Word Meanings - TIGRISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a tiger; tigerish.

Related words: (words related to TIGRISH)

• TIGERINE
  Tigerish; tigrine.
• TIGER-FOOTED
  Hastening to devour; furious.
• TIGER-FOOT
  See TIGER'S-FOOT
• TIGER
  probably of Persian origin; cf. Zend tighra pointed, tighri an arrow, Per. tir; perhaps akin to E. stick, v.t.; -- probably so named from 1. A very large and powerful carnivore native of Southern Asia and the East Indies. Its back and sides are
• TIGER'S-FOOT
  A name given to some species of morning-glory having the leaves lobed in pedate fashion.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• TIGERISH
  Like a tiger; tigrish.
• TIGER-EYE
  A siliceous stone of a yellow color and chatoyant luster, obtained in South Africa and much used for ornament. It is an altered form of the mineral crocidolite. See Crocidolite.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• SCUTIGER
  Any species of chilopod myriapods of the genus Scutigera. They sometimes enter buildings and prey upon insects.
• DENTIGEROUS
  Bearing teeth or toothlike structures.
• SETIGEROUS
  Covered with bristles; having or bearing a seta or setæ; setiferous; as, setigerous glands; a setigerous segment of an annelid; specifically , tipped with a bristle.
• WATER TIGER
  A diving, or water, beetle, especially the larva of a water beetle. See Illust. b of Water beetle.
• SETIGER
  An annelid having setæ; a chætopod.
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.