Word Meanings - BLUFFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. 2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• BLUFF-HEADED
  Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
• STEEP
  Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer.
• BLUFFNESS
  The quality or state of being bluff.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• STEEPLE
  A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles
• STEEPLY
  In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity.
• STEEP-DOWN
  Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak.
• BLUFFY
  1. Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks. 2. Inclined to bo bluff; brusque.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• INCLINING
  See 3
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• BLUFF
  face, also, a boaster; or G. verblüffen to confuse, LG. bluffen to 1. Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving. 2. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer. Its
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• BRUSQUE
  Rough and prompt in manner; blunt; abrupt; hluff; as, a brusque man; a brusque style. (more info) perh. fr. L. labrusca wild ; or cf. OHG. bruttisc grim,
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.