Word Meanings - SUMMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.
Related words: (words related to SUMMIST)
- DERANGER
One who deranges. - DERANGEMENT
The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity; - DERIVE
To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior. - DERMOSTOSIS
Ossification of the dermis. - DERMOBRANCHIATE
Having the skin modified to serve as a gill. - DERANGED
Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb. - DERBIO
A large European food fish . - DERK
Dark. Chaucer. - DERAIGNMENT; DERAINMENT
1. The act of deraigning. 2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. Blount. - DERMA
See DERMIS - DERNFUL
Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. "Dernful noise." Spenser. - DEROGATELY
In a derogatory manner. - DERELING
Darling. Chaucer. - DERELICTION
A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other - DERNE
To hide; to skulk. He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller. - DERELICT
1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer. - DERMESTES
A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle. - DERNIER
Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: , last resort or expedient. - DERACINATION
The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication. - DERISIVE
Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n. - FLOODER
One who floods anything. - UNDERDOER
One who underdoes; a shirk. - BONDER
A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone. (more info) 1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - GASCONADER
A great boaster; a blusterer. - UDDERED
Having an udder or udders. - GENDER
A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living - GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - UNDERSECRETARY
A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury. - CONFEDER
To confederate. Sir T. North. - EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
Equality of weight; equipoise. - SADDER
See SADDA - CONFIDER
One who confides. - UNDERPLOT
1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison. - UNDERNICENESS
A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety. - SEA LAVENDER
See MARSH - UNDERDOLVEN
p. p. of Underdelve. - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.