Word Meanings - INTERSPERSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope. 2. To diversify or adorn
Additional info about word: INTERSPERSE
1. To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope. 2. To diversify or adorn with things set or scattered at intervals; to place something at intervals in or among; as, to intersperse a book with pictures. Which space is interspersed with small islands and rock. Cook.
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- GLOSSA
The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera. - GLOSSIST
A writer of comments. Milton. - GLOSSOLOGY
1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology. - GLOSSARIAL
Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary. - IMPORTUNELY
In an importune manner. - GLOSSOLOGICAL
Of or pertaining to glossology. - GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
Of or pertaining to glossography. - GLOSSANTHRAX
A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue. - IMPORTUNATOR
One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys. - IMPORTING
Full of meaning. Shak. - IMPORTUNE
derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune - IMPORTUNATE
1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n. - IMPORTUOUS
Without a port or harbor. - IMPORTANTLY
In an important manner. - INTERSPERSE
1. To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope. 2. To diversify or adorn - INTRODUCEMENT
Introduction. - GLOSSOLOGIST
One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology. - IMPORT
+ portare to bear. Sense 3 comes through F. importer, from the Latin. 1. To bring in from abroad; to introduce from without; especially, to bring into a place or country from a foreign country, in the transactions of commerce; -- opposed - GLOSSOGRAPHY
The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author. - GLOSSIC
A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis. - GYMNOGLOSSA
A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth. - NONIMPORTATION
Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities. - SACCOGLOSSA
See PELLIBRANCHIATA - ENTOGLOSSAL
Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone. - REIMPORTATION
The act of reimporting; also, that which is reimported.