Word Meanings - DROUGHTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips.
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- DRINKABLE
Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele. - WANTLESS
Having no want; abundant; fruitful. - WANTON
wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness." - DRINK
p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching - WANTWIT
One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak. - THROATLATCH
A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat. - DROUGHTY
1. Characterized by drought; wanting rain; arid; adust. Droughty and parched countries. Ray. 2. Dry; thirsty; wanting drink. Thy droughty throat. Philips. - WANTONNESS
The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as - DRINKER
One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth . - ADUST
Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy. (more info) 1. Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton. 2. Looking as if or scorched; sunburnt. A tall, thin man, of an - THIRSTY
1. Feeling thirst; having a painful or distressing sensation from want of drink; hence, having an eager desire. Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. Judges iv. 19. 2. Deficient in moisture; dry; parched. A - WANTAGE
That which is wanting; deficiency. - DRINKABLENESS
State of being drinkable. - PARCHING
Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv. - ADUSTED
Burnt; adust. Howell. - PARCH
1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched - THROATWORT
A plant formerly considered a remedy for sore throats because of its throat-shaped corolla. - PARCHMENTIZE
To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid. - 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 - THROATY
Guttural; hoarse; having a guttural voice. "Hard, throaty words." Howell. - BLUETHROAT
A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia , related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler. - OVERDRINK
To drink to excess. - TOPARCH
The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller. - ANGWANTIBO
A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail. - CUTTHROAT
One who cuts throats; a murderer; an assassin. - EPARCH
In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy. - EPARCHY
A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese. - MISCHARACTERIZE
To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton. - WHITETHROAT
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species , called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler , and the lesser whitethroat . - RUBYTHROAT
Any one of numerous species of humming birds belonging to Trochilus, Calypte, Stellula, and allies, in which the male has on the throat a brilliant patch of red feathers having metallic reflections; esp., the common humming bird of the