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Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. This is most opportune to our need. Shak. -- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n. (more info) before the port; ob + a derivative of portus port, harbor.

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  • EXPERT
    Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert
  • WILLOWER
    A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
  • DISPOSEMENT
    Disposal. Goodwin.
  • PROMISSORILY
    In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne.
  • PROMPT-BOOK
    The book used by a prompter of a theater.
  • SKILFUL
    See SKILFUL
  • AUSPICIOUS
    1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
  • DISPOSURE
    1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton.
  • LUCKY PROACH
    See FATHERLASHER
  • COMMODIOUSLY
    In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • DISPOSITED
    Disposed. Glanvill.
  • WILLING
    1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • GOLDEN
    1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
  • SATISFACTORY
    1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification,
  • DISPOSITOR
    The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer.
  • WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
    A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell.
  • DISPOSE
    Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in
  • DISPOSEDNESS
    The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity.
  • PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
    Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values
  • CAUSEFUL
    Having a cause.
  • COMPROMISE
    promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both
  • ENQUICKEN
    To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
  • UNPROMISE
    To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman.
  • IMPREPARATION
    Want of preparation. Hooker.
  • SWILLINGS
    See 1
  • INGRATEFUL
    1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,

 

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