Word Meanings - SLIPSKIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Evasive. Milton.
Related words: (words related to SLIPSKIN)
- MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - EVASIVE
Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling; avoiding by artifice. Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest, Answered evasive of the sly request. Pope. Stammered out a few evasive phrases. Macaulay. -- E*va"sive*ly , adv. -- - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.