Word Meanings - WRAWNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Peevishness; ill temper; anger. Chaucer.

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• TEMPER SCREW
  1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting.
• TEMPERER
  One who, or that which, tempers; specifically, a machine in which lime, cement, stone, etc., are mixed with water.
• TEMPERATURE
  Condition with respect to heat or cold, especially as indicated by the sensation produced, or by the thermometer or pyrometer; degree of heat or cold; as, the temperature of the air; high temperature; low temperature; temperature of freezing or
• TEMPERAMENTAL
  Of or pertaining to temperament; constitutional. Sir T. Browne.
• TEMPERATE
  1. Moderate; not excessive; as, temperate heat; a temperate climate. 2. Not marked with passion; not violent; cool; calm; as, temperate language. She is not hot, but temperate as the morn. Shak. That sober freedom out of which there springs Our
• TEMPER
  To bring to a proper degree of hardness; as, to temper iron or steel. The tempered metals clash, and yield a silver sound. Dryden. 4. To govern; to manage. With which the damned ghosts he governeth, And furies rules, and Tartare tempereth. Spenser.
• PEEVISHNESS
  The quality of being peevish; disposition to murmur; sourness of temper. Syn. -- See Petulance.
• TEMPERATENESS
  The quality or state of being temperate; moderateness; temperance.
• TEMPERANCY
  Temperance.
• TEMPERATIVE
  Having power to temper. T. Granger.
• TEMPERA
  A mode or process of painting; distemper. Note: The term is applied especially to early Italian painting, common vehicles of which were yolk of egg, yolk and white of egg mixed together, the white juice of the fig tree, and the like.
• ANGERLY
  Angrily. Why, how now, Hecate! you look angerly. Shak.
• TEMPERATELY
  In a temperate manner.
• ANGER
  affliction, sorrow; akin to Dan. anger regret, Swed. ånger regret, AS. ange oppressed, sad, L. angor a strangling, anguish, angere to strangle, Gr. amhas pain, and to. anguish, anxious, quinsy, and perh. awe, ugly. The word seems to have orig.
• TEMPERANCE
  1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
• TEMPERAMENT
  A system of compromises in the tuning of organs, pianofortes, and the like, whereby the tones generated with the vibrations of a ground tone are mutually modified and in part canceled, until their number reduced to the actual practicable scale of
• TEMPERING
  The process of giving the requisite degree of hardness or softness to a substance, as iron and steel; especially, the process of giving to steel the degree of hardness required for various purposes, consisting usually in first plunging the article,
• TEMPERED
  Brought to a proper temper; as, tempered steel; having a temper; -- chiefly used in composition; as, a good-tempered or bad- tempered man; a well-tempered sword.
• TEMPERABLE
  Capable of being tempered. The fusible, hard, and temperable texture of metals. Emerson.
• ON-HANGER
  A hanger-on.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• WANGER
  A pillow for the cheek; a pillow. His bright helm was his wanger. Chaucer.
• DISTEMPERATE
  1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• GRANGER
  1. A farm steward. 2. A member of a grange.
• ATTEMPER
  1. To reduce, modify, or moderate, by mixture; to temper; to regulate, as temperature. If sweet with bitter . . . were not attempered still. Trench. 2. To soften, mollify, or moderate; to soothe; to temper; as, to attemper rigid justice
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• DISTEMPERATURE
  1. Bad temperature; intemperateness; excess of heat or cold, or of other qualities; as, the distemperature of the air. 2. Disorder; confusion. Shak. 3. Disorder of body; slight illness; distemper. A huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures
• UNTEMPERATE
  Intemperate.
• ILL-TEMPERED
  1. Of bad temper; morose; crabbed; sour; peevish; fretful; quarrelsome. 2. Unhealthy; ill-conditioned. So ill-tempered I am grown, that I am afraid I shall catch cold, while all the world is afraid to melt away. Pepys.
• TANGERINE
  A kind of orange, much like the mandarin, but of deeper color and higher flavor. It is said to have been produced in America from the mandarin.
• BOULANGERITE
  A mineral of a bluish gray color and metallic luster, usually in plumose masses, also compact. It is sulphide of antimony and lead.
• GANGER
  One who oversees a gang of workmen. Mayhew.
• CONTEMPERATURE
  The condition of being tempered; proportionate mixture; temperature. The different contemperature of the elements. SDouth.
• HANGER
  1. One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman. 2. That by which a thing is suspended. Especially: A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended. A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust.
• MISTEMPER
  To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.
• INTEMPERANCY
  Intemperance.
• BUSHRANGER
  One who roams, or hides, among the bushes; especially, in Australia, an escaped criminal living in the bush.