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Explanation, description, examples of the random words:
| 1 | Pervasion The act of pervading, passing, or spreading through the
whole extent of a thing. |
| 2 | State The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any
given time. Rank; condition; quality; as, the state of honor. Condition of prosperity or grandeur; wealthy or prosperous
circumstances; social importance. Appearance of grandeur or dignity; pomp. A chair with a canopy above it, often standing on a dais; a
seat of dignity; also, the canopy itself. Estate, possession. A person of high rank. Any body of men united by profession, or constituting a
community of a particular character; as, the civil and ecclesiastical
states, or the lords spiritual and temporal and the commons, in Great
Britain. Cf. Estate, n., 6. The principal persons in a government. The bodies that constitute the legislature of a country; as,
the States-general of Holland. A form of government which is not monarchial, as a republic. A political body, or body politic; the whole body of people
who are united one government, whatever may be the form of the
government; a nation. In the United States, one of the commonwealth, or bodies
politic, the people of which make up the body of the nation, and which,
under the national constitution, stands in certain specified relations
with the national government, and are invested, as commonwealth, with
full power in their several spheres over all matters not expressly
inhibited. Highest and stationary condition, as that of maturity
between growth and decline, or as that of crisis between the increase
and the abating of a disease; height; acme. Stately. Belonging to the state, or body politic; public. To set; to settle; to establish. To express the particulars of; to set down in detail or
in gross; to represent fully in words; to narrate; to recite; as, to
state the facts of a case, one's opinion, etc. A statement; also, a document containing a statement. |
| 3 | Elastic Springing back; having a power or inherent property of
returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed,
or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is
elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. Able to return quickly to a former state or condition,
after being depressed or overtaxed; having power to recover easily from
shocks and trials; as, elastic spirits; an elastic constitution. An elastic woven fabric, as a belt, braces or suspenders,
etc., made in part of India rubber. |
| 4 | Onloft Aloft; above ground. |
| 5 | Nick An evil spirit of the waters. A notch cut into something A score for keeping an account; a reckoning. A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a
compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution. A broken or indented place in any edge or surface; nicks in
china. A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick;
the exact point or critical moment. To make a nick or nicks in; to notch; to keep count of or
upon by nicks; as, to nick a stick, tally, etc. To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or
notches in. To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to
tally with. To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at
the precise point or time. To make a cross cut or cuts on the under side of (the tail
of a horse, in order to make him carry ir higher). To nickname; to style. |
| 6 | Raiment Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually
singular in form, with a collective sense. An article of dress. |
| 7 | Episternum A median bone connected with the sternum, in many
vertebrates; the interclavicle. One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the
thorax of insects. |
| 8 | Rapt Snatched away; hurried away or along. Transported with love, admiration, delight, etc.; enraptured. Wholly absorbed or engrossed, as in work or meditation. An ecstasy; a trance. Rapidity. To transport or ravish. To carry away by force. |
| 9 | Bathe To wash by immersion, as in a bath; to subject to a bath. To lave; to wet. To moisten or suffuse with a liquid. To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe
the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with
camphor. To surround, or envelop, as water surrounds a person
immersed. To bathe one's self; to take a bath or baths. To immerse or cover one's self, as in a bath. To bask in the sun. The immersion of the body in water; as to take one's usual
bathe. |
| 10 | Springer One who, or that which, springs; specifically, one who
rouses game. A young plant. The impost, or point at which an arch rests upon its
support, and from which it seems to spring. The bottom stone of an arch, which lies on the impost.
The skew back is one form of springer. The rib of a groined vault, as being the solid abutment
for each section of vaulting. The grampus. A variety of the field spaniel. See Spaniel. A species of antelope; the sprinkbok. |
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