Word Meanings - GOOD-NATUREDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
With maldness of temper.
Related words: (words related to GOOD-NATUREDLY)
- TEMPER SCREW
1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting. - TEMPERER
One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. - TEMPERATURE
Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or - TEMPERAMENTAL
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne. - TEMPERATE
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our - TEMPER
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser. - TEMPERATENESS
The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance. - TEMPERANCY
Temperance. - TEMPERATIVE
Having power to temper. T. Granger. - TEMPERA
A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the like. - TEMPERATELY
In a temperate manner. - TEMPERANCE
1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, - TEMPERAMENT
A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of - TEMPERING
The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article, - TEMPERED
Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad- tempered man; a well-tempered sword. - TEMPERABLE
Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - ATTEMPER
1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice - DISTEMPERATURE
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures - UNTEMPERATE
Intemperate. - ILL-TEMPERED
1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys. - CONTEMPERATURE
The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth. - MISTEMPER
To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak. - INTEMPERANCY
Intemperance. - INTEMPERANT
Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall. - INTEMPERATENESS
1. The state of being intemperate; excessive indulgence of any appetite or passion; as, intemperateness in eating or drinking. 2. Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M. - INTEMPERAMENT
A bad state; as, the intemperament of an ulcerated part. Harvey. - DISTEMPERANCE
Distemperature. - ATTEMPERATION
The act of attempering or regulating. Bacon. - ATTEMPERAMENT
A tempering, or mixing in due proportion.