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Word Meanings - ETIOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To become pale through disease or absence of light. (more info) 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.

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  • DROOPER
    One who, or that which, droops.
  • BLEACHED
    Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
  • CHANGEFUL
    Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
  • RETAINMENT
    The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
  • STANDARD
    The proportion of weights of fine metal and alloy established by authority. By the present standard of the coinage, sixty-two shillings is coined out of one pound weight of silver. Arbuthnot. (more info) extendere to spread out, extend,
  • STANDPOINT
    A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
  • DWINDLEMENT
    The act or process of dwindling; a dwindling. Mrs. Oliphant.
  • STANDPIPE
    A vertical pipe, open at the top, between a hydrant and a reservoir, to equalize the flow of water; also, a large vertical pipe, near a pumping engine, into which water is forced up, so as to give it sufficient head to rise to the required level
  • DROOPINGLY
    In a drooping manner.
  • ENDUREMENT
    Endurance. South.
  • CHANGEABLY
    In a changeable manner.
  • ETIOLATE
    To become pale through disease or absence of light. (more info) 1. To become white or whiter; to be whitened or blanched by excluding the light of the sun, as, plants.
  • DECLINE
    décliner to decline, refuse, fr. L. declinare to turn aside, inflect , avoid; de- + clinare to incline; akin to E. lean. 1. To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness,
  • STABILITATE
    To make stable; to establish. Dr. H. More.
  • STANDAGE
    A reservior in which water accumulates at the bottom of a mine.
  • VANISHMENT
    A vanishing.
  • CHANGE
    1. To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change the countenance. Therefore will I change their glory into shame. Hosea. iv. 7. 2. To alter by
  • BLEACHER
    One who whitens, or whose occupation is to whiten, by bleaching.
  • STANDER-BY
    One who stands near; one who is present; a bystander.
  • STANDERGRASS
    A plant ; -- called also standerwort, and long purple. See Long purple, under Long.
  • BYSTANDER
    One who stands near; a spectator; one who has no concern with the business transacting. He addressed the bystanders and scattered pamphlets among them. Palfrey. Syn. -- Looker on; spectator; beholder; observer.
  • REEXCHANGE
    To exchange anew; to reverse .
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • EXCHANGE EDITOR
    An editor who inspects, and culls from, periodicals, or exchanges, for his own publication.
  • COUNTERCHANGED
    Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure. (more info)
  • COUNTERCHANGE
    1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange. 2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.
  • UNDERSTANDINGLY
    In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • BOOKSTAND
    1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.

 

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