Word Meanings - ARM-GRET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to ARM-GRET)
- GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - GREAT-GRANDFATHER
The father of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GREAT-GRANDSON
A son of one's grandson or granddaughter. - WREATHLESS
Destitute of a wreath. - GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity. - WREATHE
1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular - WREATH-SHELL
A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo. - GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother. - GREATLY
1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden. - GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATEN
To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning. - GREAT-GRANDCHILD
The child of one's grandson or granddaughter. - GREATNESS
1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon. - GREAT
great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number; - GREAT WHITE WAY
Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night. - WREATHEN
Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22. - WREATHY
Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne. - GREATCOAT
An overcoat. - WREATH
An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest . It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. (more info) 1. Something twisted, - GREAT-BELLIED
Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak. - INGREAT
To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby. - INTERWREATHE
To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace. - INWREATHE
Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton. - UPWREATH
To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow. - TUN-GREAT
Having the circumference of a tun. Chaucer.