12 new words everyday

06/08/2024

#3128

POSIED

Inscribed with a posy.In poised lockets bribe the fair. Gay.

#14318

SANTALIC

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sandalwood (Santalum); --used specifically to designate an acid obtained as a resinous or redcrystalline dyestuff, which is called also santalin.

#22781

BAWLER

One who bawls.

#47421

VESICATE

To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame andseparate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

#71348

SUR-

A prefix signifying over, above, beyond, upon.

#11935

CUPOLA

A roof having a rounded form, hemispherical or nearly so; also,a celing having the same form. When on a large scale it is usuallycalled dome.

#22187

INCONCEIVABILITY

The quality of being inconceivable; inconceivableness.The inconceivability of the Infinite. Mansel.

#26575

TONGUESTER

One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip.[Poetic.]Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we mayfall. Tennyson.

#44018

FEATHERED

Having a fringe of feathers, as the legs of certian birds; orof hairs, as the legs of a setter dog.

#61794

GOWDNOOK

The saury pike; -- called also gofnick.

#38723

ADULATOR

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

#17386

BULLYROCK

A bully. [Slang Obs.] Shak.