There are two words in the Greek which set forth the nature of covetousness: 1. Pleonexia, which signifies an 'insatiable desire of getting the world.' Covetousness is a dry dropsy.

The woman confected a home remedy for the traveler's illness.

To be three sheets to the wind is to say that a four-cornered sail is tethered only by one sheet and thus the sail is useless.

The deceased man had no near relatives.