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. - 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 - PROVENTRIULUS
The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop. - 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.