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Than :: Than (conj.) A particle expressing comparison, used after certain adjectives and adverbs which express comparison or diversity, as more, better, other, otherwise, and the like. It is usually followed by the object compared in the nominative case. Sometimes, however, the object compared is placed in the objective case, and than is then considered by some grammarians as a preposition. Sometimes the object is expressed in a sentence, usually introduced by that; as, I would rather suffer than that y

Wise :: Wise (v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious..

Unrightwise :: Unrightwise (a.) Unrighteous.

Endlong :: Endlong (adv. & prep.) Lengthwise; along.

Clerk :: Clerk (n.) A parish officer, being a layman who leads in reading the responses of the Episcopal church service, and otherwise assists in it..

Nothing :: Nothing (adv.) In no degree; not at all; in no wise.

Rightwisely :: Rightwisely (adv.) Righteously.

Supped :: Sunwise (adv.) In the direction of the sun's apparent motion, or from the east southward and westward, and so around the circle; also, in the same direction as the movement of the hands of a watch lying face upward..

Tantalus :: Tantalus (n.) A Phrygian king who was punished in the lower world by being placed in the midst of a lake whose waters reached to his chin but receded whenever he attempted to allay his thirst, while over his head hung branches laden with choice fruit which likewise receded whenever he stretched out his hand to grasp them..

Traverse :: Traverse (adv.) Athwart; across; crosswise.

Economy :: Economy (n.) The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy..

Conine :: Conine (n.) A powerful and very poisonous vegetable alkaloid found in the hemlock (Conium maculatum) and extracted as a colorless oil, C8H17N, of strong repulsive odor and acrid taste. It is regarded as a derivative of piperidine and likewise of one of the collidines. It occasions a gradual paralysis of the motor nerves. Called also coniine, coneine, conia, etc. See Conium, 2..

Compressed :: Compressed (a.) Flattened lengthwise.

Oracle :: Oracle (n.) A wise sentence or decision of great authority.

Garb :: Garb (n.) A sheaf of grain (wheat, unless otherwise specified)..

Shuttlewise :: Shuttlewise (adv.) Back and forth, like the movement of a shuttle..

Lens :: Lens (n.) A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure..

Rheotome :: Rheotome (n.) An instrument which periodically or otherwise interrupts an electric current.

Churn :: Churn (v. t.) A vessel in which milk or cream is stirred, beaten, or otherwise agitated (as by a plunging or revolving dasher) in order to separate the oily globules from the other parts, and obtain butter..

Arriswise :: Arriswise (adv.) Diagonally laid, as tiles; ridgewise..

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