Word Meanings - PEPPERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Of or pertaining to pepper; having the qualities of pepper; hot; pungent. 2. Fig.: Hot-tempered; passionate; choleric.
Related words: (words related to PEPPERY)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - TEMPER SCREW
1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - PEPPERBRAND
See BUNT - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - PEPPERCORN
1. A dried berry of the black pepper . 2. Anything insignificant; a particle. - TEMPERER
One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water. - HAVEN
habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor; - TEMPERATURE
Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or - HAVANA
Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n. - HAVERSIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone. - PEPPERING
Hot; pungent; peppery. Swift. - TEMPERAMENTAL
Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne. - PEPPERMINT
An aromatic and pungent plant of the genus Mentha (M. piperita), much used in medicine and confectionery. 2. A volatile oil distilled from the fresh herb; also, a well-known essence or spirit obtained from it. 3. A lozenge of sugar flavored - TEMPERATE
1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our - TEMPER
To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser. - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - HAVING
Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak. - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - ATTEMPER
1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice - INCOMPASSIONATE
Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n. - DISTEMPERATURE
1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - UNTEMPERATE
Intemperate. - ILL-TEMPERED
1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - CONTEMPERATURE
The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth. - MISTEMPER
To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak. - IMPASSIONATE
Strongly affected. Smart. - INTEMPERANCY
Intemperance. - INTEMPERANT
Intemperate. Such as be intemperant, that is, followers of their naughty appetites and lusts. Udall.