Word Meanings - BREAST-DEEP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deep as from the breast to the feet; as high as the breast. See him breast-deep in earth, and famish him. Shak.

Related words: (words related to BREAST-DEEP)

• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• EARTH FLAX
  A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus.
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• EARTHSTAR
  A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
• EARTHBRED
  Low; grovelling; vulgar.
• BREASTWHEEL
  A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• BREASTWORK
  A defensive work of moderate height, hastily thrown up, of earth or other material.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• BREASTPLATE
  A part of the vestment of the high priest, worn upon the front of the ephod. It was a double piece of richly embroidered stuff, a span square, set with twelve precious stones, on which were engraved the names of the twelve tribes of Israel. See
• EARTHDRAKE
  A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
• EARTHNUT
  A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
• EARTHEN
  Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
• BREASTKNOT
  A pin worn of the breast for a fastening, or for ornament; a brooch.
• EARTH SHINE
  See EARTH
• BREASTBONE
  The bone of the breast; the sternum.
• EARTHMAD
  The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
• BREASTRAIL
  The upper rail of any parapet of ordinary height, as of a balcony; the railing of a quarter-deck, etc.
• EARTHEN-HEARTED
  Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
• FAMISH
  1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains
• CHICKEN-BREASTED
  Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• VELVETBREAST
  The goosander.
• REDBREAST
  The long-eared pondfish. See Pondfish. (more info) The European robin. The American robin. See Robin. The knot, or red-breasted snipe; -- called also robin breast, and robin snipe. See Knot.
• AFFAMISHMENT
  Starvation. Bp. Hall.
• AFFAMISH
  To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.
• CHIMNEY-BREAST
  The horizontal projection of a chimney from the wall in which it is built; -- commonly applied to its projection in the inside of a building only.
• PIGEON-BREASTED
  Having a breast like a pigeon, -- the sternum being so prominent as to constitute a deformity; chicken-breasted.