Word Meanings - EXCRESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Growing out in an abnormal or morbid manner or as a superfluity. Expunge the whole, or lip the excrescent parts. Pope. Excrescent letter , a letter which has been added to a root; as, the d in alder is an excrescent letter.

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• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• SUPERFLUITY
  1. A greater quantity than is wanted; superabundance; as, a superfluity of water; a superfluity of wealth. A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity. Suckling. 2. The state or quality of being superfluous; excess.
• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• ADDUCT
  To draw towards a common center or a middle line. Huxley.
• ADDUCTION
  The action by which the parts of the body are drawn towards its (more info) 1. The act of adducing or bringing forward. An adduction of facts gathered from various quarters. I. Taylor.
• ALDER
  A tree, usually growing in moist land, and belonging to the genus Alnus. The wood is used by turners, etc.; the bark by dyers and tanners. In the U. S. the species of alder are usually shrubs or small trees. Black alder. A European shrub ; Alder
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• ADDITIVE
  Proper to be added; positive; -- opposed to subtractive.
• ADDOOM
  To adjudge. Spenser.
• ADDUCIBLE
  Capable of being adduced. Proofs innumerable, and in every imaginable manner diversified, are adducible. I. Taylor.
• ALDERMANSHIP
  The condition, position, or office of an alderman. Fabyan.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• ADDITION
  That part of arithmetic which treats of adding numbers. (more info) 1. The act of adding two or more things together; -- opposed to subtraction or diminution. "This endless addition or addibility of numbers." Locke. 2. Anything added; increase;
• WHOLENESS
  The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.
• ALDER FLY
  1. Any of numerous neuropterous insects of the genus Sialis or allied genera. They have aquatic larvæ, which are used for bait. 2. An artificial fly with brown mottled wings, body of peacock harl, and black legs.
• EXCRESCENTIAL
  Pertaining to, or resembling, an excrescence. Hawthorne.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• SIDESADDLE
  A saddle for women, in which the rider sits with both feet on one side of the animal mounted. Sidesaddle flower , a plant with hollow leaves and curiously shaped flowers; -- called also huntsman's cup. See Sarracenia.
• RADDE
  imp. of Read, Rede. Chaucer.
• SPADDLE
  A little spade.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• WADDYWOOD
  An Australian tree ; also, its wood, used in making waddies.
• SWADDLE
  Anything used to swaddle with, as a cloth or band; a swaddling band. They put me in bed in all my swaddles. Addison.
• PADDLER
  One who, or that which, paddles.
• GADDISH
  Disposed to gad. -- Gad"dish*nes, n. "Gaddishness and folly." Abp. Leighton.