Word Meanings - VIXENISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.

Related words: (words related to VIXENISH)

• VIXENLY
  Like a vixen; vixenish. Barrow.
• VIXEN
  1. A female fox. 2. A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman. Barrow. She was a vixen when she went to school. Shak.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• VIXENISH
  Of or pertaining to a vixen; resembling a vixen.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• RESEMBLANCE
  1. The quality or state of resembling; likeness; similitude; similarity. One main end of poetry and painting is to please; they bear a great resemblance to each other. Dryden. 2. That which resembles, or is similar; a representation; a likeness.
• APPERTAIN
  To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach
• NONRESEMBLANCE
  Want of resemblance; unlikeness; dissimilarity.