12 new words everyday

11/08/2026

#47565

UNDERCLOTHING

Same as Underclothes.

#9688

COPPLE

Something rising in a conical shape; specifically, a hillrising to a point.A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high. Hakluyt.

#68468

WINKLE-HAWK

A rectangular rent made in cloth; -- called also winkle-hole.[Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

#53198

RAISE

To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to createit. Burrill. To raise a blockade (Mil.), to remove or break up ablockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed inenforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them.-- To raise a check, note, bill of exchange, etc., to increasefraudulently its nominal value by changing the writing, figures, orprinting in which the sum payable is specified.-- To raise a siege, to relinquish an attempt to take a place bybesieging it, or to cause the attempt to be relinquished.-- To raise steam, to produce steam of a required pressure.-- To raise the wind, to procure ready money by some temporaryexpedient. [Colloq.] -- To raise Cain, or To raise the devil, tocause a great disturbance; to make great trouble. [Slang]

#51226

GUST

To taste; to have a relish for. [Obs.]

#44582

RUDDERPOST

The shank of a rudder, having the blade at one end and theattachments for operating it at the other.

#54807

PROSOMA

The anterior of the body of an animal, as of a cephalopod; thethorax of an arthropod.

#65623

ATOMOLOGY

The doctrine of atoms. Cudworth.

#75521

SMACKING

A sharp, quick noise; a smack.Like the faint smacking of an after kiss. Dryden.

#39036

PISCATOR

A fisherman; an angler.

#17021

DISSYLLABLE

A word of two syllables; as, pa-per.

#37943

PREADMINISTRATION

Previous administration. Bp. Pearson.