Word Meanings - PROWLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.

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• ACCUSTOMARILY
  Customarily.
• ROVINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• ACCUSTOMEDNESS
  Habituation. Accustomedness to sin hardens the heart. Bp. Pearce.
• PROWLER
  One that prowls. Thomson.
• ACCUSTOMABLE
  Habitual; customary; wonted. "Accustomable goodness." Latimer.
• ENGAGING
  Tending to draw the attention or affections; attractive; as, engaging manners or address. -- En*ga"ging*ly, adv. -- En*ga"ging*ness, n. Engaging and disengaging gear or machinery, that in which, or by means of which, one part is alternately brought
• ENGAGEDNESS
  The state of being deeply interested; earnestness; zeal.
• ROVINGNESS
  The state of roving.
• ROVING
  1. The operatin of forming the rove, or slightly twisted sliver or roll of wool or cotton, by means of a machine for the purpose, called a roving frame, or roving machine. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and slightly twisted; a
• ACCUSTOMABLY
  According to custom; ordinarily; customarily. Latimer.
• PROWL
  1. To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty. He prowls each place, still in new colors decked. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.
• ENGAGER
  One who enters into an engagement or agreement; a surety. Several sufficient citizens were engagers. Wood.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• ROVER
  A ball which has passed through all the hoops and would go out if it hit the stake but is continued in play; also, the player of such a ball. Casual marks at uncertain distances. Encyc. Brit. A sort of arrow. All sorts, flights, rovers, and butt
• ACCUSTOMARY
  Usual; customary. Featley.
• ROVE
  1. A copper washer upon which the end of a nail is clinched in boat building. 2. A roll or sliver of wool or cotton drawn out and
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• PROWLING
  Accustomed to prowl, or engaged in roving stealthily, as for prey. "A prowling wolf." Milton. -- Prowl"ing*ly, adv.
• ENGAGEDLY
  With attachment; with interest; earnestly.
• ENGAGED
  1. Occupied; employed; busy. 2. Pledged; promised; especially, having the affections pledged; promised in marriage; affianced; betrothed. 3. Greatly interested; of awakened zeal; earnest. 4. Involved; esp., involved in a hostile encounter; as,
• PROVERBIAL
  1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
• PROVENTRIULUS
  The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• DISAPPROVAL
  Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.
• CORROVAL
  A dark brown substance of vegetable origin, allied to curare, and used by the natives of New Granada as an arrow poison.
• APPROVEDLY
  So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner.
• PROVINCIALLY
  In a provincial manner.
• REENGAGEMENT
  A renewed or repeated engagement.
• CONTROVERSAL
  1. Turning or looking opposite ways. The temple of Janus, with his two controversal faces. Milton. 2. Controversal. Boyle.
• APPROVING
  Expressing approbation; commending; as, an approving smile. -- Ap*prov"ing*ly, adv.
• IMPROVISATRICE
  See IMPROVVISATRICE
• DISAPPROVE
  1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline
• PROVINE
  To lay a stock or branch of a vine in the ground for propagation. Johnson. (more info) plant, OF. provain, from L. propago, -aginis, akin to propagare to
• MEROVINGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.
• SACROVERTEBRAL
  Of or pertaining to the sacrum and that part of the vertebral column immediately anterior to it; as, the sacrovertebral angle.
• PROVENCAL
  Of or pertaining to Provence or its inhabitants.
• RETROVERT
  To turn back.