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.
Related words: (words related to DRAWCANSIR)
- 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. - FELLOW-COMMONER
A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table. - SPARPOIL
To scatter; to spread; to disperse. - 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. - HEMIDACTYL
Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath. - CHYLIFACTIVE
Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle. - PHYLACTERED
Wearing a phylactery. - INACTUATE
To put in action. - 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. - INTRACTABILITY
The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd. - 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. - INEXACTLY
In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor. - FLUOR SPAR
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