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Word Meanings - BEGET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To procreate, as a father or sire; to generate; -- commonly said of the father. Yet they a beauteous offspring shall beget. Milton. 2. To get Shak. 3. To produce as an effect; to cause to exist. Love is begot by fancy. Granville.

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  • 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.
  • BREVIARY
    summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A
  • INVENTIVE
    Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • EVOLVENT
    The involute of a curve. See Involute, and Evolute.
  • DREINTE; DREINT
    p. p. of Drench to drown. Chaucer.
  • HATCHURE
    See HACHURE
  • DREGGISH
    Foul with lees; feculent. Harvey.
  • PROCREATE
    To generate and produce; to beget; to engender.
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • DREAMINESS
    The state of being dreamy.
  • DREAR
    Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
  • BREADEN
    Made of bread.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • INSTRUCTRESS
    A woman who instructs; a preceptress; a governess. Johnson.
  • DREADNOUGHT
    1. A British battleship, completed in 1906 -- 1907, having an armament consisting of ten 12-inch guns, and of twenty-four 12-pound quick-fire guns for protection against torpedo boats. This was the first battleship of the type characterized by
  • CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
    Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
  • FASHION-MONGERING
    Behaving like a fashion-monger. Shak.
  • FASHIONED
    Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.
  • UNCREATED
    1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
  • UNDERBRED
    Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • CHICKEN-BREASTED
    Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
  • UNDREAMED; UNDREAMT
    Not dreamed, or dreamed of; not thof. Unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shak.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • LIBRETTO
    A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • STRAINABLE
    1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
  • SABRE
    See SABER
  • TIMBREL
    A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal

 

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