Hamlet words (VocabGrabber)

Mark M. (United States of America)
Notable words from Shakespeare's "Hamlet" -- on the occasion of the Bard's 445th birthday.rnrnList created with VocabGrabber:rnhttp://www.visualthesaurus.com/vocabgrabber/
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  1. accurst
    under a curse
  2. aery
    characterized by lightness and insubstantiality
  3. argal
    wild sheep of semidesert regions in central Asia
  4. bawdry
    lewd or obscene talk or writing
  5. beshrew
    wish harm or evil upon
  6. bodkin
    a dagger with a slender blade
  7. bourn
    an archaic term for a boundary
  8. brainish
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought or deliberation
  9. calumnious
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
  10. cannoneer
    a serviceman in the artillery
  11. cataplasm
    a medical dressing consisting of a soft heated mass of meal or clay that is spread on a cloth and applied to the skin to treat inflamed areas or improve circulation etc.
  12. cellarage
    a storage area in a cellar
  13. cerement
    burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped
  14. chopine
    a woman's shoe with a very high thick sole
  15. chough
    a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
  16. cicatrice
    a mark left by the healing of injured tissue
  17. cozenage
    a fraudulent business scheme
  18. cutpurse
    a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places
  19. encompassment
    including entirely
  20. eyas
    an unfledged or nestling hawk
  21. fardel
    a burden (figuratively in the form of a bundle)
  22. felly
    rim (or part of the rim) into which spokes are inserted
  23. graveness
    a manner that is serious and solemn
  24. handsaw
    a saw used with one hand for cutting wood
  25. hautboy
    a slender double-reed instrument
  26. headshake
    the act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement
  27. holla
    a very loud utterance (like the sound of an animal)
  28. hugger-mugger
    a state of confusion
  29. ill-breeding
    impoliteness resulting from ignorance
  30. illume
    make lighter or brighter
  31. kibe
    ulcerated chilblain on the heel
  32. lapwing
    large crested Old World plover having wattles and spurs
  33. mazzard
    wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting
  34. Nemean lion
    (Greek mythology) an enormous lion strangled by Hercules as the first of his 12 labors
  35. nighted
    overtaken by night or darkness
  36. operant
    having influence or producing an effect
  37. out-herod
    surpass someone in cruelty or evil
  38. petard
    an explosive device used to break down a gate or wall
  39. plausive
    expressing or manifesting praise or approval
  40. primrose path
    a life of ease and pleasure
  41. pursy
    breathing laboriously or convulsively
  42. quiddity
    the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is
  43. quietus
    euphemism for death
  44. rheum
    a watery discharge from the mucous membranes
  45. robustious
    noisy and lacking in restraint or discipline
  46. supposal
    a hypothesis that is taken for granted
  47. suspiration
    an utterance made by exhaling audibly
  48. swinish
    resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy
  49. Tellus
    goddess of the earth
  50. trippingly
    moving with quick light steps
  51. unfledged
    young and inexperienced
  52. unhand
    remove the hand from
  53. unyoke
    remove the yoke from
  54. vanquisher
    someone who is victorious by force of arms
  55. videlicet
    as follows
  56. whoreson
    the illegitimate offspring of unmarried parents
  57. wiseness
    the quality of being prudent and sensible
  58. calumnious
    harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign
Created on Sat May 09 02:44:52 EDT 2009

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