Word Meanings - SNIVELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.

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• WHINYARD
  from AS. winn contention, war + geard, gyrd, a staff, rod, yard; or 1. A sword, or hanger. 2. Etym: The shoveler. The poachard.
• WHINE
  A plaintive tone; the nasal, childish tone of mean complaint; mean or affected complaint.
• PITIFUL
  1. Full of pity; tender-hearted; compassionate; kind; merciful; sympathetic. The Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy. James v. 11. 2. Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser. 3. To be
• SNIVELER
  One who snivels, esp. one who snivels habitually.
• WHINNER
  To whinny.
• WHINGER
  A kind of hanger or sword used as a knife at meals and as a weapon. The chief acknowledged that he had corrected her with his whinger. Sir W. Scott.
• RUNNINGLY
  In a running manner.
• WHINOCK
  The small pig of a litter.
• RUNNING
  Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine. (more info) 1. Moving or advancing by running. Specifically, of a horse; Having a running gait; not a trotter or pacer. trained and kept for running races; as, a running horse.
• SNIVEL
  1. To run at the nose; to make a snuffling noise. 2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or whiningly. Put stop to thy sniveling ditty. Sir W. Scott.
• WHINCHAT
  A small warbler common in Europe; -- called also whinchacker, whincheck, whin-clocharet.
• RUNNET
  See RENNET
• RUNNER
  A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil. 7. The rotating stone of a set of millstones. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, runs; a racer. 2. A
• WHINGE
  To whine. Burns.
• WHINNY
  To utter the ordinary call or cry of a horse; to neigh. (more info) Etym:
• RUNNEL
  A rivulet or small brook. Buddling rundels joined the sound. Collins. By the very sides of the way . . . there are slow runnels, in which one can see the minnows swimming. Masson.
• WHIN
  Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns. Woad-waxed. Gray. 2. Same as Whinstone. Moor whin or Petty whin , a low prickly shrub common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin,
• WHINER
  One who, or that which, whines.
• RUNNING LOAD
  The air pressure supported by each longitudinal foot segment of a wing. Commonly, the whole weight of aëroplane and load divided by the span, or length from tip to tip.
• SNIVELY
  Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.
• RIGHT-RUNNING
  Straight; direct.
• PETTYWHIN
  The needle furze. See under Needle.
• STONERUNNER
  The ring plover, or the ringed dotterel. The dotterel.
• OVERRUNNER
  One that overruns. Lovelace.
• TRUNNEL
  A trundle.
• INRUNNING
  The act or the place of entrance; an inlet. Tennyson.
• TRUNNIONED
  Provided with trunnions; as, the trunnioned cylinder of an oscillating steam engine.