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1,508 words match “BACON”

HOTCHPOT; HOTCHPOTCH n.
ure; a stew of various ingredients; a hodgepodge. A mixture or hotchpotch of many tastes. Bacon.
HOUSE n.
itation of man; a dwelling place, a mansion. Houses are built to live in; not to look on. Bacon. Bees with smoke and doves with noisome stench Are from their hives and houses driven away. Shak.
HUKE n.
An outer garment worn in Europe in the Middle Ages. [Written also heuk and hyke.] [Obs.] Bacon.
HUMECTATION n.
A moistening. [Obs.] Bacon.
HUMOR n.
ined, And which the ruling passion of your mind. Roscommon. A prince of a pleasant humor. Bacon. I like not the humor of lying. Shak.
HURDLE n.
ngland, a sled or crate on which criminals were formerly drawn to the place of execution. Bacon.
IDOL n.
A false notion or conception; a fallacy. Bacon. The idols of preconceived opinion. Coleridge.
IGNOBLE v.
To make ignoble. [Obs.] Bacon.
ILL a.
is it ill air only that maketh an ill seat, but ill ways, ill markets, and ill neighbors. Bacon. There 's some ill planet reigns. Shak.
ILLIBERALITY n.
The state or quality of being illiberal; narrowness of mind; meanness; niggardliness. Bacon.
IMAGINANT a.
Imagining; conceiving. [Obs.] Bacon. -- n.
IMAGINATION n.
ned with memory of that which is past; and of things present, or as if they were present. Bacon.
IMAGINER n.
One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.
IMBIBITION n.
The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post- mortem imbibition of poisons. Bacon.
IMBOW v.
To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow. "Imbowed windows." Bacon.
IMBOWMENT n.
act of imbowing; an arch; a vault. Bacon.
IMMATERIATE a.
Immaterial. [Obs.] Bacon.
IMMATURE a.
mature fruit; immature character; immature plans. "An ill-measured and immature counsel." Bacon.
IMMERSE a.
Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. [Obs.] "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
IMMUSICAL a.
Inharmonious; unmusical; discordant. Bacon.
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