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Word Meanings - DEFEATURED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • CHANGEFUL
    Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
  • DEFORMATION
    1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
  • CHANGEABLY
    In a changeable manner.
  • CHANGE
    1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
  • DEFORMITY
    deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
  • DESCRIBER
    One who describes.
  • DESCRIBENT
    See GENERATRIX
  • DEFEATURED
    Changed in features; deformed. Features when defeatured in the . . . way I have described. De Quincey.
  • DESCRIBE
    To use the faculty of describing; to give a description; as, Milton describes with uncommon force and beauty.
  • DESCRIBABLE
    That can be described; capable of description.
  • CHANGEABLE
    1. Capable of change; subject to alteration; mutable; variable; fickle; inconstant; as, a changeable humor. 2. Appearing different, as in color, in different lights, or under different circumstances; as, changeable silk. Syn. -- Mutable; alterable;
  • DEFEATURE
    1. Overthrow; defeat. "Nothing but loss in their defeature." Beau. & Fl. 2. Disfigurement; deformity. "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.
  • CHANGER
    1. One who changes or alters the form of anything. 2. One who deals in or changes money. John ii. 14. 3. One apt to change; an inconstant person.
  • DEFORM
    1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above
  • CHANGEABLENESS
    The quality of being changeable; fickleness; inconstancy; mutability.
  • CHANGELING
    1. One who, or that which, is left or taken in the place of another, as a child exchanged by fairies. Such, men do changelings call, so changed by fairies' theft. Spenser. The changeling never known. Shak. 2. A simpleton; an idiot. Macaulay.
  • CHANGEABILITY
    Changeableness.
  • CHANGE GEAR
    A gear by means of which the speed of machinery or of a vehicle may be changed while that of the propelling engine or motor remains constant; -- called also change-speed gear.
  • DEFORMED
    Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.
  • REEXCHANGE
    To exchange anew; to reverse .
  • EXCHANGE EDITOR
    An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
  • COUNTERCHANGED
    Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
  • COUNTERCHANGE
    1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
  • INTERCHANGEABILITY
    The state or quality of being interchangeable; interchangeableness.
  • CULTURE FEATURES
    The artificial features of a district as distinguished from the natural.
  • ARCHANGELIC
    Of or pertaining to archangels; of the nature of, or resembling, an archangel. Milton.
  • EXCHANGEABILITY
    The quality or state of being exchangeable. The law ought not be contravened by an express article admitting the exchangeability of such persons. Washington.
  • INCHANGEABILITY
    Unchangeableness. Kenrick.
  • TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
    A central office in which the wires of telephones may be connected to permit conversation.
  • RECHANGE
    To change again, or change back.
  • MISDESCRIBE
    To describe wrongly.

 

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