Word Meanings - CAROL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol,
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together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, and the dance. Dryden It was the carol of a bird. Byron. 3. A song of praise of devotion; as, a Christmas or Easter carol. Heard a carol, mournful, holy. Tennyson. In the darkness sing your carol of high praise. Keble. 4. Joyful music, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. Longfellow.
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- ANTHEMIS
Chamomile; a genus of composite, herbaceous plants. - BALLADE
A form of French versification, sometimes imitated in English, in which three or four rhymes recur through three stanzas of eight or ten lines each, the stanzas concluding with a refrain, and the whole poem with an envoy. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - DITTY
p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended - CAROLING
A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser. - CAROLINE
A coin. See Carline. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - CAROLUS
An English gold coin of the value of twenty or twenty-three shillings. It was first struck in the reign of Charles I. Told down the crowns and Caroluses. Macawlay. - STRAINED
1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. - LYRIC; LYRICAL
1. Of or pertaining to a lyre or harp. 2. Fitted to be sung to the lyre; hence, also, appropriate for song; -- said especially of poetry which expresses the individual emotions of the poet. "Sweet lyric song." Milton. - CAROLINIAN
A native or inhabitant of north or South Carolina. - BALLADRY
Ballad poems; the subject or style of ballads. "Base balladry is so beloved." Drayton. - CAROL; CARROL
A small closet or inclosure built against a window on the inner side, to sit in for study. The word was used as late as the 16th century. A bay window may thus be called a carol. Parker. - ANTHEMWISE
Alternately. Bacon. - LYRICALLY
In a lyrical manner. - ANTHEMION
A floral ornament. See Palmette. - CAROLINA PINK
See PINKBOOT - STRAINT
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser. - BALLADER
A writer of ballads. - STRAIN
1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew. - RESTRAINEDLY
With restraint. Hammond. - SUPERSTRAIN
To overstrain. Bacon. - MESEMBRYANTHEMUM
A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f - UNSTRAINED
1. Not strained; not cleared or purified by straining; as, unstrained oil or milk. 2. Not forced; easy; natural; as, a unstrained deduction or inference. Hakewill. - EXANTHEMA
An efflorescence or discoloration of the skin; an eruption or breaking out, as in measles, smallpox, scarlatina, and the like diseases; -- sometimes limited to eruptions attended with fever. Dunglison. - CONSTRAINED
Marked by constraint; not free; not voluntary; embarrassed; as, a constrained manner; a constrained tone. - CAROL
together, fr. caroler to dance; perh. from Celtic; cf. Armor. koroll, n., korolla, korolli, v., Ir. car music, turn, circular motion, also 1. A round dance. Chaucer. 2. A song of joy, exultation, or mirth; a lay. The costly feast, the carol, - UNRESTRAINT
Freedom from restraint; freedom; liberty; license.