Word Meanings - UNSCALE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To divest of scales; to remove scales from. purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance. Milton.
Related words: (words related to UNSCALE)
- DIVESTITURE
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. - DIVESTMENT
The act of divesting. - SIGHTLY
1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place. - PURGATORY
Tending to cleanse; cleansing; expiatory. Burke. - PURGATORIAL; PURGATORIAN
Of or pertaining to purgatory; expiatory. - FOUNTAINLESS
Having no fountain; destitute of springs or sources of water. Barren desert, fountainless and dry. Milton. - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - ABUSIVELY
In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language. - PURGER
One who, or that which, purges or cleanses; especially, a cathartic medicine. - PURGATIVELY
In a purgative manner. - SIGHTED
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like. - HEAVENLY
1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv. - DIVESTURE
Divestiture. - REMOVER
One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon. - SIGHTING
from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot. - DIVEST
See W (more info) devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely 1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest. 2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; - PURGERY
The part of a sugarhouse where the molasses is drained off from the sugar. - REMOVED
1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n. - PURGAMENT
A cathartic; a purgative. Bacon. (more info) 1. That which is excreted; excretion. - FOUNTAIN
1. A spring of water issuing from the earth. 2. An artificially produced jet or stream of water; also, the structure or works in which such a jet or stream rises or flows; a basin built and constantly supplied with pure water for drinking and other - EXPURGATORIAL
Tending or serving to expurgate; expurgatory. Milman. - PEEP SIGHT
An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight. - EXPURGATOR
One who expurgates or purifies. - HALF-SIGHTED
Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon. - EXPURGATE
To purify; to clear from anything noxious, offensive, or erroneous; to cleanse; to purge; as, to expurgate a book. (more info) purify; ex out, from + purgare to cleanse, purify, purge. See Purge, - INABUSIVELY
Without abuse. - HIGH-SIGHTED
Looking upward; supercilious. Shak. - COMPURGATION
The act or practice of justifying or confirming a man's veracity by the oath of others; -- called also wager of law. See Purgation; also Wager of law, under Wager. 2. Exculpation by testimony to one's veracity or innocence. He was privileged from - IRRADIANCE; IRRADIANCY
1. The act of irradiating; emission of rays of light. 2. That which irradiates or is irradiated; luster; splendor; irradiation; brilliancy. Milton. - SUPERPURGATION
Excessive purgation. Wiseman. - DULL-SIGHTED
Having poor eyesight. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment.