Anagrams of: OSSUARIES

• concerned with work or important matters rather than play or trivialities

• completely lacking in playfulness

• of great consequence

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• appealing to the mind

• requiring effort or concentration; complex and not easy to answer or solve

• call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)

• stop sleeping

• summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic

• cause to be alert and energetic

• cause to become awake or conscious

• to begin moving

• to evoke sexual feelings

• make certain of

• inform positively and with certainty and confidence

• assure somebody of the truth of something with the intention of giving the listener confidence

• be careful or certain to do something; make certain of something

• make a promise or commitment

• an institution that issues something (securities or publications or currency etc.)

• (history, Babylon) A quantity of 3600, such as a period of 3600 years.

• A period of 223 synodic months (approximately 18 years 11 days 8 hours), after which the relative positions of the earth, sun and moon recur, used to predict eclipses.

• Bold and spirited, cheeky, impudent, saucy.

• Somewhat sexy and provocative.

• Lively, vigorous.

• slender long-beaked fish of temperate Atlantic waters