Word Meanings - LATTERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.

Related words: (words related to LATTERLY)

• THICKENING
  Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker.
• PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
  Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
• THICK WIND
  A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema.
• LATERAN
  The church and palace of St. John Lateran, the church being the cathedral church of Rome, and the highest in rank of all churches in the Catholic world. Note: The name is said to have been derived from that of the Laterani family, who possessed
• THICK
  1. Frequently; fast; quick. 2. Closely; as, a plat of ground thick sown. 3. To a great depth, or to a greater depth than usual; as, land covered thick with manure. Thick and threefold, in quick succession, or in great numbers. L'Estrange.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PERIODONTAL
  Surrounding the teeth.
• LATERAL
  Lying at, or extending toward, the side; away from the mesial plane; external; -- opposed to mesial. 3. Directed to the side; as, a lateral view of a thing. Lateral cleavage , cleavage parallel to the lateral planes. -- Lateral equation
• THICK-SKINNED
  Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland.
• LATELY
  Not long ago; recently; as, he has lately arrived from Italy.
• THICKNESS
  The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• THICKSET
  1. A close or thick hedge. 2. A stout, twilled cotton cloth; a fustian corduroy, or velveteen. McElrath.
• LATTERLY
  Lately; of late; recently; at a later, as distinguished from a former, period. Latterly Milton was short and thick. Richardson.
• LATERALLY
  By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.
• THICK-WINDED
  Affected with thick wind.
• THICKBILL
  The bullfinch.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• ANTIPERIODIC
  A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• ALABAMA PERIOD
  A period in the American eocene, the lowest in the tertiary age except the lignitic.