Word Meanings - FLAMMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The act of setting in a flame or blaze. Sir. T. Browne.
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- SETTLEMENT
A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles, - SETT
See 3 - SETTER
A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by - FLAMELET
A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow. - BLAZER
One who spreads reports or blazes matters abroad. "Blazers of crime." Spenser. - SETTEE
A long seat with a back, -- made to accommodate several persons at once. - SETTLE
1. A seat of any kind. "Upon the settle of his majesty" Hampole. 2. A bench; especially, a bench with a high back. 3. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. And from the bottom upon the ground, even - FLAMEN
A priest devoted to the service of a particular god, from whom he received a distinguishing epithet. The most honored were those of Jupiter, Mars, and Quirinus, called respectively Flamen Dialis, Flamen Martialis, and Flamen Quirinalis. Affrights - SETTLER
1. One who settles, becomes fixed, established, etc. 2. Especially, one who establishes himself in a new region or a colony; a colonist; a planter; as, the first settlers of New England. 3. That which settles or finishes; hence, a blow, etc., which - BLAZE
A white spot on the forehead of a horse. 5. A spot made on trees by chipping off a piece of the bark, usually as a surveyor's mark. Three blazes in a perpendicular line on the same tree indicating a legislative road, the single blaze a settlement - SETTLING
That which settles at the bottom of a liquid; lees; dregs; sediment. Milton. Settling day, a day for settling accounts, as in the stock market. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, settles; the act of establishing one's self, - SETTING-UP EXERCISE
Any one of a series of gymnastic exercises used, as in drilling recruits, for the purpose of giving an erect carriage, supple muscles, and an easy control of the limbs. - SETTERWORT
The bear's-foot ; -- so called because the root was used in settering, or inserting setons into the dewlaps of cattle. Called also pegroots. Dr. Prior. - SETTLEDNESS
The quality or state of being settled; confirmed state. Bp. Hall. - SETTING
1. The act of one who, or that which, sets; as, the setting of type, or of gems; the setting of the sun; the setting of moist plaster of Paris; the setting of a current. 2. The act of marking the position of game, as a setter does; - FLAMELESS
Destitute of flame. Sandys. - FLAME
flamme, fr. L. flamma, fr. flamma, fr. flagrare to burn. See 1. A stream of burning vapor or gas, emitting light and heat; darting or streaming fire; a blaze; a fire. 2. Burning zeal or passion; elevated and noble enthusiasm; glowing imagination; - FLAME-COLORED
Of the color of flame; of a bright orange yellow color. Shak. - INFLAMER
The person or thing that inflames. Addison. - UPSETTING
Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson. - TYPESETTING
The act or art of setting type. - ROSETTA WOOD
An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure. - SUNSET; SUNSETTING
1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West - FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women. - DISINFLAME
To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman. - INFLAMED
Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated. - ANISETTE
A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange. - NARRAGANSETTS
A tribe of Indians who formerly inhabited the shores of Narragansett Bay. - ROUSSETTE
A fruit bat, especially the large species inhabiting the islands of the Indian ocean. It measures about a yard across the expanded wings. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - CASSETTE
See SEGGAR - FOSSETTE
A small, deep-centered ulcer of the transparent cornea. (more info) 1. A little hollow; hence, a dimple. - EMBLAZE
Etym: 1. To adorn with glittering embellishments. No weeping orphan saw his father's stores Our shrines irradiate, or emblaze the floors. Pope. 2. To paint or adorn with armorial figures; to blazon, or emblazon. The imperial ensign, . . . streaming - DISSETTLEMENT
The act of unsettling, or the state of being unsettled. Marvell. - CROSSETTE
A return in one of the corners of the architrave of a door or window; -- called also ancon, ear, elbow. The shoulder of a joggled keystone.