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Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.

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  • OWNER
    One who owns; a rightful proprietor; one who has the legal or rightful title, whether he is the possessor or not. Shak.
  • PECULIARIZE
    To make peculiar; to set appart or assign, as an exclusive possession. Dr. John Smith.
  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • APPROPRIATENESS
    The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
  • QUALIFICATION
    1. The act of qualifying, or the condition of being qualified. 2. That which qualifies; any natural endowment, or any acquirement, which fits a person for a place, office, or employment, or which enables him to sustian any character with success;
  • COMELY
    comeliche, AS. cymlic; cyme suitable + 1. Pleasing or agreeable to the sight; well-proportioned; good- looking; handsome. He that is comely when old and decrepit, surely was very beautiful when he was young. South. Not once perceive their foul
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • ATTRIBUTABLE
    Capable of being attributed; ascribable; imputable. Errors . . . attributable to carelessness. J. D. Hooker.
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • CALCULATED
    1. Worked out by calculation; as calculated tables for computing interest; ascertained or conjectured as a result of calculation; as, the calculated place of a planet; the calculated velocity of a cannon ball. 2. Adapted by calculation,
  • GRACEFUL
    Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n.
  • QUALIFIED
    1. Fitted by accomplishments or endowments. 2. Modified; limited; as, a qualified statement. Qualified fee , a base fee, or an estate which has a qualification annexed to it, the fee ceasing with the qualification, as a grant to A and his heirs,
  • PERTINENT
    1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
  • QUALIFIER
    , One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.
  • PROMPTLY
    In a prompt manner.
  • HANDSOMELY
    Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
  • PREPARATIVELY
    By way of preparation.
  • PECULIARNESS
    The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.
  • OWLET
    A small owl; especially, the European species , and the California flammulated owlet . Owlet moth , any noctuid moth.
  • APPROPRIATE
    Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
  • FORESHADOW
    To shadow or typi Dryden.
  • HOLLOW-HEARTED
    Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous.
  • DOWNWEED
    Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • WINDFLOWER
    The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
  • INDECOROUSNESS
    The quality of being indecorous; want of decorum.
  • DOWNPOUR
    A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • ROWDY
    One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • OVERBROW
    To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth.
  • SNOWPLOW; SNOWPLOUGH
    An implement operating like a plow, but on a larger scale, for clearing away the snow from roads, railways, etc.
  • EMBOWER
    To lodge or rest in a bower. "In their wide boughs embow'ring. " Spenser. (more info) -- v. i.
  • KNOWINGLY
    1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
  • TOWELING
    Cloth for towels, especially such as is woven in long pieces to be cut at will, as distinguished from that woven in towel lengths with borders, etc.

 

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