4837523100 | Alabaster | a fine-grained, translucent form of gypsum, typically white, often carved into ornaments | 0 | |
4837524272 | Balustrade | a railing supportted by balusters. | 1 | |
4837525282 | basalt | a dark, fine-grained volfcanic rock that sometimes displays a columnar structure. It is typically composed largely of plagioclase with pyroxene and olivine | 2 | |
4837528631 | bedlam | scene of uproar or confusion | 3 | |
4837537131 | Bivouacked | a military encampment made with tents or improvised shelters, usually without shelter or protection from enemy fire | 4 | |
4837539878 | blowsy | (of a woman) coarse, untidy, and red-faced. | 5 | |
4837548330 | bollards | a short, thick post on the deck of a ship or on a wharf, to which a ship's rope may be secured. | 6 | |
4837549956 | bolus | a small rounded mass of a substance, especially of chewed food at the moment of swallowing. | 7 | |
4837554631 | bracken | a tall fern with coarse lobed fronds that occurs worldwide and can cover large areas. | 8 | |
4837555693 | brambles | any prickly shrub beginning to the genus Rubus of the rose family. | 9 | |
4837591232 | cairns | mounds of stones erected as landmarks or memorials | 10 | |
4837593186 | cannonading | discharge guns daily | 11 | |
4837593187 | catamites | handsome youth kept as sexual companion in ancient Rome | 12 | |
4837602482 | cauterize | burn the skin or flesh of (a wound) with a heated instrument or caustic substance, typically to stop bleeding or prevent the wound from becoming infected. | 13 | |
4837603840 | chatel | a personal possession. | 14 | |
4837627606 | chiffodrobe | a piece of furniture with drawers on one side and hanging space on the other. | 15 | |
4837633366 | cistern | a tank for storing water, especially one supplying taps or as part of a flushing toilet. | 16 | |
4837637720 | clapboard | a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings. | 17 | |
4837645858 | clerstory | the upper part of the nave, choir, and transepts of a large church, containing a series of windows. It is clear of the roofs of the aisles and admits light to the central parts of the building. | 18 | |
4837647041 | cognate | related, connected | 19 | |
4837658023 | collet | a collar or enclosing band; an enclosing where a jewel is set | 20 | |
4837662950 | commisary | a store that sells food and supplies to the personnel or workers in a military post, mining camp, lumber camp, etc; a dining room; a person whose power is delegated by a superior | 21 | |
4837723788 | corrugate | to draw or blend into folds; to wrinkle | 22 | |
4837724734 | cowled | a hooded garment worn by monks | 23 | |
4837725733 | creosote | an oily liquid having a burning taste and a penetrating odor, obtained by the distillation of coal and wood tar, used mainly as a preservative for wood and as an antiseptic | 24 | |
4840406033 | crozzled | blackened or burnt at the edges | 25 | |
4840407145 | culvert | a tunnel carrying a stream or open drain under a road or railroad. | 26 | |
4840407526 | dentil | One of a number of small, rectangular blocks resembling teeth and used as a decoration | 27 | |
4840408475 | disinterred | Dig up (something that has been buried, esp. a corpse). | 28 | |
4840412957 | dolmen | a megalithic tomb with a large flat stone laid on upright ones, found chiefly in Britain and France. | 29 | |
4840414417 | dreg | a small remnant, a small quantity | 30 | |
4840415363 | effigy | a model or sculpture of a person | 31 | |
4840421128 | escarpment | A long, steep slope, esp. one at the edge of a plateau or separating areas of land at different heights | 32 | |
4840421129 | envaccuming | yeah | 33 | |
4840426304 | firedrake | a fiery dragon | 34 | |
4840434828 | flowstone | rock deposited as a thin sheet by precipitation from flowing water. | 35 | |
4840439296 | fresco | painting done rapidly in watercolor on wet plaster on a wall or ceiling, so that the colors penetrate the plaster and become fixed as it dry | 36 | |
4840440358 | frieze | A broad horizontal band of sculpted or painted decoration, esp. on a wall near the ceiling | 37 | |
4840441964 | gambereled | to be held up by the hind leg | 38 | |
4840442829 | gantry | A bridgelike overhead structure with a platform supporting equipment such as a crane, railroad signals, lights, or cameras | 39 | |
4840443630 | gelid | very cold, icy | 40 | |
4840450535 | glaucoma | abnormally high fluid pressure in the eye most commonly caused either by blockage of the channel through which aqueous humor drains | 41 | |
4840451532 | gryke | a solution fissure, a vertical crack about .5m wide by the dissolving of limestone by water | 42 | |
4840453960 | halloing | cry or shout "halloo" to attract attention or to give encouragement to dogs in hunting | 43 | |
4840464308 | harrowtrough | effect a field has after being harrowed | 44 | |
4840476693 | haspstaple | A metal fastener with a hinged slotted part that fits over a staple and is secured by a pin, bolt, or padlock. | 45 | |
4840481666 | hydroptic | to or affected with hydropsy (an abnormal accumulation of fluid beneath the skin or in one or more cavities of the body.); dropsical; hence, thirsty | 46 | |
4840483814 | incinerate | destroy by burning | 47 | |
4840484983 | intestate | to die without having a will | 48 | |
4840486034 | isociline | A line on a diagram or map connecting points of equal gradient or inclination | 49 | |
4849833345 | kerf | a cut or incision by a saw or the like in a piece of tree | 50 | |
4849850206 | kruggerands | South African coin | 51 | |
4849853760 | lacquered | a coating substance consisting of resinous materials; evaporates rapidly on application, leaving a tough, adherent film | 52 | |
4849858611 | languor | a lack of vigor or vitality; weakness / a lack of interest or spirit; feeling of listlessness; indifference | 53 | |
4849859999 | litany | a series of fixed invocations as a prayer | 54 | |
4849865539 | lode | a vein of metal ore in the earth | 55 | |
4849876732 | loess | a fine-grained, yellowish-brown, extremely fertile loam deposited mainly by the wind (deposits of slit) and found widely in North America, Asia, and Europe | 56 | |
4849890964 | loggia | a gallery or room with one or more open sides, especially one that forms part of a house and has one side open to the garden. | 57 | |
4849903709 | lope | to move along easily, with a long, swinging stride or in an easy canter | 58 | |
4849914452 | lozenges | four equal sides; a cough drop made into a square of four equal pieces | 59 | |
4849923150 | meconium | first fetal excursion of a newborn child | 60 | |
4849931783 | macadam | a broken stone used to make a road or pavement that is composed of layers of broken stone | 61 | |
4849943502 | mendicant | refers to begging or relying on charitable donations, and is most widely used for religious followers or ascetics who rely exclusively on charity to survive | 62 | |
4849946845 | midden | is an old dump for domestic waste which may consist of animal bone, human excrement, botanical material, vermin, shells, sherds, lithics (especially debitage), and other artifacts and ecofacts associated with past human occupation. | 63 | |
4849952611 | morels | any of various edible mushrooms | 64 | |
4849959376 | pamilpsest | is a manuscript page from a scroll or book from which the text has been scraped off and which can be used again | 65 | |
4849972988 | palings | pieces of wood for a picket fence | 66 | |
4850001720 | pampooties | are similar to the Scottish cuaran shoes, and are the precursors to ghillies, celtic dance shoes | 67 | |
4850016511 | parsible | when you divide a sentence and you break the words apart | 68 | |
4850019702 | phalanx | A group of people or things of a similar type forming a compact body or brought together for a common purpose. | 69 | |
4850089477 | pipeclayed | a fine white pure clay, used in the manufacture of tobacco pipes and pottery and for whitening leather and similar materials | 70 | |
4850098977 | patterans | Any of several coded signs left along a road or on a non-Roma house by one Rom comrade to another. The most common ones consist of crossed sprigs (usually of different trees or shrubs) indicating, for example, a direction travelled | 71 | |
4850109148 | pipsissewa | A North American plant (Chimaphila umbellata) of the wintergreen family, with whorled evergreen leaves that yield a diuretic and tonic | 72 | |
4850196622 | port cochere | a carriage entrance passing through a building to an enclosed courtyard. | 73 | |
4850201111 | provenance | earliest known piece of history | 74 | |
4859219430 | quiots | a ring or iron thrown into an upright peg | 75 | |
4859225727 | rachitic | inflammation of the spine | 76 | |
4859231822 | rimstone | a calcareous deposit forming a dam at the edge or outlet of an overflowing pool of water, as in a cavern | 77 | |
4859346533 | saliteer | essence of god | 78 | |
4859349051 | sapper | a soldier responsible for tasks such as building and repairing roads and bridges, laying and clearing mines, etc | 79 | |
4859449298 | scabland | rough, barren, volcanic topography with thin soils and little vegetation | 80 | |
4859516082 | sedge | a grassy plant that grows in wet places | 81 | |
4859521281 | shorn | having the hair or wool cut or clipped off as if with shears or clippers | 82 | |
4859525033 | skein | a length of thread or yarn | 83 | |
4859549280 | switchback | a zigzag road for climbing a steep hill | 84 | |
4859555719 | suture | thread of catgut or silk or wire used by surgeons to stitch tissues together | 85 | |
4859597249 | souwester | a waterproof hat with a broad flap covering the neck. | 86 | |
4859621650 | stoven | broken in and smashed | 87 | |
4859658439 | soffits | the underside of an architectural feature, as a beam | 88 | |
4859666489 | slutlamp | a bottle of oil with cloth wick | 89 | |
4859670637 | slogging | working hard over a period of time | 90 | |
4859716836 | slagpools | Slag is the byproduct of smelting ore, pools tend to be found in large refineries or blacksmith's places such as in Skyrim or Oblivion or Runescape! | 91 | |
4859738126 | travois | a type of sled formerly used by North American Indians to carry goods, consisting of two joined poles dragged by a horse or dog. | 92 | |
4859759715 | transom | a horizontal crossbar in a window, over a door, or between a door and a window or fanlight above it | 93 | |
4859797706 | torsional | twisting of body | 94 | |
4859820455 | thespian | of or relating to drama | 95 | |
4859829636 | tarpaulin | heavy duty waterproof cloth | 96 | |
4859832641 | trellis | a framework of light wooden or metal bars, chiefly used as a support for fruit trees or climbing plants. | 97 | |
4867550542 | truncheon | a staff or baton acting as a symbol of authority. | 98 | |
4867590374 | verdigris | a bright bluish-green encrustation or patina formed on copper or brass by atmospheric oxidation, consisting of basic copper carbonate. | 99 | |
4867594220 | vermiculate | to work or ornament with wavy lines or markings resembling the form or tracks of a worm. | 100 | |
4867790146 | vestibular | particularly that of the inner ear, or more generally to the sense of balance. | 101 | |
4867792492 | viscera | the internal organs in the main cavities of the body, especially those in the abdomen, e.g., the intestines. | 102 | |
4867794273 | wan | given to illness in terms of expression | 103 | |
4867843989 | windrow | a long line of raked hay or sheaves of grain laid out to dry in the wind. | 104 |
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