Word Meanings - RASCALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift.
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- DISHONESTY
1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. - DISPARAGEMENT
1. Matching any one in marriage under his or her degree; injurious union with something of inferior excellence; a lowering in rank or estimation. And thought that match a foul disparagement. Spenser. 2. Injurious comparison with an inferior; a - RASCALITY
1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson. - PORTERESS
See PORTRESS - TRICKISH
Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n. - SWIFTNESS
The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc. - HUMOROUSLY
1. Capriciously; whimsically. We resolve rashly, sillily, or humorously. Calamy. 2. Facetiously; wittily. - WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - SWIFTLET
Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - RASCAL
Of or pertaining to the common herd or common people; low; mean; base. "The rascal many." Spencer. "The rascal people." Shak. While she called me rascal fiddler. Shak. - SWIFTER
A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast. - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - FALLEN
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - RASCALLY
Like a rascal; trickish or dishonest; base; worthless; -- often in humorous disparagement, without implication of dishonesty. Our rascally porter is fallen fast asleep. Swift. - PORTERHOUSE
A house where porter is sold. Porterhouse steak, a steak cut from a sirloin of beet, including the upper and under part. - PORTER
A bar of iron or steel at the end of which a forging is made; esp., a long, large bar, to the end of which a heavy forging is attached, and by means of which the forging is lifted and handled is hammering and heating; -- called also porter bar. - ASLEEP
1. In a state of sleep; in sleep; dormant. Fast asleep the giant lay supine. Dryden. By whispering winds soon lulled asleep. Milton. 2. In the sleep of the grave; dead. Concerning them which are asleep . . . sorrow not, even as others which have - SWIFT
Any one of numerous species of small, long-winged, insectivorous birds of the family Micropodidæ. In form and habits the swifts resemble swallows, but they are destitute of complex vocal muscles and are not singing birds, but belong to a widely - JAW-FALLEN
Dejected; chopfallen. - CRESTFALLEN
1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse. - DOWNFALLEN
Fallen; ruined. Carew. - TRANSPORTER
One who transports.