The Haunting Of Alaizabel Cray

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griddle

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n.
- A flat metal surface, such as a pan, that is used for cooking by dry heat.
- Vermont & Upstate New York. See eye.

v. tr.
- To cook on a flat metal surface.

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overhead

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adj.
- Located, functioning, or originating from above.
- Of or relating to the operating expenses of a business.

n.
- The operating expenses of a business, including the costs of rent, utilities, interior decoration, and taxes, exclusive of labor and materials.
- Nautical: The top surface in an enclosed space of a ship.
- Something, such as a light fixture, that is located above head height.
- Sports: A stroke in a game, such as tennis or badminton, that is made with a hard downward motion from above the head.
- An overhead projector.
- The image projected by an overhead projector.

adv.
- Over or above the level of the head; high or higher up: look overhead.

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circumscribe

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v. tr.
- To draw a line around; encircle.
- To limit narrowly; restrict.
- To determine the limits of; define. See synonyms at limit.
- To enclose (a polygon or polyhedron) within a configuration of lines, curves, or surfaces so that every vertex of the enclosed object is incident on the enclosing configuration.
- To erect (such a configuration) around a polygon or polyhedron: "circumscribe a circle around a square."

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mawkish

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adj.
- Excessively and objectionably sentimental. See synonyms at sentimental.
- Sickening or insipid in taste.

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lower, lour

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v. intr.
- To look angry, sullen, or threatening. See synonyms at frown.
- To appear dark or threatening, as the sky.

n.
- A threatening, sullen, or angry look.
- A dark and ominous look: "the lower of thunderheads."

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coccyx

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n.
- A small triangular bone at the base of the spinal column in humans and tailless apes, consisting of several fused rudimentary vertebrae. Also called tailbone.

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stetson

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n.
A trademark used for a hat having a high crown and wide brim.

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barrister

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n.
Chiefly British. A lawyer admitted to plead at the bar in the superior courts.

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glut

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–v. tr.
- To fill beyond capacity, especially with food; satiate.
- To flood (a market) with an excess of goods so that supply exceeds demand.

v. intr.
- To eat or indulge in something excessively.

n.
- An oversupply.

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heath

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n.
- Any of various usually low-growing shrubs of the genus Erica and related genera, native to Europe and South Africa and having small evergreen leaves and small, colorful, urn-shaped flowers. Also called heather.
- An extensive tract of uncultivated open land covered with herbage and low shrubs; a moor.

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swill

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v. tr.
- To drink greedily or grossly: "Unshaven horsemen swill the great wines of the Chateaux” (W.H. Auden).
- To flood with water, as for washing.
- To feed (animals) with swill.

v. intr.
- To drink or eat greedily or to excess.

n.
- A mixture of liquid and solid food, such as table scraps, fed to animals, especially pigs; slop.
- Kitchen waste; garbage.
- A deep draft of liquor.
- Nonsense; rubbish.

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grog

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n.
An alcoholic liquor, especially rum diluted with water.

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gris-gris, grigri

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n.
An African charm, fetish, or amulet.

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apse

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n.
- Architecture. A usually semicircular or polygonal, often vaulted recess, especially the termination of the sanctuary end of a church.
- Astronomy. An apsis.

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cinematograph

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n.
- Chiefly British. A movie camera or projector.
- Chiefly British. A movie theater.

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pate

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n.
- The human head, especially the top of the head: a bald pate.
- The mind or brain.

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drowse

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v. intr.
- To be half-asleep: drowsed in the warm sun.

v. tr.
- To make drowsy: "drowsed with the fume of poppies” ( ohn Keats).
- To pass (time) by drowsing.

n.
- The condition of being sleepy.

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capital

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n.
- A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
- A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry: the financial capital of the world.
- Wealth in the form of money or property, used or accumulated in a business by a person, partnership, or corporation.
- Material wealth used or available for use in the production of more wealth.
- Human resources considered in terms of their contributions to an economy: "[The] swift unveiling of his ... plans provoked a flight of human capital” (George F. Will).
- Accounting. The remaining assets of a business after all liabilities have been deducted; net worth.
- Capital stock.
- Capitalists considered as a group or class.
- An asset or advantage: "profited from political capital accumulated by others” (Michael Mandelbaum).
- A capital letter.

adj.
- First and foremost; principal: a decision of capital importance.
- First-rate; excellent: "a capital idea."
- Relating to or being a seat of government.
- Extremely serious: a capital blunder.
- Involving death or calling for the death penalty: a capital offense.
- Of or relating to financial assets, especially being or related to those financial assets that add to the net worth of a business: made capital improvements at the plant site.
- Relating to or being a capital letter.

n.
- Architecture. The top part of a pillar or column.

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elocution

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n.
- The art of public speaking in which gesture, vocal production, and delivery are emphasized.
- A style or manner of speaking, especially in public.

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cut-glass

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n.
Glassware shaped or decorated by cutting instruments or abrasive wheels.

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pinafore

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n.
A sleeveless garment similar to an apron, worn especially by small girls as a dress or an overdress.

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syncopation

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n.
- Music. A shift of accent in a passage or composition that occurs when a normally weak beat is stressed.
- Something, such as rhythm, that is syncopated.
- Grammar. Syncope.

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limey

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n.
- Slang. A British sailor.
- Slang. An English person.

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girder

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n.
A beam, as of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or bridge.

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wight

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n.
- Obsolete. A living being; a creature.
- A being of one of the Nine Worlds of heathen belief, especially a nature spirit, elf or ancestor.
- A ghost or other supernatural entity.

adj.
- Archaic. Valorous; brave.

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necrosis

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n.
Death of cells or tissues through injury or disease, especially in a localized area of the body.

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effigy

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n.
- A crude figure or dummy representing a hated person or group.
- A likeness or image, especially of a person.

idiom
- in effigy: Symbolically, especially in the form of an effigy: "The deposed dictator was burned in effigy by the crowd."

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scrag

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n.
- A bony or scrawny person or animal.
- A piece of lean or bony meat, especially a neck of mutton.
- Slang. The human neck.

v. tr.
- Slang. To wring the neck of; strangle.

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trawl

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n.
- A trawl net.
- See setline.

v. tr.
- To catch (fish) with a trawl.

v. intr.
- To fish with a trawl.
- To troll.

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trawler

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n.
- A fishing boat that uses a trawl net or dragnet to catch fish.
- A fisherman who uses a trawl net.

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trellis

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n.
- A structure of open latticework, especially one used as a support for vines and other creeping plants.
- An arbor or arch made of latticework.

v. tr.
- To provide with a trellis, especially to train (a vine) on a trellis.
- To make (something) in the form of a trellis.

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jamb

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n.
- One of a pair of vertical posts or pieces that together form the sides of a door, window frame, or fireplace, for example.
- A projecting mass or columnar part.

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thrupenny, threepenny

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adj.
- Worth or priced at threepence.
- Very small; trifling.

idiom
threepenny bit, thrupenny bit:
A twelve-sided British coin of nickel-brass, valued at three old pence, obsolete since 1971.

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gormless

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adj.
Chiefly British. Lacking intelligence and vitality; dull.

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salvo

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n.
- A simultaneous discharge of firearms.
- The simultaneous release of a rack of bombs from an aircraft.
- The projectiles or bombs thus released.
- Something resembling a release or discharge of bombs or firearms, as:
- A sudden outburst, as of cheers or praise.
- A forceful verbal or written assault.
- A mental provision or reservation.
- Law. A saving clause.
- An expedient for protecting one's reputation or for soothing one's conscience.

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buttress

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n.
- A structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support or reinforcement.
- Something resembling a buttress, as: the flared base of certain tree trunks, a horny growth on the heel of a horse's hoof.
- Something that serves to support, prop, or reinforce: "The law is by its very nature a buttress of the status quo” (J. William Fulbright).

v. tr.
- To support or reinforce with a buttress.
- To sustain, prop, or bolster: "The author buttresses her analysis with lengthy dissections of several of Moore's poems” (Warren Woessner).

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segue

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v. intr.
- Music. To make a transition directly from one section or theme to another.
- To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: "Daylight segued into dusk” ( Susan Dworski).

n.
- An act or instance of segueing.

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tarmacadam

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n.
A pavement consisting of layers of crushed stone with a tar binder pressed to a smooth surface.

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bay window

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n.
- Architecture. A large window or series of windows projecting from the outer wall of a building and forming a recess within.
- Slang. A protruding belly; a paunch.

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teutonic

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adj.
- Of or relating to the ancient Teutons.
- Of or relating to the Germanic languages or their speakers.

n.
- Germanic.

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teak

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n.
- A tall evergreen tree (Tectona grandis) of southeast Asia, having hard, heavy, durable yellowish-brown wood.
- The wood of this tree, used especially for furniture and in shipbuilding.
- A grayish yellowish brown or grayish to moderate brown.

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riposte

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n.
- Sports. A quick thrust given after parrying an opponent's lunge in fencing.
- A retaliatory action, maneuver, or retort.

v. intr.
- To make a return thrust.
- To retort quickly.

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ague

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n.
- A febrile condition in which there are alternating periods of chills, fever, and sweating. Used chiefly in reference to the fevers associated with malaria.
- A chill or fit of shivering.

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soak

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v. tr.
- Informal. To take in or accept mentally, especially eagerly and easily: soaked up the gossip.
- Informal. To drink (alcoholic liquor), especially to excess.
- Informal. To make (a person) drunk.
- Slang. To overcharge (a person).

v. intr.
- Slang. To drink to excess.

n.
- Liquid in which something may be soaked.
- Slang. A drunkard.

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truss

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n.
- Medicine. A supportive device, usually a pad with a belt, worn to prevent enlargement of a hernia or the return of a reduced hernia.
- A rigid framework, as of wooden beams or metal bars, designed to support a structure, such as a roof.
- Architecture. A bracket.
- Something gathered into a bundle; a pack.
- Nautical. An iron fitting by which a lower yard is secured to a mast.
- Botany. A compact cluster of flowers at the end of a stalk.

v. tr.
- To tie up or bind tightly.
- To bind or skewer the wings or legs of (a fowl) before cooking.
- To support or brace with a truss.

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torpid

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adj.
- Deprived of the power of motion or feeling; benumbed.
- Dormant; hibernating.
- Lethargic; apathetic. See Synonyms at inactive.

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bailiff

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n.
- A court attendant entrusted with duties such as the maintenance of order in a courtroom during a trial.
- An official who assists a British sheriff and who has the power to execute writs, processes, and arrests.
- Chiefly British. An overseer of an estate; a steward.

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brag

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n.
- A boast.
- Arrogant or boastful speech or manner.
- Something boasted of.
- A braggart; a boaster.
- Games. A card game similar to poker.

adj.
- Exceptionally fine.

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tramp steamer

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n.
Nautical. A commercial vessel that has no regular schedule but takes on and discharges cargo whenever hired to do so.

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marrow

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n.
- Bone marrow, the substance inside bones which produces blood cells.
- The spinal cord.
- The inmost, choicest, or essential part; the pith.
- Strength or vigor; vitality.

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breech birth, breech delivery

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n.
Delivery of a fetus with the buttocks, knees, or feet appearing first.

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folio

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n.
- A large sheet of paper folded once in the middle, making two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript.
- A book or manuscript of the largest common size, usually about 38 centimeters (15 inches) in height, consisting of such folded sheets.
- A leaf of a book numbered only on the front side.
- A number on such a leaf.
- A page number.
- Accounting. A page in a ledger or two facing pages that are assigned a single number.
- Law. A specific number of words used as a unit for measuring the length of the text of a document.

v. tr.
- To number consecutively the pages or leaves of (a book, for example).

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tot

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n.
- A small child.
- A small amount, as of liquor.

v. tr.
- To total: totted up the bill.

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slug

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n.
- A round bullet larger than buckshot.
- Informal. A shot of liquor.
- Informal. An amount of liquid, especially liquor, that is swallowed in one gulp; a swig.
- A small metal disk for use in a vending or gambling machine, especially one used illegally.
- A lump of metal or glass prepared for further processing.
- Printing. A strip of type metal, less than type-high and thicker than a lead, used for spacing.
- Printing. A line of cast type in a single strip of metal.
- Printing. A compositor's type line of identifying marks or instructions, inserted temporarily in copy.
- Physics. The unit of mass that is accelerated at the rate of one foot per second per second when acted on by a force of one pound weight.
- Informal. A sluggard.
- A commuter who slugs.

v. tr.
Informal. To drink rapidly or in large gulps: slugged down a can of pop.

v. intr.
To wait for or obtain a ride to work by standing at a roadside hoping to be picked up by a driver who needs another passenger to use the HOV lanes of a highway.

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pooch

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n.
Slang. A dog.

v. intr.
To bulge; protrude. Used with out: "a little roll of flab that pooches out above the tight waists of their spandex trunks” (Megan Rosenfeld)

idiom
pooched: British Slang. Made unusable; broken; buggered.

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go to ground

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v. intr.
- To escape into a burrow, hole, etc. when being hunted.
- To hide from public view or sequester oneself, especially when authorities, members of the news media, or others are looking for one.

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go to pot

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v.
- To decline or deteriorate.
- To come to a bad end.

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go to the dogs

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v.
To decline or deteriorate.

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roundly

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adv.
- In the form of a circle or sphere.
- With full force or vigor; thoroughly: applauded roundly; was roundly criticized.