Word Meanings - MEDIUM-SIZED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.

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• SIZE
  Six.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• SIZING
  1. Act of covering or treating with size. 2. A weak glue used in various trades; size.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• SIZY
  Sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. Arbuthnot.
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• SIZAR
  One of a body of students in the universities of Cambridge and Dublin, who, having passed a certain examination, are exempted from paying college fees and charges. A sizar corresponded to a servitor at Oxford. The sizar paid nothing for food and
• SIZZLING
  from Sizzle.
• SIZARSHIP
  The position or standing of a sizar.
• SIZZLE
  To make a hissing sound; to fry, or to dry and shrivel up, with a hissing sound. Forby. (more info) Etym:
• HAVOC
  Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
• SIZED
  1. Adjusted according to size. 2. Having a particular size or magnitude; -- chiefly used in compounds; as, large-sized; common-sized.
• HAVER
  A possessor; a holder. Shak.
• HYPOSTASIZE
  To make into a distinct substance; to conceive or treat as an existing being; to hypostatize. The pressed Newtonians . . . refused to hypostasize the law of gravitation into an ether. Coleridge.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• EMPHASIZE
  To utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice; to make emphatic; as, to emphasize a word or a phrase.
• ASSIZE
  assembly of judges, the decree pronounced by them, tax, impost, fr. assis, assise, p. p. of asseoir, fr. L. assid to sit by; ad + sed to 1. An assembly of knights and other substantial men, with a bailiff or justice, in a certain place and at a
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• SUBSIZAR
  An under sizar; a student of lower rank than a sizar. Bid my subsizar carry my hackney to the buttery and give him his bever. J. Fletcher.
• DRAWSHAVE
  See KNIFE
• MISBEHAVIOR
  Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.
• SHAVING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, shaves; specifically, the act of cutting off the beard with a razor. 2. That which is shaved off; a thin slice or strip pared off with a shave, a knife, a plane, or other cutting instrument. "Shaving