Word Meanings - BUB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Strong malt liquor. Prior.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BUB)

• Orate
• Bub
• scrape
• jar
• scratch

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BUB)

• Lubricate
• polish
• levigate
• dig
• indent
• wound

Related words: (words related to BUB)

• SCRATCH COAT
  The first coat in plastering; -- called also scratchwork. See Pricking-up.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• SCRATCHING
  With the action of scratching.
• INDENTMENT
  Indenture.
• SCRATCH
  A line across the prize ring; up to which boxers are brought when they join fight; hence, test, trial, or proof of courage; as, to bring to the scratch; to come up to the scratch. Grose. 3. pl. (more info) 1. A break in the surface of a thing
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• INDENTEDLY
  With indentations.
• INDENTED
  Notched like the part of a saw consisting of the teeth; serrated; as, an indented border or ordinary. 4. Bound out by an indenture; apprenticed; indentured; as, an indented servant. (more info) 1. Cut in the edge into points or inequalities, like
• INDENTION
  See 4
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• WOUNDY
  Excessive. Such a world of holidays, that 't a woundy hindrance to a poor man that lives by his labor. L'Estrange.
• SCRATCHWEED
  Cleavers.
• WOUNDLESS
  Free from wound or hurt; exempt from being wounded; invulnerable. "Knights whose woundless armor rusts." Spenser. may miss our name, And hit the woundless air. Shak.
• INDENT
  1. To be cut, notched, or dented. 2. To crook or turn; to wind in and out; to zigzag. 3. To contract; to bargain or covenant. Shak. To indent and drive bargains with the Almighty. South.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• SCRATCHER
  One who, or that which, scratches; specifically , any rasorial bird.
• LUBRICATE
  1. To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young. 2. To apply a lubricant
• WOUNDILY
  In a woundy manner; excessively; woundy.
• WOUNDABLE
  Capable of being wounded; vulnerable. Fuller.
• BESCRATCH
  To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
• PRORECTORATE
  The office of prorector.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• REINVIGORATE
  To invigorate anew.
• VAPORATE
  To emit vapor; to evaporate.
• HYDROCHLORATE
  See HYDROCHLORIDE
• MELIORATER
  See MELIORATOR
• BICORPORATE
  Double-bodied, as a lion having one head and two bodies.
• PERORATE
  To make a peroration; to harangue.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• TRICORPORAL; TRICORPORATE
  Represented with three bodies conjoined to one head, as a lion.
• ELECTORATE
  1. The territory, jurisdiction, or dignity of an elector, as in the old German empire. 2. The whole body of persons in a nation or state who are entitled to vote in an election, or any distinct class or division of them. The middle-class electorate
• EDULCORATE
  To free from acids, salts, or other soluble substances, by washing; to purify. (more info) 1. To render sweet; to sweeten; to free from acidity. Succory . . . edulcorated with sugar and vinegar. Evelyn.
• CORPORATE
  1. Formed into a body by legal enactment; united in an association, and endowed by law with the rights and liabilities of an individual; incorporated; as, a corporate town. 2. Belonging to a corporation or incorporated body. "Corporate property."
• COLORATE
  Colored. Ray.