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Word Meanings - MOTLEY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

curdled, OF, ciel mattonné a mottled sky, mate, maton, curdled milk, 1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat. 2. Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A

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curdled, OF, ciel mattonné a mottled sky, mate, maton, curdled milk, 1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat. 2. Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A motley fool." Shak. 3. Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. Byron.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • WEARIABLE
    That may be wearied.
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • WEARING
    1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
  • PARTY
    1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
  • CONSISTENTLY
    In a consistent manner.
  • WEARILY
    In a weary manner.
  • MOTLEY
    curdled, OF, ciel mattonné a mottled sky, mate, maton, curdled milk, 1. Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat. 2. Wearing motley or party-colored clothing. See Motley, n., 1. "A
  • MOTTLE
    To mark with spots of different color, or shades of color, as if stained; to spot; to maculate. (more info) Etym:
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • CONSIST
    1. To stand firm; to be in a fixed or permanent state, as a body composed of parts in union or connection; to hold together; to be; to exist; to subsist; to be supported and maintained. He is before all things, and by him all things consist. Col.
  • VARIEGATE
    To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • CONSISTORIAN
    Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy. You fall next on the consistorian schismatics; for so you call Presbyterians. Milton.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • DIFFERENT
    1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
  • CLOTHESLINE
    A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
  • WEARABLE
    Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
  • PARTY-COLORED; PARTI-COLORED
    Colored with different tints; variegated; as, a party-colored flower. "Parti-colored lambs." Shak.
  • WEARILESS
    Incapable of being wearied.
  • SAILCLOTH
    Duck or canvas used in making sails.
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • BEDCLOTHES
    Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
  • MAINSWEAR
    To swear falsely. Blount.
  • HEARSECLOTH
    A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
  • BREECHCLOTH
    A cloth worn around the breech.
  • FORSWEARER
    One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
  • INDIFFERENTLY
    In an indifferent manner; without distinction or preference; impartially; without concern, wish, affection, or aversion; tolerably; passably. That they may truly and indifferently minister justice, to the punishment of wickedness and vice, and to
  • ISABELLA; ISABELLA COLOR
    A brownish yellow color. (more info) Spanish princess Isabella, daughter of king Philip II., in allusion to the color assumed by her shift, which she wore without change from
  • UNWEARY
    To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
  • POURPARTY
    A division; a divided share. To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.

 

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