Word Meanings - DRIZZLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden.
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- DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - WINTER-BEATEN
Beaten or harassed by the severe weather of winter. Spenser. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - MOISTNESS
The quality or state of being moist. - WINTER'S BARK
The aromatic bark of tree of the Magnolia family, which is found in Southern Chili. It was first used as a cure for scurvy by its discoverer, Captain John Winter, vice admiral to sir Francis Drake, in 1577. - WINTERWEED
A kind of speedwell which spreads chiefly in winter. Dr. Prior. - MOISTURE
1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak. - WINTERY
Wintry. - MOISTURELESS
Without moisture. - MOISTENER
One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - MOISTLESS
Without moisture; dry. - DRIZZLY
Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable. "Winter's drizzly reign." Dryden. - MOISTY
Moist. - REIGNER
One who reigns. - CHARACTERIZE
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the - DISAGREEABLE
1. Not agreeable, conformable, or congruous; Preach you truly the doctrine which you have received, and each nothing that is disagreeable thereunto. Udall. 2. Exciting repugnance; offensive to the feelings or That which is disagreeable to one is - WINTER-GROUND
To coved over in the season of winter, as for protection or shelter; as, to winter-ground the roods of a plant. The ruddock would . . . bring thee all this, Yea, and furred moss besides, when flowers are none To winter-ground thy corse. Shak. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - PREIGNITION
Ignition in an internal-combustion engine while the inlet valve is open or before compression is completed. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - TWINTER
A domestic animal two winters old. - MISCHARACTERIZE
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton. - FOREIGNER
A person belonging to or owning allegiance to a foreign country; one not native in the country or jurisdiction under consideration, or not naturalized there; an alien; a stranger. Joy is such a foreigner, So mere a stranger to my thoughts. Denham. - FOREIGNNESS
The quality of being foreign; remoteness; want of relation or appropriateness. Let not the foreignness of the subject hinder you from endeavoring to set me right. Locke. A foreignness of complexion. G. Eliot. - OVERMOISTURE
Excess of moisture. - MIDWINTER
The middle of winter. Dryden. - REIGN
regnum, fr. rex, regis, a king, fr. regere to guide, rule. See Regal, 1. Royal authority; supreme power; sovereignty; rule; dominion. He who like a father held his reign. Pope. Saturn's sons received the threefold reign Of heaven, of ocean,, and