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1 DIPLOBLASTIC Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinallayers.
2 DEFIGURE To delineate. [Obs.]These two stones as they are here defigured. Weever.
3 LOMBARD Of or pertaining to Lombardy, or the inhabitants of Lombardy.
4 BAHAISM The religious tenets or practices of the Bahais.
5 FUMERELL See Femerell.
6 ROYALET A petty or powerless king. [R.]there were at this time two other royalets, as only kings by hisleave. Fuller.
7 TROPHIED Adorned with trophies.The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. Pope.
8 ZEQUIN See Sequin.
9 MILLWRIGHT A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set uptheir machinery.
10 PHOTOGRAPHOMETER An instrument for determining the sensibility of the platesemployed in photographic processes to luminous rays.
11 SCHEELIUM The metal tungsten. [Obs.]
12 ALVEOLATE Deeply pitted, like a honeycomb.
13 LIMULUS The only existing genus of Merostomata. It includes only a fewspecies from the East Indies, and one (Limulus polyphemus) from theAtlantic coast of North America. Called also Molucca crab, king crab,horseshoe crab, and horsefoot.
14 OSMUND A fern of the genus Osmunda, or flowering fern. The mostremarkable species is the osmund royal, or royal fern (Osmundaregalis), which grows in wet or boggy places, and has large bipinnatefronds, often with a panicle of capsules at the top. The rootstockcontains much starch, and has been used in stiffening linen.
15 POTTEEN See Poteen.
16 UNDERRUN To run or pass under; especially (Naut.), to pass along andunder, as a cable, for the purpose of taking it in, or of examiningit.
17 EMPLASTIC Fit to be applied as a plaster; glutinous; adhesive; as,emplastic applications.
18 RHYTHMICS The department of musical science which treats of the length ofsounds.
19 PLEUROPTERA A group of Isectivora, including the colugo.
20 UNBLOODY Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice inwhich no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.
21 CINCINNUS A form of monochasium in which the lateral branches arisealternately on opposite sides of the false axis; -- called alsoscorpioid cyme. --Cin*cin"nal (#), a.
22 INDOCILITY The quality or state of being indocile; dullness of intellect;unteachableness; intractableness.The stiffness and indocility of the Pharisees. W. Montagu.
23 TELEOCEPHIAL An extensive order of bony fishes including most of the commonmarket species, as bass, salmon, cod, perch, etc.
24 CANEBRAKE A thicket of canes. Ellicott.
25 QUININIC Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous acid obtained as ayellow crystalline substance by the oxidation of quinine.
26 RICINIC Pertaining to, or derived from, castor oil; formerly,designating an acid now called ricinoleic acid.
27 TELLURAL Of or pertaining to the earth. [R.]
28 OTHERNESS The quality or state of being other or different; alterity;oppositeness.
29 FASCICLE A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicleof fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.
30 REENJOYMENT Renewed enjoiment.
31 LONGIROSTER One of the Longirostres.
32 RHAPSODIZE To utter as a rhapsody, or in the manner of a rhapsody Sterne.
33 WATER VIOLET See under Violet.
34 TRUNCHEONED Having a truncheon.
35 UNDERWENT imp. of Undergo.
36 APITPAT With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.
37 BRISKET That part of the breast of an animal which extends from thefore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of ahorse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest.
38 KEPHALIN One of a group of nitrogenous phosphorized principles, supposedby Thudichum to exist in brain tissue.
39 METELY According to measure or proportion; proportionable;proportionate. [Obs.]
40 JOHNSON GRASS A tall perennial grass (Sorghum Halepense), valuable in theSouthern and Western States for pasture and hay. The rootstocks arelarge and juicy and are eagerly sought by swine. Called also Cubagrass, Means grass, Evergreen millet, and Arabian millet.
41 MOP A made-up face; a grimace. "What mops and mowes it makes!"Beau. & Fl.
42 SYMPOSIAC Of or pertaining to compotations and merrymaking; happeningwhere company is drinking together; as, symposiac meetings.Symposiac disputations amongst my acquaintance. Arbuthnot.
43 ULVA A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including thekinds called sea lettuce.
44 -ANA A suffix to names of persons or places, used to denote acollection of notable sayings, literary gossip, anecdotes, etc. Thus,Scaligerana is a book containing the sayings of Scaliger, Johnsonianaof Johnson, etc.
45 PHARISEAN Following the practice of Pharisees; Pharisaic. [Obs.]"Pharisean disciples." Milton.
46 PUTRIDNESS Putridity. Floyer.
47 TOUSEL Same as Tousle. [Colloq.]
48 TETRAGON A plane figure having four sides and angles; a quadrangle, as asquare, a rhombus, etc.
49 HARELD The long-tailed duck. See Old Squaw.
50 PYCNOSTYLE See under Intercolumniation. -n.
51 BOLE The trunk or stem of a tree, or that which is like it.Enormous elm-tree boles did stoop and lean. Tennyson.
52 BASISOLUTE Prolonged at the base, as certain leaves.
53 HISTORIOGRAPHY The art of employment of an historiographer.
54 CURSORILY In a running or hasty manner; carelessly.
55 GLOSSARIST A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; ascholiast. Tyrwhitt.
56 APOTACTITE One of a sect of ancient Christians, who, in supposed imitationof the first believers, renounced all their possessions.
57 FRITHY Woody. [Obs.] Skelton.
58 ZECHIN See Sequin.
59 BESTAR To sprinkle with, or as with, stars; to decorate with, or aswith, stars; to bestud. "Bestarred with anemones." W. Black.
60 CARICATURIST One who caricatures.
61 CHAMAL The Angora goat. See Angora goat, under Angora.
62 OPINIATED Opinionated. [Obs.]
63 PELICOSAURIA A suborder of Theromorpha, including terrestrial reptiles fromthe Permian formation.
64 PICKERY Petty theft. [Scot.] Holinshed.
65 DOUR Hard; inflexible; obstinate; sour in aspect; hardy; bold.[Scot.]A dour wife, a sour old carlin. C. Reade.
66 AGERATUM A genus of plants, one species of which (A. Mexicanum) haslavender-blue flowers in dense clusters.
67 BEDSTAFF "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, tohold the clothes from slipping on either side." Johnson.Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff. B. Jonson.Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves. Brome.
68 GLADFUL Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad"ful*ness, n. [R.]Spenser.It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.
69 INDOXYL A nitrogenous substance, C8H7NO, isomeric with oxindol,obtained as an oily liquid.
70 NOTHINGISM Nihility; nothingness. [R.]
71 GNARL To growl; to snarl.And wolves are gnarling who shall gnaw thee first. Shak.
72 ANGIOSPERMATOUS Same as Angiospermous.
73 INCUNABULUM A work of art or of human industry, of an early epoch;especially, a book printed before A. D. 1500.
74 MORIGERATION Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.
75 INCOMPARED Peerless; incomparable. [Obs.] Spenser.
76 OVERSWAY To bear sway over.
77 SUBSECUTE To follow closely, or so as to overtake; to pursue. [Obs.]To follow and detain him, if by any possibility he could besubsecuted and overtaken. E. Hall.
78 BACILLUS A variety of bacterium; a microscopic, rod-shaped vegetableorganism.
79 ETHEREALITY The state of being ethereal; etherealness.Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged toWordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
80 REJOICER One who rejoices.
81 SINGULT A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. [Obs.] Spenser. W. Browne.
82 MELAINOTYPE See Melanotype.
83 STOPPED Made by complete closure of the mouth organs; shut; -- said ofcertain consonants (p, b, t, d, etc.). H. Sweet.
84 WESTERING Passing to the west.Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel. Milton.
85 CHINAMAN A native of China; a Chinese.
86 FORESKIN The fold of skin which covers the glans of the penis; theprepuce.
87 CEPHALOTOME An instrument for cutting into the fetal head, to facilitatedelivery.
88 OVERLOOKER One who overlooks.
89 CARBINOL Methyl alcohol, CH3OH; -- also, by extension, any one in thehomologous series of paraffine alcohols of which methyl alcohol isthe type.
90 PROFESSED Openly declared, avowed, acknowledged, or claimed; as, aprofessed foe; a professed tyrant; a professed Christian. Theprofessed (R. C. Ch.) , a certain class among the Jesuits bound by aspecial vow. See the note under Jesuit.
91 COPPER-NOSE A red nose. Shak.
92 ESOTERICISM Esoteric doctrine or principles.
93 APLACENTAL Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta.
94 JURAMENTUM An oath.
95 LITHARGYRUM Crystallized litharge, obtained by fusion in the form of fineyellow scales.
96 LUCIFERIAN One of the followers of Lucifer, bishop of Cagliari, in thefourth century, who separated from the orthodox churches because theywould not go as far as he did in opposing the Arians.
97 VERDINE A commercial name for green aniline dye.
98 ARUNDIFEROUS Producing reeds or canes.
99 EXCEEDINGLY To a very great degree; beyond what is usual; surpassingly. Itsignifies more than very.
100 STAGNANTLY In a stagnant manner.
101 UNMAGISTRATE To divest of the office or authority of a magistrate. [Obs.]Milton.