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Explanation, description, examples of the random words:
| 1 | Bay Reddish brown; of the color of a chestnut; -- applied to the
color of horses. An inlet of the sea, usually smaller than a gulf, but of the
same general character. A small body of water set off from the main body; as a
compartment containing water for a wheel; the portion of a canal just
outside of the gates of a lock, etc. A recess or indentation shaped like a bay. A principal compartment of the walls, roof, or other part of a
building, or of the whole building, as marked off by the buttresses,
vaulting, mullions of a window, etc.; one of the main divisions of any
structure, as the part of a bridge between two piers. A compartment in a barn, for depositing hay, or grain in the
stalks. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeachy Bay. A berry, particularly of the laurel. The laurel tree (Laurus nobilis). Hence, in the plural, an
honorary garland or crown bestowed as a prize for victory or
excellence, anciently made or consisting of branches of the laurel. A tract covered with bay trees. To bark, as a dog with a deep voice does, at his game. To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or
drive to bay; as, to bay the bear. Deep-toned, prolonged barking. A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a
difficulty, when escape has become impossible. To bathe. A bank or dam to keep back water. To dam, as water; -- with up or back. |
| 2 | Stichomancy Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at
hazard. |
| 3 | Nativity The coming into life or into the world; birth; also, the
circumstances attending birth, as time, place, manner, etc. A picture representing or symbolizing the early infancy
of Christ. The simplest form is the babe in a rude cradle, and the
heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born. A representation of the positions of the heavenly bodies
as the moment of one's birth, supposed to indicate his future
destinies; a horoscope. |
| 4 | Weep The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry. Formerly, to express sorrow, grief, or anguish, by outcry,
or by other manifest signs; in modern use, to show grief or other
passions by shedding tears; to shed tears; to cry. To lament; to complain. To flow in drops; to run in drops. To drop water, or the like; to drip; to be soaked. To hang the branches, as if in sorrow; to be pendent; to
droop; -- said of a plant or its branches. To lament; to bewail; to bemoan. To shed, or pour forth, as tears; to shed drop by drop, as
if tears; as, to weep tears of joy. |
| 5 | Aldern Made of alder. |
| 6 | Accretion The act of increasing by natural growth; esp. the
increase of organic bodies by the internal accession of parts; organic
growth. The act of increasing, or the matter added, by an
accession of parts externally; an extraneous addition; as, an accretion
of earth. Concretion; coherence of separate particles; as, the
accretion of particles so as to form a solid mass. A growing together of parts naturally separate, as of
the fingers toes. The adhering of property to something else, by which the
owner of one thing becomes possessed of a right to another; generally,
gain of land by the washing up of sand or sail from the sea or a river,
or by a gradual recession of the water from the usual watermark. Gain to an heir or legatee, failure of a coheir to the
same succession, or a co-legatee of the same thing, to take his share. |
| 7 | Monogenetic One in genesis; resulting from one process of
formation; -- used of a mountain range. Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the
monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the
source of all beings. |
| 8 | Lapidate To stone. |
| 9 | Opye Opium. |
| 10 | Actinometry The measurement of the force of solar radiation. The measurement of the chemical or actinic energy of
light. |
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