English mastiff (dog breed); mastiff (dog type)
exploitation; bleeding dry; squeezing dry; milking (e.g. a cow's teat); extracting (a liquid) through squeezing
war memorial; memorial (monument) to war dead
black widow spider (Latrodectus mactans)
daguerreotype; daguerrotype
militarization; militarisation
encouragement; urging; spurring on
sacrificial goat; scapegoat
Gospel of John (book of the Bible)
rod-shaped; bacillary; bacilliform; baculiform
suffixed to words indicating a class of people to create a plural (esp. in impolite contexts)
luxurious and gorgeous; splendid; dazzling; magnificent
to recover from an illness (and put away one's sickbed)
peerage and order of merit
business rival; professional jealousy
to rub; to scrub; to scrape; to draw near; to press
blue-black (color, colour)
Leviticus (book of the Bible)
the Revelation of St. John the Divine (book of the Bible)
Acts of the Apostles (book of the Bible)
to stand firm; to hold out
relic from an earlier age; something extremely outmoded