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Word Meanings - DROLLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat droll. Sterne.

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  • DROLLIST
    A droll. Glanvill.
  • SOMEWHAT
    1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
  • DROLLISH
    Somewhat droll. Sterne.
  • STERNER
    A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
  • STERNED
    Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
  • DROLLER
    A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
  • DROLL
    Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
  • DROLLERY
    1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: A puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak.
  • STERNEBRA
    One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.
  • DROLLINGLY
    In a jesting manner.
  • PINK-STERNED
    Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
  • WESTERNER
    A native or inhabitant of the west.
  • BEADROLL
    A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling,

 

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