Word Meanings - UNCLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cease from clinging or adhering. Milton.

Related words: (words related to UNCLING)

• ADHERE
  1. To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere to the pleura. 2. To hold, be attached, or devoted; to remain fixed, either by personal union or conformity
• CLING
  To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.
• CEASELESS
  Without pause or end; incessant.
• ADHERENTLY
  In an adherent manner.
• ADHERER
  One who adheres; an adherent.
• ADHERENCY
  1. The state or quality of being adherent; adherence. 2. That which adheres. Dr. H. More.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• CLINGY
  Apt to cling; adhesive.
• ADHERENT
  Congenitally united with an organ of another kind, as calyx with ovary, or stamens with petals. (more info) 1. Sticking; clinging; adhering. Pope. 2. Attached as an attribute or circumstance.
• ADHERENCE
  1. The quality or state of adhering. 2. The state of being fixed in attachment; fidelity; steady attachment; adhesion; as, adherence to a party or to opinions. Syn. -- Adherence, Adhesion. These words, which were once freely interchanged, are now
• CLINGSTONE
  Having the flesh attached closely to the stone, as in some kinds of peaches. -- n.
• CEASE
  1. To come to an end; to stop; to leave off or give over; to desist; as, the noise ceased "To cease from strife." Prov. xx. 3. 2. To be wanting; to fail; to pass away. The poor shall never cease out of the land. Deut. xv. 11. Syn. -- To intermit;
• CONVENTICLING
  Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle. Conventicling schools . . . set up and taught secretly by fanatics. South.
• MUSCLING
  Exhibition or representation of the muscles. A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.
• SURCEASEANCE
  Cessation.
• CYCLING
  The act, art, or practice, of riding a cycle, esp. a bicycle or tricycle.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• UNCLING
  To cease from clinging or adhering. Milton.
• PREDECEASE
  To die sooner than. "If children predecease progenitors." Shak.
• DECEASED
  Passed away; dead; gone. The deceased, the dead person.
• SEMIADHERENT
  Adherent part way.
• DECEASE
  Departure, especially departure from this life; death. His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser. Syn. --