Word Meanings - DETERRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.

Related words: (words related to DETERRATION)

• BURINIST
  One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
• 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.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• TAKING
  1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• EARTHDIN
  An earthquake.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• GROUNDNUT
  The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus
• 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.
• EARTHBANK
  A bank or mound of earth.
• GROUNDLESS
  Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n.
• TAKE
  Taken. Chaucer.
• EARTHQUAVE
  An earthquake.
• TAKE-OFF
  An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• UNMISTAKABLE
  Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
• PLAYGROUND
  A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school.
• LEAVE-TAKING
  Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
• DANBURITE
  A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana.
• MISTAKING
  An error; a mistake. Shak.
• UNEARTHLY
  Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n.
• MISTAKINGLY
  Erroneously.