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n. small Australian parakeet (Melopsittacus undulatus) usually light green with black and yellow markings in the wild but bred in many colors.
Syn. -- budgie, grass parakeet, lovebird, shell parakeet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OF. bougrerie, bogrerie, heresy. See Bugger. ] Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Chirurgeon, and cf. Surgery. ] Surgery. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Trick; deception. Bp. Watson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. trickery; artifice. [ Obs. ] Hacket.

n. The act of drudging; disagreeable and wearisome labor; ignoble or slavish toil. [ 1913 Webster ]

The drudgery of penning definitions. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Paradise was a place of bliss . . . without drudgery and with out sorrow. Locke.

Syn. -- See Toll. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A place where eggs are deposited (as by sea birds) or kept; a nest of eggs. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. surgery that is not essential, especially surgery to correct a condition that is not life-threatening; surgery that is not required for survival. See also cosmetic surgery. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. Forgeries [ Cf. F. forgerie. ] 1. The act of forging metal into shape. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Useless the forgery
Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be made by another; the false making or material alteration of or addition to a written instrument for the purpose of deceit and fraud; as, the forgery of a bond. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is forged, fabricated, falsely devised, or counterfeited. [ 1913 Webster ]

These are the forgeries of jealously. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

The writings going under the name of Aristobulus were a forgery of the second century. Waterland.

Syn. -- Counterfeit; Forgery. Counterfeit is chiefly used of imitations of coin, or of paper money, or of securities depending upon pictorial devices and engraved designs for identity or assurance of genuineness. Forgery is more properly applied to making a false imitation of an instrument depending on signatures to show genuineness and validity. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Gerful. ] Changeable; fickle. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. tasting of ginger; spicy; -- used of tastes.
Syn. -- hot, peppery, spicy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Groggeries /plu>. A grogshop. [ Slang, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hoggish character or manners; selfishness; greed; beastliness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Crime and shame
And all their hoggery. Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The practice of imposition. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. imagerie, F. imagerie. ] 1. The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass. “Painted imagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

In those oratories might you see
Rich carvings, portraitures, and imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: Unreal show; imitation; appearance. [ 1913 Webster ]

What can thy imagery of sorrow mean? Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The work of the imagination or fancy; false ideas; imaginary phantasms. [ 1913 Webster ]

The imagery of a melancholic fancy. Atterbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Rhetorical decoration in writing or speaking; vivid descriptions presenting or suggesting images of sensible objects; figures in discourse. [ 1913 Webster ]

I wish there may be in this poem any instance of good imagery. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Hardware; a general name for all articles made of iron. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hind jāgrī. Cf. Sugar. ] Raw palm sugar, made in the East Indies by evaporating the fresh juice of several kinds of palm trees, but specifically those of the palmyra (Borassus flabelliformis) and jaggery palm (Caryota urens). [ Written also jagghery and jaggary. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An East Indian palm (Caryota urens) having leaves pinnate with wedge-shaped divisions, the petiole very stout. It is the principal source of jaggery, and is often cultivated for ornament. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of a person in some way.
Syn. -- trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, skulduggery, skullduggery. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Med.) Surgery using lasers. [ PJC ]

n. The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. menagerie, mesnagerie. See Manage, n., and cf. Menagerie. ] 1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Nidget. ] A trifle; a piece of foolery. [ Obs. ] Skinner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) Surgery performed within the mouth cavity, especially that performed around the gums and teeth as an expedient for the purpose of preservation or replacement of teeth. [ PJC ]

n. [ F. orangerie, fr. orange. See Orange. ] A place for raising oranges; a plantation of orange trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. pettifoggeries The practice or arts of a pettifogger; disreputable tricks; quibbles; chicanery. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quirks of law, and pettifoggeries. Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Piggeries A place where swine are kept. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. pleigerie. ] A pledging; suretyship. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Priggism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wantonness. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. sauvagerie. ] 1. The state of being savage; savageness; savagism. [ 1913 Webster ]

A like work of primeval savagery. C. Kingsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An act of cruelty; barbarity. [ 1913 Webster ]

The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke,
That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage
Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Wild growth, as of plants. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Snuggeries A snug, cozy place. [ Colloq. ] Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Exhibition on the stage. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. surgenrie, surgerie; cf. OF. cirurgie, F. chirurgie, L. chirurgia, Gr. &unr_;. See Surgeon. ] 1. The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of the body; that branch of medical science which has for its object the cure of local injuries or diseases, as wounds or fractures, tumors, etc., whether by manual operation or by medicines and constitutional treatment. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A surgeon's operating room or laboratory. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. Thuggee. [ 1913 Webster ]

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n. [ Cf. Togated. ] Clothes; garments; dress; as, fishing toggery. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Villages; a district of villages. [ Obs. ] “The maidens of the villagery.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Waggeries [ From Wag. ] The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The principles or practices of the Whigs; Whiggism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A wig or wigs; false hair. [ R. ] A. Trollope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any cover or screen, as red-tapism. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fire peels the wiggeries away from them [ facts. ] Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]