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Word Meanings - PERSONALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually;

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1. In a personal manner; by bodily presence; in person; not by representative or substitute; as, to deliver a letter personally. He, being cited, personally came not. Grafton. 2. With respect to an individual; as regards the person; individually; particularly. She bore a mortal hatred to the house of Lancaster, and personally to the king. Bacon. 3. With respect to one's individuality; as regards one's self; as, personally I have no feeling in the matter.

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    A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.
  • BESCRATCH
    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • BELIAL
    An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.
  • DELIVERANCE
    Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • BEWRAP
    To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • BEVELMENT
    The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BETSO
    A small brass Venetian coin.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • BECHE DE MER
    The trepang.
  • BETOKEN
    1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
  • BELLADONNA
    An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
  • BETROTHAL
    The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.
  • BENIM
    To take away. Ire . . . benimeth the man fro God. Chaucer.
  • BESIEGER
    One who besieges; -- opposed to the besieged.
  • CITRANGE
    A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
  • GABBER
    1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk.
  • COMBER
    1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
  • HAIRBELL
    See HAREBELL
  • APOSTOLICISM; APOSTOLICITY
    The state or quality of being apostolical.
  • ORBED
    Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • GERBE
    A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • GABELER
    A collector of gabels or taxes.
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • CORYMBED
    Corymbose.
  • OPACITY
    1. The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness. 2. Obscurity; want of clearness. Bp. Hall.

 

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