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Morris :: Morris (n.) A dance formerly common in England, often performed in pagenats, processions, and May games. The dancers, grotesquely dressed and ornamented, took the parts of Robin Hood, Maidmarian, and other fictious characters..

Lupercal :: Lupercal (n.) A grotto on the Palatine Hill sacred to Lupercus, the Lycean Pan..

Maidmarian :: Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes..

Mantis :: Mantis (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina..

Malapropism :: Malapropism (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Grottoes :: Grottoes (pl. ) of Grott.

Fantastic :: Fantastic (a.) Resembling fantasies in irregularity, caprice, or eccentricity; irregular; oddly shaped; grotesque..

Grotto-work :: Grotto-work (n.) Artificial and ornamental rockwork in imitation of a grotto.

Antic :: Antic (n.) A grotesque trick; a piece of buffoonery; a caper.

Manducus :: Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage..

Doublet :: Doublet (a.) One of two or more words in the same language derived by different courses from the same original from; as, crypt and grot are doublets; also, guard and ward; yard and garden; abridge and abbreviate, etc..

Grotesqueness :: Grotesqueness (n.) Quality of being grotesque.

Grotesgue :: Grotesgue (a.) Like the figures found in ancient grottoes; grottolike; wildly or strangely formed; whimsical; extravagant; of irregular forms and proportions; fantastic; ludicrous; antic.

Aegrotat :: Aegrotat (n.) A medical certificate that a student is ill.

Grot :: Grot (n.) A grotto.

Burlesque :: Burlesque (n.) Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.

Monkey :: Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.

Anticly :: Anticly (adv.) Oddly; grotesquely.

Mask :: Mask (n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron..

Oread :: Oread (n.) One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes.

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