n.
An uncouth or disagreable sound of words, owing to the concurrence of harsh letters or syllables.
n.
A combination of discordant sounds.
n.
An unhealthy state of the voice.
n.
A corruption or corrupt state of art.
n.
A hydrous phosphate of iron occurring in yellow radiated tufts. The phosphorus seriously injures it as an iron ore.
a.
Belonging to, or like, the family of plants of which the prickly pear is a common example.
n.
Any plant of the order Cactacae, as the prickly pear and the night-blooming cereus. See Cereus. They usually have leafless stems and branches, often beset with clustered thorns, and are mostly natives of the warmer parts of America.
a.
Pertaining to the top of the palate; cerebral; -- applied to certain consonants; as, cacuminal (or cerebral) letters.
v. i.
To make sharp or pointed.
n.
A person who stands at the door of an omnibus to open and shut it, and to receive fares; an idle hanger-on about innyards.
n.
A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow.
a.
Of or pertaining to landed property.
n.
An official statement of the quantity and value of real estate for the purpose of apportioning the taxes payable on such property.