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Word Meanings - AWANTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Missing; wanting. Sir W. Hamilton.

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  • WANTLESS
    Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
  • MISSEL
    Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel.
  • MISSIFICATE
    To perform Mass. Milton.
  • MISSTAYED
    Having missed stays; -- said of a ship.
  • MISSILE
    A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
  • MISSPEND
    To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
  • MISSAY
    1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander.
  • WANTWIT
    One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
  • MISSTATE
    To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson.
  • MISSOUND
    To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall.
  • WANTONNESS
    The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
  • MISSIONER
    A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.
  • MISSPENDER
    One who misspends.
  • MISSPENT
    of Misspend.
  • WANTAGE
    That which is wanting; deficiency.
  • MISSELDINE
    The mistletoe. Baret.
  • MISSISH
    Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental. -- Miss"ish*ness, n.
  • MISSAL
    Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book. Bp. Hall.
  • MISSINGLY
    With a sense of loss. Shak.
  • MISSIT
    To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome. Chaucer.
  • COMMISSARY
    An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer
  • DISMISSIVE
    Giving dismission.
  • PROMISSORILY
    In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
  • REMISS
    Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
  • REMISSLY
    In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • DISMISSAL
    Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
  • ANGWANTIBO
    A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
  • REMISSORY
    Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
  • REMISSIVE
    Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
  • EMISSITIOUS
    Looking, or narrowly examining; prying. "Those emissitious eyes." Bp. Hall.
  • PERMISSIBILITY
    The quality of being permissible; permissibleness; allowableness.
  • DISMISS
    1. To send away; to give leave of departure; to cause or permit to go; to put away. He dismissed the assembly. Acts xix. 41. Dismiss their cares when they dismiss their flock. Cowper. Though he soon dismissed himself from state affairs. Dryden.

 

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