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Word Meanings - PRESAGEFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.

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  • GLASSEN
    Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
  • GLASSINESS
    The quality of being glassy.
  • GLASSWORT
    A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
  • GLASS-ROPE
    A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
  • GLASSILY
    So as to resemble glass.
  • OMINOUS
    Of or pertaining to an omen or to omens; being or exhibiting an omen; significant; portentous; -- formerly used both in a favorable and unfavorable sense; now chiefly in the latter; foreboding or foreshowing evil; inauspicious; as, an ominous dread.
  • GLASS MAKER; GLASSMAKER
    One who makes, or manufactures, glass. -- Glass" mak`ing, or Glass"mak`ing, n.
  • GLASS-SPONGE
    A siliceous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, and allied genera; -- so called from their glassy fibers or spicules; -- called also vitreous sponge. See Glass-rope, and Euplectella.
  • PRESAGEFUL
    Full of presages; ominous. Dark in the glass of some presageful mood. Tennyson.
  • GLASS-SNAIL
    A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
  • GLASSITE
    A member of a Scottish sect, founded in the 18th century by John Glass, a minister of the Established Church of Scotland, who taught that justifying faith is "no more than a simple assent to the divine testimone passively recived by the
  • GLASS-GAZING
    Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. Shak.
  • GLASSWORK
    Manufacture of glass; articles or ornamentation made of glass.
  • TENNYSONIAN
    Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
  • GLASSHOUSE
    A house where glass is made; a commercial house that deals in glassware.
  • GLASS-FACED
    Mirror-faced; reflecting the sentiments of another. "The glass-faced flatterer." Shak.
  • GLASSY
    1. Made of glass; vitreous; as, a glassy substance. Bacon. 2. Resembling glass in its properties, as in smoothness, brittleness, or transparency; as, a glassy stream; a glassy surface; the glassy deep. 3. Dull; wanting life or fire; lackluster;
  • GLASS
    Any substance having a peculiar glassy appearance, and a conchoidal fracture, and usually produced by fusion. 3. Anything made of glass. Especially: A looking-glass; a mirror. A vessel filled with running sand for measuring time; an hourglass; and
  • GLASSFUL
    The contents of a glass; as much of anything as a glass will hold.
  • GLASSEYE
    A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike.
  • MULTINOMINAL; MULTINOMINOUS
    Having many names or terms.
  • SPYGLASS
    A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
  • BINOMINOUS
    Binominal.
  • SANDGLASS
    An instrument for measuring time by the running of sand. See Hourglass.
  • STORMGLASS
    A glass vessel, usually cylindrical, filled with a solution which is sensitive to atmospheric changes, indicating by a clouded appearance, rain, snow, etc., and by clearness, fair weather.
  • WATER GLASS
    See GLASS
  • ABDOMINOUS
    Having a protuberant belly; pot-bellied. Gorgonius sits, abdominous and wan, Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan. Cowper.
  • WINEGLASSFUL
    As much as a wineglass will hold; enough to fill a wineglass. It is usually reckoned at two fluid ounces, or four tablespoonfuls.
  • MUSCOVY GLASS
    Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
  • LADY'S LOOKING-GLASS
    See VENUS

 

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