Word Meanings - DISINTERMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of disinterring, or taking out of the earth; exhumation.
Related words: (words related to DISINTERMENT)
- 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