Word Meanings - INTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To utter with a musical or prolonged note or tone; to chant; as, to intone the church service.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• CHURCH
  AS. circe, cyrice; akin to D. kerk, Icel. kirkja, Sw. kyrka, Dan. kirke, G. kirche, OHG. chirihha; all fr. Gr. ç'd4ra hero, Zend. çura 1. A building set apart for Christian worship. 2. A Jewish or heathen temple. Acts xix. 37. 3. A formally
• CHURCHYARD
  The ground adjoining a church, in which the dead are buried; a cemetery. Like graves in the holy churchyard. Shak. Syn. -- Burial place; burying ground; graveyard; necropolis; cemetery; God's acre.
• CHURCH-BENCH
  A seat in the porch of a church. Shak.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• CHURCHSHIP
  State of being a church. South.
• UTTER
  1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
• CHANTERELLE
  A name for several species of mushroom, of which one is edible, the others reputed poisonous.
• CHURCHMANLY
  Pertaining to, or becoming, a churchman. Milman.
• CHANTEY
  A sailor's song. May we lift a deep-sea chantey such as seamen use at sea Kipling.
• PROLONGE
  A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes.
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• SERVICE
  The act of bringing to notice, either actually or constructively, in such manner as is prescribed by law; as, the service of a subpoena or an attachment. (more info) 1. The act of serving; the occupation of a servant; the performance of labor for
• CHANTING
  Singing, esp. as a chant is sung. Chanting falcon , an African falcon . The male has the habit, remarkable in a bird of prey, of singing to his mate, while she is incubating.
• UTTERMOST
  Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
• PROLONGATE
  To prolong; to extend in space or in time.
• TROCHANTER
  One of two processes near the head of the femur, the outer being called the great trochanter, and the inner the small trochanter.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• TROCHANTERIC
  Of or pertaining to one or both of the trochanters.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• BACCHANTE
  1. A priestess of Bacchus. 2. A female bacchanal.
• BOND SERVICE
  The condition of a bond servant; sevice without wages; slavery. Their children . . . upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bond service. 1 Kings ix. 21.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.