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.
Related words: (words related to LANGUOROUS)
- 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. - STROMATIC
Miscellaneous; composed of different kinds. - STINTLESS
Without stint or restraint. The stintlesstears of old Heraclitus. Marston. - 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. - 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. - 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 - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - STREPITORES
A division of birds, including the clamatorial and picarian birds, which do not have well developed singing organs. - STRAPPING
Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - STRIATUM
The corpus striatum. - FREEDSTOOL
See FRIDSTOL - MAISTRE; MAISTRIE; MAISTRY
Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery. Chaucer. - 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, - PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - TESTIFICATION
The act of testifying, or giving testimony or evidence; as, a direct testification of our homage to God. South. - HEADSTALL
That part of a bridle or halter which encompasses the head. Shak. - 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. - SYMBOLISTIC; SYMBOLISTICAL
Characterized by the use of symbols; as, symbolistic poetry. - 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. - AGROSTOLOGIST
One skilled in agrostology. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.