New Words
A
- Anabasis: n. An advance; an expedition.
B
- Bedizen: v. To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner.
C
- Cicatrix: n. A scar left by the formation of new connective tissue over a healing sore or wound.
E
- Etiolate: v. To cause (a plant) to develop without chlorophyll by preventing exposure to sunlight. To cause to appear pale and sickly.
F
- Foment: v. To arouse or incite (trouble, for example).
G
- Gemelliparous: adj. Producing twins.
- Grimalkin: n. An old female cat.
H
- Hawser: n. A cable or rope used in mooring or towing a ship.
- Hisbid: adj. Covered with stiff hair or bristles.
I
- Ignivomous: adj. Throwing out fire, as a volcano does.
M
- Menhir: n. A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument.
- Midden: n. A mound or deposit containing shells, animal bones, and other refuse that indicates the site of a human settlement.
- Moraine: n. A mass of rocks and sediment carried down and deposited by a glacier, typically as ridges at its edges or extremity. Origin
O
- Odalisque: n. A woman slave in a harem.
S
- Sapid: adj. Flavorful.
- Seism: n. An earthquake.
- Sump: n. A low space that collects often undesirable liquids such as water or chemicals.
- Supperate: v. To form or discharge pus.