ill+temper
101testiness — n irritability, petulance, snappishness, irascibility, touchiness, tetchiness, prickliness; peevishness, waspishness, raspiness, fretfulness, edginess, nervousness; excitability, fieriness, inflammability; grouchiness, crankiness, crabbedness,… …
102Horace Smith-Dorrien — Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien General Sir Horace Lockwood Smith Dorrien Nickname Smith Doreen , Smith D …
103spleen — c.1300, from O.Fr. esplen, from L. splen, from Gk. splen, from PIE *splegh (Cf. Skt. plihan , Avestan sperezan, Armenian p aicaln, L. lien, O.C.S. slezena, Lith. bluznis, O.Prus. blusne, O.Ir. selg spleen ). Regarded in medieval physiology as the …
104Joans, Ted — (1928–2003) Author of more than 30 verse collections culminating in Teducation: Selected Poems 1949 1999, performance poet, surrealist, troubadour, vintage jazz aficionado: Afro America has known few more engaging Beat presences than Ted Joans …
105pet — I n 1. favorite, minion, jewel, apple of one s eye, Inf. number one son, Inf. the fair haired boy; cosset, fondling, darling, spoiled child; teacher s pet; loved one, dear, Inf. dearie, sweetheart, Inf. sweetie, honey, honey pie or bunch, baby,… …
106Captious — Cap tious, a. [F. captieux, L. captiosus. See {Caption}.] 1. Apt to catch at faults; disposed to find fault or to cavil; eager to object; difficult to please. [1913 Webster] A captious and suspicious age. Stillingfleet. [1913 Webster] I am… …
107Former — For mer, a. [A compar. due to OE. formest. See {Foremost}.] 1. Preceding in order of time; antecedent; previous; prior; earlier; hence, ancient; long past. [1913 Webster] For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age. Job. viii. 8. [1913 Webster]… …
108Lily Elsie — (8 April 1886 16 December 1962) was a popular English actress and singer during the Edwardian era, best known for her starring role in the hit London premiere of Franz Lehár s operetta The Merry Widow . Beginning as a child star in the 1890s,… …
109Dunk (elephant) — Dunk with a keeper. Dunk (c. 1861 – March 30, 1917),[1] a tuskless, male Asian Elephant possibly from Ceylon, was the first elephant to reside at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. He was gifted to the National Zoo on April 30, 1891 by James E …
110meanness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being mean] Syn. smallmindedness, baseness, lowness, pettiness, wickedness, debasement, degradation, abjection, shamelessness, infamy, degeneracy, blackguardism, knavishness, unscrupulousness, stinginess,… …
