Word Meanings - BLUBBERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.

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• PROTUBERANT
  Prominent, or excessively prominent; bulging beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; swelling; as, a protuberant joint; a protuberant eye. -- Pro*tu"ber*ant*ly, adv.
• BLUBBERY
  1. Swollen; protuberant. 2. Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
• QUIVERED
  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver. "Like a quivered nymph with arrows keen." Milton. 2. Sheathed, as in a quiver. "Whose quills stand quivered at his ear." Pope.
• BLUBBERED
  Swollen; turgid; as, a blubbered lip. Spenser.
• QUIVER
  Nimble; active. " A little quiver fellow." Shak.
• BLUBBERING
  The act of weeping noisily. He spake well save that his blubbering interrupted him. Winthrop.
• QUIVERINGLY
  With quivering motion.
• BLUBBER
  A large sea nettle or medusa. (more info) 1. A bubble. At his mouth a blubber stood of foam. Henryson. 2. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.
• SWOLLEN
  p. p. of Swell.
• GELATINOUS
  Of the nature and consistence of gelatin or the jelly; resembling jelly; viscous.
• BEBLUBBER
  To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.
• SUBGELATINOUS
  Imperfectly or partially gelatinous.
• SEA-BLUBBER
  A jellyfish.