Word Meanings - BRASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.

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• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• TEMPERER
  One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• TEMPERAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne.
• TEMPERATE
  1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our
• TEMPER
  To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser.
• TEMPERATENESS
  The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
• TEMPERANCY
  Temperance.
• HASTY
  Proceeding from, or indicating, a quick temper. Take no unkindness of his hasty words. Shak 6. Forward; early; first ripe. "As the hasty fruit before the summer." Is. xxviii. 4. (more info) 1. Involving haste; done, made, etc., in haste; as,
• TEMPERATIVE
  Having power to temper. T. Granger.
• TEMPERA
  A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the like.
• HASTY PUDDING
  1. A thick batter pudding made of Indian meal stirred into boiling water; mush. 2. A batter or pudding made of flour or oatmeal, stirred into boiling water or milk.
• TEMPERATELY
  In a temperate manner.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• IMPETUOUS
  1. Rushing with force and violence; moving with impetus; furious; forcible; violent; as, an impetuous wind; an impetuous torrent. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed. Byron. 2. Vehement in feeling; hasty; passionate; violent; as, a man of
• TEMPERAMENT
  A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of
• TEMPERING
  The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article,
• TEMPERED
  Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad- tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
• TEMPERABLE
  Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ILL-TEMPERED
  1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
• CONTEMPERATURE
  The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.
• MISTEMPER
  To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.
• INTEMPERANCY
  Intemperance.
• INTEMPERANT
  Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.
• OVERHASTY
  Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.
• INTEMPERATENESS
  1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M.
• INTEMPERAMENT
  A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. Harvey.
• DISTEMPERANCE
  Distemperature.
• ATTEMPERATION
  The act of attempering or regulating. Bacon.