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Word Meanings - FILMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Composed of film or films. Whose filmy cord should bind the struggling fly. Dryden.

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  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • CHOICE
    1. Worthly of being chosen or preferred; select; superior; precious; valuable. My choicest hours of life are lost. Swift. 2. Preserving or using with care, as valuable; frugal; -- used with of; as, to be choice of time, or of money. 3. Selected
  • BEAUTIFUL
    Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind. A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram. Lord Kames. Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful;
  • SENSITIVE
    1. Having sense of feeling; possessing or exhibiting the capacity of receiving impressions from external objects; as, a sensitive soul. 2. Having quick and acute sensibility, either to the action of external objects, or to impressions upon the
  • GRANDEUR
    The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • HONORABLE
    1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
  • GRANDEESHIP
    The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
  • FINISHER
    1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
  • GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
    A grand mother.
  • SMOOTH
    1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
  • CHOICELY
    1. With care in choosing; with nice regard to preference. "A band of men collected choicely, from each county some." Shak. 2. In a preferable or excellent manner; excellently; eminently. "Choicely good." Walton.
  • GRANDUNCLE
    father's or mother's uncle.
  • DELICATE
    1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
  • NOBLEWOMAN
    A female of noble rank; a peeress.
  • FINISH
    1. To come to an end; to terminate. His days may finish ere that hapless time. Shak. 2. To end; to die. Shak.
  • SUBTLE
    subtil, OF. soutil, later subtil, F. subtil, L. subtilis; probably, originally, woven fine, and fr. sub under + tela a web, fr. texere to 1. Sly in design; artful; cunning; insinuating; subtile; -- applied to persons; as, a subtle foe. "A subtle
  • HONORABLENESS
    1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
  • GRANDIFIC
    Making great. Bailey.
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • PREFINE
    To limit beforehand. Knolles.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • CONGENEROUS
    Allied in origin or cause; congeneric; as, congenerous diseases. Sir T. Browne. -- Con*gen"er*ous*ness, n. Hallywell.
  • SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
    The aggrandizement of one's self.
  • UNGENEROUSLY
    In an ungenerous manner.
  • IGNOBLENESS
    State or quality of being ignoble.

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