Word Meanings - WITTICASTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A witling. Milton.
Related words: (words related to WITTICASTER)
- WITLING
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. - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - WITLESS
Destitute of wit or understanding; wanting thought; hence, indiscreet; not under the guidance of judgment. "Witless bravery." Shak. A witty mother! witless else her son. Shak. Witless pity breedeth fruitless love. Fairfax. -- Wit"less*ly, adv. -- - TWITLARK
The meadow pipit. - HAMILTON PERIOD
A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.