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Word Meanings - QUELL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Etym: 1. To die. Yet he did quake and quaver, like to quell. Spenser. 2. To be subdued or abated; to yield; to abate. Winter's wrath begins to quell. Spenser.

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  • CHECKWORK
    Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
  • BREAKMAN
    See BRAKEMAN
  • STIFLED
    Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
  • SMOTHER
    Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
  • RESTRAINABLE
    Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
  • BREAKABLE
    Capable of being broken.
  • MISMANAGER
    One who manages ill.
  • ALLOWEDLY
    By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • SUPPRESSOR
    One who suppresses.
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • DESTROYABLE
    Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
  • MASTERSHIP
    1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
  • CONCEALED
    Hidden; kept from sight; secreted. -- Con*ceal"ed*ly (, adv. -- Con*ceal"ed*ness, n. Concealed weapons , dangerous weapons so carried on the person as to be knowingly or willfully concealed from sight, -- a practice forbidden by statute.
  • ALLOW
    allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
  • CHECKREIN
    1. A short rein looped over the check hook to prevent a horse from lowering his head; -- called also a bearing rein. 2. A branch rein connecting the driving rein of one horse of a span or pair with the bit of the other horse.
  • CONQUEROR
    One who conquers. The Conqueror . William the Norman who invaded England, defeated Harold in the battle of Hastings, and was crowned king, in 1066.
  • MASTEROUS
    Masterly. Milton.
  • ALLOWER
    1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
  • REPRESSIBLE
    Capable of being repressed.
  • CREMASTERIC
    Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • HALLOW
    To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
  • CALLOW
    1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
  • BAGGAGE MASTER
    One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
  • THRYFALLOW
    To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
  • LAWBREAKER
    One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
  • SALLOWISH
    Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
  • WALLOWER
    A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
  • TOASTMASTER
    A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
  • MALLOWWORT
    Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.

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