Word Meanings - DOVELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A young or small dove. Booth.

Related words: (words related to DOVELET)

• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• BOOTHY
  See BOTHY
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• BOOTHALE
  To forage for booty; to plunder. Beau. & Fl.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• YOUNGLING
  A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley.
• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• YOUNGGER
  One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• YOUNGTHLY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. Spenser.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• TOLLBOOTH
  1. A place where goods are weighed to ascertain the duties or toll. He saw Levy . . . sitting at the tollbooth. Wyclif . 2. In Scotland, a burgh jail; hence, any prison, especially a town jail. Sir W. Scott.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.