Word Meanings - ORDURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.

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• FAULTINESS
  Quality or state of being faulty. Round, even to faultiness. Shak.
• HOLLANDAISE SAUCE; HOLLANDAISE
  A sauce consisting essentially of a seasoned emulsion of butter and yolk of eggs with a little lemon juice or vinegar.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• EXCREMENTIVE
  Serving to excrete; connected with excretion or excrement. "The excrementive parts." Felthman.
• FAULT
  A lost scent; act of losing the scent. Ceasing their clamorous cry till they have singled, With much ado, the cold fault cleary out. Shak. (more info) falta), fr. a verb meaning to want, fail, freq., fr. L. fallere to 1. Defect; want;
• HOLLAND
  A kind of linen first manufactured in Holland; a linen fabric used for window shades, children's garments, etc.; as, brown or unbleached hollands.
• FAULTING
  The state or condition of being faulted; the process by which a fault is produced.
• FAULT-FINDING
  The act of finding fault or blaming; -- used derogatively. Also Adj.
• DEFECTUOUS
  Full of defects; imperfect. Barrow.
• EXCREMENTITIAL; EXCREMENTITIOUS
  Pertaining to, or consisting of, excrement; of the nature of excrement.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• HOLLANDISH
  Relating to Holland; Dutch.
• HOLLANDER
  1. A native or one of the people of Holland; a Dutchman. 2. A very hard, semi-glazed, green or dark brown brick, which will not absorb water; -- called also, Dutch clinker. Wagner.
• DEFECT
  fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.
• DEFECTIOUS
  Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney.
• DEFECTIBLE
  Liable to defect; imperfect. "A defectible understanding." Jer. Taylor.
• EXCREMENTIZE
  To void excrement. Life of A. Wood
• PICK-FAULT
  One who seeks out faults.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• FINDFAULTING
  Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. Whitlock.
• FINDFAULT
  A censurer or caviler.
• DEFAULTER
  1. One who makes default; one who fails to appear in court when court when called. 2. One who fails to perform a duty; a delinquent; particularly, one who fails to account for public money intrusted to his care; a peculator; a defalcator.