Word Meanings - WITLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.
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- FORMALITY
The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - WIT-CRACKER
One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak. - FORMICARY
The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill. - FORMULIZE
To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson. - WITCH-ELM
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A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices - WITTS
Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - PERISHMENT
The act of perishing. Udall. - WITCHING
That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv. - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - FORMICAROID
Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes. - FORME
First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer. - FORMIDABLY
In a formidable manner. - PERISHABILITY
Perishableness. - WITCRAFT
1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic. - WITTED
Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - OMNIFORMITY
The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More. - INFORMITY
Want of regular form; shapelessness. - FALCIFORM
Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver. - DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DIVERSIFORM
Of a different form; of varied forms. - DISWITTED
Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton. - PREFORM
To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak. - VARIFORM
Having different shapes or forms. - RESINIFORM
Having the form of resin. - VILLIFORM
Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform. - BIFORM
Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall. - REFORMALIZE
To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. - TWITTERING
1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the - FULL-FORMED
Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson. - SCORIFORM
In the form of scoria. - PENNIFORM
Having the form of a feather or plume. - REFORMATIVE
Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good. - MALCONFORMATION
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. - DENDRIFORM
Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.