a deep emotional state of melancholic longing for a person or thing that is absent

a day's work

free from guile; sincere; honest; straightforward; frank

full of complaints; complaining

a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things

a pictorial symbol used in ritualistic magic and supposed to have supernatural power

extremely irritable or easily angered; irascible

knitting; to knit with a reverse stitch

a mania characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance, especially as prevalent in southern Italy from the 15th to the 17th century, popularly attributed to the bite of the tarantula

charming; captivating

an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, escape a consequence, hide something, etc.

to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; guess

to cast (oneself) face down on the ground in humility, submission, or adoration

adverse in tendency or effect; unfavorable; harmful

distinct in kind; essentially different; dissimilar

to form small squares or blocks, as floors or pavements; form or arrange in a checkered or mosaic pattern