Word Meanings - ACHERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.
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- WORLDLY
1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining - INFERNALLY
In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - WORLDLY-MINDED
Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n. - FLAMINEOUS
Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical. - ENGLISH
A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England; - WORLD-WIDE
Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson. - FLAMINICAL
Pertaining to a flamen. Milton. - FLAMMIFEROUS
Producing flame. - NETHER
Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth - FLAMING
1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation - RIVER
One who rives or splits. - NETHERMOST
Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton. - FLAMBOYER
A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia. - INFERNAL
1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of - RIVERLING
A rivulet. Sylvester. - POETSHIP
The state or personality of a poet. - THEMSELVES
The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself. - WORLDLING
A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers. - FLAMELET
A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow. - INFLAMER
The person or thing that inflames. Addison. - DISINFLAME
To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman. - INFLAMED
Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated. - INFLAMMABILLTY
Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable. - PRESUPPOSITION
1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.