Word Meanings - RUFESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Reddish; tinged with red.
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- TINGIS
A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix. - REDDISH
Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n. - TINGENT
Having the power to tinge. As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle. - TING
A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling. - TINGLE
Etym: 1. To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. iii. 11. 2. To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. Pope. - TINGE
A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge - TINGID
Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis. - TINGER
One who, or that which, tinges. - CONTINGENT
Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con- - COTINGA
A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers. - BOOTING
Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. Sir. J. Harrington. - FORTHPUTING
Bold; forward; aggressive. - OSCILLATING
That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale. - GREETING
Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - WAITINGLY
By waiting. - MOUNTING
1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond. - WASTING
Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive. - STRUTTING
from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - YELTING
The Florida and West Indian red snapper ; also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - DEBATING
The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - SNIFTING
from Snift. Snifting valve, a small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; -- so called from the noise made by its action. - PERSISTING
Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv. - WRITING
1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or