Word Meanings - THUNDERFISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A large European loach .
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- LARGE-ACRED
Possessing much land. - EUROPEAN
Of or pertaining to Europe, or to its inhabitants. On the European plain, having rooms to let, and leaving it optional with guests whether they will take meals in the house; -- said of hotels. - LARGE-HANDED
Having large hands, Fig.: Taking, or giving, in large quantities; rapacious or bountiful. - LARGE-HEARTED
Having a large or generous heart or disposition; noble; liberal. -- Large"-heart`ed*ness, n. - LOACH
Any one of several small, fresh-water, cyprinoid fishes of the genera Cobitis, Nemachilus, and allied genera, having six or more barbules around the mouth. They are found in Europe and Asia. The common European species is used as a food fish. - LARGE
Crossing the line of a ship's course in a favorable direction; -- said of the wind when it is abeam, or between the beam and the quarter. At large. Without restraint or confinement; as, to go at large; to be left at large. Diffusely; fully; - LARGET
A sport piece of bar iron for rolling into a sheet; a small billet. - LARGESS; LARGESSE
1. Liberality; generosity; bounty. Fulfilled of largesse and of all grace. Chaucer. 2. A present; a gift; a bounty bestowed. The heralds finished their proclamation with their usual cry of "Largesse, largesse, gallant knights!" and gold and silver - LARGELY
In a large manner. Dryden. Milton. - LARGENESS
The quality or state of being large. - EUROPEANIZE
To cause to become like the Europeans in manners or character; to habituate or accustom to European usages. A state of society . . . changed and Europenized. Lubbock. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question. - ENLARGED
Made large or larger; extended; swollen. -- En*lar"ged*ly, adv. -- En*lar"ged*ness, n. - FOOL-LARGE
Foolishly liberal. Chaucer. - ENLARGE
Etym: 1. To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house. To enlarge their possessions of land. Locke. 2. To increase the capacity of; to expand; - OVERLARGE
Too large; too great. - OVERLARGENESS
Excess of size or bulk. - INDO-EUROPEAN
Aryan; -- applied to the languages of India and Europe which are derived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin