Word Meanings - ANHELATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Short and rapid breathing; a panting; asthma. Glanvill.

Related words: (words related to ANHELATION)

• PANTHER
  A large dark-colored variety of the leopard, by some zoölogists considered a distinct species. It is marked with large ringlike spots, the centers of which are darker than the color of the body.
• PANTER
  A keeper of the pantry; a pantler. Tyndale.
• PANTOPHAGY
  The habit or power of eating all kinds of food.
• PANTHEIST
  One who holds to pantheism.
• PANTELEGRAPH
  See TELEGRAPH
• PANTISOCRATIC
  Of or pertaining to a pantisocracy.
• RAPID
  1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth;
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• PANTALOON
  A bifurcated garment for a man, covering the body from the waist downwards, and consisting of breeches and stockings in one. 3. pl. (more info) character in the Italian comedy, who wore breeches and stockings that were all of one piece,
• RAPIDNESS
  Quality of being rapid; rapidity.
• PANTOGRAPH
  An instrument for copying plans, maps, and other drawings, on pantograph for drawing a copy which is inclined with respect to the original figure; -- also called plagiograph.
• PANTAMORPHIC
  Taking all forms.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• PANTASTOMATA
  One of the divisions of Flagellata, including the monads and allied forms.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• BREATHLESS
  1. Spent with labor or violent action; out of breath. 2. Not breathing; holding the breath, on account of fear, expectation, or intense interest; attended with a holding of the breath; as, breathless attention. But breathless, as we grow
• PANTHEOLOGIST
  One versed in pantheology.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• RAPIDITY
  The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility.
• BREATHE
  Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
• PARTICIPANT
  Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.
• ANTICIPANT
  Anticipating; expectant; -- with of. Wakening guilt, anticipant of hell. Southey.
• COUNTERTRIPPANT
  Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.
• USURPANT
  Usurping; encroaching. Gauden.
• FLIPPANT
  limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their