Word Meanings - ANACREONTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.

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• AFTERCAST
  A throw of dice after the game in ended; hence, anything done too late. Gower.
• AFTER
  To ward the stern of the ship; -- applied to any object in the rear part of a vessel; as the after cabin, after hatchway. Note: It is often combined with its noun; as, after-bowlines, after- braces, after-sails, after-yards, those on the mainmasts
• AFTERPAINS
  The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth.
• CONVIVIALIST
  A person of convivial habits.
• METERGRAM
  A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
• METERAGE
  The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
• ANACREONTIC
  Pertaining to, after the manner of, or in the meter of, the Greek poet Anacreon; amatory and convivial. De Quincey.
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• METER; METRE
  1. Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian
• AFTERPIECE
  The heel of a rudder. (more info) 1. A piece performed after a play, usually a farce or other small entertainment.
• AFTER DAMP
  An irrespirable gas, remaining after an explosion of fire damp in mines; choke damp. See Carbonic acid.
• AFTER-NOTE
  One of the small notes occur on the unaccented parts of the measure, taking their time from the preceding note.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• AFTERWISE
  Wise after the event; wise or knowing, when it is too late.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• METER
  1. One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter. 2. An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured. Dry meter, a gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and
• AFTERINGS
  The last milk drawn in milking; strokings. Grose.
• VACUOMETER
  An instrument for the comparison of barometers. An apparatus for the measurement of low pressures.
• ACIDIMETER
  An instrument for ascertaining the strength of acids. Ure.
• PNEUMONOMETER
  A spirometer; a pneumometer.
• PNEOMETER
  A spirometer.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• LYSIMETER
  An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil. Knight.
• AUXOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the magnifying power of a lens or system of lenses.
• ALGOMETER
  An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try , n. -- Al`go*met"ric , *met"ric*al , a. --Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
• ATMOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the rate of evaporation from a moist surface; an evaporometer. Huxley.
• BAROCYCLONOMETER
  An aneroid barometer for use with accompanying graphic diagrams and printed directions designed to aid mariners to interpret the indications of the barometer so as to determine the existence of a violent storm at a distance of several hundred miles.
• AZOTOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring or determining the proportion of nitrogen; a nitrometer.
• HODOMETER
  See ODOMETER
• DIATHERMOMETER
  An instrument for examining the thermal resistance or heat- conducting power of liquids.
• MISMETER
  To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse. Chaucer.
• VOLUMENOMETER
  An instrument for measuring the volume of a body, especially a solid, by means of the difference in tension caused by its presence and absence in a confined portion of air.
• MICRONOMETER
  An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
• TINTOMETER
  An apparatus for the determination of colors by comparison with arbitrary standards; a colorimeter.