Word Meanings - SPATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.

Related words: (words related to SPATE)

• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• OVERFLOWINGLY
  In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• SPATE
  A river flood; an overflow or inundation. Burns. Gareth in a showerful spring Stared at the spate. Tennyson.
• SPRINGBOARD
  An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising.
• STAR-READ
  Doctrine or knowledge of the stars; star lore; astrology; astronomy. Which in star-read were wont have best insight. Spenser.
• SPRINGE
  A noose fastened to an elastic body, and drawn close with a sudden spring, whereby it catches a bird or other animal; a gin; a snare. As a woodcock to mine own springe. Shak.
• SPRINGAL
  An ancient military engine for casting stones and arrows by means of a spring.
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• SPRINT
  To run very rapidly; to run at full speed. A runner should be able to sprint the whole way. Encyc. Brit. (more info) Etym:
• STARK
  stiff, strong, AS. stearc; akin to OS. starc strong, D. sterk, OHG. starc, starah, G. & Sw. stark, Dan. stærk, Icel. sterkr, Goth. gastaúrknan to become dried up, Lith. strëgti to stiffen, to freeze. 1. Stiff; rigid. Chaucer. Whose senses all
• STAR-CHAMBER
  An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed
• STARCHER
  One who starches.
• SPRIGHTLY
  Sprightlike, or spiritlike; lively; brisk; animated; vigorous; airy; gay; as, a sprightly youth; a sprightly air; a sprightly dance. "Sprightly wit and love inspires." Dryden. The sprightly Sylvia trips along the green. Pope.
• SPRINKLING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. 2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. 3. Hence, a moderate
• SPRINGY
  1. Resembling, having the qualities of, or pertaining to, a spring; elastic; as, springy steel; a springy step. Though her little frame was slight, it was firm and springy. Sir W. Scott. 2. Abounding with springs or fountains; wet; spongy; as,
• SPRIGGED
  Having sprigs.
• FLOODAGE
  Inundation. Carlyle.
• STARGASER
  Any one of several species of spiny-rayed marine fishes belonging to Uranoscopus, Astroscopus, and allied genera, of the family Uranoscopidæ. The common species of the Eastern United States are Astroscopus anoplus, and A. guttatus. So called from
• SPRUNTLY
  In a sprunt manner; smartly; vigorously; youthfully. B. Jonson.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• DAY-STAR
  1. The morning star; the star which ushers in the day. A dark place, until the day dawn, and the day-star arise in your hearts. 2 Peter i. 19. 2. The sun, as the orb of day. So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• POLESTAR
  1. Polaris, or the north star. See North star, under North. 2. A guide or director.
• CUSPATED
  Ending in a point.
• INSTAR
  To stud as with stars. "A golden throne instarred with gems." J. Barlow.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.