Words that rhyme with dysentery

• actuary 0
  n 1: someone versed in the collection and interpretation of numerical data (especially someone who uses statistics to calculate insurance premiums) [syn: statistician, actuary]
• aerie 0
  n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• airy 0
  adj 1: open to or abounding in fresh air; "airy rooms" [syn: aired, airy] 2: not practical or realizable; speculative; "airy theories about socioeconomic improvement"; "visionary schemes for getting rich" [syn: airy, impractical, visionary, Laputan, windy] 3: having little or no perceptible weight; so light as to resemble air; "airy gauze curtains" 4: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal]
• alimentary 0
  adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
• apiary 0
  n 1: a shed containing a number of beehives [syn: apiary, bee house]
• baptistery 0
  n 1: bowl for baptismal water [syn: baptismal font, baptistry, baptistery, font]
• benedictory 0
  adj 1: expressing benediction [syn: benedictory, benedictive]
• berry 0
  n 1: any of numerous small and pulpy edible fruits; used as desserts or in making jams and jellies and preserves 2: a small fruit having any of various structures, e.g., simple (grape or blueberry) or aggregate (blackberry or raspberry) 3: United States rock singer (born in 1931) [syn: Berry, Chuck Berry, Charles Edward Berry] v 1: pick or gather berries; "We went berrying in the summer"
• blistery 0
  adj 1: hot enough to raise (or as if to raise) blisters; "blistering sun" [syn: blistering, blistery] 2: covered with small blisters [syn: blebby, blistery]
• blustery 0
  adj 1: blowing in violent and abrupt bursts; "blustering (or blusterous) winds of Patagonia"; "a cold blustery day"; "a gusty storm with strong sudden rushes of wind" [syn: blustering(a), blusterous, blustery] 2: noisily domineering; tending to browbeat others [syn: blustery, bullying]
• bury 0
  v 1: cover from sight; "Afghani women buried under their burkas" 2: place in a grave or tomb; "Stalin was buried behind the Kremlin wall on Red Square"; "The pharaohs were entombed in the pyramids"; "My grandfather was laid to rest last Sunday" [syn: bury, entomb, inhume, inter, lay to rest] 3: place in the earth and cover with soil; "They buried the stolen goods" 4: enclose or envelop completely, as if by swallowing; "The huge waves swallowed the small boat and it sank shortly thereafter" [syn: immerse, swallow, swallow up, bury, eat up] 5: embed deeply; "She sank her fingers into the soft sand"; "He buried his head in her lap" [syn: bury, sink] 6: dismiss from the mind; stop remembering; "I tried to bury these unpleasant memories" [syn: forget, bury] [ant: remember, think of]
• calefactory 0
  adj 1: serving to heat; "a heating pad is calefactory" [syn: calefactory, calefactive]
• canary 0
  adj 1: having the color of a canary; of a light to moderate yellow [syn: canary, canary-yellow] n 1: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police [syn: fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stool pigeon, stoolie, sneak, sneaker, canary] 2: a female singer 3: a moderate yellow with a greenish tinge [syn: canary yellow, canary] 4: any of several small Old World finches [syn: canary, canary bird]
• carry 0
  n 1: the act of carrying something v 1: move while supporting, either in a vehicle or in one's hands or on one's body; "You must carry your camping gear"; "carry the suitcases to the car"; "This train is carrying nuclear waste"; "These pipes carry waste water into the river" [syn: transport, carry] 2: have with oneself; have on one's person; "She always takes an umbrella"; "I always carry money"; "She packs a gun when she goes into the mountains" [syn: carry, pack, take] 3: transmit or serve as the medium for transmission; "Sound carries well over water"; "The airwaves carry the sound"; "Many metals conduct heat" [syn: impart, conduct, transmit, convey, carry, channel] 4: serve as a means for expressing something; "The painting of Mary carries motherly love"; "His voice carried a lot of anger" [syn: carry, convey, express] 5: bear or be able to bear the weight, pressure,or responsibility of; "His efforts carried the entire project"; "How many credits is this student carrying?"; "We carry a very large mortgage" 6: support or hold in a certain manner; "She holds her head high"; "He carried himself upright" [syn: hold, carry, bear] 7: contain or hold; have within; "The jar carries wine"; "The canteen holds fresh water"; "This can contains water" [syn: hold, bear, carry, contain] 8: extend to a certain degree; "carry too far"; "She carries her ideas to the extreme" 9: continue or extend; "The civil war carried into the neighboring province"; "The disease extended into the remote mountain provinces" [syn: carry, extend] 10: be necessarily associated with or result in or involve; "This crime carries a penalty of five years in prison" 11: win in an election; "The senator carried his home state" 12: include, as on a list; "How many people are carried on the payroll?" 13: behave in a certain manner; "She carried herself well"; "he bore himself with dignity"; "They conducted themselves well during these difficult times" [syn: behave, acquit, bear, deport, conduct, comport, carry] 14: have on hand; "Do you carry kerosene heaters?" [syn: stock, carry, stockpile] 15: include as the content; broadcast or publicize; "We ran the ad three times"; "This paper carries a restaurant review"; "All major networks carried the press conference" [syn: carry, run] 16: propel, "Carry the ball"; "dribble the ball" [syn: dribble, carry] 17: pass on a communication; "The news was carried to every village in the province" 18: have as an inherent or characteristic feature or have as a consequence; "This new washer carries a two year guarantee"; "The loan carries a high interest rate"; "this undertaking carries many dangers"; "She carries her mother's genes"; "These bonds carry warrants"; "The restaurant carries an unusual name" 19: be conveyed over a certain distance; "Her voice carries very well in this big opera house" 20: keep up with financial support; "The Federal Government carried the province for many years" 21: have or possess something abstract; "I carry her image in my mind's eye"; "I will carry the secret to my grave"; "I carry these thoughts in the back of my head"; "I carry a lot of life insurance" 22: be equipped with (a mast or sail); "This boat can only carry a small sail" 23: win approval or support for; "Carry all before one"; "His speech did not sway the voters" [syn: carry, persuade, sway] 24: compensate for a weaker partner or member by one's own performance; "I resent having to carry her all the time" 25: take further or advance; "carry a cause" 26: have on the surface or on the skin; "carry scars" 27: capture after a fight; "The troops carried the town after a brief fight" 28: transfer (entries) from one account book to another [syn: post, carry] 29: transfer (a number, cipher, or remainder) to the next column or unit's place before or after, in addition or multiplication; "put down 5 and carry 2" 30: pursue a line of scent or be a bearer; "the dog was taught to fetch and carry" 31: bear (a crop); "this land does not carry olives" 32: propel or give impetus to; "The sudden gust of air propelled the ball to the other side of the fence" 33: drink alcohol without showing ill effects; "He can hold his liquor"; "he had drunk more than he could carry" [syn: carry, hold] 34: be able to feed; "This land will carry ten cows to the acre" 35: have a certain range; "This rifle carries for 3,000 feet" 36: cover a certain distance or advance beyond; "The drive carried to the green" 37: secure the passage or adoption (of bills and motions); "The motion carried easily" 38: be successful in; "She lost the game but carried the match" 39: sing or play against other voices or parts; "He cannot carry a tune" 40: be pregnant with; "She is bearing his child"; "The are expecting another child in January"; "I am carrying his child" [syn: have a bun in the oven, bear, carry, gestate, expect]
• cherry 0
  adj 1: of a color at the end of the color spectrum (next to orange); resembling the color of blood or cherries or tomatoes or rubies [syn: red, reddish, ruddy, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet] n 1: wood of any of various cherry trees especially the black cherry 2: any of numerous trees and shrubs producing a small fleshy round fruit with a single hard stone; many also produce a valuable hardwood [syn: cherry, cherry tree] 3: a red fruit with a single hard stone 4: a red the color of ripe cherries [syn: cerise, cherry, cherry red]
• clerestory 0
  n 1: part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light [syn: clerestory, clearstory]
• commentary 0
  n 1: a written explanation or criticism or illustration that is added to a book or other textual material; "he wrote an extended comment on the proposal" [syn: comment, commentary]
• complementary 0
  adj 1: of words or propositions so related that each is the negation of the other; "`male' and `female' are complementary terms" 2: acting as or providing a complement (something that completes the whole) [syn: complemental, complementary, completing] n 1: either one of two chromatic colors that when mixed together give white (in the case of lights) or grey (in the case of pigments); "yellow and blue are complementaries" [syn: complementary color, complementary]
• complimentary 0
  adj 1: conveying or resembling a compliment; "a complimentary remark" [ant: uncomplimentary] 2: costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission" [syn: complimentary, costless, free, gratis(p), gratuitous]
• consistory 0
  n 1: a church tribunal or governing body
• contemporary 0
  adj 1: characteristic of the present; "contemporary trends in design"; "the role of computers in modern-day medicine" [syn: contemporary, modern-day] 2: belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders" [syn: contemporary, present-day(a)] 3: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary] n 1: a person of nearly the same age as another [syn: contemporary, coeval]
• contradictory 0
  adj 1: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false; "`perfect' and `imperfect' are contradictory terms" 2: that confounds or contradicts or confuses [syn: confounding, contradictory] 3: in disagreement; "the figures are at odds with our findings"; "contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"- John Morley [syn: at odds(p), conflicting, contradictory, self-contradictory] 4: unable to be both true at the same time [syn: contradictory, mutually exclusive] n 1: two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time
• contrary 0
  adj 1: very opposed in nature or character or purpose; "acts contrary to our code of ethics"; "the facts point to a contrary conclusion" 2: of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true but both may be false; "`hot' and `cold' are contrary terms" 3: resistant to guidance or discipline; "Mary Mary quite contrary"; "an obstinate child with a violent temper"; "a perverse mood"; "wayward behavior" [syn: contrary, obstinate, perverse, wayward] 4: in an opposing direction; "adverse currents"; "a contrary wind" [syn: adverse, contrary] n 1: a relation of direct opposition; "we thought Sue was older than Bill but just the reverse was true" [syn: reverse, contrary, opposite] 2: exact opposition; "public opinion to the contrary he is not guilty" 3: a logical relation such that two propositions are contraries if both cannot be true but both can be false
• dairy 0
  n 1: a farm where dairy products are produced [syn: dairy, dairy farm]
• directory 0
  n 1: an alphabetical list of names and addresses 2: (computer science) a listing of the files stored in memory (usually on a hard disk)
• dissatisfactory 0
  adj 1: not up to expectations; "a disappointing performance from one who had seemed so promising" [syn: disappointing, dissatisfactory, unsatisfying]
• documentary 0
  adj 1: relating to or consisting of or derived from documents [syn: documentary, documental] 2: emphasizing or expressing things as perceived without distortion of personal feelings, insertion of fictional matter, or interpretation; "objective art" [syn: objective, documentary] n 1: a film or TV program presenting the facts about a person or event [syn: documentary, docudrama, documentary film, infotainment]
• effrontery 0
  n 1: audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption]
• elementary 0
  adj 1: easy and not involved or complicated; "an elementary problem in statistics"; "elementary, my dear Watson"; "a simple game"; "found an uncomplicated solution to the problem" [syn: elementary, simple, uncomplicated, unproblematic] 2: of or pertaining to or characteristic of elementary school or elementary education; "the elementary grades"; "elementary teachers" 3: of or being the essential or basic part; "an elementary need for love and nurturing" [syn: elementary, elemental, primary]
• factory 0
  n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
• fairy 0
  n 1: a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers [syn: fairy, faery, faerie, fay, sprite] 2: offensive term for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot, faggot, fag, fairy, nance, pansy, queen, queer, poof, poove, pouf]
• ferry 0
  n 1: a boat that transports people or vehicles across a body of water and operates on a regular schedule [syn: ferry, ferryboat] 2: transport by boat or aircraft [syn: ferry, ferrying] v 1: transport from one place to another 2: transport by ferry 3: travel by ferry
• glary 0
  adj 1: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun" [syn: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary]
• hairy 0
  adj 1: having or covered with hair; "Jacob was a hairy man"; "a hairy caterpillar" [syn: hairy, haired, hirsute] [ant: hairless] 2: hazardous and frightening; "hairy moments in the mountains"
• history 0
  n 1: the aggregate of past events; "a critical time in the school's history" 2: a record or narrative description of past events; "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead" [syn: history, account, chronicle, story] 3: the discipline that records and interprets past events involving human beings; "he teaches Medieval history"; "history takes the long view" 4: the continuum of events occurring in succession leading from the past to the present and even into the future; "all of human history" 5: all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge; "the dawn of recorded history"; "from the beginning of history"
• introductory 0
  adj 1: serving to open or begin; "began the slide show with some introductory remarks" 2: serving as a base or starting point; "a basic course in Russian"; "basic training for raw recruits"; "a set of basic tools"; "an introductory art course" [syn: basic, introductory] 3: serving as an introduction or preface [syn: introductory, prefatorial, prefatory]
• inventory 0
  n 1: a detailed list of all the items in stock [syn: inventory, stock list] 2: the merchandise that a shop has on hand; "they carried a vast inventory of hardware"; "they stopped selling in exact sizes in order to reduce inventory" [syn: stock, inventory] 3: (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods 4: a collection of resources; "he dipped into his intellectual armory to find an answer" [syn: armory, armoury, inventory] 5: making an itemized list of merchandise or supplies on hand; "an inventory may be necessary to see if anything is missing"; "they held an inventory every month" [syn: inventory, inventorying, stocktaking, stock-taking] v 1: make or include in an itemized record or report; "Inventory all books before the end of the year" [syn: inventory, take stock, stock-take]
• involuntary 0
  adj 1: not subject to the control of the will; "involuntary manslaughter"; "involuntary servitude"; "an involuntary shudder"; "It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat"- John F.Kennedy [syn: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary] [ant: voluntary] 2: controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; "involuntary muscles"; "gave an involuntary start" [ant: voluntary]
• jerry 0
  n 1: offensive term for a person of German descent [syn: Kraut, Krauthead, Boche, Jerry, Hun]
• manufactory 0
  n 1: a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing [syn: factory, mill, manufacturing plant, manufactory]
• marry 0
  v 1: take in marriage [syn: marry, get married, wed, conjoin, hook up with, get hitched with, espouse] 2: perform a marriage ceremony; "The minister married us on Saturday"; "We were wed the following week"; "The couple got spliced on Hawaii" [syn: marry, wed, tie, splice]
• mastery 0
  n 1: great skillfulness and knowledge of some subject or activity; "a good command of French" [syn: command, control, mastery] 2: power to dominate or defeat; "mastery of the seas" [syn: domination, mastery, supremacy] 3: the act of mastering or subordinating someone [syn: mastery, subordination]
• merry 0
  adj 1: full of or showing high-spirited merriment; "when hearts were young and gay"; "a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company"- Wordsworth; "the jolly crowd at the reunion"; "jolly old Saint Nick"; "a jovial old gentleman"; "have a merry Christmas"; "peals of merry laughter"; "a mirthful laugh" [syn: gay, jocund, jolly, jovial, merry, mirthful] 2: offering fun and gaiety; "a festive (or festal) occasion"; "gay and exciting night life"; "a merry evening" [syn: gay, festal, festive, merry] 3: quick and energetic; "a brisk walk in the park"; "a lively gait"; "a merry chase"; "traveling at a rattling rate"; "a snappy pace"; "a spanking breeze" [syn: alert, brisk, lively, merry, rattling, snappy, spanking, zippy]
• mesentery 0
  n 1: a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines
• momentary 0
  adj 1: lasting for a markedly brief time; "a fleeting glance"; "fugitive hours"; "rapid momentaneous association of things that meet and pass"; "a momentary glimpse" [syn: fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary]
• monastery 0
  n 1: the residence of a religious community
• mystery 0
  n 1: something that baffles understanding and cannot be explained; "how it got out is a mystery"; "it remains one of nature's secrets" [syn: mystery, enigma, secret, closed book] 2: a story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie [syn: mystery, mystery story, whodunit]
• nary 0
  adj 1: (used with singular count nouns) colloquial for `not a' or `not one' or `never a'; "heard nary a sound"
• olfactory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to olfaction [syn: olfactory, olfactive]
• parliamentary 0
  adj 1: relating to or having the nature of a parliament; "parliamentary reform"; "a parliamentary body" 2: having the supreme legislative power resting with a body of cabinet ministers chosen from and responsible to the legislature or parliament; "parliamentary government" 3: in accord with rules and customs of a legislative or deliberative assembly; "parliamentary law"
• parry 0
  n 1: (fencing) blocking a lunge or deflecting it with a circular motion of the sword 2: a return punch (especially by a boxer) [syn: counterpunch, parry, counter] v 1: impede the movement of (an opponent or a ball); "block an attack" [syn: parry, block, deflect] 2: avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues); "He dodged the issue"; "she skirted the problem"; "They tend to evade their responsibilities"; "he evaded the questions skillfully" [syn: hedge, fudge, evade, put off, circumvent, parry, elude, skirt, dodge, duck, sidestep]
• perfunctory 0
  adj 1: hasty and without attention to detail; not thorough; "a casual (or cursory) inspection failed to reveal the house's structural flaws"; "a passing glance"; "perfunctory courtesy" [syn: casual, cursory, passing(a), perfunctory] 2: as a formality only; "a one-candidate pro forma election" [syn: pro forma, perfunctory]
• phylactery 0
  n 1: (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer [syn: phylactery, tefillin]
• prairie 0
  n 1: a treeless grassy plain
• prehistory 0
  n 1: the time during the development of human culture before the appearance of the written word [syn: prehistory, prehistoric culture]
• promontory 0
  n 1: a natural elevation (especially a rocky one that juts out into the sea) [syn: promontory, headland, head, foreland]
• psaltery 0
  n 1: an ancient stringed instrument similar to the lyre or zither but having a trapezoidal sounding board under the strings
• rectory 0
  n 1: an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector [syn: parsonage, vicarage, rectory]
• refectory 0
  n 1: a communal dining-hall (usually in a monastery)
• refractory 0
  adj 1: not responding to treatment; "a stubborn infection"; "a refractory case of acne"; "stubborn rust stains" [syn: refractory, stubborn] 2: temporarily unresponsive or not fully responsive to nervous or sexual stimuli; "the refractory period of a muscle fiber" 3: stubbornly resistant to authority or control; "a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness"; "a refractory child" [syn: fractious, refractory, recalcitrant] n 1: lining consisting of material with a high melting point; used to line the inside walls of a furnace [syn: furnace lining, refractory]
• rudimentary 0
  adj 1: being or involving basic facts or principles; "the fundamental laws of the universe"; "a fundamental incomatibility between them"; "these rudimentary truths"; "underlying principles" [syn: fundamental, rudimentary, underlying] 2: being in the earliest stages of development; "rudimentary plans" 3: not fully developed in mature animals; "rudimentary wings" [syn: vestigial, rudimentary]
• satisfactory 0
  adj 1: giving satisfaction; "satisfactory living conditions"; "his grades were satisfactory" [ant: unsatisfactory] 2: meeting requirements; "the step makes a satisfactory seat" [syn: satisfactory, acceptable]
• scary 0
  adj 1: provoking fear terror; "a scary movie"; "the most terrible and shuddery...tales of murder and revenge" [syn: chilling, scarey, scary, shivery, shuddery]
• sectary 0
  n 1: a member of a sect; "most sectarians are intolerant of the views of any other sect" [syn: sectarian, sectary, sectarist]
• sedentary 0
  adj 1: requiring sitting or little activity; "forced by illness to lead a sedentary life"
• sedimentary 0
  adj 1: resembling or containing or formed by the accumulation of sediment; "sedimentary deposits" 2: produced by the action of water [syn: aqueous, sedimentary] [ant: eruptive, igneous]
• sherry 0
  n 1: dry to sweet amber wine from the Jerez region of southern Spain or similar wines produced elsewhere; usually drunk as an aperitif
• splintery 0
  adj 1: subject to breaking into sharp slender pieces 2: resembling or consisting of or embedded with long slender fragments of (especially) wood having sharp points; "a rough splintery floor of old pine boards" [syn: splintery, slivery]
• supplementary 0
  adj 1: functioning in a supporting capacity; "the main library and its auxiliary branches" [syn: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental, supplementary] 2: added to complete or make up a deficiency; "produced supplementary volumes" [syn: supplementary, supplemental]
• terry 0
  n 1: English actress (1847-1928) [syn: Terry, Dame Ellen Terry, Dame Alice Ellen Terry] 2: a pile fabric (usually cotton) with uncut loops on both sides; used to make bath towels and bath robes [syn: terry, terry cloth, terrycloth]
• testamentary 0
  adj 1: of or relating to a will or testament or bequeathed by a will or testament
• trajectory 0
  n 1: the path followed by an object moving through space [syn: trajectory, flight]
• uncomplimentary 0
  adj 1: showing or representing unfavorably; "an unflattering portrait"; "an uncomplimentary dress" [syn: unflattering, uncomplimentary] [ant: flattering] 2: tending to (or intended to) detract or disparage [ant: complimentary]
• unsatisfactory 0
  adj 1: not giving satisfaction; "shops should take back unsatisfactory goods"; "her performance proved to be unsatisfactory"; "life is becoming increasingly unsatifactory"; "our discussion was very unsatisfactory" [ant: satisfactory]
• unwary 0
  adj 1: not alert to danger or deception; "the shrieks of unwary animals taken by surprise"; "some thieves prey especially on unwary travelers"; "seduce the unwary reader into easy acquiescence"- O.J.Campbell [ant: wary]
• upholstery 0
  n 1: covering (padding and springs and webbing and fabric) on a piece of furniture 2: the craft of upholstering
• valedictory 0
  adj 1: of or relating to an occasion or expression of farewell; "a valedictory address"; "valedictory praise for his uniformly manly course"; "a suitable valedictory gesture" 2: of a speech expressing leave-taking; "a valedictory address" n 1: a farewell oration (especially one delivered during graduation exercises by an outstanding member of a graduating class) [syn: valediction, valedictory address, valedictory oration, valedictory]
• vary 0
  v 1: become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; "her mood changes in accordance with the weather"; "The supermarket's selection of vegetables varies according to the season" [syn: change, alter, vary] 2: be at variance with; be out of line with [syn: deviate, vary, diverge, depart] [ant: conform] 3: be subject to change in accordance with a variable; "Prices vary"; "His moods vary depending on the weather" 4: make something more diverse and varied; "Vary the menu" [syn: vary, variegate, motley]
• very 0
  adv 1: used as intensifiers; `real' is sometimes used informally for `really'; `rattling' is informal; "she was very gifted"; "he played very well"; "a really enjoyable evening"; "I'm real sorry about it"; "a rattling good yarn" [syn: very, really, real, rattling] 2: precisely so; "on the very next page"; "he expected the very opposite" adj 1: precisely as stated; "the very center of town" 2: being the exact same one; not any other:; "this is the identical room we stayed in before"; "the themes of his stories are one and the same"; "saw the selfsame quotation in two newspapers"; "on this very spot"; "the very thing he said yesterday"; "the very man I want to see" [syn: identical, selfsame(a), very(a)]
• victory 0
  n 1: a successful ending of a struggle or contest; "a narrow victory"; "the general always gets credit for his army's victory"; "clinched a victory"; "convincing victory"; "the agreement was a triumph for common sense" [syn: victory, triumph] [ant: defeat, licking]
• voluntary 0
  adj 1: of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled; "man is a voluntary agent"; "participation was voluntary"; "voluntary manslaughter"; "voluntary generosity in times of disaster"; "voluntary social workers"; "a voluntary confession" [ant: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary] 2: controlled by individual volition; "voluntary motions"; "voluntary muscles" [ant: involuntary] n 1: (military) a person who freely enlists for service [syn: volunteer, military volunteer, voluntary] [ant: conscript, draftee, inductee] 2: composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
• wary 0
  adj 1: marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; "they were wary in their movements"; "a wary glance at the black clouds"; "taught to be wary of strangers" [ant: unwary] 2: openly distrustful and unwilling to confide [syn: leery, mistrustful, suspicious, untrusting, wary]
• wherry 0
  n 1: sailing barge used especially in East Anglia [syn: wherry, Norfolk wherry] 2: light rowboat for use in racing or for transporting goods and passengers in inland waters and harbors
• wintery 0
  adj 1: characteristic of or occurring in winter; "suffered severe wintry weather"; "brown wintry grasses" [syn: wintry, wintery] [ant: autumnal, summery, vernal]
• aery 0
  adj 1: characterized by lightness and insubstantiality; as impalpable or intangible as air; "figures light and aeriform come unlooked for and melt away"- Thomas Carlyle; "aerial fancies"; "an airy apparition"; "physical rather than ethereal forms" [syn: aeriform, aerial, airy, aery, ethereal] n 1: the lofty nest of a bird of prey (such as a hawk or eagle) [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry] 2: any habitation at a high altitude [syn: aerie, aery, eyrie, eyry]
• biliary 0
  adj 1: relating to or containing bile [syn: bilious, biliary] 2: relating to the bile ducts or the gallbladder
• filamentary 0
• interdictory 0
• interjectory 0
• airey 0
• arie 0
• ary 0
• insectary 0
• phalanstery 0
• segmentary 0
• ligamentary 0
• maledictory 0
• bistoury 0
• ethnohistory 0
• enactory 0

See also dysentery definition