Word Meanings - ELUSORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tending to elude or deceive; evasive; fraudulent; fallacious; deceitful; deceptive. -- E*lu"so*ri*ness, n.
Related words: (words related to ELUSORY)
- TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - TENDON
A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally - TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey. - TENDRIL
A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as - ELUDE
To avoid slyly, by artifice, stratagem, or dexterity; to escape from in a covert manner; to mock by an unexpected escape; to baffle; as, to elude an officer; to elude detection, inquiry, search, comprehension; to elude the force of an argument or - TENDER-HEARTED
Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7. - TENDRON
A tendril. Holland. - DECEIVER
One who deceives; one who leads into error; a cheat; an impostor. The deceived and the deceiver are his. Job xii. 16. Syn. -- Deceiver, Impostor. A deceiver operates by stealth and in private upon individuals; an impostor practices his arts on the - TEND
To make a tender of; to offer or tender. - TENDRE
Tender feeling or fondness; affection. You poor friendless creatures are always having some foolish tendre. Thackeray. - TENDERLOIN
A strip of tender flesh on either side of the vertebral column under the short ribs, in the hind quarter of beef and pork. It consists of the psoas muscles. - TENDERFOOT
A delicate person; one not inured to the hardship and rudeness of pioneer life. - TENDENCY
Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result. Writings of this kind, if conducted with candor, have a more particular tendency to the good of their country. - TENDMENT
Attendance; care. - FRAUDULENTLY
In a fraudulent manner. - PRELUDE
An introductory performance, preceding and preparing for the principal matter; a preliminary part, movement, strain, etc.; especially , a strain introducing the theme or chief subject; a movement introductory to a fugue, yet independent; -- with - PRELUDER
One who, or that which, preludes; one who plays a prelude. Mason. - INTENDENT
See N - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - OBTEND
1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - ENTEND
To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer. - PRETENDER
The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident - PRETENDANT
A pretender; a claimant. - PORTEND
to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne. - DELUDER
One who deludes; a deceiver; an impostor. - UPPERTENDOM
The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie.