Word Meanings - GASTRONOMY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The art or science of good eating; epicurism; the art of good cheer.
Related words: (words related to GASTRONOMY)
- 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