Word Meanings - CHILDCROWING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The crowing noise made by children affected with spasm of the laryngeal muscles; false croup.
Related words: (words related to CHILDCROWING)
- 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.