benison | (noun) a spoken blessing | - |
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bison | (noun) any of several large humped bovids having shaggy manes and large heads and short horns | - |
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caparison | (noun) stable gear consisting of a decorated covering for a horse, especially (formerly) for a warhorse | Synonyms: housing, trapping |
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(verb) put a caparison on | Synonyms: bard, barde, dress up |
comparison | (noun) the act of examining resemblances | Synonyms: comparing |
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(noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, equivalence |
(noun) relation based on similarities and differences | - |
counterpoison | (noun) a remedy that stops or controls the effects of a poison | Synonyms: antidote |
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garrison | (noun) a fortified military post where troops are stationed | Synonyms: fort |
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(noun) the troops who maintain and guard a fortified place | - |
(verb) station (troops) in a fort or garrison | - |
grison | (noun) carnivore of Central America and South America resembling a weasel with a greyish-white back and dark underparts | Synonyms: Galictis vittatus, Grison vittatus |
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imprison | (verb) lock up or confine, in or as in a jail | Synonyms: gaol, immure, incarcerate, jail, jug, lag, put away, put behind bars, remand |
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(verb) confine as if in a prison | - |
jettison | (verb) throw as from an airplane | - |
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(verb) throw away, of something encumbering | - |
liaison | (noun) a channel for communication between groups | Synonyms: contact, inter-group communication, link |
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(noun) a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship | Synonyms: affair, affaire, amour, intimacy, involvement |
orison | (noun) reverent petition to a deity | Synonyms: petition, prayer |
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poison | (noun) anything that harms or destroys | - |
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(noun) any substance that causes injury or illness or death of a living organism | Synonyms: poisonous substance, toxicant |
(verb) administer poison to | - |
(verb) add poison to | Synonyms: envenom |
(verb) kill with poison | - |
(verb) kill by its poison | - |
(verb) spoil as if by poison | - |
prison | (noun) a correctional institution where persons are confined while on trial or for punishment | Synonyms: prison house |
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(noun) a prisonlike situation; a place of seeming confinement | Synonyms: prison house |
unison | (noun) (music) two or more sounds or tones at the same pitch or in octaves | - |
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(noun) occurring together or simultaneously | - |
(noun) corresponding exactly | - |
venison | (noun) meat from a deer used as food | - |
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