Word Meanings - DASHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.
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- MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - CHARACTER
1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; - MAKING-IRON
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in. - ALLOWEDLY
By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone. - ALLOW
allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend - ALLOWER
1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits. - UNIVERSALLY
In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures. - CHARACTERISM
A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall. - FIGHTINGLY
Pugnaciously. - BEFORETIME
Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5. - FIGHT
fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in - BLUSTERINGLY
In a blustering manner. - BLUSTEROUS
Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley. - MAKE
A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer. - CLAIMABLE
Capable of being claimed. - MAKED
Made. Chaucer. - FIGHTWITE
A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace. - MAKE-UP
The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward. - MAKESHIFT
That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot. - HALLOW
To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed - CALLOW
1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play . - MANTUAMAKER
One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - RECLAIMABLE
That may be reclaimed. - SALLOWISH
Somewhat sallow. Dickens. - BOOTMAKER
One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n. - WALLOWER
A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows. - RECLAIMER
One who reclaims. - MALLOWWORT
Any plant of the order Malvaceæ. - BRICKMAKER
One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n. - ACCLAIM
1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy. - SWALLOWFISH
The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins. - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - TALLOW-FACED
Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.