Word Meanings - DINGTHRIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spendthrift. Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave Drant.

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• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• KNAVESS
  A knavish woman. Carlyle.
• SPENDTHRIFTY
  Spendthrift; prodigal.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl.
• THEREFORE
  1. For that or this reason, referring to something previously stated; for that. I have married a wife, and therefore I can not come. Luke xiv. 20. Behold, we have forsaken all, and followed thee; what shall we have therefore Matt. xix.
• KNAVE
  AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. kna, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. Wyclif. Chaucer. O murderous slumber, Lay'st thou thy leaden mace upon my boy That plays thee music Gentle knave, good night. Shak. 2. Any
• DINGTHRIFT
  A spendthrift. Wilt thou, therefore, a drunkard be, A dingthrift and a knave Drant.
• DRUNKARD
  One who habitually drinks strong liquors immoderately; one whose habit it is to get drunk; a toper; a sot. The drunkard and glutton shall come to poverty. Prov. xxiii. 21.
• KNAVESHIP
  A small due, in meal, established by usage, which is paid to the under miller.
• HYDRANT
  A discharge pipe with a valve and spout at which water may be drawn from the mains of waterworks; a water plug.
• QUADRANT
  The quarter of a circle, or of the circumference of a circle, an arc of 90º, or one subtending a right angle at the center. (more info) a whole, fr. quattuor four: cf. F. quadrant, cadran. See Four, and 1. The fourth part; the quarter. Sir T.
• TRIQUADRANTAL
  Having three quadrants; thus, a triquadrantal triangle is one whose three sides are quadrants, and whose three angles are consequently right angles. (more info) Trig.)
• GUNTER'S QUADRANT
  A thin quadrant, made of brass, wood, etc., showing a stereographic projection on the plane of the equator. By it are found the hour of the day, the sun's azimuth, the altitude of objects in degrees, etc. See Gunter's scale.
• QUADRANTAL
  Of or pertaining to a quadrant; also, included in the fourth part of a circle; as, quadrantal space. Quadrantal triangle, a spherical triangle having one side equal to a quadrant or arc of 90º. -- Quadrantal versor, a versor that expresses rotation
• BEKNAVE
  To call knave. Pope.
• OUTKNAVE
  To surpass in knavery.
• HYDRANTH
  One of the nutritive zooids of a hydroid colony. Also applied to the proboscis or manubrium of a hydroid medusa. See Illust. of Hydroidea.