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Word Meanings - SALACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous. Dryden. -- Sa*la"cious*ly, dv. -- Sa*la"cious*ness, n.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • LECHEROUS
    Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust- provoking. "A lecherous thing is wine." Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness, n.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • VENERY
    Sexual love; sexual intercourse; coition. Contentment, without the pleasure of lawful venery, is continence; of unlawful, chastity. Grew.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • LUSTFUL
    1. Full of lust; excited by lust Spenser. Tillotson. 2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. " Lustful orgies." Milton. 3. Strong; lusty. " Lustful health." Sackville. Syn. -- sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd;
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • PROPENSITY
    The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency. "A propensity to utter blasphemy." Macaulay. Syn. -- Disposition; bias; inclination; proclivity; proneness; bent; tendency.
  • HAVOC
    Wide and general destruction; devastation; waste. As for Saul, he made havoc of the church. Acts viii. 3. Ye gods, what havoc does ambition make Among your works! Addison. (more info) fr. E. havoc, cf. OE. havot, or AS. hafoc hawk, which is a cruel
  • HAVER
    A possessor; a holder. Shak.
  • HAVILDAR
    In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant. Havildar major, a native sergeant major in the East Indian army.
  • HAVELESS
    Having little or nothing. Gower.
  • HAVIER
    A castrated deer. Haviers, or stags which have been gelded when young, have no horns. Encyc. of Sport.
  • HAVERSACK
    1. A bag for oats or oatmeal. 2. A bag or case, usually of stout cloth, in which a soldier carries his rations when on a march; -- distinguished from knapsack. 3. A gunner's case or bag used carry cartridges from the ammunition chest to the piece
  • PALACIOUS
    Palatial. Graunt.
  • PRENUNCIOUS
    Announcing beforehand; presaging. Blount.
  • AUSPICIOUS
    1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
  • OFFICIOUS
    1. Pertaining to, or being in accordance with, duty. If there were any lie in the case, it could be no more than as officious and venial one. Note on Gen. xxvii. . 2. Disposed to serve; kind; obliging. Yet not to earth are those bright luminaries
  • TRIOECIOUS
    Having three sorts of flowers on the same or on different plants, some of the flowers being staminate, others pistillate, and others both staminate and pistillate; belonging to the order Trioecia.
  • UNCONSCIOUS
    1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
  • RAMPACIOUS
    High-spirited; rampageous. Dickens.
  • CAPRICIOUS
    Governed or characterized by caprice; apt to change suddenly; freakish; whimsical; changeable. "Capricious poet." Shak. "Capricious humor." Hugh Miller. A capricious partiality to the Romish practices. Hallam. Syn. -- Freakish; whimsical; fanciful;
  • DISGRACIOUS
    Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
  • PETROSILICIOUS
    Containing, or consisting of, petrosilex.
  • MINACIOUS
    Threatening; menacing.
  • GYNODIOECIOUS
    Dioecious, but having some hermaphrodite or perfect flowers on an individual plant which bears mostly pistillate flowers.
  • CONVICIOUS
    Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .
  • INEFFICACIOUSLY
    without efficacy or effect.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • EDACIOUS
    Given to eating; voracious; devouring. Swallowed in the depths of edacious Time. Carlyle. -- E*da"cious*ly, adv. -- E*da"cious*ness, n.

 

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