Word Meanings - RETIRACY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Retirement; -- mostly used in a jocose or burlesque way. Bartlett. What one of our great men used to call dignified retiracy. C. A. Bristed.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• BRISTLINESS
  The quality or state of having bristles.
• BRISTLE
  A stiff, sharp, roundish hair. Gray. (more info) D. borstel, OHG. burst, G. borste, Icel. burst, Sw. borst, and to Skr. bh edge, point, and prob, L. fastigium extremity, Gr. brush, 1. A short, stiff, coarse hair, as on the back of swine.
• BARTLETT
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• JOCOSE
  Given to jokes and jesting; containing a joke, or abounding in jokes; merry; sportive; humorous. To quit their austerity and be jocose and pleasant with an adversary. Shaftesbury. All . . . jocose or comical airs should be excluded. I. Watts. Syn.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• RETIREMENT
  1. The act of retiring, or the state of being retired; withdrawal; seclusion; as, the retirement of an officer. O, blest Retirement, friend of life's decline. Goldsmith. Retirement, rural quiet, friendship, books. Thomson. 2. A place of seclusion
• BRISTLY
  THick set with bristles, or with hairs resembling bristles; rough. The leaves of the black mulberry are somewhat bristly. Bacon.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• DIGNIFICATION
  The act of dignifying; exaltation.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• BURLESQUER
  One who burlesques.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• BRISTLETAIL
  An insect of the genera Lepisma, Campodea, etc., belonging to the Thysanura.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• SEPTEMBRIST
  An agent in the massacres in Paris, committed in patriotic frenzy, on the 22d of September, 1792.
• INNERMOSTLY
  In the innermost place. His ebon cross worn innermostly. Mrs. Browning.