Word Meanings - FROWNY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Frowning; scowling. Her frowny mother's ragged shoulder. Sir F. Palgrave.

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• SHOULDER
  The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• PALGRAVE
  See PALSGRAVE
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• SHOULDERED
  Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
• SCOWLINGLY
  In a scowling manner.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• RAGGIE; RAGGY
  Ragged; rough. "A stony and raggie hill." Holland.
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• FROWNINGLY
  In a frowning manner.
• MOTHER
  modar, G. mutter, OHG. muotar, Icel. moedhir, Dan. & Sw. moder, OSlav. mati, Russ. mate, Ir. & Gael. mathair, L. mater, Gr. mh`thr, Skr. matrs; cf. Skr. ma to measure. *268. Cf. Material, Matrix, 1. A female parent; especially, one of the human
• SCOWL
  one's self, D. schuilen, G. schielen to squint, Dan. skele, Sw. 1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. She scowled and frowned with froward countenance. Spenser.
• MOTHERWORT
  A labiate herb , of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail. The mugwort. See Mugwort.
• FROWN
  the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare to cringe the face, to make a 1. To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
• RAGULED; RAGGULED
  Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• SCRAGGED
  1. Rough with irregular points, or a broken surface; scraggy; as, a scragged backbone. 2. Lean and rough; scraggy.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• BRAGGINGLY
  Boastingly.
• CRAGGEDNESS
  The quality or state of being cragged; cragginess.
• OUTFROWN
  To frown down; to overbear by frowning. Shak.