Word Meanings - PATRIOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who loves his country, and zealously supports its authority and interests. Bp. Hall. Such tears as patriots shaed for dying laws. Pope.

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• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• SHAMA
  A saxicoline singing bird of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white,
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• SHAMEFAST
  Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHADOWY
  1. Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow. "Shadowy verdure." Fenton. This shadowy desert, unfrequented woods. Shak. 2. Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim. "The shadowy past." Longfellow. 3. Not brightly luminous; faintly light. The moon
• DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
  Difficulty in swallowing.
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• SHAFFLER
  A hobbler; one who limps; a shuffer.
• SHAG-HAIRED
  Having shaggy hair. Shak.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• SHANKBEER
  See SCHENKBEER
• SHAKE
  A rapid alternation of a principal tone with another represented on the next degree of the staff above or below it; a trill. (more info) 1. The act or result of shaking; a vacillating or wavering motion; a rapid motion one way and other;
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• DYSODILE
  An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• TODDY
  1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
• LARDY
  Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• BASKING SHARK
  One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
• DEEDY
  Industrious; active. Cowper.
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• UNBODY
  To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.
• KIDDYISH
  Frolicsome; sportive.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• EPIDIDYMITIS
  Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.
• DIDYM
  See DIDYMIUM