Word Meanings - THEATRICALS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs. Such fashionable cant terms as `theatricals,' and `musicals,' invented by the flippant Topham, still survive among his confraternity of frivolity. I. Disraeli.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• INVENTIVE
  Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius. Dryden. -- In*vent"ive*ly, adv. -- In*vent"ive*ness, n.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• INVENTRESS
  A woman who invents. Dryden.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• THOSE
  The plural of that. See That.
• FLIPPANT
  limber, pliant, or Icel. fleipa to babble, prattle. Cf. Flip, Fillip, 1. Of smooth, fluent, and rapid speech; speaking with ease and rapidity; having a voluble tongue; talkative. It becometh good men, in such cases, to be flippant and free in their
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• FRIVOLITY
  The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• INVENTFUL
  Full of invention. J. Gifford.
• INVENTOR
  One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.
• STILLROOM
  1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
• STILL-HUNT
  A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• FASHIONABLENESS
  State of being fashionable.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• SPATHOSE
  See SPATHIC
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• INSTILLATOR
  An instiller.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• PISTILLATION
  The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.