Word Meanings - CONVICIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .

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• REPROACHER
  One who reproaches.
• RAIL
  An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
• WORDSMAN
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist. "Some speculative wordsman." H. Bushnell.
• CONVICIOUS
  Expressing reproach; abusive; railing; taunting. "Convicious words." Queen Elizabeth .
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• QUEENDOM
  The dominion, condition, or character of a queen. Mrs. Browning.
• QUEEN-POST
  One of two suspending posts in a roof truss, or other framed truss of similar form. See King-post.
• ABUSIVELY
  In an abusive manner; rudely; with abusive language.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• QUEENFISH
  A California sciænoid food fish . The back is bluish, and the sides and belly bright silvery. Called also kingfish.
• EXPRESSURE
  The act of expressing; expression; utterance; representation. An operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. Shak.
• RAILING
  Expressing reproach; insulting. Angels which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them. 2 Pet. ii. 11.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• EXPRESS TRAIN
  Formerly, a railroad train run expressly for the occasion; a special train; now, a train run at express or special speed and making few stops.
• EXPRESSIVE
  1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning
• REPROACH
  LL. reproriare; L. pref. re- again, against, back + prope near; hence, originally, to bring near to, throw in one's teeth. Cf. 1. To come back to, or come home to, as a matter of blame; to bring shame or disgrace upon; to disgrace. I thought your
• RAILLEUR
  A banterer; a jester; a mocker. Wycherley.
• RAILER
  One who rails; one who scoffs, insults, censures, or reproaches with opprobrious language.
• QUEENING
  Any one of several kinds of apples, as summer queening, scarlet queening, and early queening. An apple called the queening was cultivated in England two hundred years ago.
• EXPRESSNESS
  The state or quality of being express; definiteness. Hammond.
• UNQUEEN
  To divest of the rank or authority of queen. Shak.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• INABUSIVELY
  Without abuse.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• DRAIL
  To trail; to draggle. South.
• INEXPRESSIBLY
  In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.
• SHIP RAILWAY
  An inclined railway running into the water with a cradelike car on which a vessel may be drawn out on land, as for repairs. A railway on which to transport vessels overland between bodies of water.
• TIRAILLEUR
  Formerly, a member of an independent body of marksmen in the French army. They were used sometimes in front of the army to annoy the enemy, sometimes in the rear to check his pursuit. The term is now applied to all troops acting as skirmishers.
• TRAMRAIL
  An overhead rail forming a track on which a trolley runs to convey a load, as in a shop.
• MITRAILLEUR
  One who serves a mitrailleuse.