Word Meanings - TEARER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who tears or rends anything; also, one who rages or raves with violence.

ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
VIOLENCE
1. The quality or state of being violent; highly excited action, whether physical or moral; vehemence; impetuosity; force. That seal You ask with such a violence, the king, Mine and your master, with his own hand gave me. Shak. All the elements
ANYTHING
1. Any object, act, state, event, or fact whatever; thing of any kind; something or other; aught; as, I would not do it for anything. Did you ever know of anything so unlucky A. Trollope. They do not know that anything is amiss with them. W. G.
GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
TRAVESTY
Disguised by dress so as to be ridiculous; travestied; -- applied to a book or shorter composition. (more info) travesty, It. travestire, fr. L. trans across, over + vestire to
GRAVES' DISEASE
See DISEASE
GRAVESTONE
A stone laid over, or erected near, a grave, usually with an inscription, to preserve the memory of the dead; a tombstone.
QUADRAGESIMAL
Belonging to Lent; used in Lent; Lenten.
QUADRAGESIMA
The forty days of fast preceding Easter; Lent. Quadragesima Sunday, the first Sunday in Lent, about forty days before Easter.
QUADRAGESIMALS
Offerings formerly made to the mother church of a diocese on Mid-Lent Sunday.