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| a device for making arithmetic calculations, consisting of a frame set with rods on which balls or beads are moved |
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| mutual courtesy; civility. |
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| a person who takes up an art, activity, or subject merely for amusement, esp. in a desultory or superficial way; dabbler |
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| an ornamental shoulder piece worn on uniforms, chiefly by military officers |
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| a minor weakness or failing of character; slight flaw or defect: an all-too-human foible |
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| a neglected boy left to run about the streets; street urchin |
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| a scolding or a long or intense verbal attack; diatribe |
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| shameful or dishonorable quality or conduct or an instance of this |
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| using or showing judgment as to action or practical expediency; discreet, prudent, or politic: judicious use of one's money. |
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| the sound made by a bell rung slowly, esp. for a death or a funeral |
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| using few words; expressing much in few words; concise: a laconic reply |
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| an unpleasant or offensive odor; stench |
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| total rejection of established laws and institutions |
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| to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy. |
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| a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb. |
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| landing place, esp. one of solid masonry, constructed along the edge of a body of water; wharf. |
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| a broad elevation or mound of earth raised as a fortification around a place and usually capped with a stone or earth parapet. |
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| cheerfully optimistic, hopeful, or confident: a sanguine disposition; sanguine expectations |
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| any opinion, principle, doctrine, dogma, etc., esp. one held as true by members of a profession, group, or movement |
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| characterized by excessive piousness or moralistic fervor, esp. in an affected manner; excessively smooth, suave, or smug. |
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| without contents; empty: the vacuous air |
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| to free (grain) from the lighter particles of chaff, dirt, etc., esp. by throwing it into the air and allowing the wind or a forced current of air to blow away impurities |
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| the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time. |
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