"Dernful" is a word in ENGLISH

Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any printed or written ticket used in voting.

To stand under the eaves, near a window or at the door, of a house, to listen and learn what …

One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret …

External; public; suitable to be imparted to the public; hence, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to …

One of a society of violent agitators in France, during the revolution of 1789, who held secret meetings in the …

To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; …

A profound secret; something wholly unknown, or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; something which has …

Beyond the limits of concealment, confinement, privacy, constraint, etc., actual of figurative; hence, not in concealment, constraint, etc., in, or …

Hence: To supervise; to watch over; sometimes, to observe secretly; as, to overlook a gang of laborers; to overlook one …

Hence, to shut close; to keep close; to make fast; to keep secure or secret.

The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells …

v. /-UM-/ to push the feet firmly against the ground; hence, to resist. SEKRETA [f. Sp.], n. detective, secret agent, …

An artifice or trick in war for deceiving the enemy; hence, in general, artifice; deceptive device; secret plot; evil machination.

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by …

Under the board, or table; hence, secretly; unfairly; underhand. See the Note under Aboveboard.

Secret; clandestine; hence, mean; unfair; fraudulent.

By secret means; in a clandestine manner; hence, by fraud; unfairly.

To drive or draw from the earth; hence, to uncover; to bring out from concealment; to bring to light; to …

A tattler; one who tells secrets; a conveyer of intelligence secretly; hence; a backbiter; one who slanders secretly.

One who pulls the wires, as of a puppet; hence, one who operates by secret means; an intriguer.