Word Meanings - TWELVEMONTH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.

Related words: (words related to TWELVEMONTH)

• LAUGHINGLY
  With laughter or merriment.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• TWELVEPENNY
  , Sold for a shilling; worth or costing a shilling.
• LAUGHTER
  A movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the lips, with a peculiar expression of the eyes, indicating merriment, satisfaction, or derision, and usually attended by a sonorous and interrupted expulsion of air from the lungs.
• TWELVEMO
  See DUODECIMO
• LAUGH
  1. To affect or influence by means of laughter or ridicule. Will you laugh me asleep, for I am very heavy Shak. I shall laugh myself to death. Shak. 2. To express by, or utter with, laughter; -- with out. From his deep chest laughs out
• LAUGHABLE
  Fitted to excite laughter; as, a laughable story; a laughable scene. Syn. -- Droll; ludicrous; mirthful; comical. See Droll, and Ludicrous. -- Laugh"a*ble*ness, n. -- Laugh"a*bly, adv.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• LAUGHSOME
  Exciting laughter; also, addicted to laughter; merry.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• LAUGHING
  from Laugh, v. i. Laughing falcon , a South American hawk ; -- so called from its notes, which resemble a shrill laughing. -- Laughing gas , hyponitrous oxide, or protoxide of nitrogen; -- so called from the exhilaration and laughing which it
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• LAUGHWORTHY
  Deserving to be laughed at. B. Jonson.
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• LAUGHINGSTOCK
  An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. Shak. When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself the laughingstock of his hearers. Macaulay.
• CALENDAR
  A tabular statement of the dates of feasts, offices, saints' days, etc., esp. of those which are liable to change yearly according to the varying date of Easter. 3. An orderly list or enumeration of persons, things, or events; a schedule; as, a
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• OUTLAUGH
  1. To surpass or outdo in laughing. Dryden. 2. To laugh out of a purpose, principle, etc.; to discourage or discomfit by laughing; to laugh down. His apprehensions of being outlaughed will force him to continue in a restless obscurity. Franklin.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• ONSLAUGHT
  1. An attack; an onset; esp., a furious or murderous attack or assault. By storm and onslaught to proceed. Hudibras. 2. A bloody fray or battle. Jamieson.
• THENCEFROM
  From that place.
• TWELVE
  One more that eleven; two and ten; twice six; a dozen. Twelve- men's morris. See the Note under Morris. -- Twelve Tables. See under Table. (more info) twelf, twelef, twilif, OS. twelif, D. twaalf, G. zwölf, OHG. zwelif, Icel. t, Sw. tolf, Dan.