus |
niere | one who gathers rags and odds and ends; a ragpicker.-a receptacle for rags or shreds.-a movable and ornamental closet or piece of furniture with shelves or drawers. |
nigged | hammer-dressed; -- said of building stone. |
obtuse-angular | having an obtuse angle; as, an obtuse-angled triangle. |
overfill | to fill to excess; to surcharge. |
parterie | articles made of the blades or fiber of the lygeum spartum and stipa (/ macrochloa) tenacissima, kinds of grass used in spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses. |
pharynges | of pharynx |
plastic | a substance composed predominantly of a synthetic organic high polymer capable of being cast or molded; many varieties of plastic are used to produce articles of commerce (after 1900). [mw10 gives origin of word as 1905] |
pluralities | of plurality |
portrayed | of portray |
proselytized | of proselytize |
pumping | of pump |
quartzous | quarzose. |
quickened | of quicken |
ries | of lachrymatory |
sacra | of sacrum |
salometer | see salimeter. |
salsuginous | growing in brackish places or in salt marshes. |
salt | sulphate of magnesia having cathartic qualities; -- originally prepared by boiling down the mineral waters at epsom, england, -- whence the name; afterwards prepared from sea water; but now from certain minerals, as from siliceous hydrate of magnesia. |
sanguinity | the quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. |
sapling | a young tree. |
sarcoderma | a fleshy covering of a seed, lying between the external and internal integuments.-a sarcocarp. |
sarcomas | of sarcoma |
saxicavas | of saxicava |
self-explaining | explaining itself; capable of being understood without explanation. |
sentential | comprising sentences; as, a sentential translation.-of or pertaining to a sentence, or full period; as, a sentential pause. |
spilikins | of spilikin |
squired | of squire |
squireling | a petty squire. |
squireship | squirehood. |
squiring | of squire |
stapled | of staple |
stapling | of staple |
stared | of stare |
staring | of stare |
started | of start |
starting | of start |
strewn | of strew |
ties | of constitutionality-of rurality |
tooled | of tool |
tooling | of tool |
tormented | of torment |
tormenting | of torment |
torquated | having or wearing a torque, or neck chain. |
towered | of tower |
towering | of tower |
toyed | of toy |
toying | of toy |
traced | of trace |
tracing | of trace |
tracked | of track |
tracking | of track |
trades union | alt. of trade union |
tried | of try |
trucking | of truck |
tted | of cat |
women | of herdswoman |