Word Meanings - SNAIL-LIKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.

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• SUITABILITY
  The quality or state of being suitable; suitableness.
• SUITRESS
  A female supplicant. Rowe.
• SUITING
  Among tailors, cloth suitable for making entire suits of clothes.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• SNAIL
  A spiral cam, or a flat piece of metal of spirally curved outline, used for giving motion to, or changing the position of, another part, as the hammer tail of a striking clock. 4. A tortoise; in ancient warfare, a movable roof or shed to protect
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• PROGRESSIVE PARTY
  The political party formed, chiefly out of the Republican party, by the adherents of Theodore Roosevelt in the presidential campaign of 1912. The name Progressive party was chosen at the meeting held on Aug. 7, 1912, when the candidates
• SUITABLE
  Capable of suiting; fitting; accordant; proper; becoming; agreeable; adapted; as, ornaments suitable to one's station; language suitable for the subject. -- Suit"a*ble*ness, n. -- Suit"a*bly, adv. Syn. -- Proper; fitting; becoming; accordant;
• PROGRESSIONIST
  1. One who holds to a belief in the progression of society toward perfection. 2. One who maintains the doctrine of progression in organic forms; -- opposed to uniformitarian. H. Spencer.
• SUITOR
  1. One who sues, petitions, or entreats; a petitioner; an applicant. She hath been a suitor to me for her brother. Shak. 2. Especially, one who solicits a woman in marriage; a wooer; a lover. Sir P. Sidney. One who sues or prosecutes a demand in
• SNAIL-PACED
  Slow-moving, like a snail. Bid the snail-paced Ajax arm for shame. Shak.
• SNAIL-LIKE
  Like or suiting a snail; as, snail-like progress.
• SUITE
  One of the old musical forms, before the time of the more compact sonata, consisting of a string or series of pieces all in the same key, mostly in various dance rhythms, with sometimes an elaborate prelude. Some composers of the present day affect
• SUIT
  The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an action or process for the recovery of a right or claim; legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of right before any tribunal; as, a civil suit; a criminal suit; a suit in chancery. I
• PROGRESSIVE
  1. Moving forward; proceeding onward; advancing; evincing progress; increasing; as, progressive motion or course; -- opposed to retrograde. 2. Improving; as, art is in a progressive state. Progressive euchre or whist, a way of playing
• SNAILFISH
  See
• DEMISUIT
  A suit of light armor covering less than the whole body, as having no protection for the legs below the things, no vizor to the helmet, and the like.
• UNSUIT
  Not to suit; to be unfit for. Quarles.
• JESUITOCRACY
  Government by Jesuits; also, the whole body of Jesuits in a country. C. Kingsley.
• JESUITIC; JESUITICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to the Jesuits, or to their principles and methods. 2. Designing; cunning; deceitful; crafty; -- an opprobrious use of the word. Dryden.
• JESUITESS
  One of an order of nuns established on the principles of the Jesuits, but suppressed by Pope Urban in 1633.
• GLASS-SNAIL
  A small, transparent, land snail, of the genus Vitrina.
• JESUITRY
  Jesuitism; subtle argument. Carlyle.
• JESUITISM
  1. The principles and practices of the Jesuits. 2. Cunning; deceit; deceptive practices to effect a purpose; subtle argument; -- an opprobrious use of the word.
• ESTABLISHED SUIT
  A plain suit in which a player could, except for trumping, take tricks with all his remaining cards.
• WATER SNAIL
  Any aquatic pulmonate gastropod belonging to Planorbis, Limnæa, and allied genera; a pond snail.
• PURSUIT
  Prosecution. That pursuit for tithes ought, and of ancient time did pertain to the spiritual court. Fuller. Curve of pursuit , a curve described by a point which is at each instant moving towards a second point, which is itself moving according