arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.Bulk; largeness.One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree.Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant
This crossword contains the following list of questions:
- 1. An act of charity.
- 2. Persons supported by alms; almsmen.
- 3. A giver of alms.
- 4. The giving of alms.
- 5. A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse.
- 6. The act of civilizing, or the state of being civilized; national culture; refinement.
- 7. Reclaimed from savage life and manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated.
- 8. Bulk; largeness. [Obs.] See Size.
- 9. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click.
- 10. Continual or importunate talk; prattle; prating.
- 11. To undo or destroy, as work previously done.
- 12. A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute).
- 13. To curl up.
- 14. To furnish (rooms, carriages, bedsteads, chairs, etc.) with hangings, coverings, cushions, etc.; to adorn with furnishings in cloth, velvet, silk, etc.; as, to upholster a couch; to upholster a room with curtains.
- 15. To prop up.