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Word Meanings - HAMLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden. Syn. -- Village; neighborhood. See Village. (more info) hameau, LL. hamellum, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. heim home. sq.

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  • WASTING
    Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • VILLAGERY
    Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
  • WASTEL
    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • WAST
    The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • COUNTRY SEAT
    A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • GERMANIZATION
    The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • WASTAGE
    Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
  • ORIGINABLE
    Capable of being originated.
  • CLUSTERY
    Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
  • BURNIEBEE
    The ladybird.
  • ORIGINATION
    1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
  • ORIGINANT
    Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • SUNBURN
    To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
  • GAS-BURNER
    The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
  • AUBURN
    1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

 

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