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Anapest :: Anapest (n.) A metrical foot consisting of three syllables, the first two short, or unaccented, the last long, or accented (/ / -); the reverse of the dactyl. In Latin d/-/-tas, and in English in-ter-vene#, are examples of anapests..

Father-in-law :: Father-in-law (n.) The father of one's husband or wife; -- correlative to son-in-law and daughter-in-law.

Intonation :: Intonation (n.) Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating, or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest. See Intone, v. t..

Sperrylite :: Sperrylite (n.) An arsenide of platinum occuring in grains and minute isometric crystals of tin-white color. It is found near Sudbury, Ontario Canada, and is the only known compound of platinum occuring in nature..

Plain-hearted :: Plain-hearted (a.) Frank; sincere; artless.

Main-gauche :: Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier..

Kneed :: Kneed (a.) Having knees;- used chiefly in composition; as, in-kneed; out-kneed; weak-kneed..

Plain-spoken :: Plain-spoken (a.) Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words..

Pericambium :: Pericambium (n.) A layer of thin-walled young cells in a growing stem, in which layer certain new vessels originate..

Cone-in-cone :: Cone-in-cone (a.) Consisting of a series of parallel cones, each made up of many concentric cones closely packed together; -- said of a kind of structure sometimes observed in sedimentary rocks..

Whinstone :: Whinstone (n.) A provincial name given in England to basaltic rocks, and applied by miners to other kind of dark-colored unstratified rocks which resist the point of the pick. -- for example, to masses of chert. Whin-dikes, and whin-sills, are names sometimes given to veins or beds of basalt..

Seraskier :: Seraskier (n.) A general or commander of land forces in the Turkish empire; especially, the commander-in-chief of minister of war..

Skin-deep :: Skin-deep (a.) Not deeper than the skin; hence, superficial..

Bishop''s-wort :: Bishop's-wort (n.) Wood betony (Stachys betonica); also, the plant called fennel flower (Nigella Damascena), or devil-in-a-bush..

Wrain-bolt :: Wrain-bolt (n.) Same as Wringbolt.

Misericordia :: Misericordia (n.) A thin-bladed dagger; so called, in the Middle Ages, because used to give the death wound or mercy stroke to a fallen adversary..

Glaucodot :: Glaucodot (n.) A metallic mineral having a grayish tin-white color, and containing cobalt and iron, with sulphur and arsenic..

Pinnatiped :: Pinnatiped (a.) Having the toes bordered by membranes; fin-footed, as certain birds..

Il- :: Il- () A form of the prefix in-, not, and in-, among. See In-..

En- :: En- () A prefix signifying in or into, used in many English words, chiefly those borrowed from the French. Some English words are written indifferently with en-or in-. For ease of pronunciation it is commonly changed to em-before p, b, and m, as in employ, embody, emmew. It is sometimes used to give a causal force, as in enable, enfeeble, to cause to be, or to make, able, or feeble; and sometimes merely gives an intensive force, as in enchasten. See In-..

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