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. - SLIGHTNESS
The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard. - SLOUGHING
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis. - 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. - SLAUGHTERHOUSE
A house where beasts are butchered for the market. - SERPENTINOUS
Relating to, or like, serpentine; as, a rock serpentinous in character. - 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. - TUSSLE
To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with. - ANXIOUSLY
In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously. - 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. - BESLUBBER
To beslobber. - CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.