Word Meanings - HALF-CRACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Half-demented; half-witted.

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• WITTS
  Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.
• WITTED
  Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
• DEMENTED
  Insane; mad; of unsound mind. -- De*ment"ed*ness, n.
• WITTY
  1. Possessed of wit; knowing; wise; skillful; judicious; clever; cunning. "The deep-revolving witty Buckingham." Shak. 2. Especially, possessing wit or humor; good at repartee; droll; facetious; sometimes, sarcastic; as, a witty remark, poem,
• WITTINESS
  The quality of being witty.
• WITTOLLY
  Like a wittol; cuckoldly. Shak.
• WITTINGLY
  Knowingly; with knowledge; by design.
• DEMENT
  Demented; dementate. J. H. Newman.
• DEMENTATE
  Deprived of reason. Arise, thou dementate sinner! Hammond.
• WITTICASTER
  A witling. Milton.
• DEMENTIA
  Insanity; madness; esp. that form which consists in weakness or total loss of thought and reason; mental imbecility; idiocy.
• WITTILY
  In a witty manner; wisely; ingeniously; artfully; with it; with a delicate turn or phrase, or with an ingenious association of ideas. Who his own harm so wittily contrives. Dryden.
• WITTOL
  The wheatear. 2. A man who knows his wife's infidelity and submits to it; a tame cuckold; -- so called because the cuckoo lays its eggs in the wittol's nest. Shak.
• DEMENTATION
  The act of depriving of reason; madness. Whitlock.
• WITTICISM
  A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit. Milton. He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse. Addison.
• WITTIFIED
  Possessed of wit; witty. R. North.
• DISWITTED
  Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• SODDEN-WITTED
  Heavy; dull. Shak.
• DECIDEMENT
  Means of forming a decision. Beau. & Fl.
• UNWITTING
  Not knowing; unconscious; ignorant. -- Un*wit"ting*ly, adv.
• TWITTER
  One who twits, or reproaches; an upbraider.
• HALF-WITTED
  Weak in intellect; silly.
• TWITTLE-TWATTLE
  Tattle; gabble. L'Estrange.
• FAT-WITTED
  Dull; stupid. Shak.
• DEGRADEMENT
  Deprivation of rank or office; degradation. Milton.
• SLOW-WITTED
  Dull of apprehension; not possessing quick intelligence.
• BEEF-WITTED
  Stupid; dull. Shak.
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• INCOMMODEMENT
  The act of incommoded. Cheyne.