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Meliphagous :: Meliphagous (a.) Eating, or feeding upon, honey..

Mummy :: Mummy (n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

Marbler :: Marbler (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone.

Cuboid :: Cuboid (n.) The bone of the tarsus, which, in man and most mammals, supports the metatarsals of the fourth and fifth toes..

Able :: Able (superl.) Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property..

Strain :: Strain (n.) 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..

Windrow :: Windrow (n.) The green border of a field, dug up in order to carry the earth on other land to mend it..

Epigraph :: Epigraph (n.) Any inscription set upon a building; especially, one which has to do with the building itself, its founding or dedication..

Stapedial :: Stanzaic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form..

Alcyonacea :: Alcyonacea (n. pl.) A group of soft-bodied Alcyonaria, of which Alcyonium is the type. See Illust. under Alcyonaria..

Ebullient :: Ebullient (a.) Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing..

Atrabiliary :: Atrabiliary (a.) Melancholic or hypohondriac; atrabilious; -- from the supposed predominance of black bile, to the influence of which the ancients attributed hypochondria, melancholy, and mania..

Preterpluperfect :: Preterpluperfect (a. & n.) Old name of the tense also called pluperfect.

Dextrose :: Dextrose (n.) A sirupy, or white crystalline, variety of sugar, C6H12O6 (so called from turning the plane of polarization to the right), occurring in many ripe fruits. Dextrose and levulose are obtained by the inversion of cane sugar or sucrose, and hence called invert sugar. Dextrose is chiefly obtained by the action of heat and acids on starch, and hence called also starch sugar. It is also formed from starchy food by the action of the amylolytic ferments of saliva and pancreatic juice..

Levirostres :: Levirostres (n. pl.) A group of birds, including the hornbills, kingfishers, and related forms..

Tough :: Tough (superl.) Having the quality of flexibility without brittleness; yielding to force without breaking; capable of resisting great strain; as, the ligaments of animals are remarkably tough..

Sward-cutter :: Sward-cutter (n.) A plow for turning up grass land.

Substanceless :: Substance (v. t.) To furnish or endow with substance; to supply property to; to make rich.

Hack :: Hack (n.) Unburned brick or tile, stacked up for drying..

Sub- :: Sub- () A prefix signifying under, below, beneath, and hence often, in an inferior position or degree, in an imperfect or partial state, as in subscribe, substruct, subserve, subject, subordinate, subacid, subastringent, subgranular, suborn. Sub- in Latin compounds often becomes sum- before m, sur before r, and regularly becomes suc-, suf-, sug-, and sup- before c, f, g, and p respectively. Before c, p, and t it sometimes takes form sus- (by the dropping of b from a collateral form, subs-)..

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