Word Meanings - ANSEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling a goose; silly; simple. Sydney Smith.
Related words: (words related to ANSEROUS)
- GOOSEFOOT
A genus of herbs mostly annual weeds; pigweed. - GOOSERY
1. A place for keeping geese. 2. The characteristics or actions of a goose; silliness. The finical goosery of your neat sermon actor. Milton. - SILLYHOW
A caul. See Caul, n., 3. - SMITHSONIAN
Of or pertaining to the Englishman J.L.M. Smithson, or to the national institution of learning which he endowed at Washington, D.C.; as, the Smithsonian Institution; Smithsonian Reports. -- n. - GOOSEWINGED
Having a "goosewing." Said of a fore-and-aft rigged vessel with foresail set on one side and mainsail on the other; wing and wing. - SIMPLE-MINDED
Artless; guileless; simple-hearted; undesigning; unsuspecting; devoid of duplicity. Blackstone. -- Sim"ple-mind`ed*ness, n. - GOOSEFISH
See ANGLER - GOOSEWING
One of the clews or lower corners of a course or a topsail when the middle part or the rest of the sail is furled. - SMITHSONITE
Native zinc carbonate. It generally occurs in stalactitic, reniform, or botryoidal shapes, of a white to gray, green, or brown color. See Note under Calamine. - SIMPLETON
A person of weak intellect; a silly person. - RESEMBLINGLY
So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness. - GOOSE EGG
In games, a zero; a score or record of naught; -- so named in allusion to the egglike outline of the zero sign 0. Called also duck egg. - SMITHER
Fragments; atoms; finders. Smash the bottle to smithers. Tennyson. (more info) 1. Light, fine rain. 2. pl. - SMITH
Icel. smi, Dan. & Sw. smed, Goth. smi ; cf. Gr. 1. One who forgess with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like. Piers Plowman. Nor yet the smith hath learned to form a sword. Tate. 2. One who - SILLY
sely, AS. s, ges, happy, good, fr. s, s, good, happy, s good fortune, happines; akin to OS. salig, a, good, happy, D. zalig blessed, G. selig, OHG. salig, Icel. s, Sw. säll, Dan. salig, Goth. s good, kind, 1. Happy; fortunate; blessed. Chaucer. - GOOSEBERRY
Any thorny shrub of the genus Ribes; also, the edible berries of such shrub. There are several species, of which Ribes Grossularia is the one commonly cultivated. 2. A silly person; a goose cap. Goldsmith. Barbadoes gooseberry, a climbing prickly - RESEMBLANT
Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower. - SMITHCRAFT
The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. Sir W. Raleigh. - GOOSE-RUMPED
Having the tail set low and buttocks that fall away sharply from the croup; -- said of certain horses. - SIMPLENESS
The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak. - WAY-GOOSE
See 2 - SKEELDUCK; SKEELGOOSE
The common European sheldrake. - MONGOOSE; MONGOOS
A species of ichneumon , native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose - CARGOOSE
A species of grebe ; the crested grebe. - SIMPLE
simplus, or simplex, gen. simplicis. The first part of the Latin words is probably akin to E. same, and the sense, one, one and the same; cf. L. semel once, singuli one to each, single. Cg. Single, a., 1. Single; not complex; not infolded - WHITESMITH
1. One who works in tinned or galvanized iron, or white iron; a tinsmith. 2. A worker in iron who finishes or polishes the work, in distinction from one who forges it. - LOCKSMITH
An artificer whose occupation is to make or mend locks.