Word Meanings - EJACULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct. (more info) 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon. 2. The uttering of a short,
Additional info about word: EJACULATION
The act of ejecting or suddenly throwing, as a fluid from a duct. (more info) 1. The act of throwing or darting out with a sudden force and rapid flight. "An ejaculation or irradiation of the eye." Bacon. 2. The uttering of a short, sudden exclamation or prayer, or the exclamation or prayer uttered. In your dressing, let there be jaculations fitted to the several actions of dressing. Jer. Taylor.
Related words: (words related to EJACULATION)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - EJECTOR
A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - RAPID
1. Very swift or quick; moving with celerity; fast; as, a rapid stream; a rapid flight; a rapid motion. Ascend my chariot; guide the rapid wheels. Milton. 2. Advancing with haste or speed; speedy in progression; in quick sequence; as, rapid growth; - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - UTTERLY
In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain. - UTTERNESS
The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. - FLIGHTER
A horizontal vane revolving over the surface of wort in a cooler, to produce a circular current in the liquor. Knight. - RAPIDNESS
Quality of being rapid; rapidity. - EJECTMENT
A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - 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 - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - UTTER
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - RAPIDITY
The quality or state of being rapid; swiftness; celerity; velocity; as, the rapidity of growth or improvement. Syn. -- -- Rapidness; haste; speed; celerity; velocity; swiftness; fleetness; quickness; agility. - DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - MUTTERER
One who mutters. - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - GUTTER
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - MISTHROW
To throw wrongly.