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Word Meanings - SWAINISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.

Related words: (words related to SWAINISH)

  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • BEASTLIKE
    Like a beast.
  • RUSTICAL
    Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
  • SWAINLING
    A little swain.
  • BEASTLINESS
    The state or quality of being beastly.
  • BEASTINGS
    See BIESTINGS
  • RUSTICATE
    To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
  • RUSTICITY
    The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
  • IGNORANTLY
    In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.
  • SWAINMOTE
    A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
  • IGNORANTIST
    One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
  • RESEMBLINGLY
    So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
  • BEASTHOOD
    State or nature of a beast.
  • RUSTICLY
    In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • RUSTICATED
    resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
  • RESEMBLANT
    Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
  • SWAINSHIP
    The condition of a swain.
  • UNGENTLE
    Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh. Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind. Shak. That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes. Hawthorne. -- Un*gen"tle*ness, n. -- Un*gen"tly, adv.
  • SWAIN
    1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
  • SEA BEAST
    Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
  • BOATSWAIN
    An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
  • COCKSWAIN
    The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
  • SELF-IGNORANT
    Ignorant of one's self.

 

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