Word Meanings - NODDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
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- NODDING
Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward. - FALTER
To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell. - VACILLATING
Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv. - TOTTER
1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high, - REELECT
To elect again; as, to reëlect the former governor. - NODDY
1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum - VACILLATION
1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. His vacillations, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. Jer. Taylor. - SHAKY
1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit. - NODDER
One who nods; a drowsy person. - VACILLATE
1. To move one way and the other; to reel or stagger; to waver. is always liable to shift and vacillatefrom one axis to another. Paley. 2. To fluctuate in mind or opinion; to be unsteady or inconstant; to waver. Syn. -- See Fluctuate. - TOTTERY
Trembling or vaccilating, as if about to fall; unsteady; shaking. Johnson. - REELECTION
Election a second time, or anew; as, the reëlection of a former chief. - TOTTERINGLY
In a tottering manner. - FALTERING
Hesitating; trembling. "With faltering speech." Milton. -- n. - NODDLE
is the nodding part of the body, or perh. akin to E. knot; cf. Prov. 1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. For occasion ... turneth a bald - REELIGIBLE
Eligble again; capable of reëlection; as, reëligible to the same office. -- Re*ël`i*gi*bil"i*ty (r, n. - REELER
1. One who reels. - REEL
A lively dance of the Highlanders of Scotland; also, the music to the dance; -- often called Scotch reel. Virginia reel, the common name throughout the United States for the old English "country dance," or contradance . Bartlett. - RUINOUS
1. Causing, or tending to cause, ruin; destructive; baneful; pernicious; as, a ruinous project. After a night of storm so ruinous. Milton. 2. Characterized by ruin; ruined; dilapidated; as, an edifice, bridge, or wall in a ruinous state. - TOTTERER
One who totters. - TREELESS
Destitute of trees. C. Kingsley. - KREEL
See CREEL - PRUINOUS
Frosty; pruinose. - FREELTE
Frailty. Chaucer. - TITTER-TOTTER
See TEETER - PREELECT
To elect beforehand. - TOMNODDY
A sea bird, the puffin. 2. A fool; a dunce; a noddy.