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Word Meanings - STONEBRASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.

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  • BROKEN WIND
    The heaves.
  • BROKEN BREAST
    Abscess of the mammary gland.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • BROKEN
    1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
  • BRASHY
    1. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly. Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered. F. T. Bullen. 2. Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.
  • FINELY
    In a fine or finished manner.
  • BROKEN-WINDED
    Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • BROKEN-BACKED
    Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
  • BROKEN-BELLIED
    Having a ruptured belly.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • BROKENNESS
    1. The state or quality of being broken; unevenness. Macaulay. 2. Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.
  • BROKENLY
    In a broken, interrupted manner; in a broken state; in broken language. The pagans worship God . . . as it were brokenly and by piecemeal. Cudworth.
  • BROKEN-HEARTED
    Having the spirits depressed or crushed by grief or despair. She left her husband almost broken-hearted. Macaulay. Syn. -- Disconsolable; heart-broken; inconsolable; comfortless; woe- begone; forlorn.
  • BRASH
    Hasty in temper; impetuous. Grose.
  • SUBSOIL
    The bed, or stratum, of earth which lies immediately beneath the surface soil. Subsoil plow, a plow having a share and standard but no moldboard. It follows in the furrow made by an ordinary plow, and loosens the soil to an additional depth without
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • HEARTBROKEN
    Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
  • UNBROKEN
    Not broken; continuous; unsubdued; as, an unbroken colt.
  • WATER BRASH
    See BRASH
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

 

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