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Word Meanings - EBB - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The European bunting.

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  • 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.
  • DECAY
    To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
  • REFIX
    To fix again or anew; to establish anew. Fuller.
  • ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
    1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
  • 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.
  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • 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
  • PERISHMENT
    The act of perishing. Udall.
  • RETREATFUL
    Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
  • CONTRACTIBLE
    Capable of contraction. Small air bladders distable and contractible. Arbuthnot.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • 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 .
  • PERISHABILITY
    Perishableness.
  • RETURNLESS
    Admitting no return. Chapman.
  • EXTENDLESSNESS
    Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
  • SETTLEMENT
    A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
  • CANCEL
    To suppress or omit; to strike out, as matter in type. Canceled figures , figures cast with a line across the face., as for use in arithmetics. Syn. -- To blot out; Obliterate; deface; erase; efface; expunge; annul; abolish; revoke; abrogate;
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • REDIMINISH
    To diminish again.
  • SUBCONTRACTOR
    One who takes a portion of a contract, as for work, from the principal contractor.
  • PRECEDENTLY
    Beforehand; antecedently.

 

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