Word Meanings - PURPORTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without purport or meaning.
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Without purport or meaning. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - MEAN
menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you - MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
Winding; flexuous. - PURPORT
1. Design or tendency; meaning; import; tenor. The whole scope and purport of that dialogue. Norris. With a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell. Shak. 2. Disguise; covering. For she her sex under that strange purport - MEANDER
Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement. - MEANLY
Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham. - MEAN-SPIRITED
Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - MEANDRINA
A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals. - MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
The intervening time; as, in the meantime . - MEANNESS
1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. - MEANT
of Mean. - MEANDRIAN
Winding; having many turns. - WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our - MEANING
1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - INTERMEAN
Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson. - UNMEANT
Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden. - DEMEANANCE
Demeanor. Skelton. - FOREMEANT
Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser. - CADMEAN
Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished; - PIGMEAN
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