Word Meanings - COVENANTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.

Related words: (words related to COVENANTING)

• SCOTCHING
  Dressing stone with a pick or pointed instrument.
• FALSENESS
  The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• FALSE-FACED
  Hypocritical. Shak.
• FALSETTO
  A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
• SCOTCH RITE
  The ceremonial observed by one of the Masonic systems, called in full the Ancient and Accepted Scotch Rite; also, the system itself, which confers thirty-three degrees, of which the first three are nearly identical with those of the York rite.
• SCOTCH
  Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish. Scotch broom , the Cytisus scoparius. See Broom. -- Scotch dipper, or Scotch duck , the bufflehead; -- called also Scotch teal, and Scotchman. -- Scotch fiddle, the itch.
• BELONG
  attain to, to concern); pref. be- + longen to desire. See Long, v. Note: 1. To be the property of; as, Jamaica belongs to Great Britain. 2. To be a part of, or connected with; to be appendant or related; to owe allegiance or service. A desert place
• SCOTCH TERRIER
  One of a breed of small terriers with long, rough hair.
• FALSE
  Not in tune. False arch , a member having the appearance of an arch, though not of arch construction. -- False attic, an architectural erection above the main cornice, concealing a roof, but not having windows or inclosing rooms. -- False bearing,
• BROODY
  Inclined to brood. Ray.
• BELONGING
  1. That which belongs to one; that which pertains to one; hence, goods or effects. "Thyself and thy belongings." Shak. 2. That which is connected with a principal or greater thing; an appendage; an appurtenance. 3. Family; relations; household.
• FALSE-HEARTED
  Hollow or unsound at the core; treacherous; deceitful; perfidious. Bacon. -- False"*heart`ed*ness, n. Bp. Stillingfleet.
• FALSEHOOD
  1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction
• FALSER
  A deceiver. Spenser.
• FALSELY
  In a false manner; erroneously; not truly; perfidiously or treacherously. "O falsely, falsely murdered." Shak. Oppositions of science, falsely so called. 1 Tim. vi. 20. Will ye steal, murder . . . and swear falsely Jer. vii. 9.
• COVENANTING
  Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters. Be they covenanting traitors, Or the brood of false Argyle Aytoun.
• COVENANTEE
  The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
• FALSE-HEART
  False-hearted. Shak.
• SCOTCHMAN
  A piece of wood or stiff hide placed over shrouds and other rigging to prevent chafe by the running gear. Ham. Nav. Encyc. (more info) 1. A native or inhabitant of Scotland; a Scot; a Scotsman.
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• ABROOD
  In the act of brooding. Abp. Sancroft.
• DISCOVENANT
  To dissolve covenant with.
• GARGYLE
  See GARGOYLE