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Word Meanings - DRAWCANSIR - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.

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  • ACTURE
    Action. Shak.
  • ACTURIENCE
    Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
  • ACTINOLITE
    A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
  • ACTINOSTOME
    The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
  • SPAR-HUNG
    Hung with spar, as a cave.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ACTINARIA
    A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
  • FRIENDED
    1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
  • ACTUARIAL
    Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
  • DRAWCANSIR
    A blustering, bullying fellow; a pot-valiant braggart; a bully. The leader was of an ugly look and gigantic stature; he acted like a drawcansir, sparing neither friend nor foe. Addison.
  • SPARPOIL
    To scatter; to spread; to disperse.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • SPARPIECE
    The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
  • ACTUALIZE
    To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
  • ACTIVITY
    The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
  • ACTUATE
    Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
  • ACTINOPHOROUS
    Having straight projecting spines.
  • SPARSELY
    In a scattered or sparse manner.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • SPARKER
    A spark arrester.
  • DESPARPLE
    To scatter; to disparkle. Mandeville.
  • SELF-ACTIVE
    Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
  • CHYLIFACTIVE
    Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
  • HEMIDACTYL
    Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
  • PHYLACTERED
    Wearing a phylactery.
  • INACTUATE
    To put in action.
  • INTRACTABILITY
    The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • COUNTERACTIVE
    Tending to counteract.
  • RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
    An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
  • FLUOR SPAR
    See FLUORITE
  • LACTOSCOPE
    An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
  • INEXACTLY
    In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.

 

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