Word Meanings - HARE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To excite; to tease, or worry; to harry. Locke.

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• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• EXCITEFUL
  Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
• LOCKEN
  of Lock. Chaucer.
• TEASELING
  The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
• WORRY
  worgen, wurgen, to strangle, OHG. wurgen, G. würgen, Lith. verszti, 1. To harass by pursuit and barking; to attack repeatedly; also, to tear or mangle with the teeth. A hellhound that doth hunt us all to death; That dog that had his teeth before
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• HARRY
  ravage, plunder, fr. here army; akin to G. here army; akin to G. heer, Icel. herr, Goth. harjis, and Lith. karas war. Gf. Harbor, 1. To strip; to lay waste; as, the Northmen came several times and harried the land. To harry this beautiful region.
• TEASEL
  A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus,
• WORRYINGLY
  In a worrying manner.
• EXCITEMENT
  A state of aroused or increased vital activity in an organism, or any of its organs or tissues. (more info) 1. The act of exciting, or the state of being roused into action, or of having increased action; impulsion; agitation; as, an excitement
• LOCKED-JAW
  See LOCKJAW
• EXCITE
  To call forth or increase the vital activity of an organism, or any of its parts. Syn. -- To incite; awaken; animate; rouse or arouse; stimulate; inflame; irritate; provoke. -- To Excite, Incite. When we excite we rouse into action feelings which
• EXCITER
  One who, or that which, excites. Hope is the grand exciter of industry. Dr. H. More.
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• GHARRY
  Any wheeled cart or carriage.
• UNDERLOCKER
  A person who inspects a mine daily; -- called also underviewer.
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• OVEREXCITEMENT
  Excess of excitement; the state of being overexcited.
• SELF-EXCITE
  To energize or excite by induction from the residual magnetism of its cores, leading all or a part of the current thus produced through the field-magnet coils.
• SLOCK; SLOCKEN
  To quench; to allay; to slake. See Slake.
• CHARRY
  Pertaining to charcoal, or partaking of its qualities.