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Word Meanings - URGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send

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Urging; pressing; besetting; plying, with importunity; calling for immediate attention; instantly important. "The urgent hour." Shak. Some urgent cause to ordain the contrary. Hooker. The Egyptians were urgent upon the people that they might send them out of the land in haste. Ex. xii. 33.

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    Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
  • RAGE
    1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
  • INDISPENSABLENESS
    The state or quality of being indispensable, or absolutely necessary. S. Clarke.
  • INTENTIONALITY
    The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
  • ARDENT
    1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • RAGLAN
    A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
  • VEHEMENTLY
    In a vehement manner.
  • BIND
    bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh to bind, cf. Gr. cable, and L. 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • RAGAMUFFIN
    The long-tailed titmouse. (more info) 1. A paltry or disreputable fellow; a mean which. Dryden. 2. A person who wears ragged clothing.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • RAGHUVANSA
    A celebrated Sanskrit poem having for its subject the Raghu dynasty.
  • FORCIBLE-FEEBLE
    Seemingly vigorous, but really weak or insipid. He would purge his book of much offensive matter, if he struck out epithets which are in the bad taste of the forcible-feeble school. N. Brit. Review. (more info) Part of Shakespeare's "King Henry
  • PRESSIROSTRAL
    Of or pertaining to the pressirosters.
  • RAGIOUS
    Raging; furious; rageful. -- Ra"gious*ness, n.
  • PRESSIVE
    Pressing; urgent; also, oppressive; as, pressive taxation. Bp. Hall.
  • FIXTURE
    Anything of an accessory character annexed to houses and lands, so as to constitute a part of them. This term is, however, quite frequently used in the peculiar sense of personal chattels annexed to lands and tenements, but removable by the person
  • BINDING POST
    A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections.
  • BURNIEBEE
    The ladybird.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • TETRAGYNIA
    A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
  • PHRAGMOCONE
    The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
  • MOORAGE
    A place for mooring.
  • OUTRAGEOUS
    Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
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    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • CORAL-RAG
    See CORALLIAN
  • SUBINDIVIDUAL
    A division of that which is individual. An individual can not branch itself into subindividuals. Milton.
  • INTERAGENT
    An intermediate agent.
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    Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
  • AFFIX
    figere to fasten: cf. OE. affichen, F. afficher, ultimately fr. L. 1. To subjoin, annex, or add at the close or end; to append to; to fix to any part of; as, to affix a syllable to a word; to affix a seal to an instrument; to affix one's name to
  • ACCOURAGE
    To encourage.
  • SUNBURN
    To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.

 

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