Word Meanings - LOSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.

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• FLATTER
  1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc.
• NAMELESSLY
  In a nameless manner.
• NAMABLE
  Capable of being named.
• COZENAGE
  The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• LOSEL
  One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.
• BISHOPDOM
  Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton.
• NAMELESS
  1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless
• BISHOPLY
  Bishoplike; episcopal.
• NAMER
  One who names, or calls by name.
• FULLER
  One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed
• FLATTERY
  The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver
• NAMAYCUSH
  A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• SWARM
  To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.
• NAMESAKE
  One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another.
• DECEITFUL
  Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.
• BISHOP'S-WEED
  An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed .
• DECEITLESS
  Free from deceit. Bp. Hall.
• PAXILLOSE
  Resembling a little stake.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• PHILOSOPHIZE
  To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• FLOSH
  A hopper-shaped box or Knight.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• BEFLATTER
  To flatter excessively.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.