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Unchancy :: Unchancy (a.) Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous.

Dangerous :: Dangerous (a.) Attended or beset with danger; full of risk; perilous; hazardous; unsafe.

Charybdis :: Charybdis (n.) A dangerous whirlpool on the coast of Sicily opposite Scylla on the Italian coast. It is personified as a female monster. See Scylla.

Hazardous :: Hazardous (a.) Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky.

White-water :: White-water (n.) A dangerous disease of sheep.

Pontlevis :: Pontlevis (n.) The action of a horse in rearing repeatedly and dangerously.

Cholera :: Cholera (n.) One of several diseases affecting the digestive and intestinal tract and more or less dangerous to life, esp. the one commonly called Asiatic cholera..

Infestuous :: Infestuous (a.) Mischievous; harmful; dangerous.

Bugbear :: Bugbear (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc..

Ergot :: Ergot (n.) The mycelium or spawn of this fungus infecting grains of rye and wheat. It is a powerful remedial agent, and also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding..

Uraemia :: Uraemia (n.) Accumulation in the blood of the principles of the urine, producing dangerous disease..

Shelf :: Shelf (v. i.) A sand bank in the sea, or a rock, or ledge of rocks, rendering the water shallow, and dangerous to ships..

Pilot :: Pilot (v. t.) To direct the course of, as of a ship, where navigation is dangerous..

Safe :: Safe (superl.) Incapable of doing harm; no longer dangerous; in secure care or custody; as, the prisoner is safe..

Bore :: Bore (n.) A tidal flood which regularly or occasionally rushes into certain rivers of peculiar configuration or location, in one or more waves which present a very abrupt front of considerable height, dangerous to shipping, as at the mouth of the Amazon, in South America, the Hoogly and Indus, in India, and the Tsien-tang, in China..

Insanitation :: Insanitation (n.) Lack of sanitation; careless or dangerous hygienic conditions.

Mantrap :: Mantrap (n.) A dangerous place, as an open hatch, into which one may fall..

Petalism :: Petalism (n.) A form of sentence among the ancient Syracusans by which they banished for five years a citizen suspected of having dangerous influence or ambition. It was similar to the ostracism in Athens; but olive leaves were used instead of shells for ballots.

Scylla :: Scylla (n.) A dangerous rock on the Italian coast opposite the whirpool Charybdis on the coast of Sicily, -- both personified in classical literature as ravenous monsters. The passage between them was formerly considered perilous; hence, the saying Between Scylla and Charybdis, signifying a great peril on either hand..

Gastroelytrotomy :: Gastroelytrotomy (n.) The operation of cutting into the upper part of the vagina, through the abdomen (without opening the peritoneum), for the purpose of removing a fetus. It is a substitute for the Caesarean operation, and less dangerous..

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