Word Meanings - SPLURGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blustering demonstration, or great effort; a great display. Bartlett.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• BARTLETT
  A Bartlett pear, a favorite kind of pear, which originated in England about 1770, and was called Williams' Bonchrétien. It was brought to America, and distributed by Mr. Enoch Bartlett, of Dorchester, Massachusetts.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATEN
  To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• EFFORT
  A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. Rankine. Syn. -- Endeavor; exertion; struggle; strain; straining; attempt; trial; essay. See Attempt. (more info) 1. An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental,
• DISPLAY
  1. An opening or unfolding; exhibition; manifestation. Having witnessed displays of his power and grace. Trench. 2. Ostentatious show; exhibition for effect; parade. He died, as erring man should die, Without display, without parade. Byron.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• DEMONSTRATION
  The exhibition and explanation of a dissection or other anatomical preparation. 4. a decisive exhibition of force, or a movement indicating an attack. (more info) 1. The act of demonstrating; an exhibition; proof; especially, proof beyond the
• BLUSTER
  1. Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness. To the winds they set Their corners, when with bluster to confound Sea, air, and shore. Milton. 2. Noisy and violent or threatening talk; noisy and boastful language.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• TUN-GREAT
  Having the circumference of a tun. Chaucer.
• BLUSTERING
  1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.