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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.

 

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