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Tiebar :: Tiebar (n.) A flat bar used as a tie.

Victual :: Victual (n.) Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.

Soho :: Soho (interj.) Ho; -- a word used in calling from a distant place; a sportsman's halloo.

Pannus :: Pannus (n.) A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids..

Drawlatch :: Drawlatch (n.) A housebreaker or thief.

Tobacco :: Tobacco (n.) An American plant (Nicotiana Tabacum) of the Nightshade family, much used for smoking and chewing, and as snuff. As a medicine, it is narcotic, emetic, and cathartic. Tobacco has a strong, peculiar smell, and an acrid taste..

Hurt :: Hurt (v. t.) To impar the value, usefulness, beauty, or pleasure of; to damage; to injure; to harm..

Antiphrasis :: Antiphrasis (n.) The use of words in a sense opposite to their proper meaning; as when a court of justice is called a court of vengeance.

Corbel-table :: Corbel-table (n.) A horizontal row of corbels, with the panels or filling between them; also, less properly used to include the stringcourse on them..

Dowse :: Dowse (v. i.) To use the dipping or divining rod, as in search of water, ore, etc..

Acroamatical :: Acroamatical (a.) Communicated orally; oral; -- applied to the esoteric teachings of Aristotle, those intended for his genuine disciples, in distinction from his exoteric doctrines, which were adapted to outsiders or the public generally. Hence: Abstruse; profound..

Hexad :: Hexad (n.) An atom whose valence is six, and which can be theoretically combined with, substituted for, or replaced by, six monad atoms or radicals; as, sulphur is a hexad in sulphuric acid. Also used as an adjective..

Mouser :: Mouser (n.) A cat that catches mice.

Essoin :: Essoin (n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.

Vest :: Vest (n.) To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses..

Genesee Epoch :: Genesee epoch () The closing subdivision of the Hamilton period in the American Devonian system; -- so called because the formations of this period crop out in Genesee, New York..

Traumatism :: Traumatism (n.) A wound or injury directly produced by causes external to the body; also, violence producing a wound or injury; as, rupture of the stomach caused by traumatism..

Maze :: Maze (v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.

Waterie :: Waterie (n.) The pied wagtail; -- so called because it frequents ponds.

Bag :: Bag (n.) A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money..

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