Word Meanings - OPTIONAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Involving an option; depending on the exercise of an option; left to one's discretion or choice; not compulsory; as, optional studies; it is optional with you to go or stay. -- n.
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- WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - INTENTIONALITY
The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge. - 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 - WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell. - WILLINGLY
In a willing manner; with free will; without reluctance; cheerfully. Chaucer. The condition of that people is not so much to be envied as some would willingly represent it. Addison. - WILLEMITE
A silicate of zinc, usually occurring massive and of a greenish yellow color, also in reddish crystals containing manganese. - WILLOW-WORT
Same as Willow-weed. Any plant of the order Salicaceæ, or the Willow family. - WILLY NILLY
See WILL - VOLUNTARY
Of or pertaining to the will; subject to, or regulated by, the will; as, the voluntary motions of an animal, such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions, such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle - CHANCEFUL
Hazardous. Spenser. - WILLIER
One who works at a willying machine. - DELIBERATELY
With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed. - DELIBERATE
1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools." - HAZARD
1. To expose to the operation of chance; to put in danger of loss or injury; to venture; to risk. Men hazard nothing by a course of evangelical obedience. John Clarke. He hazards his neck to the halter. Fuller. 2. To venture to incur, or bring - INTENTIONAL
Done by intention or design; intended; designed; as, the act was intentional, not accidental. - CHANCELLORSHIP
The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor. - WILLOWISH
Having the color of the willow; resembling the willow; willowy. Walton. - WILLOWED
Abounding with willows; containing willows; covered or overgrown with willows. "Willowed meads." Collins. - SWILLINGS
See 1 - UNVOLUNTARY
Involuntary. Fuller. - TOWILLY
The sanderling; -- so called from its cry. - SWILL
To drink in great draughts; to swallow greedily. Well-dressed people, of both sexes, . . . devouring sliced beef, and swilling pork, and punch, and cider. Smollett. 3. To inebriate; to fill with drink. I should be loth To meet the rudeness - ARCHCHANCELLOR
A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court. - FREEWILL
Of or pertaining to free will; voluntary; spontaneous; as, a freewill offering. Frewill Baptists. See under Baptist. - PERCHANCE
By chance; perhaps; peradventure. - UNWILL
To annul or reverse by an act of the will. Longfellow.