Word Meanings - BUDGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak.
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- PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - RAISE
To create or constitute; as, to raise a use that is, to create it. Burrill. To raise a blockade , to remove or break up a blockade, either by withdrawing the ships or forces employed in enforcing it, or by driving them away or dispersing them. - RAISED
1. Lifted up; showing above the surroundings; as, raised or embossed metal work. 2. Leavened; made with leaven, or yeast; -- used of bread, cake, etc., as distinguished from that made with cream of tartar, soda, etc. See Raise, v. t., 4. Raised - BUDGE
To move off; to stir; to walk away. I'll not budge an inch, boy. Shak. The mouse ne'er shunned the cat as they did budge From rascals worse than they. Shak. - PROMPTLY
In a prompt manner. - RUFFLEMENT
The act of ruffling. - BUDGET
1. A bag or sack with its contents; hence, a stock or store; an accumulation; as, a budget of inventions. 2. The annual financial statement which the British chancellor of the exchequer makes in the House of Commons. It comprehends a general view - AWAKENING
Rousing from sleep, in a natural or a figurative sense; rousing into activity; exciting; as, the awakening city; an awakening discourse; the awakening dawn. -- A*wak"en*ing*ly, adv. - AROUSE
To excite to action from a state of rest; to stir, or put in motion or exertion; to rouse; to excite; as, to arouse one from sleep; to arouse the dormant faculties. Grasping his spear, forth issued to arouse His brother, mighty sovereign on the - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - RUFFLE
To beat with the ruff or ruffle, as a drum. 6. To discompose; to agitate; to disturb. These ruffle the tranquillity of the mind. Sir W. Hamilton. But, ever after, the small violence done Rankled in him and ruffled all his heart. Tennyson. 7. To - INSTIGATE
To goad or urge forward; to set on; to provoke; to incite; -- used chiefly with reference to evil actions; as to instigate one to a crime. He hath only instigated his blackest agents to the very extent of their malignity. Bp. Warburton. Syn. -- - ANIMATER
One who animates. De Quincey. - PROMPTUARY
Of or pertaining to preparation. Bacon. - PROMPT-NOTE
A memorandum of a sale, and time when payment is due, given to the purchaser at a sale of goods. - AWAKENMENT
An awakening. - INCITEMENT
1. The act of inciting. 2. That which incites the mind, or moves to action; motive; incentive; impulse. Burke. From the long records of a distant age, Derive incitements to renew thy rage. Pope. Syn. -- Motive; incentive; spur; stimulus; impulse; - RUFFLER
1. One who ruffles; a swaggerer; a bully; a ruffian. Assaults, if not murders, done at his own doors by that crew of rufflers. Milton. 2. That which ruffles; specifically, a sewing machine attachment for making ruffles. - PROVOKEMENT
The act that which, provokes; one who excites anger or other passion, or incites to action; as, a provoker of sedition. Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things. Shak. - APPRAISER
One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates. - MISRAISE
To raise or exite unreasonable. "Misraised fury." Bp. Hall. - PRAISEWORTHINESS
The quality or state of being praiseworthy. - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - TRUFFLE
Any one of several kinds of roundish, subterranean fungi, usually of a blackish color. The French truffle and the English truffle are much esteemed as articles of food. Truffle worm , the larva of a fly of the genus Leiodes, injurious - FRAISE
A large and thick pancake, with slices of bacon in it. Johnson. - PRAISER
1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North. - FRAISED
Fortified with a fraise. - BRAISE; BRAIZE
A European marine fish allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species. - OVERPRAISE
To praise excessively or unduly.