Word Meanings - BEPUFFED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Puffed; praised. Carlyle.

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• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• PUFF-LEGGED
  Having a conspicuous tuft of feathers on the legs.
• PUFFINESS
  The quality or state of being puffy.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• PUFF-LEG
  Any one of numerous species of beautiful humming birds of the genus Eriocnemis having large tufts of downy feathers on the legs.
• PUFFERY
  The act of puffing; bestowment of extravagant commendation.
• PUFFING
  a. & n. from Puff, v. i. & t. Puffing adder. Same as Puff adder , under Puff. -- Puffing pig , the common porpoise.
• PUFF
  1. A sudden and single emission of breath from the mouth; hence, any sudden or short blast of wind; a slight gust; a whiff. " To every puff of wind a slave." Flatman. 2. Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: A puffball. kind of light
• PRAISEMENT
  Appraisement.
• PRAISABLE
  Fit to be praised; praise-worthy; laudable; commendable. Wyclif
• PRAISELESS
  Without praise or approbation.
• PUFFY
  1. Swelled with air, or any soft matter; tumid with a soft substance; bloated; fleshy; as, a puffy tumor. " A very stout, puffy man." Thackeray. 2. Hence, inflated; bombastic; as, a puffy style.
• PRAISEWORTHILY
  In a praiseworthy manner. Spenser.
• PRAISE
  fr. pretium price. See Price, n., and cf. Appreciate, Praise, n., 1. To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts. "I praise well thy wit." Chaucer. Let her own works praise her in the gates. Prov.
• PUFFIN
  An arctic sea bird Fratercula arctica) allied to the auks, and having a short, thick, swollen beak, whence the name; -- called also bottle nose, cockandy, coulterneb, marrot, mormon, pope, and sea parrot. Note: The name is also applied to other
• PUFFBALL
  A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
• PRAISE-MEETING
  A religious service mainly in song.
• PRAISABLY
  In a praisable manner.
• PRAISEFUL
  Praiseworthy.
• PUFFINGLY
  In a puffing manner; with vehement breathing or shortness of breath; with exaggerated praise.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• OVERPRAISING
  The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.
• DISPRAISABLE
  Blamable.
• OVERPRAISE
  To praise excessively or unduly.
• SUPERPRAISE
  To praise to excess. To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts. Shak.
• APPRAISE
  1. To set a value; to estimate the worth of, particularly by persons appointed for the purpose; as, to appraise goods and chattels. 2. To estimate; to conjecture. Enoch . . . appraised his weight. Tennyson. 3. To praise; to commend. R. Browning.
• APPRAISABLE
  Capable of being appraised.