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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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12 words match “MENTOR”

MENTOR n.
A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.
MENTORIAL a.
Containing advice or admonition.
SELF-TORMENTOR n.
One who torments himself.
TORMENTOR n. 2 definitions
which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings. Milton.
APPREHENSIVE a.
Sensible; feeling; perceptive. [R.] Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts. Milton.
BAITER n.
One who baits; a tormentor.
GRASS n.
grass, pasture and hay. Far West. Festuca scabrella. Guinea grass, hay. South. Panicum jumentorum. Herd's grass, in New England Timothy, in Pennsylvania and South Redtop. Indian grass. Same as Wood grass (below). Italian rye grass, forage and hay. Lolium Italicum. Johnson grass, grazing aud hay. South and Southwest. S…
GUINEA n.
se, or amomum. See Amomum. -- Guinea grass (Bot.), a tall strong forage grass (Panicum jumentorum) introduced. from Africa into the West Indies and Southern United States. -- Guinea-hen flower (Bot.), a liliaceous flower (Fritillaria Meleagris) with petals spotted like the feathers of the Guinea hen. -- Guinea peach…
TORMENTER n.
One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor.
TORTURER n.
One who tortures; a tormentor.
WORM n.
An internal tormentor; something that gnaws or afflicts one's mind with remorse. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul! Shak.
YAMA n.
souls. In later times he is more exclusively considered the dire judge of all, and the tormentor of the wicked. He is represented as of a green color, with red garments, having a crown on his head, his eyes inflamed, and sitting on a buffalo, with a club and noose in his hands.