| 1 | Tithe A tenth; the tenth part of anything; specifically, the
tenthpart of the increase arising from the profits of land and stock,
allotted to the clergy for their support, as in England, or devoted to
religious or charitable uses. Almost all the tithes of England and
Wales are commuted by law into rent charges. Hence, a small part or proportion. Tenth. To levy a tenth part on; to tax to the amount of a tenth;
to pay tithes on. Tp pay tithes. |
| 2 | Shovelboard A board on which a game is played, by pushing or
driving pieces of metal or money to reach certain marks; also, the game
itself. Called also shuffleboard, shoveboard, shovegroat, shovelpenny. A game played on board ship in which the aim is to
shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the
deck; -- called also shuffleboard. |
| 3 | Carinaria A genus of oceanic heteropod Mollusca, having a thin,
glassy, bonnet-shaped shell, which covers only the nucleus and gills. |
| 4 | Lard Bacon; the flesh of swine. The fat of swine, esp. the internal fat of the abdomen; also,
this fat melted and strained. To stuff with bacon; to dress or enrich with lard; esp., to
insert lardons of bacon or pork in the surface of, before roasting; as,
to lard poultry. To fatten; to enrich. To smear with lard or fat. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement;
to interlard. To grow fat. |
| 5 | Potoo A large South American goatsucker (Nyctibius grandis). |
| 6 | Soleship The state of being sole, or alone; soleness. |
| 7 | Undoubtable Indubitable. |
| 8 | Gravelling The act of covering with gravel. A layer or coating of gravel (on a path, etc.). A salmon one or two years old, before it has gone to
sea. |
| 9 | Suck To draw, as a liquid, by the action of the mouth and
tongue, which tends to produce a vacuum, and causes the liquid to rush
in by atmospheric pressure; to draw, or apply force to, by exhausting
the air. To draw liquid from by the action of the mouth; as, to
suck an orange; specifically, to draw milk from (the mother, the
breast, etc.) with the mouth; as, the young of an animal sucks the
mother, or dam; an infant sucks the breast. To draw in, or imbibe, by any process resembles sucking;
to inhale; to absorb; as, to suck in air; the roots of plants suck
water from the ground. To draw or drain. To draw in, as a whirlpool; to swallow up. To draw, or attempt to draw, something by suction, as with
the mouth, or through a tube. To draw milk from the breast or udder; as, a child, or the
young of an animal, is first nourished by sucking. To draw in; to imbibe; to partake. The act of drawing with the mouth. That which is drawn into the mouth by sucking; specifically,
mikl drawn from the breast. A small draught. Juice; succulence. |
| 10 | Unciform Having the shape of a hook; being of a curved or hooked
from; hooklike. The unciform bone. See Illust. of Perissodactyla. |
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