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Word Meanings - PRYING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inspecting closely or impertinently. Syn. -- Inquisitive; curious. See Inquisitive.

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  • PEEP SIGHT
    An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
  • MEDDLING
    Meddlesome. Macaulay.
  • INQUISITIVELY
    In an inquisitive manner. The occasion that made him afterwards so inquisitively apply himself to the study of physic. Boyle.
  • PRYTANIS
    A member of one of the ten sections into which the Athenian senate of five hundred was divided, and to each of which belonged the presidency of the senate for about one tenth of the year.
  • PRYAN
    See PRIAN
  • PEERT
    See PEART
  • SEARCHLESS
    Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
  • PEERAGE
    1. The rank or dignity of a peer. Blackstone. 2. The body of peers; the nobility, collectively. When Charlemain with all his peerage fell. Milton.
  • PEERESS
    The wife of a peer; a woman ennobled in her own right, or by right of marriage.
  • UNIQUE
    Being without a like or equal; unmatched; unequaled; unparalleled; single in kind or excellence; sole. -- U*nique"ly, adv. -- U*nique"ness, n.
  • PRY
    A lever; also, leverage. Pry pole, the pole which forms the prop of a hoisting gin, and stands facing the windlass.
  • SINGULAR
    Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
  • INQUIRINGLY
    In an inquiring manner.
  • INQUIRER
    One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
  • MEDDLER
    One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
  • PRYTHEE
    See PRITHEE
  • INQUIRING
    Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.
  • CURIOUSLY
    In a curious manner.
  • PRYINGLY
    In a prying manner.
  • MEDDLESOME
    Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
  • INTERMEDDLE
    To meddle with the affairs of others; to meddle officiously; to interpose or interfere improperly; to mix or meddle with. The practice of Spain hath been, by war and by conditions of treaty, to intermeddle with foreign states. Bacon. Syn. -- To
  • OUTPEER
    To excel. Shak.
  • LEPRY
    Leprosy. Holland.
  • SUPERCURIOUS
    Excessively curious or inquisitive. Evelyn.
  • INSEARCH
    To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.

 

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