Word Meanings - ROUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. of Reach.

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• REACH
  An effort to vomit.
• REACHABLE
  Being within reach.
• REACHER
  1. One who reaches. 2. An exaggeration. Fuller.
• REACHLESS
  Being beyond reach; lofty. Unto a reachless pitch of praises hight. Bp. Hall.
• OUTPREACH
  To surpass in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.
• FOREREACH
  To advance or gain upon; -- said of a vessel that gains upon another when sailing closehauled.
• HIGH-REACHING
  Reaching high or upward; hence, ambitious; aspiring. Shak.
• GUNREACH
  The reach or distance to which a gun will shoot; gunshot.
• OUTREACH
  To reach beyond.
• TREACHEROUS
  Like a traitor; involving treachery; violating allegiance or faith pledged; traitorous to the state or sovereign; perfidious in private life; betraying a trust; faithless. Loyal father of a treacherous son. Shak. The treacherous smile, a mask for
• PREACH
  cry in public, to proclaim; prae before + dicare to make known, dicere to say; or perhaps from LL. praedictare. See 1. To proclaim or publish tidings; specifically, to proclaim the gospel; to discourse publicly on a religious subject, or from
• PREACHMENT
  A religious harangue; a sermon; -- used derogatively. Shak.
• SEA BREACH
  A breaking or overflow of a bank or a dike by the sea. L'Estrange.
• BREACH
  A hernia; a rupture. 8. A breaking out upon; an assault. The Lord had made a breach upon Uzza. 1. Chron. xiii. 11 Breach of falth, a breaking, or a failure to keep, an expressed or implied promise; a betrayal of confidence or trust. -- Breach of
• POUND-BREACH
  The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.
• BREACHY
  Apt to break fences or to break out of pasture; unruly; as, breachy cattle.
• PREACHIFY
  To discourse in the manner of a preacher. Thackeray.
• TREACHETOUR; TREACHOUR
  A traitor. "Treachour full of false despite." Spenser.
• SPOUSE-BREACH
  Adultery.
• PREACHERSHIP
  The office of a preacher. "The preachership of the Rolls." Macaulay.
• PREACHER
  1. One who preaches; one who discourses publicly on religious subjects. How shall they hear without a preacher Rom. x. 14. 2. One who inculcates anything with earnestness. No preacher is listened to but Time. Swift. Preacher bird , a toucan.