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  • PHANTASY
    See FANCY
  • MOONSHINER
    A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night.
  • BLUNDERHEAD
    A stupid, blundering fellow.
  • BUGBEAR
    See A
  • BLUNDERER
    One who is apt to blunder.
  • CIPHER
    A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
  • ERRORFUL
    Full of error; wrong. Foxe.
  • FICTIONIST
    A writer of fiction. Lamb.
  • COBWEB
    The European spotted flycatcher. Cobweb lawn, a fine linen, mentioned in 1640 as being in pieces of fifteen yards. Beck. Draper's Dict. Such a proud piece of cobweb lawn. Beau. & Fl. Cobweb micrometer, a micrometer in which threads of cobwed are
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • FICTION
    An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. Wharton. 5. Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue. Syn. --
  • COBWEBBY
    Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.
  • TRIFLER
    One who trifles. Waterland.
  • BLUNDERING
    Characterized by blunders.
  • BLUNDERINGLY
    In a blundering manner.
  • FICTIONAL
    Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic."Fictional rather than historical." Latham.
  • BLUNDERBUSS
    to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
  • CHIMERA
    A monster represented as vomiting flames, and as having the head of a lion, the body of a goat, and the tail of a dragon. "Dire chimeras and enchanted isles." Milton. 2. A vain, foolish, or incongruous fancy, or creature of the imagination; as,
  • DELUSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to delusions; as, delusional monomania.
  • DELUSION
    1. The act of deluding; deception; a misleading of the mind. Pope. 2. The state of being deluded or misled. 3. That which is falsely or delusively believed or propagated; false belief; error in belief. And fondly mourned the dear delusion gone.
  • TERRORLESS
    Free from terror. Poe.
  • SELF-DELUSION
    The act of deluding one's self, or the state of being thus deluded.
  • DECIPHERMENT
    The act of deciphering.
  • TERRORIZE
    To impress with terror; to coerce by intimidation. Humiliated by the tyranny of foreign despotism, and terrorized by ecclesiastical authority. J. A. Symonds.
  • INDECIPHERABLE
    Not decipherable; incapable of being deciphered, explained, or solved. -- In`de*ci"pher*a*bly, adv.

 

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