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1,234 words match “GUE”

PLAGUEFUL a.
Abounding, or infecting, with plagues; pestilential; as, plagueful exhalations.
PLAGUELESS a.
Free from plagues or the plague.
PLAGUER n.
One who plagues or annoys.
PLEASANT-TONGUED a.
Of pleasing speech.
PORTAGUE n.
A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling. [Obs.] [Written also portegue and portigue.] Ten thousand portagues, besides great pearls. Marlowe.
PORTEGUE n.
See Portague. [Obs.]
PORTIGUE n.
See Portague. Beau. & Fl.
PORTUGUESE a. 2 definitions
A native or inhabitant of Portugal; people of Portugal. Portuguese man-of-war. (Zoöl.) See Physalia.
PRIMROSE LEAGUE n. 2 definitions
A league of both sexes among the Conservatives, founded in
PROGUE v. 3 definitions
To prog. [Obs.] P. Fletcher.
PROLOGUE n. 3 definitions
The preface or introduction to a discourse, poem, or performance; as, the prologue of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales;" esp., a discourse or poem spoken before a dramatic performance
PROROGUE v. 3 definitions
To protract; to prolong; to extend. [Obs.] He prorogued his government. Dryden.
PSYCHAGOGUE n.
A necromancer. [R.]
PSYCHOLOGUE n.
A psychologist.
PTYALOGOGUE n.
A ptysmagogue.
PTYSMAGOGUE n.
A medicine that promotes the discharge of saliva.
REARGUE v.
To argue anew or again.
REDARGUE v.
oconfute; to reprove; to convict. [Archaic] How shall I . . . suffer that God should redargue me at doomsday, and the angels reproach my lukewarmness Jer. Taylor. Now this objection to the immediate cognition of external objects has, as far as I know, been redargued in three different ways. Sir W. Hamilton.…
REGUERDON v.
To reward. [Obs.] Shak.
ROGUE n. 8 definitions
A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat. The rogue and fool by fits is fair and wise. Pope.
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