Word Meanings - DEPLUMATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas. (more info) 1. The stripping or falling off of plumes or feathers. Bp. Stillingfleet

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• FALLALS; FAL-LALS
  Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• FALLER
  A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls.
• FALLOW
  Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• FALLOPIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus.
• FALLENCY
  An exception. Jer. Taylor.
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• FALLEN
  Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers.
• DISEASEFULNESS
  The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. Sir P. Sidney.
• FALLFISH
  A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.
• FALLING
  from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness
• THOMAS PROCESS
  See ABOVE
• ATTEND
  L. attendre to stretch, , to apply the mind to; ad + 1. To direct the attention to; to fix the mind upon; to give heed to; to regard. The diligent pilot in a dangerous tempest doth not attend the unskillful words of the passenger. Sir P. Sidney.
• FALLIBLY
  In a fallible manner.
• FEATHERSTITCH
  A kind of embroidery stitch producing a branching zigzag line.
• FALLAX
  Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer.
• ATTENDANT
  Depending on, or owing duty or service to; as, the widow attendant to the heir. Cowell. Attendant keys , the keys or scales most nearly related to, or having most in common with, the principal key; those, namely, of its fifth above, or dominant,
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• UNFALLIBLE
  Infallible. Shak.
• MISFALL
  To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer.
• BEFALL
  To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.
• INFALLIBLY
  In an infallible manner; certainly; unfailingly; unerringly. Blair.
• RAINFALL
  A fall or descent of rain; the water, or amount of water, that falls in rain; as, the average annual rainfall of a region. Supplied by the rainfall of the outer ranges of Sinchul and Singaleleh. Hooker.
• WEIL'S DISEASE
  An acute infectious febrile disease, resembling typhoid fever, with muscular pains, disturbance of the digestive organs, jaundice, etc.
• JAW-FALLEN
  Dejected; chopfallen.
• CRESTFALLEN
  1. With hanging head; hence, dispirited; dejected; cowed. Let it make thee crestfullen; Ay, and allay this thy abortive pride. Shak. 2. Having the crest, or upper part of the neck, hanging to one side; -- said of a horse.