Cadence

Regnancy

n.

The condition or quality of being regnant; sovereignty; rule. →

Scion

n.

Hence, a descendant; an heir; as, a scion of a royal stock. →

Lenten

n.

Lent. →

Jaunt

v. t.

To jolt; to jounce. →

Safe-conduct

n.

a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country →

Gale-opithecus

n.

A genus of flying Insectivora, formerly called flying lemurs. See Colugo. →

Rapid

a.

The part of a river where the current moves with great swiftness, but without actual waterfall or cascade; -- usually in the plural; as, the Lachine rapids in the St. Lawrence. →

Flashing

n.

The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing. →

Abandon

v. t.

To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. →

Undertone

n.

A low or subdued tone or utterance; a tone less loud than usual. →

Saxifragant

n.

That which breaks or destroys stones. →

Fuchsine

n.

Aniline red; an artificial coal-tar dyestuff, of a metallic green color superficially, resembling cantharides, but when dissolved forming a brilliant dark red. It consists of a hydrochloride or acetate of rosaniline. See Rosaniline. →