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Word Meanings - GASTRONOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.

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  • EATAGE
    Eatable growth of grass for horses and cattle, esp. that of aftermath.
  • EATH
    Easy or easily. "Eath to move with plaints." Fairfax.
  • EATABLE
    Capable of being eaten; fit to be eaten; proper for food; esculent; edible. -- n.
  • CHEERINESS
    The state of being cheery.
  • CHEERISNESS
    Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
  • CHEERINGLY
    In a manner to cheer or encourage.
  • CHEERER
    One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
  • EATING
    1. The act of tasking food; the act of consuming or corroding. 2. Something fit to be eaten; food; as, a peach is good eating. Eating house, a house where cooked provisions are sold, to be eaten on the premises.
  • CHEERFULNESS
    Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
  • CHEERLESS
    Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
  • EATER
    One who, or that which, eats.
  • CHEER
    1. To cause to rejoice; to gladden; to make cheerful; -- often with up. Cowpe. 2. To infuse life, courage, animation, or hope, into; to inspirit; to solace or comfort. The proud he tamed, the penitent he cheered. Dryden. 3. To salute or applaud
  • CHEERRY
    Cheerful; lively; gay; bright; pleasant; as, a cheery person. His cheery little study, where the sunshine glimmered so pleasantly. Hawthorne.
  • EAT
    1. To take food; to feed; especially, to take solid, in distinction from liquid, food; to board. He did eat continually at the king's table. 2 Sam. ix. 13. 2. To taste or relish; as, it eats like tender beef. 3. To make one's way slowly. To eat,
  • CHEERFUL
    Having or showing good spirits or joy; cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the
  • EPICURISM
    1. The doctrines of Epicurus. 2. Epicurean habits of living; luxury.
  • CHEERFULLY
    In a cheerful manner, gladly.
  • CHEERILY
    In a cheery manner.
  • CHEERLY
    Cheerily. Tennyson.
  • SCIENCE
    1. Knowledge; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all
  • COLLINEATION
    The act of aiming at, or directing in a line with, a fixed object. Johnson.
  • MEATY
    Abounding in meat.
  • REPEAT
    To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • UNCREATED
    1. Deprived of existence; annihilated. Beau. & Fl. 2. Not yet created; as, misery uncreated. Milton. 3. Not existing by creation; self-existent; eternal; as, God is an uncreated being. Locke.
  • TREATMENT
    1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
  • UPCHEER
    To cheer up. Spenser.
  • LEAT
    An artificial water trench, esp. one to or from a mill. C. Kingsley.
  • WEATHERING
    The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
  • UNSHEATHE
    To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
  • IDEAT; IDEATE
    The actual existence supposed to correspond with an idea; the correlate in real existence to the idea as a thought or existence.
  • PANCREATIN
    One of the digestive ferments of the pancreatic juice; also, a preparation containing such a ferment, made from the pancreas of animals, and used in medicine as an aid to digestion. Note: By some the term pancreatin is restricted to the amylolytic
  • WEATHERWISER
    Something that foreshows the weather. Derham.
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • FEATHERNESS
    The state or condition of being feathery.
  • DELINEATE
    Delineated; portrayed.
  • CLYPEATE
    Shaped like a round buckler or shield; scutate.
  • WEATHER STATION
    A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering

 

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