Word Meanings - EVIL-FAVORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having a bad countenance or appearance; ill-favored; blemished; deformed. Bacon. -- E"vil-fa`vored*ness, n. Deut. xvi. 1.
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- DEFORMER
One who deforms. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - 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 - VORTICOSE
Vortical; whirling; as, a vorticose motion. - VORAGINOUS
Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet. - FAVOR
Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - VORTEX THEORY
The theory, advanced by Thomson on the basis of investigation by Helmholtz, that the atoms are vortically moving ring-shaped masses (or masses of other forms having a similar internal motion) of a homogeneous, incompressible, frictionless fluid. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - DEFORMATION
1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape. - FAVORITE
Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with - VORACITY
The quality of being voracious; voraciousness. - FAVORABLE
1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - COUNTENANCE
demeanor, composure, F. contenance demeanor, fr. L. continentia continence, LL. also, demeanor, fr. L. continere to hold together, 1. Appearance or expression of the face; look; aspect; mien. So spake the Son, and into terror changed - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - FAVOREDNESS
Appearance. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - CARNIVOROUS
Eating or feeding on flesh. The term is applied: to animals which naturally seek flesh for food, as the tiger, dog, etc.; to plants which are supposed to absorb animal food; to substances which destroy animal tissue, as caustics. - DIVORCEABLE
Capable of being divorced. - BACCIVOROUS
Eating, or subsisting on, berries; as, baccivorous birds. - LAEVOROTATORY
See DEXTROROTATORY - SAVORINESS
The quality of being savory. - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - FUNGIVOROUS
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.