Word Meanings - ADUST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. (more info) 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton. 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an

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Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. (more info) 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton. 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an adust complexion. Sir W. Scott.

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• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• LOOKDOWN
  See
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• CONSTITUTIONALIST
  One who advocates a constitutional form of government; a constitutionalist.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• CONSTITUTION
  1. The act or process of constituting; the action of enacting, establishing, or appointing; enactment; establishment; formation. 2. The state of being; that form of being, or structure and connection of parts, which constitutes and characterizes
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• LOOK
  1. To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; -- with various prepositions, often in a special or figurative sense. See Phrases below. 2. To
• INFLAMMABILLTY
  Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• ILL-LOOKING
  Having a bad look; threatening; ugly. See Note under Ill, adv.
• HEREHENCE
  From hence.
• WHENCEFORTH
  From, or forth from, what or which place; whence. Spenser.
• FLOOKAN; FLUKAN
  See FLUCAN
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.