Word Meanings - NYMPHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little or young nymph. "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.
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- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer. - NYMPHOLEPSY
A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron. - NYMPHOMANIA
Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease. - THERETO
1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer. - NYMPHALES
An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer. - THEREOUT
1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer. - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - THEREUNDER
Under that or this. - NYMPHAL
Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean. - SPORTLESS
Without sport or mirth; joyless. - NYMPHLIKE; NYMPHLY
Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph. - SPORTING
Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house - SPORTIVE
Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n. - LITTLE
1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke. 2. A small degree - THEREAFTER
1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison, - DISPORT
Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - MISTRANSPORT
To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall. - UNMOTHERED
Deprived of a mother; motherless. - TRANSPORTING
That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble. - ETHEREALITY
The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - TRANSPORTAL
Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin. - ETHEREALLY
In an ethereal manner. - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.