Word Meanings - ENASCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Coming into being; nascent. Bp. Warburton.
Related words: (words related to ENASCENT)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - COMBER
1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave. - BELLMAN
A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton. - BELIAL
An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12. - BESCRATCH
To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches. - COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck. - BEASTLIHEAD
Beastliness. Spenser. - COMMISSARY
An officer on the bishop, who exercises ecclesiastical jurisdiction in parts of the diocese at a distance from the residence of the bishop. Ayliffe. An officer having charge of a special sevice; as, the commissary of musters. An officer - BEWRAP
To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax. - BERGOMASK
A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness. - COMMERCIALLY
In a commercial manner. - BELEAVE
To leave or to be left. May. - BEVELMENT
The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - BETSO
A small brass Venetian coin. - BESCORN
To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer. - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - BETOKEN
1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen - BELLADONNA
An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due - BECHE DE MER
The trepang. - GABBER
1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk. - HAIRBELL
See HAREBELL - ORBED
Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench. - GERBE
A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow. - 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. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - GABELER
A collector of gabels or taxes. - ABERRATE
To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.