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Deed Poll :: Deed poll () A deed of one part, or executed by only one party, and distinguished from an indenture by having the edge of the parchment or paper cut even, or polled as it was anciently termed, instead of being indented..

Parusia :: Parusia (n.) A figure of speech by which the present tense is used instead of the past or the future, as in the animated narration of past, or in the prediction of future, events..

Farmery :: Farmery (n.) The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

Flittiness :: Flittiness (n.) Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.

Sterquilinous :: Stern-wheeler (n.) A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

More :: More (adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly..

Positive :: Positive (n.) A picture in which the lights and shades correspond in position with those of the original, instead of being reversed, as in a negative..

Courche :: Courche (n.) A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.

Homesteader :: Homesteader (n.) One who has entered upon a portion of the public land with the purpose of acquiring ownership of it under provisions of the homestead law, so called; one who has acquired a homestead in this manner..

Levity :: Levity (n.) Lack of steadiness or constancy; disposition to change; fickleness; volatility.

Dadle :: Dadle (v. i.) To toddle; to walk unsteadily, like a child or an old man; hence, to do anything slowly or feebly..

Constancy :: Constancy (n.) Fixedness or firmness of mind; persevering resolution; especially, firmness of mind under sufferings, steadiness in attachments, or perseverance in enterprise; stability; fidelity..

Tottery :: Tottery (a.) Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking..

Vacillate :: Vacillate (v. t.) To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver.

Hyostylic :: Hyostylic (a.) Having the mandible suspended by the hyomandibular, or upper part of the hyoid arch, as in fishes, instead of directly articulated with the skull as in mammals; -- said of the skull..

Truth :: Truth (n.) Fidelity; constancy; steadfastness; faithfulness.

Bow-compass :: Bow-compass (n.) A small pair of compasses, one leg of which carries a pencil, or a pen, for drawing circles. Its legs are often connected by a bow-shaped spring, instead of by a joint..

Ground :: Ground (n.) Land; estate; possession; field; esp. (pl.), the gardens, lawns, fields, etc., belonging to a homestead; as, the grounds of the estate are well kept..

Retardation :: Retardation (n.) The keeping back of an approaching consonant chord by prolonging one or more tones of a previous chord into the intermediate chord which follows; -- differing from suspension by resolving upwards instead of downwards.

Fluctuation :: Fluctuation (n.) A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices..

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