Word Meanings - EPIGRAMMATIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.

Related words: (words related to EPIGRAMMATIST)

• BRISK
  1. Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick. Cheerily, boys; be brick awhile. Shak. Brick toil alternating with ready ease. Wordworth. 2. Full of spirit of life; effervescas, brick
• SHOWROOM
  A room or apartment where a show is exhibited. 2. A room where merchandise is exposed for sale, or where samples are displayed.
• SHOWILY
  In a showy manner; pompously; with parade.
• SHOWING
  1. Appearance; display; exhibition. 2. Presentation of facts; statement. J. S. Mill.
• SHOWER
  1. One who shows or exhibits. 2. That which shows; a mirror. Wyclif.
• BRISKLY
  In a brisk manner; nimbly.
• SHOWMAN
  One who exhibits a show; a proprietor of a show.
• EPIGRAMMATIST
  One who composes epigrams, or makes use of them. The brisk epigrammatist showing off his own cleverness. Holmes.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SHOW
  view; akin to OS. scaw, OFries. skawia, D. schouwen, OHG. scouw, G. schauen, Dan. skue, Sw. sk, Icel. sko, Goth. usskawjan to waken, skuggwa a mirror, Icel. skuggy shade, shadow, L. cavere to be on 1. To exhibit or present to view; to place in
• BRISKET
  That part of the breast of an animal which extends from the fore legs back beneath the ribs; also applied to the fore part of a horse, from the shoulders to the bottom of the chest. Note: (more info) prob. of Celtic origin; cf. W. brysced
• SHOWBREAD
  Bread of exhibition; loaves to set before God; -- the term used in translating the various phrases used in the Hebrew and Greek to designate the loaves of bread which the priest of the week placed before the Lord on the golden table in
• SHOWN
  p. p. of Show.
• SHOWISH
  Showy; ostentatious. Swift.
• SHOWERLESS
  Rainless; freo from showers.
• BRISKNESS
  Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.
• SHOWERINESS
  Quality of being showery.
• SHOWINESS
  The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.
• CLEVERNESS
  The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness. Syn. -- See Ingenuity.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• RAREE-SHOW
  A show carried about in a box; a peep show. Pope.
• THUNDERSHOWER
  A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder.
• PRESHOW
  To foreshow.