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Reprisal :: Reprisal (n.) The act of taking from an enemy by way of reteliation or indemnity.

Congenial :: Congenial (a.) Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

Jarring :: "Jarring (n.) A shaking; a tremulous motion; as, the jarring of a steamship, caused by its engines..

Umbrageous :: Umbrageous (a.) Feeling jealousy or umbrage; taking, or disposed to take, umbrage; suspicious..

Ablation :: Ablation (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.

Junk :: "Junk (n.) Pieces of old cable or old cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships..

Flaking :: Flaking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flak.

Bass :: Bass (n.) The linden or lime tree, sometimes wrongly called whitewood; also, its bark, which is used for making mats. See Bast..

Dammara :: Dammara (n.) An oleoresin used in making varnishes; dammar gum; dammara resin. It is obtained from certain resin trees indigenous to the East Indies, esp. Shorea robusta and the dammar pine..

Matchmaking :: Matchmaking (n.) The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.

Respiration :: Respiration (n.) The act of resping or breathing; the act of taking in and giving out air; the aggregate of those processes bu which oxygen is introduced into the system, and carbon dioxide, or carbonic acid, removed..

Prosopop/ia :: Prosopop/ia (n.) A figure by which things are represented as persons, or by which things inanimate are spoken of as animated beings; also, a figure by which an absent person is introduced as speaking, or a deceased person is represented as alive and present. It includes personification, but is more extensive in its signification..

Luddite :: Luddite (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames..

Coffer :: Coffer (n.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire..

Mardi Gras :: Mardi gras (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.

Atone :: Atone (v. t.) To unite in making.

Opeidoscope :: Opeidoscope (n.) An instrument, consisting of a tube having one end open and the other end covered with a thin flexible membrance to the center of which is attached a small mirror. It is used for exhibiting upon a screen, by means of rays reflected from the mirror, the vibratory motions caused by sounds produced at the open end of the tube, as by speaking or singing into it..

Londonism :: Londonism (n.) A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

Hyphae :: Hyphae (n. pl.) The long, branching filaments of which the mycelium (and the greater part of the plant) of a fungus is formed. They are also found enveloping the gonidia of lichens, making up a large part of their structure..

Speech :: Speech (n.) he act of speaking; that which is spoken; words, as expressing ideas; language; conversation..

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