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Explanation, description, examples of the random words:
| 1 | Menstruum Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. |
| 2 | Strain Race; stock; generation; descent; family. Hereditary character, quality, or disposition. Rank; a sort. To draw with force; to extend with great effort; to
stretch; as, to strain a rope; to strain the shrouds of a ship; to
strain the cords of a musical instrument. To act upon, in any way, so as to cause change of form or
volume, as forces on a beam to bend it. To exert to the utmost; to ply vigorously. To stretch beyond its proper limit; to do violence to, in
the matter of intent or meaning; as, to strain the law in order to
convict an accused person. To injure by drawing, stretching, or the exertion of force;
as, the gale strained the timbers of the ship. To injure in the muscles or joints by causing to make too
strong an effort; to harm by overexertion; to sprain; as, to strain a
horse by overloading; to strain the wrist; to strain a muscle. To squeeze; to press closely. To make uneasy or unnatural; to produce with apparent
effort; to force; to constrain. To urge with importunity; to press; as, to strain a
petition or invitation. To press, or cause to pass, through a strainer, as through
a screen, a cloth, or some porous substance; to purify, or separate
from extraneous or solid matter, by filtration; to filter; as, to
strain milk through cloth. To make violent efforts. To percolate; to be filtered; as, water straining
through a sandy soil. The act of straining, or the state of being strained. A violent effort; an excessive and hurtful exertion or
tension, as of the muscles; as, he lifted the weight with a strain; the
strain upon a ship's rigging in a gale; also, the hurt or injury
resulting; a sprain. A change of form or dimensions of a solid or liquid mass,
produced by a stress. A portion of music divided off by a double bar; a complete
musical period or sentence; a movement, or any rounded subdivision of a
movement. Any sustained note or movement; a song; a distinct portion
of an ode or other poem; also, the pervading note, or burden, of a
song, poem, oration, book, etc.; theme; motive; manner; style; also, a
course of action or conduct; as, he spoke in a noble strain; there was
a strain of woe in his story; a strain of trickery appears in his
career. |
| 3 | Collyrium An application to the eye, usually an eyewater. |
| 4 | Photolithography The art or process of producing photolithographs. |
| 5 | Lienal Of or pertaining to the spleen; splenic. |
| 6 | Froth The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or
agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or
nervous excitement. Any empty, senseless show of wit or eloquence; rhetoric
without thought. Light, unsubstantial matter. To cause to foam. To spit, vent, or eject, as froth. To cover with froth; as, a horse froths his chain. To throw up or out spume, foam, or bubbles; to foam; as
beer froths; a horse froths. |
| 7 | Retraict Retreat. |
| 8 | Tilt A covering overhead; especially, a tent. The cloth covering of a cart or a wagon. A cloth cover of a boat; a small canopy or awning extended
over the sternsheets of a boat. To cover with a tilt, or awning. To incline; to tip; to raise one end of for discharging
liquor; as, to tilt a barrel. To point or thrust, as a lance. To point or thrust a weapon at. To hammer or forge with a tilt hammer; as, to tilt steel
in order to render it more ductile. To run or ride, and thrust with a lance; to practice the
military game or exercise of thrusting with a lance, as a combatant on
horseback; to joust; also, figuratively, to engage in any combat or
movement resembling that of horsemen tilting with lances. To lean; to fall partly over; to tip. A thrust, as with a lance. A military exercise on horseback, in which the combatants
attacked each other with lances; a tournament. Inclination forward; as, the tilt of a cask. |
| 9 | Potman A pot companion. A servant in a public house; a potboy. |
| 10 | Owl Any species of raptorial birds of the family Strigidae. They
have large eyes and ears, and a conspicuous circle of feathers around
each eye. They are mostly nocturnal in their habits. A variety of the domestic pigeon. To pry about; to prowl. To carry wool or sheep out of England. Hence, to carry on any contraband trade. |
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