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Formative :: Formative (n.) A word formed in accordance with some rule or usage, as from a root..

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) To kill in considerable numbers where much resistance can not be made; to kill with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher; to slaughter; -- limited to the killing of human beings..

Spousal :: Spousage (v. t.) Espousal.

Pudding :: Pudding (n.) An intestine; especially, an intestine stuffed with meat, etc.; a sausage..

Surplusage :: Surplusage (n.) Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or goods beyond what is wanted..

Illegitimate :: Illegitimate (a.) Not authorized by good usage; not genuine; spurious; as, an illegitimate word..

Law :: Law (n.) Any edict, decree, order, ordinance, statute, resolution, judicial, decision, usage, etc., or recognized, and enforced, by the controlling authority..

Polony :: Polony (n.) A kind of sausage made of meat partly cooked.

Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house..

Massacre :: Massacre (n.) The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day..

Wone :: Wone (a.) Custom; habit; wont; use; usage.

Customary :: Customary (n.) A book containing laws and usages, or customs; as, the Customary of the Normans..

Guaranty :: Guaranty (n.) In law and common usage: To undertake or engage that another person shall perform (what he has stipulated); to undertake to be answerable for (the debt or default of another); to engage to answer for the performance of (some promise or duty by another) in case of a failure by the latter to perform; to undertake to secure (something) to another, as in the case of a contingency. See Guarantee, v. t..

Usance :: Usance (v. t.) The time, fixed variously by the usage between different countries, when a bill of exchange is payable; as, a bill drawn on London at one usance, or at double usance..

Day :: Day (n.) Those hours, or the daily recurring period, allotted by usage or law for work..

Port :: Port (v.) In law and commercial usage, a harbor where vessels are admitted to discharge and receive cargoes, from whence they depart and where they finish their voyages..

Outlandish :: Outlandish (a.) Hence: Not according with usage; strange; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech..

Orthographize :: Orthographize (v. t.) To spell correctly or according to usage; to correct in regard to spelling.

Customary :: Customary (a.) Agreeing with, or established by, custom; established by common usage; conventional; habitual..

Maltreament :: Maltreament (n.) Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

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