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Word Meanings - DISINTERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.

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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • EARTHDIN
    An earthquake.
  • 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.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • EARTHQUAVE
    An earthquake.
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • EARTHDRAKE
    A mythical monster of the early Anglo-Saxon literature; a dragon. W. Spalding.
  • EARTHNUT
    A name given to various roots, tubers, or pods grown under or on the ground; as to: The esculent tubers of the umbelliferous plants Bunium flexuosum and Carum Bulbocastanum. The peanut. See Peanut.
  • EARTHEN
    Made of earth; made of burnt or baked clay, or other like substances; as, an earthen vessel or pipe.
  • EARTH SHINE
    See EARTH
  • EARTHMAD
    The earthworm. The earthmads and all the sorts of worms . . . are without eyes. Holland.
  • EARTHEN-HEARTED
    Hard-hearted; sordid; gross. Lowell.
  • EARTH
    OHG. erda, G. erde, Icel. jör, Sw. & Dan. jord, Goth. airpa, OHG. 1. The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling
  • EARTHBOARD
    The part of a plow, or other implement, that turns over the earth; the moldboard.
  • TAKE-IN
    Imposition; fraud.
  • EARTHWORK
    Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth. The operation connected with excavations and embankments of earth in preparing foundations of buildings,
  • UNMISTAKABLE
    Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • 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.
  • OUTTAKE
    Except. R. of Brunne.
  • STAKTOMETER
    A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
  • SIDE-TAKING
    A taking sides, as with a party, sect, or faction. Bp. Hall.
  • MISTAKEN
    1. Being in error; judging wrongly; having a wrong opinion or a misconception; as, a mistaken man; he is mistaken. 2. Erroneous; wrong; as, a mistaken notion.
  • UNDERTAKING
    1. The act of one who undertakes, or engages in, any project or business. Hakluyt. 2. That which is undertaken; any business, work, or project which a person engages in, or attempts to perform; an enterprise. 3. Specifically, the business of an

 

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