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Contraction :: Contraction (n.) The shortening of a word, or of two words, by the omission of a letter or letters, or by reducing two or more vowels or syllables to one; as, ne'er for never; can't for can not; don't for do not; it's for it is..

Tuck :: Tuck (n.) A long, narrow sword; a rapier..

Charm :: Charm (n.) A word or combination of words sung or spoken in the practice of magic; a magical combination of words, characters, etc.; an incantation..

Energy :: Energy (n.) Strength of expression; force of utterance; power to impress the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy..

Passim :: Passim (adv.) Here and there; everywhere; as, this word occurs passim in the poem..

Transliteration :: Transliteration (n.) The act or product of transliterating, or of expressing words of a language by means of the characters of another alphabet..

Word :: Word (n.) A brief remark or observation; an expression; a phrase, clause, or short sentence..

Hispanicize :: Hispanicize (v. t.) To give a Spanish form or character to; as, to Hispanicize Latin words..

Absolution :: Absolution (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.

Plight :: Plight (n.) To pledge; to give as a pledge for the performance of some act; as, to plight faith, honor, word; -- never applied to property or goods..

Resent :: Resent (v. t.) To express or exhibit displeasure or indignation at, as by words or acts..

Bouts-rimes :: Bouts-rimes (n. pl.) Words that rhyme, proposed as the ends of verses, to be filled out by the ingenuity of the person to whom they are offered..

Neology :: Neology (n.) The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology..

Pommel :: Pommel (n.) The knob on the hilt of a sword.

Beurre :: Beurre (n.) A beurre (or buttery) pear, one with the meat soft and melting; -- used with a distinguishing word; as, Beurre d'Anjou; Beurre Clairgeau..

Heterography :: Heterography (n.) That method of spelling in which the same letters represent different sounds in different words, as in the ordinary English orthography; e. g., g in get and in ginger..

Waster :: Waster (v. t.) A kind of cudgel; also, a blunt-edged sword used as a foil..

Sassarara :: Sassarara (n.) A word used to emphasize a statement.

Q :: Q () the seventeenth letter of the English alphabet, has but one sound (that of k), and is always followed by u, the two letters together being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, / 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (k/) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which derived it, through a Greek alphabet, from th

Batrachia :: Batrachia (n. pl.) The order of amphibians which includes the frogs and toads; the Anura. Sometimes the word is used in a wider sense as equivalent to Amphibia.

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