Word Meanings - SPLENOID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling the spleen; spleenlike.
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- SPLEENY
1. Irritable; peevish; fretful. Spleeny Lutheran, and not wholesome to Our cause. Shak. 2. Affected with nervous complaints; melancholy. - SPLEENFUL
Displaying, or affected with, spleen; angry; fretful; melancholy. Myself have calmed their spleenful mutiny. Shak. Then rode Geraint, a little spleenful yet, Across the bridge that spann'd the dry ravine. Tennyson. - SPLEENLESS
Having no spleen; hence, kind; gentle; mild. Chapman. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - SPLEENISH
Spleeny; affected with spleen; fretful. -- Spleen"ish*ly, adv. -- Spleen"ish*ness, n. - SPLEEN
A peculiar glandlike but ductless organ found near the stomach or intestine of most vertebrates and connected with the vascular system; the milt. Its exact function in not known. 2. Anger; latent spite; ill humor; malice; as, to vent one's spleen. - SPLEENED
1. Deprived of the spleen. 2. Angered; annoyed. R. North. - RESEMBLE
sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak. - SPLEENWORT
Any fern of the genus Asplenium, some species of which were anciently used as remedies for disorders of the spleen. (more info) Gr. - RESEMBLABLE
Admitting of being compared; like. Gower. - RESEMBLER
One who resembles. - RESEMBLANCE
1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness. - UNSPLEENED
Deprived of a spleen. - NONRESEMBLANCE
Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.