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Word Meanings - CHILDCROWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.

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  • CROWN SIDE
    See OFFICE
  • CROWNED
    1. Having or wearing a crown; surmounted, invested, or adorned, with a crown, wreath, garland, etc.; honored; rewarded; completed; consummated; perfected. "Crowned with one crest." Shak. "Crowned with conquest." Milton. With surpassing
  • AFFECTATIONIST
    One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
  • FALSENESS
    The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his
  • CROWNER
    A coroner. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, crowns. Beau. & FL. 2. Etym:
  • CROUPOUS
    Relating to or resembling croup; especially, attended with the formation of a deposit or membrance like that found in membranous croup; as, croupous laryngitis. Croupous pneumonia, pneumonia attended with deposition of fibrinous matter in the air
  • CROWNLAND
    In Austria-Hungary, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • AFFECTION
    Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
  • CROWN OFFICE
    The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.
  • FALSE-FACED
    Hypocritical. Shak.
  • AFFECTIBILITY
    The quality or state of being affectible.
  • AFFECTIVELY
    In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
  • SPASMATICAL
    Spasmodic.
  • CROWN-SAW
    A saw in the form of a hollow cylinder, with teeth on the end or edge, and operated by a rotative motion. Note: The trephine was the first of the class of crownsaws. Knight.
  • FALSETTO
    A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.
  • CROWBAR
    A bar of iron sharpened at one end, and used as a lever.
  • CROW'S-NEST
    A box or perch near the top of a mast, esp. in whalers, to shelter the man on the lookout.
  • CROWNLESS
    Without a crown.
  • AFFECTIONED
    1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
  • PHARYNGOLARYNGEAL
    Of or pertaining both to pharynx and the larynx.
  • OVERAFFECT
    To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
  • MISAFFECT
    To dislike.
  • WATER CROW
    The dipper. The European coot.
  • INAFFECTED
    Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
  • UNCROWN
    To deprive of a crown; to take the crown from; hence, to discrown; to dethrone. He hath done me wrong, And therefore I'll uncrown him ere't be long. Shak.
  • DISCROWN
    To deprive of a crown. The end had crowned the work; it not unreasonably discrowned the workman. Motley.

 

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