Word Meanings - OVERBLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing. (more info) 1. To blow over, or be subdued. Spenser.
Related words: (words related to OVERBLOW)
- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - PRODUCIBILITY
The quality or state of being producible. Barrow. - HIGHER-UP
A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl. - NATURALIST
1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell. - NATURAL STEEL
Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore. - UPPERMOST
Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift. - HIGHERING
Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson. - FLUTED
1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum. - PRODUCEMENT
Production. - SUBDUCE; SUBDUCT
1. To withdraw; to take away. Milton. 2. To subtract by arithmetical operation; to deduct. If, out of that infinite multitude of antecedent generations, we should subduce ten. Sir M. Hale. - SUBDUAL
Act of subduing. Bp. Warburton. - NATURAL
Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info) - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - NATURALIZE
1. To make natural; as, custom naturalizes labor or study. 2. To confer the rights and privileges of a native subject or citizen on; to make as if native; to adopt, as a foreigner into a nation or state, and place in the condition of - SUBDUABLE
Able to be subdued. - PRODUCTIVITY
The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge. - PRODUCTUS
An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks. - FLUTEMOUTH
A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - SUPERNATURALNESS
The quality or state of being supernatural. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - PRETERNATURALITY
Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith. - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - OVERPRODUCTION
Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - DISPENSER
One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.