12 new words everyday

09/12/2025

#10199

SELFISH

Believing or teaching that the chief motives of human actionare derived from love of self.Hobbes and the selfish school of philosophers. Fleming.

#80380

VOWER

One who makes a vow. Bale.

#10317

FOREMOST

First in time or place; most advanced; chief in rank ordignity; as, the foremost troops of an army.THat struck the foremost man of all this world. Shak.

#38136

ELECTROTONIZE

To cause or produce electrotonus.

#72175

HANDMADE

Manufactured by hand; as, handmade shoes.

#163

INSCRUTABLY

In an inscrutable manner.

#4209

RETCHLESS

Careless; reckless. [Obs.] Dryden. --- Retch"less*ly, adv.-- Retch"less*ness, n. [Obs.]

#55350

FRINGY

Aborned with fringes. Shak.

#74157

DISRAY

of Disarray. [Obs.] Holland.

#421

OUTVOTE

To exceed in the number of votes given; to defeat by votes.South.

#14062

YARD

A long piece of timber, nearly cylindrical, tapering toward theends, and designed to support and extend a square sail. A yard isusually hung by the center to the mast. See Illust. of Ship. GoldenYard, or Yard and Ell (Astron.), a popular name the three stars inthe belt of Orion.-- Under yard [i. e., under the rod], under contract. [Obs.]Chaucer.

#3043

MISTIME

To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.