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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.

 

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