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Emprise :: Emprise (n.) The qualifies which prompt one to undertake difficult and dangerous exploits.

Diphtheria :: Diphtheria (n.) A very dangerous contagious disease in which the air passages, and especially the throat, become coated with a false membrane, produced by the solidification of an inflammatory exudation. Cf. Group..

Uraemia :: Uraemia (n.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease..

Pontlevis :: Pontlevis (n.) The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and dangerously.

Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Shelfy :: Shelfy (a.) Abounding in shelves; full of dangerous shallows.

Safe :: Safe (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe..

Pilot :: Pilot (v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous..

Parlous :: Parlous (a.) Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough..

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Gasoscope :: Gasoscope (n.) An apparatus for detecting the presence of any dangerous gas, from a gas leak in a coal mine or a dwelling house..

Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..

Discriminous :: Discriminous (a.) Hazardous; dangerous.

Bitterness :: Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy..

Dangerful :: Dangerful (a.) Full of danger; dangerous.

Infamous :: Infamous (a.) Having a bad name as being the place where an odious crime was committed, or as being associated with something detestable; hence, unlucky; perilous; dangerous..

Light-ship :: Light-ship (n.) A vessel carrying at the masthead a brilliant light, and moored off a shoal or place of dangerous navigation as a guide for mariners..

Periculous :: Periculous (a.) Dangerous; full of peril.

Infestuous :: Infestuous (a.) Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.

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