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858 words match “PEE”

EPOPEE; EPOPOEIA n.
An epic poem; epic poetry.
FILLIPEEN n.
See Philopena.
FORESPEECH n.
A preface. [Obs.] Sherwood.
GALAPEE TREE n.
The West Indian Sciadophyllum Brownei, a tree with very large digitate leaves.
GODSPEED n.
Success; prosperous journeying; -- a contraction of the phrase, "God speed you." [Written also as two separate words.] Receive him not into house, neither bid him God speed. 2 John 10.
INTERSPEECH n.
A speech interposed between others. [R.] Blount.
MISSPEECH n.
Wrong speech. [Obs.]
OUTPEER v.
To excel. [R.] Shak.
OUTSPEED v.
To excel in speed. Outspeed the realized miracles of steam. Talfourd.
OVERPEER v.
To peer over; to rise above.
RAPPEE n.
A pungent kind of snuff made from the darker and ranker kinds of tobacco leaves.
RUPEE n.
A silver coin, and money of account, in the East Indies.
SPALPEEN n.
A scamp; an Irish term for a good-for-nothing fellow; -- often used in good-humored contempt or ridicule. [Colloq.]
SPEECE n.
Species; sort. [Obs.]
SPEECH n. 7 definitions
power of speaking. There is none comparable to the variety of instructive expressions by speech, wherewith man alone is endowed for the communication of his thoughts. Holder.
SPEECHFUL a.
Full of speech or words; voluble; loquacious. [R.]
SPEECHIFICATION n.
The act of speechifying. [Used humorously or in contempt.]
SPEECHIFIER n.
One who makes a speech or speeches; an orator; a declaimer. [Used humorously or in contempt.] G. Eliot.
SPEECHIFY v.
To make a speech; to harangue. [Used derisively or humorously.]
SPEECHIFYING n.
The act of making a speech or speeches. [Used derisively or humorously.] The dinner and speechifying . . . at the opening of the annual season for the buckhounds. M. Arnold.
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