Word Meanings - UNWONT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. Sir W. Scott.
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- UNUSED
1. Not used; as, an unused book; an unused apartment. 2. Not habituated; unaccustomed. Unused to bend, impatient of control. Thomson. - UNWONTED
1. Not wonted; unaccustomed; unused; not made familiar by practice; as, a child unwonted to strangers. Milton. 2. Uncommon; unusual; infrequent; rare; as, unwonted changes. "Unwonted lights." Byron. -- Un*wont"ed*ly, adv. -- Un*wont"ed*ness, n. - SCOTTICIZE
To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. - UNUSUALITY
Unusualness. Poe. - SCOTTISH
Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect. - UNACCUSTOMED
1. Not used; not habituated; unfamiliar; unused; -- which to. Chastened as a bullock unaccustomed to yoke. Jer. xxxi. 18. 2. Not usual; uncommon; strange; new. What unaccustomed cause procures her hither Shak. - UNUSAGE
Want or lack of usage. Chaucer. - SCOTTISH TERRIER
See TERRIER - SCOTTERING
The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest. - UNUSUAL
Not usual; uncommon; rare; as, an unusual season; a person of unusual grace or erudition. -- Un*u"su*al*ly, adv. -- Un*u"su*al*ness, n. - UNWONT
Unwonted; unused; unaccustomed. Sir W. Scott. - SCOTTICISM
An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson. - FAUNUS
See FAUN - MASCOT; MASCOTTE
A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck. - PRUNUS
A genus of trees with perigynous rosaceous flowers, and a single two-ovuled carpel which usually becomes a drupe in ripening. Note: Originally, this genus was limited to the plums, then, by Linnæus, was made to include the cherries and the apricot.