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Word Meanings - FAINTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The impure spirit which comes over first and last in the distillation of whisky; -- the former being called the strong faints, and the latter, which is much more abundant, the weak faints. This crude spirit is much impregnated with fusel oil. Ure.

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  • BELLMAN
    A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.
  • BELIAL
    An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.
  • BESCRATCH
    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • BEWRAP
    To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
  • CALLOSUM
    The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • BEVELMENT
    The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • BETSO
    A small brass Venetian coin.
  • CALLE
    A kind of head covering; a caul. Chaucer.
  • SPIRITUOUS
    1. Having the quality of spirit; tenuous in substance, and having active powers or properties; ethereal; immaterial; spiritual; pure. 2. Containing, or of the nature of, alcoholic spirit; consisting of refined spirit; alcoholic; ardent;
  • BECHE DE MER
    The trepang.
  • BETOKEN
    1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
  • BELLADONNA
    An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
  • BETROTHAL
    The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.
  • GABBER
    1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk.
  • COMBER
    1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
  • HAIRBELL
    See HAREBELL
  • ORBED
    Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
  • PUBLIC-SPIRITED
    1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
  • GERBE
    A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.
  • BLATTER
    To prate; to babble; to rail; to make a senseless noise; to patter. "The rain blattered." Jeffrey. They procured . . . preachers to blatter against me, . . . so that they had place and time to belie me shamefully. Latimer.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • GABELER
    A collector of gabels or taxes.
  • CORYMBED
    Corymbose.
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.

 

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