Word Meanings - PRACTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Doing; active. Sylvester. -- Prac"tive*ly, adv. The preacher and the people both, Then practively did thrive. Warner.

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• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DONATOR
  One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• DOG-ROSE
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• DOG'S-EAR
  The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• DODECASYLLABIC
  Having twelve syllables.
• DOIT
  1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
• DORMANCY
  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
  A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• DOMITE
  A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
• DOQUET
  A warrant. See Docket.
• DOVELET
  A young or small dove. Booth.
• DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DOMINATOR
  A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• DOER
  An agent or attorney; a factor. Burrill. (more info) 1. One who does; one performs or executes; one who is wont and ready to act; an actor; an agent. The doers of the law shall be justified. Rom. ii. 13.
• DOMETT
  A kind of baize of which the ward is cotton and the weft woolen. Blakely.
• ADONAI
  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PAEDOGENESIS
  Reproduction by young or larval animals.
• PAEDOGENETIC
  Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• MICRODONT
  Having small teeth.
• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• ACCELERANDO
  Gradually accelerating the movement.
• TORPEDO
  Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE