Russet

n.

A russet color; a pigment of a russet color.

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Responsorial

a.

Responsory; antiphonal.

Great

superl.

Pregnant; big (with young).

Academist

n.

An academician.

Uncut

a.

Not cut; not separated or divided by cutting or otherwise; -- said especially of books, periodicals, and the like, when the leaves have not been separated by trimming in binding.

Paced

a.

Having, or trained in, [such] a pace or gait; trained; -- used in composition; as, slow-paced; a thorough-paced villain.

Vanity

n.

An inflation of mind upon slight grounds; empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one's personal attainments or decorations; an excessive desire for notice or approval; pride; ostentation; conceit.

Calcify

v. t.

To make stony or calcareous by the deposit or secretion of salts of lime.

Unthriftiness

n.

The quality or state or being unthrifty; profuseness; lavishness.

Scaleboard

n.

A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of furniture, and the like.

Yakoots

n. pl.

(Ethnol.) A nomadic Mongolian tribe native of Northern Siberia, and supposed to be of Turkish stock. They are mainly pastoral in their habits.

Rebec

n.

A contemptuous term applied to an old woman.

Furfur

n.

Scurf; dandruff.