OEUVRE

Meaning:
• a work of art
• the sum of the lifework of an artist, writer, or composer
• the complete body of an artist's work

OUTFACE

Meaning:
• to overcome with a bold or self-assured look, to stare down
• to cause to waver or submit by or as if by staring
• to confront unflinchingly, to defy, to resist

TRILL

Meaning:
• a fluttering or tremulous sound, as that made by certain birds, a warble
• the rapid alternation of two tones either a whole or a half tone apart, a vibrato

EVINCE

Meaning:
• to show or demonstrate in a clear manner
• to make evident, to indicate

IMPRESARIO

Meaning:
• one who sponsors entertainment, especially the director of an opera company
• a manager, producer

TRICE

Meaning:
• a very short period of time, an instant, a moment

DISCOMBOBULATE

Meaning:
• to throw into a state of confusion
• to baffle, befuddle, consternate

HENBANE

Meaning:
• a poisonous plant belonging to the nightshade family, native to temperate Europe and Siberia, and naturalised in Great Britain and Ireland

CANARD

Meaning:
• an unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story
• a groundless rumor or belief

DEHISCE

Meaning:
• to split along a natural or built-in line of weakness
• to discharge contents by so splitting, as in a seedpod