Word Meanings - SURGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Rising; swelling, as a flood. Robert Greene.
Related words: (words related to SURGENT)
- FLOODER
One who floods anything. - RIS
A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer. - RISIBLE
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." - RISQUE; RISQUEE
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin. - RIST
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer. - FLOODAGE
Inundation. Carlyle. - RISEN
1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer. - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - FLOODING
The filling or covering with water or other fluid; overflow; inundation; the filling anything to excess. - FLOOD
D. vloed, OS. flod, OHG. fluot, G. flut, Icel. floedh, Sw. & Dan. flod, Goth. flodus; from the root of E. flow. sq. root80. See Flow, 1. A great flow of water; a body of moving water; the flowing stream, as of a river; especially, a body of water, - GREENERY
Green plants; verdure. A pretty little one-storied abode, so rural, so smothered in greenery. J. Ingelow. - ROBERT
See HERB - RISKER
One who risks or hazards. Hudibras. - RISORIAL
Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles. - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - RISH
A rush . Chaucer. - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - RISIBILITY
The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott. - RISING
1. Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon. 2. Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. Among the rising - RISE
Icel. risa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, 1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv. - GRISLY
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, - GRISTMILL
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - SPAGYRIST
1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit. - LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church. - METAPHORIST
One who makes metaphors. - ARTILLERIST
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. - TANTRISM
The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n. - PERISTALSIS
Peristaltic contraction or action. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. - PURISM
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly - PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - NATURISM
The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. - GRIST
1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size