Word Meanings - TORRID - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton. 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone , that space or board belt of the earth,
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1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton. 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone , that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.
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- DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. - DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - DESERTER
One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion. - DRIFTBOLT
A bolt for driving out other bolts. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - BURN
To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel. - PLAINTIVE
1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n. - DRY-RUB
To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley. - DRINK
p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching - BURNISHER
1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - DRIVE
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by - DRIFTPIECE
An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail. - BURNISH
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - SPACE
One of the intervals, or open places, between the lines of the staff. Absolute space, Euclidian space, etc. See under Absolute, Euclidian, etc. -- Space line , a thin piece of metal used by printers to open the lines of type to a regular distance - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - PLAINTIFF
One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See - CHONDRIN
A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin. - MIDRIB
A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf. - SUNDRILY
In sundry ways; variously. - OVERBURN
To burn too much; to be overzealous. - INDESERT
Ill desert. Addison. - HYPOCHONDRIACISM
Hypochondriasis. - SUNBURNING
Sunburn; tan. Boyle. - BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
See BURNER - DENDRIFORM
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub. - SIDEBOARD
A piece of dining-room furniture having compartments and shelves for keeping or displaying articles of table service. At a stately sideboard, by the wine, That fragrant smell diffused. Milton. - WEATHERBOARDING
The covering or siding of a building, formed of boards lapping over one another, to exclude rain, snow, etc. Boards adapted or intended for such use. - MAUNDRIL
A pick with two prongs, to pry with. - QUADRIBLE
Quadrable. - SPRINGBOARD
An elastic board, secured at the ends, or at one end, often by elastic supports, used in performing feats of agility or in exercising. - CHONDRIFICATION
Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.