Today's word - Book publisher vocabulary database

• Densimeter
  An instrument for ascertaining the specific gravity or density of a substance.
• CLEWCLUE
  A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore- and-aft sail. (b.)
• Overrid
  of Override
• Draped
  of Drape
• Deprecate
  To pray against, as an evil; to seek to avert by prayer; to desire the removal of; to seek deliverance from; to express deep regret for; to disapprove of strongly.
• Loobily
  Loobylike; awkward.
• Coxswain
  See Cockswain.
• Smote
  of Smite
• Trubtall
  A short, squat woman.
• Subsist
  To be; to have existence; to inhere.
• Frist
  To sell upon credit, as goods.
• Mashed
  of Mash
• Plasma
  A variety of quartz, of a color between grass green and leek green, which is found associated with common chalcedony. It was much esteemed by the ancients for making engraved ornaments.
• Beurre
  A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau.
• Reimbursement
  The act reimbursing.
• Jargle
  To emit a harsh or discordant sound.
• Troubled
  of Trouble
• Relinquishing
  of Relinquish
• Blanked
  of Blank
• Chitin
  A white amorphous horny substance forming the harder part of the outer integument of insects, crustacea, and various other invertebrates; entomolin.
• Pinged
  of Ping
• Disavowed
  of Disavow
• Exagitation
  Agitation.
• Knitchet
  A number of things tied or knit together; a bundle; a fagot.
• Perplexly
  Perplexedly.
• Thiophenol
  A colorless mobile liquid, C6H5.SH, of an offensive odor, and analogous to phenol; -- called also phenyl sulphydrate.
• Bilboes
  of Bilbo
• Unoperculated
  Destitute of an operculum, or cover.
• Puer
  The dung of dogs, used as an alkaline steep in tanning.
• Lacing
  of Lace
• Alexipyretic
  Serving to drive off fever; antifebrile.
• Costively
  In a costive manner.
• Octyl
  A hypothetical hydrocarbon radical regarded as an essential residue of octane, and as entering into its derivatives; as, octyl alcohol.
• Albacore
  See Albicore.
• Compellatory
  Serving to compel; compulsory.
• Doryphoros
  A spear bearer; a statue of a man holding a spear or in the attitude of a spear bearer. Several important sculptures of this subject existed in antiquity, copies of which remain to us.
• Campaniform
  Bell-shaped.
• To-beat
  To beat thoroughly or severely.
• Succade
  A sweetmeat.
• Contributory
  Contributing to the same stock or purpose; promoting the same end; bringing assistance to some joint design, or increase to some common stock; contributive.
• Taeniae
  of Taenia
• Cockatrice
  A fabulous serpent whose breath and look were said to be fatal. See Basilisk.
• Adusted
  Burnt; adust.
• Abnormity
  Departure from the ordinary type; irregularity; monstrosity.
• Fifty
  Five times ten; as, fifty men.
• Misadvertence
  Inadvertence.
• Underminister
  To serve, or minister to, in a subordinate relation.
• Squawroot
  A scaly parasitic plant (Conopholis Americana) found in oak woods in the United States; -- called also cancer root.
• Inapathy
  Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy.
• Premillennial
  Previous to the millennium.
• Coussinet
  A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch.
• Clamber
  To climb with difficulty, or with hands and feet; -- also used figuratively.
• Self-knowing
  Knowing one's self, or one's own character, powers, and limitations.
• Cabinetmaker
  One whose occupation is to make cabinets or other choice articles of household furniture, as tables, bedsteads, bureaus, etc.
• Acrasia
  Alt. of Acrasy
• Systematist
  One who forms a system, or reduces to system.
• Conventionalize
  To make designs in art, according to conventional principles. Cf. Conventionalize, v. t., 2.
• Forswear
  To reject or renounce upon oath; hence, to renounce earnestly, determinedly, or with protestations.
• Milk-livered
  White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
• Kidling
  A young kid.
• Interminable
  Without termination; admitting no limit; boundless; endless; wearisomely protracted; as, interminable space or duration; interminable sufferings.
• Assenting
  of Assent
• Hypocycloid
  A curve traced by a point in the circumference of a circle which rolls on the concave side in the fixed circle. Cf. Epicycloid, and Trochoid.
• Outspeak
  To exceed in speaking.
• Camarasaurus
  A genus of gigantic American Jurassic dinosaurs, having large cavities in the bodies of the dorsal vertebrae.
• Trimellic
  Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain tribasic acid (called also trimellitic acid) metameric with trimesitic acid.
• Ditionary
  Under rule; subject; tributary.
• Twirl
  To move or turn round rapidly; to whirl round; to move and turn rapidly with the fingers.
• Newing
  Yeast; barm.
• Canoeist
  A canoeman.
• Troupial
  Any one of numerous species of bright-colored American birds belonging to Icterus and allied genera, especially Icterus icterus, a native of the West Indies and South America. Many of the species are called orioles in America.
• Nitency
  Brightness; luster.
• Grecque
  An ornament supposed to be of Greek origin, esp. a fret or meander.
• PIAMATER
  The delicate and highly vascular membrane immediately investing the brain and spinal cord.
• Philosophies
  of Philosophy
• Astonishedly
  In an astonished manner.
• Confutation
  The act or process of confuting; refutation.
• Ridgepiece
  Alt. of Ridgeplate
• THREEPILE
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
• Spy
  To gain sight of; to discover at a distance, or in a state of concealment; to espy; to see.
• Vernaculous
  Vernacular.
• Anticivic
  Opposed to citizenship.
• Stem-winder
  A stem-winding watch.
• Cygnus
  A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.
• Telespectroscope
  A spectroscope arranged to be attached to a telescope for observation of distant objects, as the sun or stars.
• Opposition
  The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.
• Charioteer
  One who drives a chariot.
• Sunbird
  Any one of numerous species of small brilliantly colored birds of the family Nectariniidae, native of Africa, Southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia. In external appearance and habits they somewhat resemble humming birds, but they are true
• Presagious
  Foreboding; ominous.
• Jurisconsult
  A man learned in the civil law; an expert in juridical science; a professor of jurisprudence; a jurist.
• Outspend
  Outlay; expenditure.
• Dressmaking
  The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
• Screaked
  of Screak
• Gapingstock
  One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
• Throttling
  of Throttle
• SOUDEDSOUDET
  United; consolidated; made firm; strengthened. [Obs.] O martyr souded for virginity! Chaucer.
• Motherwort
  A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.
• Beguard
  One of an association of religious laymen living in imitation of the Beguines. They arose in the thirteenth century, were afterward subjected to much persecution, and were suppressed by Innocent X. in 1650. Called also Beguins.
• Passmen
  of Passman
• Conversative
  Relating to intercourse with men; social; -- opposed to contemplative.

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