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Halidom :: Halidom (n.) Holiness; sanctity; sacred oath; sacred things; sanctuary; -- used chiefly in oaths.

Arriere :: Arriere (n.) That which is behind; the rear; -- chiefly used as an adjective in the sense of behind, rear, subordinate..

Rigidly :: Rigidly (v.) In a rigid manner; stiffly.

Toned :: Toned (a.) Having (such) a tone; -- chiefly used in composition; as, high-toned; sweet-toned..

Viand :: Viand (n.) An article of food; provisions; food; victuals; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Smokejack :: Smokejack (n.) A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.

Horn :: Horn (n.) The tough, fibrous material of which true horns are composed, being, in the Ox family, chiefly albuminous, with some phosphate of lime; also, any similar substance, as that which forms the hoof crust of horses, sheep, and cattle; as, a spoon of horn..

Haybird :: Haybird (n.) The European spotted flycatcher.

Cheiroptera :: Cheiroptera (n. pl.) An order of mammalia, including the bats, having four toes of each of the anterior limbs elongated and connected by a web, so that they can be used like wings in flying. See Bat..

Hanging :: Hanging (n.) That which is hung as lining or drapery for the walls of a room, as tapestry, paper, etc., or to cover or drape a door or window; -- used chiefly in the plural..

Kneebrush :: Kneebrush (n.) A tuft or brush of hair on the knees of some species of antelopes and other animals; -- chiefly used in the plural.

Vampire :: Vampire (n.) Either one of two or more species of South American blood-sucking bats belonging to the genera Desmodus and Diphylla. These bats are destitute of molar teeth, but have strong, sharp cutting incisors with which they make punctured wounds from which they suck the blood of horses, cattle, and other animals, as well as man, chiefly during sleep. They have a caecal appendage to the stomach, in which the blood with which they gorge themselves is stored..

Hairstreak :: Hairstreak (n.) A butterfly of the genus Thecla; as, the green hairstreak (T. rubi)..

Iron :: Iron (n.) An instrument or utensil made of iron; -- chiefly in composition; as, a flatiron, a smoothing iron, etc..

Aldine :: Aldine (a.) An epithet applied to editions (chiefly of the classics) which proceeded from the press of Aldus Manitius, and his family, of Venice, for the most part in the 16th century and known by the sign of the anchor and the dolphin. The term has also been applied to certain elegant editions of English works..

Overperch :: Overperch (v. t.) To perch upon; to fly over.

Bedegar :: Bedegar (n.) A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosae). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties..

Sawfly :: Sawfly (n.) Any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to the family Tenthredinidae. The female usually has an ovipositor containing a pair of sawlike organs with which she makes incisions in the leaves or stems of plants in which to lay the eggs. The larvae resemble those of Lepidoptera.

Pantalet :: Pantalet (n.) One of the legs of the loose drawers worn by children and women; particularly, the lower part of such a garment, coming below the knee, often made in a separate piece; -- chiefly in the plural..

Masted :: Masted (a.) Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner..

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