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Word Meanings - BOUGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A flexure; a bend; a twist; a turn; a coil, as in a rope; as the boughts of a serpent. Spenser. The boughts of the fore legs. Sir T. Browne. 2. The part of a sling that contains the stone.

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  • SLOW
    A moth. Rom. of R.
  • SLAPE
    Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • SERPENTARIUS
    A constellation on the equator, lying between Scorpio and Hercules; -- called also Ophiuchus.
  • SLUBBERDEGULLION
    A mean, dirty wretch.
  • SLOUGHING
    The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • SLEIGHTLY
    Cunningly. Huloet.
  • SLAW; SLAWEN
    p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
  • SERPENTRY
    1. A winding like a serpent's. 2. A place inhabited or infested by serpents.
  • SLIMNESS
    The quality or state of being slim.
  • STONEBRASH
    A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
  • SLIVE
    To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
  • SLEDDING
    1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
  • SLOWBACK
    A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
  • SLUGS
    Half-roasted ore.
  • SLAUGHTER
    1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
  • SERPENTINOUS
    Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character.
  • SLAUGHTERHOUSE
    A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
  • PITCHSTONE
    An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
  • SLUMP
    The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
  • CAPSTONE
    A fossil echinus of the genus Cannulus; -- so called from its supposed resemblance to a cap.
  • SCINTILLOUSLY
    In a scintillant manner.
  • GRISLY
    Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
  • CLINKSTONE
    An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
  • ANXIOUSLY
    In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
  • TUSSLE
    To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.
  • GRINDSTONE
    A flat, circular stone, revolving on an axle, for grinding or sharpening tools, or shaping or smoothing objects. To hold, pat, or bring one's nose to the grindstone, to oppress one; to keep one in a condition of servitude. They might be ashamed,
  • ROSLAND
    heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.

 

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