Word Meanings - INACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of action or activity; forbearance from labor; idleness; rest; inertness. Berkeley.
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- DECAY
To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay; - CRUSTAL
Relating to a crust. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - DROSS
1. The scum or refuse matter which is thrown off, or falls from, metals in smelting the ore, or in the process of melting; recrement. 2. Rust of metals. Addison. 3. Waste matter; any worthless matter separated from the better part; leavings; - CRUSTINESS
1. The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness. 2. The quality of being crusty or surly. Old Christy forgot his usual crustiness. W. Irving. - CANKEREDLY
Fretfully; spitefully. - CRUSTACEOUS
Belonging to the Crustacea; crustacean. (more info) 1. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, crust or shell; having a crustlike shell. - CRUSTALOGY
Crustaceology. - CRUSTALOGIST
One versed in crustalogy. - DECAYER
A causer of decay. - INCREASEMENT
Increase. Bacon. - FLOURISHINGLY
, adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. - EXPANDER
Anything which causes expansion esp. a tool for stretching open or expanding a tube, etc. - CANKER
A disease incident to trees, causing the bark to rot and fall off. (more info) OHG chanchar.), fr. L. cancer a cancer; or if a native word, cf. Gr. 1. A corroding or sloughing ulcer; esp. a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in - CANKERWORM
The larva of two species of geometrid moths which are very injurious to fruit and shade trees by eating, and often entirely destroying, the foliage. Other similar larvæ are also called cankerworms. Note: The autumnal species becomes adult late - LUXURIATE
1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold." Burton. 2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures. 3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate - CRUSTILY
In a crusty or surly manner; morosely. - DROSSEL
A slut; a hussy; a drazel. Warner. - CRUSTATION
An adherent crust; an incrustation. Pepys. - CANKERED
1. Affected with canker; as, a cankered mouth. 2. Affected mentally or morally as with canker; sore, envenomed; malignant; fretful; ill-natured. "A cankered grandam's will." Shak. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - PROCRUSTESIAN
See PROCRUSTEAN - INCRUSTATION
A covering or inlaying of marble, mosaic, etc., attached to the masonry by cramp irons or cement. (more info) 1. The act of incrusting, or the state of being incrusted. 2. A crust or hard coating of anything upon or within a body, as a deposit - WATER CANKER
See 1 - PREDECAY
Premature decay. - DECRUSTATION
The removal of a crust.