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Word Meanings - EXCURSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.

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  • ROVINGLY
    In a wandering manner.
  • WANDERMENT
    The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
  • EXPLORING
    Employed in, or designed for, exploration. "Exploring parties." Bancroft.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • FANCYWORK
    Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
  • WANDEROO
    A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
  • FANCYMONGER
    A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
  • WANDERINGLY
    In a wandering manner.
  • FANCY
    fantaisie, F. fantaisie, L. phantasia, fr. Gr. bhato shine. Cf. 1. The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into new pictures or images; the
  • EXPLORER
    One who explores; also, an apparatus with which one explores, as a diving bell.
  • EXPLOREMENT
    The act of exploring; exploration. Sir T. Browne.
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • EXPLORATORY
    Serving or intended to explore; searching; examining; explorative. Sir H. Wotton.
  • TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
    A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
  • EXPLORATIVE
    Exploratory.
  • EXCURSIVE
    Prone to make excursions; wandering; roving; exploring; as, an excursive fancy. The course of excursive . . . understandings. I. Taylor. -- Ex*cur"sive*ly, adv. -- Ex*cur"sive*ness, , n.
  • ROVINGNESS
    The state of roving.
  • EXPLORATE
    To explore. Sir. T. Browne.
  • FANCY-SICK
    Love-sick. Shak.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • DISAPPROVAL
    Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
  • CORROVAL
    A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
  • APPROVEDLY
    So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
  • PROVINCIALLY
    In a provincial manner.
  • CONTROVERSAL
    1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
  • APPROVING
    Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.
  • IMPROVISATRICE
    See IMPROVVISATRICE
  • FORWANDER
    To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
  • DISAPPROVE
    1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
  • PROVINE
    To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation. Johnson. (more info) plant, OF. provain, from L. propago, -aginis, akin to propagare to
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • MEROVINGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.
  • SACROVERTEBRAL
    Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
  • PROVENCAL
    Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.

 

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