(adjective) Marked by extreme calm, impassivity, and steadiness: serene.

(adjective) Circuitous; INDIRECT .

(noun) Discontinuance from use or disuse.

(noun) Capitalized: the 50th Psalm in the Vulgate.

(adjective) Of a timid disposition: fearful.

(noun) A ragged often disreputable person.

(adjective) Delicious.

(adjective) Favorable to or promoting health or well-being.

(verb) Literature: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar.

(noun) Rascal.

(adjective) Extremely loud.

(verb) To form or move in WAVES.

(adjective) Tending to CONTRACT or bind: astringent.

(verb) To make a harsh cry.

(adjective) Published after the death of the author.

(noun) A process of extracting perfumes by exposing absorbents to the exhalations of flowers.

(noun) A minor battle.

(noun) A resident in an apartment building, especially in France, who serves as doorkeeper, landlord's representative, and janitor.

(adjective) Of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic HEXAMETER lines that lack the arsis in the third and sixth feet.

(verb) To assail by words or arguments: oppose or ATTACK as FALSE or lacking integrity.

(adjective) Of, relating to, or occurring during childbirth or the period immediately following.

(adjective) Mournful.

(adjective) That puckers or causes puckering.

(noun) The original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies: prototype.

(noun) Werewolf.

(verb) To censure severely: castigate.

(verb) To speak or write at length or in detail.

(noun) The quality or state of being GENTLE: meekness, tameness.

(adjective) Salutary.

(verb) To be necessary, proper, or ADVANTAGEOUS for.

(adjective) Lively or frisky in action: capricious.

(noun) Leader; tyrant.

(noun) A way or place for passage.

(noun) Any of several birds.