Word Meanings - SUPPLICANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Entreating; asking submissively. Shak. -- Sup"pli*cant*ly, adv.

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• ASKING
  1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. Longfellow. 2. The publishing of banns.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• ASK
  asken, ashen, axien, AS. ascian, acsian; akin to OS. escon, OHG. eiscon, Sw. aska, Dan. æske, D. eischen, G. heischen, Lith. jëskóti, 1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - - often with of, in the sense of from,
• ASKEW
  Awry; askance; asquint; oblique or obliquely; -- sometimes indicating scorn, or contempt, or entry. Spenser.
• ENTREAT
  1. To treat, or conduct toward; to deal with; to use. Fairly let her be entreated. Shak. I will cause the enemy to entreat thee well. Jer. xv. 11. 2. To treat with, or in respect to, a thing desired; hence, to ask earnestly; to beseech; to petition
• ASKANCE; ASKANT
  Sideways; obliquely; with a side glance; with disdain, envy, or suspicion. They dart away; they wheel askance. Beattie. My palfrey eyed them askance. Landor. Both . . . were viewed askance by authority. Gladstone.
• ASKER
  One who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer. Shak.
• ENTREATER
  One who entreats; one who asks earnestly; a beseecher.
• ASKANCE
  To turn aside. O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.
• ENTREATIVE
  Used in entreaty; pleading. "Entreative phrase." A. Brewer.
• ENTREATANCE
  Entreaty. Fairfax.
• ENTREATMENT
  Entreaty; invitation. Shak.
• ENTREATABLE
  That may be entreated.
• ENTREATINGLY
  In an entreating manner.
• BASKING SHARK
  One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• OVERTASK
  To task too heavily.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• RASKOLNIK
  One of the separatists or dissenters from the established or Greek church in Russia.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• BREADBASKET
  The stomach. S. Foote.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• CASK
  1. Same as Casque. 2. A barrel-shaped vessel made of staves headings, and hoops, usually fitted together so as to hold liquids. It may be larger or smaller than a barrel. 3. The quantity contained in a cask. 4. A casket; a small box for jewels.
• SIRASKIER
  See SERASKIER
• PASK
  See PASCH
• ANTIMASK
  A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. Bacon.
• HASK
  A basket made of rushes or flags, as for carrying fish. Spenser.
• FLASK
  The wooden or iron frame which holds the sand, etc., forming the mold used in a foundry; it consists of two or more parts; viz., the cope or top; sometimes, the cheeks, or middle part; and the drag, or bottom part. When there are one or more cheeks,
• TASKER
  1. One who imposes a task. 2. One who performs a task, as a day-laborer. 3. A laborer who receives his wages in kind.
• MASK
  A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. A screen for a battery. (more