Word Meanings - RESPEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To speak or utter again. 2. To answer; to echo. Shak.

Related words: (words related to RESPEAK)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• AGAINSAY
  To gainsay. Wyclif.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• UTTER
  1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer.
• AGAIN
  again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• UTTERMOST
  Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• AGAIN; AGAINS
  Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
• UTTERMORE
  Further; outer; utter. Holland.
• UTTERLESS
  Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton.
• ANSWERLESS
  Having no answer, or impossible to be answered. Byron.
• ANSWERABLE
  1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that
• UTTERER
  One who utters. Spenser.
• UTTERABLE
  Capable of being uttered.
• ANSWERABLY
  In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
• AGAINWARD
  Back again.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• BUTTER-SCOTCH
  A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens.
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• SWARD-CUTTER
  A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower.
• BESPEAKER
  One who bespeaks.
• PUTTER-ON
  An instigator. Shak.
• SLUTTERY
  The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton.
• OUTSPEAK
  1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak.
• UNBESPEAK
  To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• TROILUS BUTTERFLY
  A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.
• BUTTERMAN
  A man who makes or sells butter.