Word Meanings - DROPPING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube,
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That which falls in drops; the excrement or dung of animals. Dropping bottle, an instrument used to supply small quantities of a fluid to a test tube or other vessel. -- Dropping fire, a continued irregular discharge of firearms. -- Dropping tube, a tube for ejecting any liquid in drops. (more info) 1. The action of causing to drop or of letting drop; falling. 2. pl.
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- WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - MISSEL
Mistletoe. Missel bird, Missel thrush , a large European thrush which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also mistletoe thrush and missel. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - MISSIFICATE
To perform Mass. Milton. - MISSTAYED
Having missed stays; -- said of a ship. - MISSILE
A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet. - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - MISSPEND
To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips. - MISSAY
1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander. - MISSTATE
To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate. Bp. Sanderson. - MISSOUND
To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly. E,Hall. - MISSIONER
A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden. - MISSPENDER
One who misspends. - MISSPENT
of Misspend. - WASTEFUL
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful - DROPPINGLY
In drops. - DETRIMENTAL
Causing detriment; injurious; hurtful. Neither dangerous nor detrimental to the donor. Addison. Syn. -- Injurious; hurtful; prejudicial; disadvantageous; mischievous; pernicious. - MISSELDINE
The mistletoe. Baret. - DAMAGE FEASANT
Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone. - MISLAY
1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - COMMISSARY
An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer - DISMISSIVE
Giving dismission. - REMISS
Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness. - PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - REMISSLY
In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly. - EAVESDROPPER
One who stands under the eaves, or near the window or door of a house, to listen; hence, a secret listener. - DISMISSAL
Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley. - REMISSORY
Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer. - INDAMAGED
Not damaged. Milton. - REMISSIVE
Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.