Word Meanings - ESTUATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.

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• AGITATION
  1. The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after a storm is in agitation. 2. A stirring up or arousing; disturbance of tranquillity; disturbance
• FLUID
  Having particles which easily move and change their relative position without a separation of the mass, and which easily yield to pressure; capable of flowing; liquid or gaseous.
• FEARSOME
  . Easily frightened; timid; timorous. "A silly fearsome thing." B. Taylor (more info) 1. Frightful; causing fear "This fearsome wind." Sir W. Scott
• FLUIDAL
  Pertaining to a fluid, or to its flowing motion. Fluidal structure , the structure characteristic of certain volcanic rocks in which the arrangement of the minute crystals shows the lines of flow of thew molten material before solidification; --
• FLUIDRACHM
  See S
• ESTUATION
  The act of estuating; commotion, as of a fluid; agitation. The estuations of joys and fears. W. Montagu.
• COMMOTION
  1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.
• FLUIDITY
  The quality of being fluid or capable of flowing; a liquid, aëriform. or gaseous state; -- opposed to solidity. It was this want of organization, this looseness and fluidity of the new movement, that made it penetrate through every class
• FLUIDIZE
  To render fluid.
• FLUIDOUNCE
  See FLUID
• FLUIDNESS
  The state of being flluid; fluidity.
• ESTUATE
  To boil up; to swell and rage; to be agitated. Bacon. (more info) aestus boiling or undulating motion, fire, glow, heat; akin to
• EXESTUATION
  A boiling up; effervescence. Boyle.
• BEAUMONTAGUE
  A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil.
• SUBAGITATION
  Unlawful sexual intercourse.
• EXAGITATION
  Agitation. Bailey.
• PASTEUR'S FLUID
  An artificial nutrient fluid invented by Pasteur for the study of alcoholic fermentation, but used also for the cultivation of bacteria and other organisms. It contains all the elements of protoplasm, and was originally made of the ash of yeast,
• SEMIFLUID
  Imperfectly fluid. -- n.
• FLAGITATION
  Importunity; urgent demand. Carlyle.
• MARGARYIZE; MARGARY'S FLUID
  To impregnate with a preservative solution of copper sulphate .
• EXESTUATE
  To be agitated; to boil up; to effervesce.