Word Meanings - KISS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

kissen, cussen, AS. cyssan, fr. coss a kiss; of uncertain origin; 1. To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church

Additional info about word: KISS

kissen, cussen, AS. cyssan, fr. coss a kiss; of uncertain origin; 1. To salute with the lips, as a mark of affection, reverence, submission, forgiveness, etc. He . . . kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack, That at the parting all the church echoed. Shak. 2. To touch gently, as if fondly or caressingly. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees. Shak.

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• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• PARTHIAN
  Of or pertaining to ancient Parthia, in Asia. -- n.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• PARTICIPIALIZE
  To form into, or put in the form of, a participle.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• PARTICIPANT
  Sharing; participating; having a share of part. Bacon.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• PARTLY
  In part; in some measure of degree; not wholly. "I partly believe it." 1 Cor. xi. 18.
• PARTNER
  An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• 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.
• PARTITE
  Divided nearly to the base; as, a partite leaf is a simple separated down nearly to the base.
• CHURCH MODES
  The modes or scales used in ancient church music. See Gregorian.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• PARTIALISM
  Partiality; specifically , the doctrine of the Partialists.
• PARTURIFACIENT
  A medicine tending to cause parturition, or to give relief in childbearing. Dunglison.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PARTICIPLE
  A part of speech partaking of the nature both verb and adjective; a form of a verb, or verbal adjective, modifying a noun, but taking the adjuncts of the verb from which it is derived. In the sentences: a letter is written; being asleep he did not
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• RAMPART
  A broad embankment of earth round a place, upon which the parapet is raised. It forms the substratum of every permanent fortification. Mahan. Syn. -- Bulwark; fence; security; guard. -- Rampart, Bulwark. These words were formerly interchanged; but
• TRIPARTIBLE
  Divisible into three parts.
• SELF-IMPARTING
  Imparting by one's own, or by its own, powers and will. Norris.
• POURPARTY
  A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
• COUNTERPART
  One of two corresponding copies of an instrument; a duplicate. 3. A person who closely resembles another. 4. A thing may be applied to another thing so as to fit perfectly, as a seal to its impression; hence, a thing which is adapted to another
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• REPARTIMIENTO
  A partition or distribution, especially of slaves; also, an assessment of taxes. W. Irving.