Word Meanings - PESTEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. Bacon.

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• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• INCLINING
  See 3
• PESTEROUS
  Inclined to pester. Also, vexatious; encumbering; burdensome. Bacon.
• INCLINED
  Making an angle with some line or plane; -- said of a line or plane. (more info) 1. Having a leaning or tendency towards, or away from, a thing; disposed or moved by wish, desire, or judgment; as, a man inclined to virtue. "Each pensively
• PESTERMENT
  The act of pestering, or the state of being pestered; vexation; worry. "The trouble and pesterment of children." B. Franklin.
• INCLINATORY
  Having the quality of leaning or inclining; as, the inclinatory needle. -- In*clin"a*to*ri*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• BURDENSOME
  Grievous to be borne; causing uneasiness or fatigue; oppressive. The debt immense of endless gratitude So burdensome. Milton. Syn. -- Heavy; weighty; cumbersome; onerous; grievous; oppressive; troublesome. -- Bur"den*some*ly, adv. -- Bur"den*some*ness,
• PESTERER
  One who pesters or harasses.
• ENCUMBERMENT
  Encumbrance.
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• INCLINNOMETER
  An apparatus to determine the inclination of the earth's magnetic force to the plane of the horizon; -- called also inclination compass, and dip circle.
• INCLINABLENESS
  The state or quality of being inclinable; inclination.
• VEXATIOUS
  1. Causing vexation; agitating; afflictive; annoying; as, a vexatious controversy; a vexatious neighbor. "Continual vexatious wars." South. 2. Full or vexation, trouble, or disquiet; disturbed. He leads a vexatious life. Sir K. Digby. Vexatious
• PESTER
  entangle the feet or legs, to embarrass, F. empêtrer; pref. em-, en- + LL. pastorium, pastoria, a fetter by which horses are prevented from wandering in the pastures, fr. L. pastorius belonging to a herdsman or shepherd, pastor a herdsman. See
• INCLINER
  One who, or that which, inclines; specifically, an inclined dial.
• INCLINABLE
  1. Leaning; tending. Likely and inclinable to fall. Bentley. 2. Having a propensity of will or feeling; leaning in disposition; disposed; propense; as, a mind inclinable to truth. Whatsoever other sins he may be inclinable to. South.
• INCLINE
  L. inclinare; pref. in- in + clinare to bend, incline; akin to E. 1. To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south. 2. Fig.:
• ENCUMBER
  1. To impede the motion or action of, as with a burden; to retard with something superfluous; to weigh down; to obstruct or embarrass; as, his movements were encumbered by his mantle; his mind is encumbered with useless learning. Not encumbered
• OVERPESTER
  To pester exceedingly or excessively. Sir W. Raleigh.
• DISENCUMBER
  To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden. Owen. I have disencumbered myself from rhyme. Dryden.
• TAPPESTER
  A female tapster. Chaucer.
• UNENCUMBER
  To free from incumbrance; to disencumber.
• DISINCLINE
  To incline away the affections of; to excite a slight aversion in; to indispose; to make unwilling; to alienate. Careful . . . to disincline them from any reverence or affection to the Queen. Clarendon. To social scenes by nature disinclined.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.
• HOPPESTERE
  An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing "; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.