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Word Meanings - ASTIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.

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  • AGOUARA
    The crab-eating raccoon , found in the tropical parts of America.
  • AGO
    Past; gone by; since; as, ten years ago; gone long ago. (more info) by, AS. agan to pass away; a- (cf. Goth. us-, Ger. er-, orig. meaning
  • AGONOTHETE
    An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
  • AGONY
    1. Violent contest or striving. The world is convulsed by the agonies of great nations. Macaulay. 2. Pain so extreme as to cause writhing or contortions of the body, similar to those made in the athletic contests in Greece; and hence, extreme pain
  • ASTIR
    Stirring; in a state of activity or motion; out of bed.
  • AGOING
    In motion; in the act of going; as, to set a mill agoing.
  • AGORA
    An assembly; hence, the place of assembly, especially the market place, in an ancient Greek city.
  • AGOUTI; AGOUTY
    A rodent of the genus Dasyprocta, about the size of a rabbit, peculiar to South America and the West Indies. The most common species is the Dasyprocta agouti.
  • AGONISM
    Contention for a prize; a contest. Blount.
  • AGOUTA
    A small insectivorous mammal , allied to the moles, found only in Hayti.
  • AGONISTIC; AGONISTICAL
    Pertaining to violent contests, bodily or mental; pertaining to athletic or polemic feats; athletic; combative; hence, strained; unnatural. As a scholar, he was brilliant, but he consumed his power in agonistic displays. De Quincey.
  • AGONIZINGLY
    With extreme anguish or desperate struggles.
  • ADRIFT
    Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig. So on the sea shall be set adrift. Dryden. Were from their daily labor turned adrift. Wordsworth.
  • AGONE
    Ago. Three days agone I fell sick. 1 Sam. xxx. 13.
  • AGONIST
    One who contends for the prize in public games.
  • AGONISTICALLY
    In an agonistic manner.
  • ABROAD
    1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
  • AGON
    A contest for a prize at the public games.
  • AGOOD
    In earnest; heartily. "I made her weep agood." Shak.
  • ABROACH
    1. Broached; in a condition for letting out or yielding liquor, as a cask which is tapped. Hogsheads of ale were set abroach. Sir W. Scott. 2. Hence: In a state to be diffused or propagated; afoot; astir. "Mischiefs that I set abroach." Shak.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • ISAGOGE
    An introduction. Harris.
  • HIPPOPHAGOUS
    Feeding on horseflesh; -- said of certain nomadic tribes, as the Tartars.
  • LAGOON
    1. A shallow sound, channel, pond, or lake, especially one into which the sea flows; as, the lagoons of Venice. 2. A lake in a coral island, often occupying a large portion of its area, and usually communicating with the sea. See Atoll. Lagoon
  • PHAGOCYTE
    A leucocyte which plays a part in retrogressive processes by taking up , in the form of fine granules, the parts to be removed.
  • EMENAGOGUE
    See EMMENAGOGUE
  • HARPAGON
    A grappling iron.
  • VAGOUS
    Wandering; unsettled. Ayliffe.
  • GALACTOPHAGOUS
    Feeding on milk.
  • PENDRAGON
    A chief leader or a king; a head; a dictator; -- a title assumed by the ancient British chiefs when called to lead other chiefs. The dread Pendragon, Britain's king of kings. Tennyson.
  • PARAGOGE
    The addition of a letter or syllable to the end of a word, as withouten for without.
  • MYSTAGOGIC; MYSTAGOGICAL
    Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
  • MELANAGOGUE
    A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
  • SAGOIN
    A marmoset; -- called also sagouin.
  • WAGON
    The Dipper, or Charles's Wain. Note: This word and its compounds are often written with two g's , chiefly in England. The forms wagon, wagonage, etc., are, however, etymologically preferable, and in the United States are almost universally used.
  • GEOPHAGOUS
    Earth-eating.
  • ENNEAGON
    A polygon or plane figure with nine sides and nine angles; a nonagon.
  • VIRAGO
    1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior. To arms! to arms! the fierce virago cries. Pope. 2. Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman;

 

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