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Word Meanings - ASPIRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That aspires; as, an Aspiring mind. -- As*pir"ing*ly, adv. -- As*pir"ing*ness, n.

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  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • LONGIPALP
    One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
  • LONGSPUN
    Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
  • ARDENT
    1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • GLOWLAMP
    An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
  • LONGSOME
    Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
  • ASPIRATOR
    An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
  • LONGULITE
    A kind of crystallite having a acicular form.
  • HEATHER
    Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
  • ASPIRIN
    A white crystalline compound of acetyl and salicylic acid used as a drug for the salicylic acid liberated from it in the intestines.
  • VEHEMENTLY
    In a vehement manner.
  • EXCITABLE
    Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
  • HEATHENISHNESS
    The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
  • ZEALOUS
    1. Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object. He may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law. 2. Filled with religious zeal. Shak. -- Zeal"ous*ly, adv. -- Zeal"ous*ness, n.
  • BURNISHER
    1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
  • EXCITING
    Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; as, exciting events; an exciting story. -- Ex*cit"ing*ly, adv. Exciting causes , those which immediately produce disease, or those which excite the action of predisposing causes.
  • BURNISH
    To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
  • LONGSHORE
    Belonging to the seashore or a seaport; along and on the shore. "Longshore thieves." R. Browning.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • UNSHEATHE
    To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • SUNBURN
    To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
  • GAS-BURNER
    The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
  • AUBURN
    1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.

 

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