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Word Meanings - SMELL-FEAST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who is apt to find and frequent good tables; a parasite; a sponger. The epicure and the smell-feast. South. 2. A feast at which the guests are supposed to feed upon the odors only of the viands.

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  • FREQUENTATIVE
    Serving to express the frequent repetition of an action; as, a frequentative verb. -- n.
  • SOUTHWEST
    Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.
  • SOUTHSAY
    See SOOTHSAY
  • SOUTHWESTERLY
    To ward or from the southwest; as, a southwesterly course; a southwesterly wind.
  • SOUTHPAW
    A pitcher who pitches with the left hand.
  • SOUTHERNLINESS
    Southerliness.
  • EPICURE
    1. A follower of Epicurus; an Epicurean. Bacon. 2. One devoted to dainty or luxurious sensual enjoyments, esp. to the luxuries of the table. Syn. -- Voluptuary; sensualist.
  • SOUTHREN
    Southern. "I am a Southren man." Chaucer.
  • SMELLING
    1. The act of one who smells. 2. The sense by which odors are perceived; the sense of smell. Locke. Smelling bottle, a small bottle filled with something suited to stimulate the sense of smell, or to remove faintness, as spirits of ammonia.
  • EPICUREAN
    1. A follower or Epicurus. 2. One given to epicurean indulgence.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SOUTHSAYER
    See SOOTHSAYER
  • SOUTH; SOUTHERLY
    the old squaw; -- so called in imitation of its cry. Called also southerly, and southerland. See under Old.
  • EPICURELY
    Luxuriously. Nash.
  • SOUTHING
    Distance of any heavenly body south of the equator; south declination; south latitude. (more info) 1. Tendency or progress southward; as, the southing of the sun. Emerson. 2. The time at which the moon, or other heavenly body, passes the meridian
  • FREQUENTNESS
    The quality of being frequent.
  • SOUTHERN
    A Southerner.
  • SOUTHNESS
    A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole. Faraday.
  • FREQUENTATION
    The act or habit of frequenting or visiting often; resort. Chesterfield.
  • TABLESPOON
    A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
  • OVERFREQUENT
    Too frequent.
  • CONSTABLESS
    The wife of a constable.
  • FEAST
    festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
  • MICROPARASITE
    A parasitic microörganism. -- Mi`cro*par`a*sit"ic , a.
  • SUPPARASITE
    To flatter; to cajole; to act the parasite. Dr. R. Clerke.
  • PRESUPPOSITION
    1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.

 

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