Word Meanings - KNURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of knots; hard; tough; hence, capable of enduring or resisting much.

Related words: (words related to KNURLY)

• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• TOUGH-CAKE
  See
• TOUGHEN
  To grow or make tough, or tougher.
• RESISTANT
  Making resistance; resisting. -- n.
• TOUGH-HEAD
  The ruddy duck.
• RESIST
  1. To stand against; to withstand; to obstruct. That mortal dint, Save He who reigns above, none can resist. Milton. 2. To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose. God resisteth the proud.
• TOUGHLY
  In a tough manner.
• TOUGH-PITCH
  The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper. Copper so reduced; -- called also tough-cake.
• HENCE
  ending; cf. -wards), also hen, henne, hennen, heonnen, heonene, AS. heonan, heonon, heona, hine; akin to OHG. hinnan, G. hinnen, OHG. 1. From this place; away. "Or that we hence wend." Chaucer. Arise, let us go hence. John xiv. 31. I will send
• RESISTLESS
  1. Having no power to resist; making no opposition. Spenser. 2. Incapable of being resisted; irresistible. Masters' commands come with a power resistless To such as owe them absolute subjection. Milton. -- Re*sist"less*ly, adv. -- Re*sist"less*ness,
• ENDURABLE
  Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable. Macaulay. -- En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.
• RESISTANCE
  The quality of not yielding to force or external pressure; that power of a body which acts in opposition to the impulse or pressure of another, or which prevents the effect of another power; as, the resistance of the air to a body passing through
• RESISTING
  Making resistance; opposing; as, a resisting medium. -- Re*sist"ing ly, adv.
• CAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being capable; capability; adequateness; competency.
• RESISTANCE FRAME
  A rheostat consisting of an open frame on which are stretched spirals of wire. Being freely exposed to the air, they radiate heat rapidly.
• RESISTIBILITY
  1. The quality of being resistible; resistibleness. 2. The quality of being resistant; resitstance. The name "body" being the complex idea of extension and resistibility together in the same subject. Locke.
• RESISTER
  One who resists.
• RESISTIVE
  Serving to resist. B. Jonsosn.
• HENCEFORWARD
  From this time forward; henceforth.
• UNCAPABLE
  Incapable. "Uncapable of conviction." Locke.
• UNRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission; irresistance. Bp. Hall.
• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• OVERCAPABLE
  Too capable. Overcapable of such pleasing errors. Hooker.
• UNRESISTED
  1. Not resisted; unopposed. Bentley. 2. Resistless; as, unresisted fate. Pope.
• IRRESISTIBLENESS
  Quality of being irrestible.
• IRRESISTIBLE
  That can not be successfully resisted or opposed; superior to opposition; resistless; overpowering; as, an irresistible attraction. An irresistible law of our nature impels us to seek happiness. J. M. Mason.
• THENCE
  see -wards) thennes, thannes , AS. thanon, thanan, thonan; akin to OHG. dannana, dannan, danan, and G. 1. From that place. "Bid him thence go." Chaucer. When ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Mark
• ARCHENCEPHALA
  The division that includes man alone. R. Owen.
• THENCEFORTH
  From that time; thereafter. If the salt have lost his savor, wherewith shall it be salted it is thenceforth good for nothing. Matt. v. 13. Note: This word is sometimes preceded by from, -- a redundancy sanctioned by custom. Chaucer. John. xix. 12.
• IRRESISTANCE
  Nonresistance; passive submission.