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Word Meanings - STRIPPET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small stream. "A little brook or strippet." Holinshed.

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  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • LITTLENESS
    The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
  • STREAMLET
    A small stream; a rivulet; a rill.
  • STREAM WHEEL
    A wheel used for measuring, by its motion when submerged, the velocity of flowing water; a current wheel.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • STREAM CLOCK
    An instrument for ascertaining the velocity of the blood in a vessel.
  • 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
  • LITTLE-EASE
    An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
  • BROOK
    A natural stream of water smaller than a river or creek. The Lord thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water. Deut. viii. 7. Empires itself, as doth an inland brook Into the main of waters. Shak. (more info) LG. brok, marshy
  • BROOKITE
    A mineral consisting of titanic oxide, and hence identical with rutile and octahedrite in composition, but crystallizing in the orthorhombic system.
  • 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
  • STREAM LINE
    The path of a constituent particle of a flowing fluid undisturbed by eddies or the like.
  • STREAMLINE
    Of or pert. to a stream line; designating a motion or flow that is free from turbulence, like that of a particle in a streamline; hence, designating a surface, body, etc., that is designed so as to afford an unbroken flow of a fluid about it, esp.
  • 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.
  • BROOK MINT
    See MINT
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • STREAMINESS
    The state of being streamy; a trailing. R. A. Proctor.
  • STREAMY
    1. Abounding with streams, or with running water; streamful. Arcadia However streamy now, adust and dry, Denied the goddess water. Prior. 2. Resembling a stream; issuing in a stream. His nodding helm emits a streamy ray. Pope.
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • BROOKSIDE
    The bank of a brook.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • DO-LITTLE
    One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
  • UPSTREAM
    Toward the higher part of a stream; against the current.
  • DISTREAM
    To flow. Yet o'er that virtuous blush distreams a tear. Shenstone.
  • DOWNSTREAM
    Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

 

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