Word Meanings - DEFAILANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failure; miscarriage. Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.

Related words: (words related to DEFAILANCE)

• COMBER
  1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• FAILURE
  1. Cessation of supply, or total defect; a failing; deficiency; as, failure of rain; failure of crops. 2. Omission; nonperformance; as, the failure to keep a promise. 3. Want of success; the state of having failed. 4. Decau, or defect from decay;
• CONTINUANCE
  1. A holding on, or remaining in a particular state; permanence, as of condition, habits, abode, etc.; perseverance; constancy; duration; stay. Great plagues, and of long continuence. Deut. xxviii. 59. Patient continuance i well-doing. Rom. ii.
• DEFAILANCE
  Failure; miscarriage. Possibility of defailance in degree or continuance. Comber.
• DEGREE
  A certain distance or remove in the line of descent, determining the proximity of blood; one remove in the chain of relationship; as, a relation in the third or fourth degree. In the 11th century an opinion began to gain ground in Italy, that third
• POSSIBILITY
  1. The quality or state of being possible; the power of happening, being, or existing. "All possibility of error." Hooker. "Latent possibilities of excellence." Johnson. 2. That which is possible; a contingency; a thing or event that
• ENCOMBERMENT
  Hindrance; molestation. Spenser.
• RECONTINUANCE
  The act or state of recontinuing.
• INCOMBER
  See ENCUMBER
• MISCONTINUANCE
  Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.
• SCOMBEROID
  See SCOMBROID
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.
• IMPOSSIBILITY
  1. The quality of being impossible; impracticability. They confound difficulty with impossibility. South. 2. An impossible thing; that which can not be thought, done, or endured. Impossibilities! O, no, there's none. Cowley. 3. Inability;
• SCOMBER
  A genus of acanthopterygious fishes which includes the common mackerel.
• BULLCOMBER
  A scaraboid beetle; esp. the Typhæus vulgaris of Europe.
• UNPOSSIBILITY
  Impossibility. "Utter unpossibility." Poe.
• BEACH COMBER
  A long, curling wave rolling in from the ocean. See Comber.
• DISCONTINUANCE
  1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel. A