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768 words match “REAL”

GIFT n.
A voluntary transfer of real or personal property, without any consideration. It can be perfected only by deed, or in case of personal property, by an actual delivery of possession. Bouvier. Burrill. Gift rope (Naut), a rope extended to a boat for towing it; a guest rope.
GLAMOUR n. 2 definitions
A charm affecting the eye, making objects appear different from what they really are.
GLUCOSIDE n.
er sugar); hence the name. They are of the nature of complex and compound ethers, and ethereal salts of the sugar carbohydrates.
GLUT v.
l heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish an oversupply of any article of trade, so that there is no sale for it.…
GODE-YEAR n.
The venereal disease; -- often used as a mild oath. [Obs.] Shak.
GOOD a. 2 definitions
Real; actual; serious; as in the phrases in good earnest; in good sooth. Love no man in good earnest. Shak.
GORILLA n.
A large, arboreal, anthropoid ape of West Africa. It is larger than a man, and is remarkable for its massive skeleton and powerful muscles, which give it enormous strength. In some respects its anatomy, more than that of any other ape, except the chimpanzee, resembles that of man.
GOUJERE n.
The venereal disease. [Obs.]
GRAIN n.
oöl.), one of several small moths, of the family Tineidæ (as Tinea granella and Butalis cereAlella), whose larvæ devour grain in storehouses. -- Grain side (Leather), the side of a skin or hide from which the hair has been removed; -- opposed to flesh side. -- Grains of paradise, the seeds of a species of amomum. --…
GRASS n.
e, hay. Lolium perenne, var. Seneca grass, fragrant basket work, etc. North. Hierochloa borealis. Sesame grass. Same as Gama grass (above). Sheep's fescue, sheep pasture, native in Northern Europe and Asia. Festuca ovina. Small reed grass, meadow pasture and hay. North. Deyeuxia Canadensis. Spear grass, Same as Meadow…
GUM n.
iety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
HALLUCINATION n.
The perception of objects which have no reality, or of sensations which have no corresponding external cause, arising from disorder or the nervous system, as in delirium tremens; delusion. Hallucinations are always evidence of cerebral derangement and are common phenomena of insanity. W. A. Hammond.…
HARDFERN n.
A species of fern (Lomaria borealis), growing in Europe and Northwestern America.
HAULM n.
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
HEAD n.
An ear of wheat, barley, or of one of the other small cereals.
HEART n.
Vital part; secret meaning; real intention. And then show you the heart of my message. Shak.
HEREDITAMENT n.
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.
HERITABLE a.
w), rights of the heir; rights to land or whatever may be intimately connected with land; realty. Jacob (Law Dict.).
HERSELF pron.
Her own proper, true, or real character; hence, her right, or sane, mind; as, the woman was deranged, but she is now herself again; she has come to herself. By herself, alone; apart; unaccompanied.
HIGH a.
oud heart . . . is sin. Prov. xxi. 4. His forces, after all the high discourses, amounted really but to eighteen hundred foot. Clarendon.
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