Word Meanings - EMACIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To lose flesh gradually and become very lean; to waste away in flesh. "He emaciated and pined away." Sir T. Browne. (more info) maciare to make lean or meager, fr. macies leanness, akin to macer

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• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• 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.
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• PINNULA
  See PINNULE
• FLESHMENT
  The act of fleshing, or the excitement attending a successful beginning. Shak.
• PINNULATED
  Having pinnules.
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• PINUS
  A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• PINWORM
  A small nematoid worm , which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• PINFEATHERED
  Having part, or all, of the feathers imperfectly developed.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• IMPINGUATE
  To fatten; to make fat. Bacon.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• POOPING
  The act or shock of striking a vessel's stern by a following wave or vessel.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• TAMPING
  1. The act of one who tamps; specifically, the act of filling up a hole in a rock, or the branch of a mine, for the purpose of blasting the rock or exploding the mine. 2. The material used in tamping. See Tamp, v. t., 1. Tamping iron, an iron rod
• SOPPING
  more recent version of soppy. Used esp. in phrase sopping wet.