Word Meanings - DISHEVEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

décheveler, LL. discapillare; dis- + L. capillus the hair of the 1. To suffer to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands

Additional info about word: DISHEVEL

décheveler, LL. discapillare; dis- + L. capillus the hair of the 1. To suffer to hang loosely or disorderly; to spread or throw in disorder; -- used chiefly in the passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser. 2. To spread loosely or disorderly. Like the fair flower disheveled in the wind. Cowper.

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• WRINGING
  a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• DISHEVELED
  1. Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair. 2. Having the hair in loose disorder. The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds.
• PASSIVE FLIGHT
  Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• PARTICIPLE
  A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• WRINGER
  1. One who, or that which, wrings; hence, an extortioner. 2. A machine for pressing water out of anything, particularly from clothes after they have been washed.
• THROW-OFF
  A start in a hunt or a race.
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• HANDSOMENESS
  The quality of being handsome. Handsomeness is the mere animal excellence, beauty the mere imaginative. Hare.
• WRINGSTAFF
  A strong piece of plank used in applying wringbolts.
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• DISORDER
  1. Want of order or regular disposition; lack of arrangement; confusion; disarray; as, the troops were thrown into disorder; the papers are in disorder. 2. Neglect of order or system; irregularity. From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And
• THROWER
  One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine.
• HANDSPIKE
  A bar or lever, generally of wood, used in a windlass or capstan, for heaving anchor, and, in modified forms, for various purposes.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• BEDSPREAD
  A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet.
• IMPASSIVE
  Not susceptible of pain or suffering; apathetic; impassible; unmoved. Impassive as the marble in the quarry. De Quincey. On the impassive ice the lightings play. Pope. -- Im*pas"sive*ly, adv. -- Im*pas"sive*ness, n.
• INSUFFERABLY
  In a manner or to a degree beyond endurance; intolerably; as, a blaze insufferably bright; a person insufferably proud.
• DISPREAD
  To spread abroad, or different ways; to spread apart; to open; as, the sun dispreads his beams. Spenser.
• OUTSPREAD
  To spread out; to expand; -- usually as a past part. or adj.
• CO-SUFFERER
  One who suffers with another. Wycherley.