| 1 | Apertness Openness; frankness. |
| 2 | Unsearchable Not searchable; inscrutable; hidden; mysterious. |
| 3 | Stultiloquent Given to, or characterized by, silly talk; babbling. |
| 4 | Impromptu Offhand; without previous study; extemporaneous;
extempore; as, an impromptu verse. Something made or done offhand, at the moment, or
without previous study; an extemporaneous composition, address, or
remark. A piece composed or played at first thought; a
composition in the style of an extempore piece. |
| 5 | Barley A valuable grain, of the family of grasses, genus Hordeum,
used for food, and for making malt, from which are prepared beer, ale,
and whisky. |
| 6 | Jurdon Jordan. |
| 7 | Bull The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male
of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or
action. Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It
contains the Pleiades. One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of
stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large;
fierce. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull
railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to
raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4. A seal. See Bulla. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in
Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated "a
die Incarnationis," i. e., "from the day of the Incarnation." See
Apostolical brief, under Brief. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity,
but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so
called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial
nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. |
| 8 | Slug A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard. A hindrance; an obstruction. Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks
belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is
either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They
are closely allied to the land snails. Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like
a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug. A ship that sails slowly. An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a
gun. A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as
the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to
separate display lines, etc. To move slowly; to lie idle. To make sluggish. To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun. To strike heavily. To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by
passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; --
said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm. |
| 9 | Decantation The act of pouring off a clear liquor gently from its
lees or sediment, or from one vessel into another. |
| 10 | Siziness The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness. |
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