Word Meanings - BLUSTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.

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• MOTLEY
  curdled, OF, ciel mattonné a mottled sky, mate, maton, curdled milk, 1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat. 2. Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A
• INCLINING
  See 3
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• 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
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• MOTLEY-MINDED
  Having a mind of a jester; foolish. Shak.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• BLUSTERING
  1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
• INCLINABLENESS
  The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
• BLUSTER
  Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person;
• INCLINER
  One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
• BLUSTERER
  One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
• INCLINABLE
  1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South.
• INCLINE
  L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.:
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• DISINCLINE
  To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.