Procrustean Definitions

Useful Words

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Form : شکل , Habitude : حسب معمول موڈ والا , Life : حیات , Fable : قصہ , Crawl : گھسٹنا , Accustomed : حسب معمول , Health Facility : ہسپتال , Torture Chamber : عقوبت خانہ , Electric Shock : برقی جھٹکا , Mantichora : ایک اساطیری جانور , Methodist : عیسائی فرقے کا پیرو کار , Rack : عذاب , Third Degree : ایذاء رسانی کے ذریعے کی جانے والی تفتیش , Impalement : میخوں سے ٹہونکنے کا عمل , Covert : خفیہ , Bastinado : بید سے پیروں کے تلووں پر مارنا , Halcyon : ایک قسم کا پرندہ , Giantess : بڑے قدوقامت والی عورت , Hara-Kiri : خود کشی کرنے کا روایتی جاپانی طریقہ , Yoga : ہندو فلسفے میں ذہن قابو کرنے کی مشق , Hoodooism : شیطانی مذہب , Ogre : آدم خور , Aeneas : یونانی جنگجو , Gigantic : دیو ہیکل جسامت کا , Ailuropodidae : بڑے پانڈے , Ailuropoda : بڑا پانڈا , Ailurus Fulgens : بھالو بلی , Ahuehuete : میکسیکو کا درخت , Achilles : قدیم یونانی جنگجو , Saturn : کیوان , Strapado : قدیم دور کی ایک سزا

Useful Words Definitions

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Form: a particular mode in which something is manifested.

Habitude: habitual mode of behavior.

Life: a characteristic state or mode of living.

Fable: a story about mythical or supernatural beings or events.

Crawl: a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body.

Accustomed: commonly used or practiced; usual.

Health Facility: building where medicine is practiced.

Torture Chamber: a room in which torture is inflicted.

Electric Shock: the use of electricity to administer punishment or torture.

Mantichora: a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion.

Methodist: a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church.

Rack: a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body.

Third Degree: interrogation often accompanied by torture to extort information or a confession.

Impalement: the act of piercing with a sharpened stake as a form of punishment or torture.

Covert: secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed.

Bastinado: a form of torture in which the soles of the feet are beaten with whips or cudgels.

Halcyon: a mythical bird said to breed at the time of the winter solstice in a nest floating on the sea and to have the power of calming the winds and waves.

Giantess: a female giant.

Hara-Kiri: ritual suicide by self-disembowelment on a sword; practiced by samurai in the traditional Japanese society.

Yoga: a system of exercises practiced as part of the Hindu discipline to promote control of the body and mind.

Hoodooism: a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities.

Ogre: (folklore) a giant who likes to eat human beings.

Aeneas: a mythical Greek warrior who was a leader on the Trojan side of the Trojan War; hero of the Aeneid.

Gigantic: so exceedingly large or extensive as to suggest a giant or mammoth.

Ailuropodidae: in some classifications considered the family comprising the giant pandas.

Ailuropoda: only the giant panda: in some classifications considered a genus of the separate family Ailuropodidae.

Ailurus Fulgens: reddish-brown Old World raccoon-like carnivore; in some classifications considered unrelated to the giant pandas.

Ahuehuete: Mexico`s most famous tree; a giant specimen of Montezuma cypress more than 2,000 years old with a girth of 165 feet at Santa Maria del Tule.

Achilles: a mythical Greek hero of the Iliad; a foremost Greek warrior at the siege of Troy; when he was a baby his mother tried to make him immortal by bathing him in a magical river but the heel by which she held him remained vulnerable--his `Achilles` heel`.

Saturn: a giant planet that is surrounded by three planar concentric rings of ice particles; the 6th planet from the sun.

Strapado: a form of torture in which the hands are tied behind a person's back and they are lifted off the ground by a rope tied to their wrists, then allowed to drop until their fall is checked with a jerk by the rope.