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Word Meanings - PROVOKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the power or quality of exciting resentment; tending to awaken passion or vexation; as, provoking words or treatment. -- Pro*vok"ing*ly, adv.

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  • BITTERWEED
    A species of Ambrosia ; Roman worm wood. Gray.
  • STINGBULL
    The European greater weever fish , which is capable of inflicting severe wounds with the spinous rays of its dorsal fin. See Weever.
  • STING RAY; STINGRAY
    Any one of numerous rays of the family Dasyatidæ, syn. Trygonidæ, having one or more large sharp barbed dorsal spines, on the whiplike tail, capable of inflicting severe wounds. Some species reach a large size, and some, esp., on the American
  • SHARPLY
    In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
  • BITTERSWEET
    1. Anything which is bittersweet. 2. A kind of apple so called. Gower. A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter.
  • BITUME
    Bitumen. May.
  • SHARPER
    A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
  • BITTERS
    A liquor, generally spirituous in which a bitter herb, leaf, or root is steeped.
  • BITHEISM
    Belief in the existence of two gods; dualism.
  • BITARTRATE
    A salt of tartaric acid in which the base replaces but half the acid hydrogen; an acid tartrate, as cream of tartar.
  • CRUEL
    1. Disposed to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have
  • CUTTING
    1. Adapted to cut; as, a cutting tool. 2. Chilling; penetratinn; sharp; as, a cutting wind. 3. Severe; sarcastic; biting; as, a cutting reply.
  • CUTTHROAT
    Murderous; cruel; barbarous.
  • SHARPIE
    A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
  • BITTACLE
    A binnacle.
  • PIERCER
    1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
  • BITERNATE
    Doubly ternate, as when a petiole has three ternate leaflets. -- Bi*ter"nate*ly, adv. Gray.
  • TRENCHANT
    1. Fitted to trench or cut; gutting; sharp. " Trenchant was the blade." Chaucer. 2. Fig.: Keen; biting; severe; as, trenchant wit.
  • BITTERBUMP
    the butterbump or bittern.
  • STINGAREE
    Any sting ray. See under 6th Ray.
  • HOBIT
    A small mortar on a gun carriage, in use before the howitzer.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • BITE
    bizan, G. beissen, Goth. beitan, Icel. bita, Sw. bita, Dan. bide, L. 1. To seize with the teeth, so that they enter or nip the thing seized; to lacerate, crush, or wound with the teeth; as, to bite an apple; to bite a crust; the dog bit a man.
  • REHIBITION
    The returning of a thing purchased to the seller, on the ground of defect or frand.
  • WASTING
    Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
  • INHABITATE
    To inhabit.
  • INHIBITORY
    Of or pertaining to, or producing, inhibition; consisting in inhibition; tending or serving to inhibit; as, the inhibitory action of the pneumogastric on the respiratory center. I would not have you consider these criticisms as inhibitory. Lamb.
  • DISINTERESTING
    Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • ARBITRESS
    A female arbiter; an arbitratrix. Milton.
  • TRILOBITE
    Any one of numerous species of extinct arthropods belonging to the order Trilobita. Trilobites were very common in the Silurian and Devonian periods, but became extinct at the close of the Paleozoic. So named from the three lobes usually seen on
  • PERSISTING
    Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
  • DISCUBITORY
    Leaning; fitted for a reclining posture. Sir T. Browne.
  • EVERLASTINGLY
    In an everlasting manner.
  • PREORBITAL
    a. Situated in front or the orbit.
  • CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
    A horse that has the habit of cribbing.
  • EXHIBITION
    The act of administering a remedy. (more info) 1. The act of exhibiting for inspection, or of holding forth to view; manifestation; display. 2. That which is exhibited, held forth, or displayed; also, any public show; a display of works of art,
  • COHABITER
    A cohabitant. Hobbes.

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