Word Meanings - INTENTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South.
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- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - INTENTNESS
The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention. Extreme solicitude or intentness upon business. South. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - STIFFNESS
The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character. The vices of old age have the stiffness of it too. South. - STRETCHING
from Stretch, v. Stretching course , a course or series of stretchers. See Stretcher, 2. Britton. - STRAINED
1. Subjected to great or excessive tension; wrenched; weakened; as, strained relations between old friends. 2. Done or produced with straining or excessive effort; as, his wit was strained. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - TIGHTNESS
The quality or condition of being tight. - EFFORT
A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine. Syn. -- Endeavor; exertion; struggle; strain; straining; attempt; trial; essay. See Attempt. (more info) 1. An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, - STRETCH
OHG. strecchen, Sw. sträcka, Dan. strække; cf. AS. stræck, strec, strong, violent, G. strack straight; of uncertain origin, perhaps 1. To reach out; to extend; to put forth. And stretch forth his neck long and small. Chaucer. I in - STRAINT
Overexertion; excessive tension; strain. Spenser. - FORCELESS
Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak. - STRAIN
1. Race; stock; generation; descent; family. He is of a noble strain. Shak. With animals and plants a cross between different varieties, or between individuals of the same variety but of another strain, gives vigor and fertility to the offspring. - TENSION
The force by which a part is pulled when forming part of any system in equilibrium or in motion; as, the tension of a srting supporting a weight equals that weight. 5. A device for checking the delivery of the thread in a sewing machine, so as to - STRETCHER
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall. Gwilt. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, stretches. - TENSIONED
Extended or drawn out; subjected to tension. "A highly tensioned string." Tyndall. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - INTENSION
The collective attributes, qualities, or marks that make up a complex general notion; the comprehension, content, or connotation; - - opposed to extension, extent, or sphere. This law is, that the intension of our knowledge is in the inverse ratio - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - PROTENSION
A drawing out; extension. Sir W. Hamilton. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - PORTENSION
The act of foreshowing; foreboding. Sir T. Browne. - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - UNIVERSITY EXTENSION
The extension of the advantages of university instruction by means of lectures and classes at various centers. - COEXTENSION
The act of extending equally, or the state of being equally extended. - RESTIFFNESS
Restiveness. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - INEXTENSION
Want of extension; unextended state. - OBTENSION
The act of obtending. Johnson. - CONSTRAINTIVE
Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.