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Word Meanings - DWARF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively

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An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being. Note: During the Middle Ages dwarfs as well as fools shared the favor of courts and the nobility. Note: Dwarf is used adjectively in reference to anything much below the usual or normal size; as, dwarf tree; dwarf honeysuckle. Dwarf elder , danewort. -- Dwarf wall , a low wall, not as high as the story of a building, often used as a garden wall or fence. Gwilt. (more info) dweorh; akin to D. dwerg, MHG. twerc, G. zwerg, Icel. dvergr, Sw. &

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  • SLIGHTNESS
    The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • DIMINISH
    To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
  • ILLIBERALISM
    Illiberality.
  • SHORT-WITED
    Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
  • REDUCEMENT
    Reduction. Milton.
  • SLIGHTEN
    To slight. B. Jonson.
  • ENLARGEMENT
    1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
  • ABATER
    One who, or that which, abates.
  • ILLIBERALNESS
    The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
  • CONTRACTIBLE
    Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SLIGHTINGLY
    In a slighting manner.
  • CANCELLATE
    Consisting of a network of veins, without intermediate parenchyma, as the leaves of certain plant; latticelike.
  • DIMINISHER
    One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
  • DWARFLING
    A diminutive dwarf.
  • REDUCE
    To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
  • LESSENER
    One who, or that which, lessens. His wife . . . is the lessener of his pain, and the augmenter of his pleasure. J. Rogers .
  • SHORT CIRCUIT
    A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • DISREGARDFULLY
    Negligently; heedlessly.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • DISRESPECTABILITY
    Want of respectability. Thackeray.
  • REDIMINISH
    To diminish again.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • SEA BRIEF
    See LETTER
  • MISOBSERVE
    To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.

 

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