Word Meanings - CLICKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.

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• CLICK BEETLE
  See ELATER
• CLICKER
  One who as has charge of the work of a companionship.
• CLICKY
  Resembling a click; abounding in clicks. "Their strange clicky language." The Century.
• CENTURY
  1. A hundred; as, a century of sonnets; an aggregate of a hundred things. And on it said a century of prayers. Shak. 2. A period of a hundred years; as, this event took place over two centuries ago. Note: Century, in the reckoning of time, although
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• ABOUND
  1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• STRANGE
  estrange, F. étrange, fr. L. extraneus that is without, external, foreign, fr. extra on the outside. See Extra, and cf. Estrange, 1. Belonging to another country; foreign. "To seek strange strands." Chaucer. One of the strange queen's lords. Shak.
• LANGUAGE
  tongue, hence speech, language; akin to E. tongue. See Tongue, cf. 1. Any means of conveying or communicating ideas; specifically, human speech; the expression of ideas by the voice; sounds, expressive of thought, articulated by the organs of the
• STRANGELY
  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge
• RESEMBLE
  sembler to seem, resemble, fr. L. similare, simulare, to imitate, fr. 1. To be like or similar to; to bear the similitude of, either in appearance or qualities; as, these brothers resemble each other. We will resemble you in that. Shak.
• CLICKET
  1. The knocker of a door. 2. A latch key. Chaucer.
• RESEMBLABLE
  Admitting of being compared; like. Gower.
• STRANGER
  One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered
• LANGUAGELESS
  Lacking or wanting language; speechless; silent. Shak.
• LANGUAGED
  Having a language; skilled in language; -- chiefly used in composition. " Manylanguaged nations." Pope.
• RESEMBLER
  One who resembles.
• CLICK
  To make a slight, sharp noise , as by gentle striking; to tick. The varnished clock that clicked behind the door. Goldsmith.
• THEIR
  The possessive case of the personal pronoun they; as, their houses; their country. Note: The possessive takes the form theirs (theirs is best cultivated. Nothing but the name of zeal appears 'Twixt our best actions and the worst of theirs. Denham.
• OVERLANGUAGED
  Employing too many words; diffuse. Lowell.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• SEA LANGUAGE
  The peculiar language or phraseology of seamen; sailor's cant.
• INDO-DO-CHINESE LANGUAGES
  A family of languages, mostly of the isolating type, although some are agglutinative, spoken in the great area extending from northern India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.
• OVERABOUND
  To be exceedingly plenty or superabundant. Pope.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• SUPERABOUND
  To be very abundant or exuberant; to be more than sufficient; as, the country superabounds with corn.