Word Meanings - CELTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.

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• PEOPLE
  1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx.
• TONGUELET
  A little tongue.
• TONGUE-SHELL
  Any species of Lingula.
• TONGUESTER
  One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
• CELTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Celts; as, Celtic people, tribes, literature, tongue.
• TONGUED
  Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
• TONGUE-TIED
  1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
• TONGUE-PAD
  A great talker.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• TONGUE-SHAPED
  Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
• PEOPLED
  Stocked with, or as with, people; inhabited. "The peopled air." Gray.
• PEOPLE'S PARTY
  A party formed in 1891, advocating in an increase of the currency, public ownership and operation of railroads, telegraphs, etc., an income tax, limitation in ownership of land, etc.
• PEOPLER
  A settler; an inhabitant. "Peoplers of the peaceful glen." J. S. Blackie.
• CELTICIZE
  To render Celtic; to assimilate to the Celts.
• TONGUEFISH
  A flounder native of the southern coast of the United States.
• CELTICISM
  A custom of the Celts, or an idiom of their language. Warton.
• PEOPLELESS
  Destitute of people. Poe.
• PEOPLE'S BANK
  A form of coöperative bank, such as those of Germany; -- a term loosely used for various forms of coöperative financial institutions.
• TONGUEWORM
  Any species of Linguatulina.
• LITERATURE
  1. Learning; acquaintance with letters or books. 2. The collective body of literary productions, embracing the entire results of knowledge and fancy preserved in writing; also, the whole body of literary productions or writings upon a
• SERPENT-TONGUED
  Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
• HONEY-TONGUED
  Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
• SHRILL-TONGUED
  Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
• ADDER'S-TONGUE
  A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
• LONG-TONGUE
  The wryneck.
• WISDOM LITERATURE
  The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs,
• TRADESPEOPLE
  People engaged in trade; shopkeepers.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• TRUMPET-TONGUED
  Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
• IMPEOPLE
  To people; to give a population to. Thou hast helped to impeople hell. Beaumont.
• TWO-TONGUED
  Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.
• DISPEOPLE
  To deprive of inhabitants; to depopulate. Leave the land dispeopled and desolate. Sir T. More. A certain island long before dispeopled . . . by sea rivers. Milton.
• DEPEOPLE
  To depopulate.