Definitions
clyster: (n) 1. A medicine injected into the rectum, to empty or cleanse the bowels, to afford nutrition, etc.; an injection, enema; sometimes, a suppository.
2. The pipe or syringe used in injection; a clyster-pipe.
3. A pipe, tube.
4. A contemptuous name for a medical practitioner
tender: (n) 1. One who tends, or waits upon, another; an attendant, nurse, ministrant; a waiter; an assistant to a builder or other skilled workman
2. One who attends to, or has charge of, a machine, a business, etc.
3. A ship or boat employed to attend a larger one in various capacities. Originally, A vessel commissioned to attend men-of-war, chiefly for supplying provisions and munitions of war, also for conveying intelligence, dispatches, etc. Subsequently, in the British Royal Navy, A vessel commissioned to act (in any capacity) under the orders of another vessel, her officers and crew being borne on the ship's books of the latter (called the parent ship). In general use, A small ship used to carry passengers, luggage, mails, goods, stores, etc., to or from a larger vessel (usually a liner), esp. when not otherwise accessible from shore. Also, in U.S., a boat or ship attending on fishing or whaling ships, to carry supplies to them, and to bring the fish, oil, or whalebone, to the ports or landing-places.
4. A carriage specially constructed to carry fuel and water for a locomotive engine, to the rear of which it is attached.
deponent: (n) 1. A deponent verb.
2. One who deposes or makes a deposition under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice or for other purpose.
pink: (n) A small sailing vessel, usually having a narrow stern; specifically a flat-bottomed boat with bulging sides, used for coasting and fishing; or a small warship in which the stern broadens out at the level of the upper deck to accommodate quarter guns, used esp. in the Danish navy.
waggoner: (n) Originally, the atlas of charts published by Lucas Janssen Waghenaer in 1584 under the title Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (Eng. trans. The Mariners Mirror, by Sir A. Ashley, 1588). Hence generically, a book of charts for nautical use.
drub: (v) 1. To beat with a stick or the like, to cudgel, flog; in early use, spec. to bastinado; to thrash, thump, belabour; also, to beat in a fight.
2. To belabour with abuse.
3. To strike or beat with force.
4. To beat the ground; to stamp.
retrenchment: (n) 1. The act of cutting down, off, or out; curtailment, limitation, reduction.
2. The act of excising, deleting, or omitting; an instance of this.
3. The act of economizing or cutting down expenditure; a cast of this.
4. A work, generally consisting of a trench and parapet, constructed for the defence of a position; esp. an inner line of defence within a large work.
solfège: (n) 1. An exercise for the voice, in which the sol-fa syllables are employed
2. an exercise for a musical instrument.
senescence: (n) 1. The process or condition of growing old.
2. In Biology: With each successive generation of cells the power of growth diminishes: this loss of power is termed senescence.
hyponym: (n) 1. A name made invalid by the lack of adequate contemporary description of the taxon it was intended to designate.
2. One of two or more words related by hyponymy.
collocation: (n) 1. The action of setting in a place or position, esp. of placing together with, or side by side with, something else; disposition or arrangement with, or in relation to, others; the state of being so placed. Frequently applied to the arrangement of words in a sentence, of sounds, etc.
2. The habitual juxtaposition or association, in the sentences of a language, of a particular word with other particular words; a group of words so associated.
3. Giving in marriage
apostate: (adj) 1. Unfaithful to religious principles or creed, or to moral allegiance; renegade, infidel; rebellious.
2. Deserting principles or party; perverted.
snow: (n) A small sailing-vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the mainmast; formerly employed as a warship.
woolding: (n) 1. The action of binding an object tightly with cord; esp. Nautically, the action of winding rope or chain round a mast or yard, to support it where it is fished or broken.
2. A wrapping, swathing; esp. Nautically the rope or chain used in woolding a band or wrapping of rope wound round a mast, spar, etc.
adduce: (v) To bring forward (verbally) for consideration, to cite, to allege.
2. The pipe or syringe used in injection; a clyster-pipe.
3. A pipe, tube.
4. A contemptuous name for a medical practitioner
tender: (n) 1. One who tends, or waits upon, another; an attendant, nurse, ministrant; a waiter; an assistant to a builder or other skilled workman
2. One who attends to, or has charge of, a machine, a business, etc.
3. A ship or boat employed to attend a larger one in various capacities. Originally, A vessel commissioned to attend men-of-war, chiefly for supplying provisions and munitions of war, also for conveying intelligence, dispatches, etc. Subsequently, in the British Royal Navy, A vessel commissioned to act (in any capacity) under the orders of another vessel, her officers and crew being borne on the ship's books of the latter (called the parent ship). In general use, A small ship used to carry passengers, luggage, mails, goods, stores, etc., to or from a larger vessel (usually a liner), esp. when not otherwise accessible from shore. Also, in U.S., a boat or ship attending on fishing or whaling ships, to carry supplies to them, and to bring the fish, oil, or whalebone, to the ports or landing-places.
4. A carriage specially constructed to carry fuel and water for a locomotive engine, to the rear of which it is attached.
deponent: (n) 1. A deponent verb.
2. One who deposes or makes a deposition under oath; one who gives written testimony to be used as evidence in a court of justice or for other purpose.
pink: (n) A small sailing vessel, usually having a narrow stern; specifically a flat-bottomed boat with bulging sides, used for coasting and fishing; or a small warship in which the stern broadens out at the level of the upper deck to accommodate quarter guns, used esp. in the Danish navy.
waggoner: (n) Originally, the atlas of charts published by Lucas Janssen Waghenaer in 1584 under the title Spieghel der Zeevaerdt (Eng. trans. The Mariners Mirror, by Sir A. Ashley, 1588). Hence generically, a book of charts for nautical use.
drub: (v) 1. To beat with a stick or the like, to cudgel, flog; in early use, spec. to bastinado; to thrash, thump, belabour; also, to beat in a fight.
2. To belabour with abuse.
3. To strike or beat with force.
4. To beat the ground; to stamp.
retrenchment: (n) 1. The act of cutting down, off, or out; curtailment, limitation, reduction.
2. The act of excising, deleting, or omitting; an instance of this.
3. The act of economizing or cutting down expenditure; a cast of this.
4. A work, generally consisting of a trench and parapet, constructed for the defence of a position; esp. an inner line of defence within a large work.
solfège: (n) 1. An exercise for the voice, in which the sol-fa syllables are employed
2. an exercise for a musical instrument.
senescence: (n) 1. The process or condition of growing old.
2. In Biology: With each successive generation of cells the power of growth diminishes: this loss of power is termed senescence.
hyponym: (n) 1. A name made invalid by the lack of adequate contemporary description of the taxon it was intended to designate.
2. One of two or more words related by hyponymy.
collocation: (n) 1. The action of setting in a place or position, esp. of placing together with, or side by side with, something else; disposition or arrangement with, or in relation to, others; the state of being so placed. Frequently applied to the arrangement of words in a sentence, of sounds, etc.
2. The habitual juxtaposition or association, in the sentences of a language, of a particular word with other particular words; a group of words so associated.
3. Giving in marriage
apostate: (adj) 1. Unfaithful to religious principles or creed, or to moral allegiance; renegade, infidel; rebellious.
2. Deserting principles or party; perverted.
snow: (n) A small sailing-vessel resembling a brig, carrying a main and fore mast and a supplementary trysail mast close behind the mainmast; formerly employed as a warship.
woolding: (n) 1. The action of binding an object tightly with cord; esp. Nautically, the action of winding rope or chain round a mast or yard, to support it where it is fished or broken.
2. A wrapping, swathing; esp. Nautically the rope or chain used in woolding a band or wrapping of rope wound round a mast, spar, etc.
adduce: (v) To bring forward (verbally) for consideration, to cite, to allege.