12 new words everyday

03/08/2025

#73725

OROLOGIST

One versed in orology.

#5068

PARIAN

Of or pertaining to Paros, an island in the Ægean Sea noted forits excellent statuary marble; as, Parian marble. Parian chronicle, amost ancient chronicle of the city of Athens, engraved on marble inthe Isle of Paros, now among the Arundelian marbles.

#9947

UNJOIN

To disjoin.

#12856

CONFISCATE

Seized and appropriated by the government to the public use;forfeited.Lest that your goods too soon be confiscate. Shak.

#74529

AMBITION

To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet. [R.]Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains withXerxes for his daughter in marriage. Trumbull.

#35593

LIBIDINOSITY

The state or quality of being libidinous; libidinousness.Skelton.

#77692

IDIOPHANOUS

Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of apolariscope, as certain crystals.

#36779

PALIMPSEST

A parchment which has been written upon twice, the firstwriting having been erased to make place for the second. Longfellow.

#43309

POURPARTY

A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide andapportion lands previously held in common.

#8181

OUTDOORS

Abread; out of the house; out of doors.

#52028

KNOLL

A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; thetop or crown of a hill.On knoll or hillock rears his crest, Lonely and huge, the giant oak.Sir W. Scott.

#76924

FLOWER-FENCE

A tropical leguminous bush (Poinciana, or Cæsalpinia,pulcherrima) with prickly branches, and showy yellow or red flowers;-- so named from its having been sometimes used for hedges in theWest Indies. Baird.