Word Meanings - PRESSITANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gravitating; heavy. Dr. H. More.

Related words: (words related to PRESSITANT)

• HEAVY-HEADED
  Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
• GRAVITATE
  To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object. Why does this apple fall to the ground Because all bodies gravitate toward each other.
• GRAVITATIVE
  Causing to gravitate; tending to a center. Coleridge.
• HEAVY-ARMED
  Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
• HEAVY
  Having the heaves.
• GRAVITATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to the force of gravity; as, gravitational units.
• GRAVITATION
  1. The act of gravitating. 2. That species of attraction or force by which all bodies or particles of matter in the universe tend toward each other; called also attraction of gravitation, universal gravitation, and universal gravity.
• HEAVY SPAR
  Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
• HEAVY-HADED
  Clumsy; awkward.
• TOP-HEAVY
  Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
• OVERHEAVY
  Excessively heavy.
• PREGRAVITATE
  To descend by gravity; to sink. Boyle.