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Word Meanings - LANGUOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.

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  • STRE
    Straw. Chaucer.
  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STROKER
    One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton.
  • STAUNCH; STAUNCHLY; STAUNCHNESS
    See ETC
  • STEATOPYGOUS
    Having fat buttocks. Specimens of the steatopygous Abyssinian breed. Burton.
  • STRONTIAN
    Strontia.
  • STINTLESS
    Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston.
  • STROMATIC
    Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds.
  • STORER
    One who lays up or forms a store.
  • STACK
    1. A large pile of hay, grain, straw, or the like, usually of a nearly conical form, but sometimes rectangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were
  • STUNNER
    1. One who, or that which, stuns. 2. Something striking or amazing in quality; something of extraordinary excellence. Thackeray.
  • STATUELESS
    Without a statue.
  • STEREOGRAPHIC; STEREOGRAPHICAL
    Made or done according to the rules of stereography; delineated on a plane; as, a stereographic chart of the earth. Stereographic projection , a method of representing the sphere in which the center of projection is taken in the surface of the
  • STICK-LAC
    See LAC
  • STRATARITHMETRY
    The art of drawing up an army, or any given number of men, in any geometrical figure, or of estimating or expressing the number of men in such a figure.
  • STRIATUM
    The corpus striatum.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • STREPITORES
    A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs.
  • STEELING
    The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v.
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • IATROCHEMISTRY
    Chemistry applied to, or used in, medicine; -- used especially with reference to the doctrines in the school of physicians in Flanders, in the 17th century, who held that health depends upon the proper chemical relations of the fluids of the body,
  • MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
    Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer.
  • FREEDSTOOL
    See FRIDSTOL
  • SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
    Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • MALACOSTOMOUS
    Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
  • BURINIST
    One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev.
  • MYSTAGOGY
    The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
  • POSTHUME; POSTHUMED
    Posthumos. I. Watts. Fuller.
  • TESTIFICATION
    The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South.
  • AGROSTOLOGIST
    One skilled in agrostology.
  • PRELATIST
    One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
  • HEADSTALL
    That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak.
  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • PROPLASTIC
    Forming a mold.

 

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