(formerly, by confusion) An ancient punishment in which the criminal was smeared with honey and exposed to insects.
An ancient form of punishment involving a sort of wooden pillory by which the victim's neck was bent or weighed downward.
dyotheism
echinomys
hemolysin
hemolysin
noun
(medicine) Any substance (often an exotoxin) that damages the membranes of red blood cells and thus releases hemoglobin
hemolysis
hemolysis
noun
(medicine) The destruction of red blood cells, and subsequent release of hemoglobin, at the normal end of the cell's life.
histonomy
histonomy
noun
The science that deals with organic tissues and their formation, development, and functions.
histotomy
histotomy
noun
The dissection of organic tissues.
histozyme
histozyme
noun
(biochemistry, dated) A soluble ferment occurring in the animal body, supposed to be responsible for many normal decompositions and synthetic processes.
homolysin
homolysin
noun
Synonym of isolysin
homolysis
homolysis
noun
(chemistry) The decomposition of a substance without reacting with other substances
The lysis of blood cells by homolysin
hoydenism
hoydenism
noun
The behaviour of a hoyden.
hylozoism
hylozoism
noun
A philosophical doctrine espousing that all or some material things possess life, or that all life is inseparable from matter.
hymnodies
hymnodies
noun
plural of hymnody
hymnodist
hymnodist
noun
A composer of hymns.
A person who studies hymnody.
hypnotism
hypnotism
noun
The art of inducing hypnosis.
isorhythm
isorhythm
noun
(music) A technique that arranges a fixed pattern of pitches with a repeating rhythmic pattern, used in some medieval motets and in more recent works.
lophiomys
mayorship
mayorship
noun
The office or role of a mayor.
mesorhiny
misosophy
misosophy
noun
A hatred of wisdom.
mobbishly
mondayish
mondayish
Adverb
on, or around Monday
Adjective
feeling ill, especially used of clergymen having worked all day Sunday
hungover after a weekend of drinking (as a presumed contributing explanation for a clergyman feeling Mondayish)
grumpy and disheartened on returning to work on a Monday after the weekend
(entomology) The passage from the larval state to the nymph state of an insect.
opsimathy
opsimathy
noun
Learning or education that occurs late in life.
physiform
pythonism
pythonism
noun
The art of predicting events after the manner of the priestess of Apollo at Delphi; equivocal prophesying.
rompishly
rompishly
adv
In a rompish manner.
sciomachy
sciomachy
noun
Alternative form of sciamachy
semihorny
semihorny
adj
(chiefly zoology) Somewhat or partially horny (hard or bony).
shamoying
shamoying
noun
A process used in preparing certain kinds of leather, which consists of frizzing the skin and working oil into it to supply the place of the astringent (tannin, alum, etc.) ordinarily used in tanning.
shoddyism
shoddyism
noun
(archaic, slang, derogatory) The condition of being a nouveau riche or social climber.
(archaic, slang, derogatory) The practice of suppliers who profited from United States government contracts during the Civil War by supplying cheap, inferior goods.