Word Meanings - HUMMUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.
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- PLACEMENT
1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place. - SWEATY
1. Moist with sweat; as, a sweaty skin; a sweaty garment. 2. Consisting of sweat; of the nature of sweat. No noisome whiffs or sweaty streams. Swift. 3. Causing sweat; hence, laborious; toilsome; difficult. "The sweaty forge." Prior. - PLACENTARY
Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification. - PLACE-KICK
To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n. - SWEATILY
In a sweaty manner. - PLACER
One who places or sets. Spenser. - PLACE
Position in the heavens, as of a heavenly body; -- usually defined by its right ascension and declination, or by its latitude and longitude. Place of arms , a place calculated for the rendezvous of men in arms, etc., as a fort which affords a safe - SWEATER
1. One who sweats. 2. One who, or that which, causes to sweat; as: A sudorific. A woolen jacket or jersey worn by athletes. An employer who oppresses his workmen by paying low wages. - PLACENTA
The vascular appendage which connects the fetus with the parent, and is cast off in parturition with the afterbirth. Note: In most mammals the placenta is principally developed from the allantois and chorion, and tufts of vascular villi - PLACEMAN
One who holds or occupies a place; one who has office under government. Sir W. Scott. - PLACENTIOUS
Pleasing; amiable. "A placentious person." Fuller. - PLACEBO
The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. - PLACENTIFEROUS
Having or producing a placenta. - SWEATING
a. & n. from Sweat, v. Sweating bath, a bath producing sensible sweat; a stove or sudatory. -- Sweating house, a house for sweating persons in sickness. -- Sweating iron, a kind of knife, or a piece of iron, used to scrape off sweat, especially - PLACENTATION
The mode of formation of the placenta in different animals; as, the placentation of mammals. - PLACE-PROUD
Proud of rank or office. Beau. & Fl. - PLACEFUL
In the appointed place. - PLACENTAL
Of or pertaining to the Placentalia. (more info) 1. Of or pertaining to the placenta; having, or characterized by having, a placenta; as, a placental mammal. - SWEAT
akin to OFries. & OS. swet, D. zweet, OHG. sweiz, G. schweiss, Icel. sviti, sveiti, Sw. svett, Dan. sved, L. sudor sweat, sudare to sweat, 1. To excrete sensible moisture from the pores of the skin; to perspire. Shak. 2. Fig.: To perspire in toil; - SWEATINESS
Quality or state of being sweaty. - REPLACEMENT
The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing. - COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like - APLACENTAL
Belonging to the Aplacentata; without placenta. - DISPLACER
The funnel part of the apparatus for solution by displacement. (more info) 1. One that displaces. - BY-PLACE
A retired or private place. - SELF-COMPLACENCY
The quality of being self-complacent. J. Foster. - MISPLACE
To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence. - EMPLACEMENT
A putting in, or assigning to, a definite place; localization; as, the emplacement of a structure. - DISPLACEABLE
Capable of being displaced. - INTERPLACE
To place between or among; as, to interplace a name. Daniel.