Word Meanings - TABEFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A wasting away; a gradual losing of flesh by disease.

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• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• LOSEL
  One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• FLESHHOOD
  The state or condition of having a form of flesh; incarnation. Thou, who hast thyself Endured this fleshhood. Mrs. Browning.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• GRADUAL
  Proceeding by steps or degrees; advancing, step by step, as in ascent or descent or from one state to another; regularly progressive; slow; as, a gradual increase of knowledge; a gradual decline. Creatures animate with gradual life Of growth, sense,
• WASTE
  the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into
• FLESHINESS
  The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness. Milton.
• LOSING
  Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• WASTEFUL
  1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful
• LOSSLESS
  Free from loss. Milton.
• FLESHER
  1. A butcher. A flesher on a block had laid his whittle down. Macaulay. 2. A two-handled, convex, blunt-edged knife, for scraping hides; a fleshing knife.
• PAXILLOSE
  Resembling a little stake.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• PHILOSOPHIZE
  To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• CYCLOSTYLE
  A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.
• FLOSH
  A hopper-shaped box or Knight.
• UNCLOSE
  1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
• ENCLOSE
  To inclose. See Inclose.
• GLANDULOSITY
  Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
• PARCLOSE
  A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• DIPLOSTEMONOUS
  Having twice as many stamens as petals, as the geranium. R. Brown.