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Want of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism.
a wandering beggar; a licensed mendicant in Scotland
run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along
To discharge ordure upon; befoul; besmear.
a quarrel, brawl, or noisy dispute among several people
A broil; a clamorous contest; a wrangle.
To strike and cause to fly in the air.
To move irregularly to and fro; to roll.
a drowsy, stupid state of body or mind; a condition of mental haziness
A menial, yet self-important man, empty boaster.
A shrewd person not guided by principles, especially a politician.
A contemptible creature; a base, foul wretch.
A dirty, shabbily-clothed child; an urchin.
A dwarf; a dandiprat.
A woman excelling both in beauty and goodness; a fair maid.
A youth between boy and man; an awkward, gawky young fellow .
The top of the head, or the head itself.
A long hairpin, usually with an ornamental head.
A person with tattered clothing; a pauper.
A graceless fellow; a careless, idle, harebrained fellow.
Synonyms Craven, Dastard, etc. See coward.
social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers
An obsolete or dialectal form of limber.
An obsolete or dialectal form of weasand.
Ready; dexterous; eager; lively; quick to move.
Full of wrath; angry; incensed; much exasperated; wrathful.
Synonyms Clown, Fool, Buffoon, Mimic, Zany. “The zany in Shakespere's day was not so much a buffoon and mimic as the obsequious follower of a buffoon and the attenuated mime of a mimic. He was the vice, servant, or attendant of the professional clown or fool, who, dressed like his master, accompanied him on the stage or in the ring, following his movements, imitating his tricks. and adding to the general merriment by his ludicrous failures and comic imbecility … The professional clown or fool might be clever and accomplished in his business, a skilful tumbler and mountebank, doing what he undertook to do thoroughly and well. But this was never the case with the zany. He was always slight and thin, well-meaning, but comparatively helpless, full of readiness, grimace, and alacrity, but also of incompetence. eagerly trying to imitate his superior, but ending in failure and absurdity … We have ourselves seen the clown and the zany in the ring together, the clown doing clever tricks, the zany provoking immense laughter by his ludicrous failures in attempting to imitate them. Where there is only a single clown. he often combines both the characters, doing skilful tumbling on his own account, and playing the zany to the riders.” (Edinburgh Rev., July, 1869, art. 4.)
a small or inferior type of bagpipe
A manor-house and the land adjacent or near, which a lord of the manor keeps in his own occupation, for the use of his family, as distinguished from his tenemental lands, distributed among his tenants, originally called bookland or charter-land, and folk-land or estates held in villeinage, from which sprang copyhold estates.
Protection or sanctuary provided by Old English law to persons in certain circumstances, as when in a church or traveling on the king's highway.
That which is advantageous to a person; behalf; interest; advantage; profit; benefit.
Glad, in a relative sense; content or willing to accept an alternative to something better but unattainable: followed by an infinitive: as, he was fain to run away.
Some time ago; a little while before; heretofore.
[Being formerly common as an affected garnish of polite conversation, forsooth came to be regarded as noting a ladies' man, and was occasionally used, allusively, as a noun or a verb.
doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case
Forms of the preterit and past participle of clepe.
Formerly; once; of old; erewhile; at times.
Soon afterward; presently.
An alignment of three celestial bodies
Having well-shaped buttocks
A machine or device that crushes, grinds, or reduces solid materials into fine particles or powder
The quality of being daft.
The practice of quibbling over trifles; legal chicanery
The shallow groove running down the center of the outer surface of the upper lip.
an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain
Divided into four parts.
A tall silk hat with a brim, worn commonly as an item of formal dress by gentlemen in the late 1800's.
An edible Australian fish of the genus Caranx
A renewed or repeated experience.
Characterized by long words or the use of long words
A ringing or tinkling sound, as of bells
Relating to forestry (cultivating forests for harvest).
a type of Spanish wine; a pale, dry sherry
Synonyms Effulgence, Splendor, etc. (see radiance), brightness.
A document written wholly in the handwriting of the person whose signature it bears.
Unsophisticated, not intended for an audience of intelligence, education or culture.
A passage or opening leading to a hold, compartment, or cellar.
A seducer, especially a man who seduces.
(Middle Ages) a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk
A fire-breathing dragon of Germanic mythology.
Pertaining to, contained in, or composed of, alluvium; relating to the deposits made by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another.
Organized, serviceable, trained and ready for action
that room in a cathedral, castle, or other public building, which is used for keeping the records, charters, seals, deeds, and the like.
Someone who accedes to some act, now especially a crime; one who contributes as an assistant or instigator to the commission of an offense.
The quality of something made, as by an artisan.
A period of five years
The act of stretching and yawning
The eating of raw flesh
Resembling snow; snowy
Long-lived
The arbitrary or capricious coinage of words
Fear of thunder and lightning
Naive, simplistic, and superficial
Unspeakable; too odious to be expressed
Pleasure derived from another person's misfortune
The realization that each passerby has a life as vivid and complex as your own
The pleasant, earthy smell produced when rain falls on dry soil
To confuse or perplex
A large knife or the act of fighting with knives
In a direction contrary to the sun's course; counterclockwise
A petty lie or pretentious nonsense
A rumbling or gurgling noise made by the movement of fluid and gas in the intestines
In disarray or disorder; positioned diagonally
A frivolous, flighty, or excessively talkative person
To spend time aimlessly; to dawdle
A stubborn person who insists on making an error despite being shown it's wrong
Stomach pain or queasiness, especially from nervousness
A shrewd, unprincipled person, especially a politician
To leave somewhere abruptly
Having great physical beauty
Having well-shaped buttocks
A commotion or fuss, especially one caused by conflicting views
Appearing legitimate but actually being fabricated (coined by The Simpsons)
Eternal and unchanging; everlasting
Characterized by long words or the use of long words
Lasting for a very short time
A straight-line configuration of three celestial bodies
The strange wistfulness of used bookstores
The state of being infatuated with another person, often involuntarily
Beautiful thinking; a well-disposed mind toward others