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Word Meanings - EXPIRING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Breathing out air from the lungs; emitting fluid or volatile matter; exhaling; breathing the last breath; dying; ending; terminating. 2. Pertaining to, or uttered at, the time of dying; as, expiring words; expiring groans.

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  • DYNAMO
    A dynamo-electric machine.
  • ENDENIZATION
    The act of naturalizing.
  • DYNAMOMETRY
    The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
  • ENDORSER
    See INDORSER
  • ENDOGENY
    Growth from within; multiplication of cells by endogenous division, as in the development of one or more cells in the interior of a parent cell.
  • FLUID
    A fluid substance; a body whose particles move easily among themselves. Note: Fluid is a generic term, including liquids and gases as species. Water, air, and steam are fluids. By analogy, the term is sometimes applied to electricity and magnetism,
  • ENDENIZE
    To endenizen.
  • ENDOTHECIUM
    The inner lining of an another cell.
  • ENDOSCOPE
    An instrument for examining the interior of the rectum, the urethra, and the bladder.
  • DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
    Difficulty in swallowing.
  • ENDOPLASM
    The protoplasm in the interior of a cell.
  • MATTER
    1. To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke. 2. To form pus or matter, as an abscess; to maturate. "Each slight sore mattereth." Sir P. Sidney.
  • DYNAMOMETER
    An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
  • EXHALATION
    1. The act or process of exhaling, or sending forth in the form of steam or vapor; evaporation. 2. That which is exhaled, or which rises in the form of vapor, fume, or steam; effluvium; emanation; as, exhalations from the earth or flowers, decaying
  • ENDOCHROME
    The coloring matter within the cells of plants, whether green, red, yellow, or any other color.
  • ENDALL; END-ALL
    Complete termination. That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here. Shak.
  • ENDOSTYLE
    A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
  • ENDURANT
    Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
  • UTTERLY
    In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
  • UTTERNESS
    The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
  • AMENDFUL
    Much improving.
  • COMMENDATOR
    One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers.
  • BREATHE
    Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3.
  • TODDY
    1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
  • LARDY
    Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
  • BLADY
    Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
  • OFFENDANT
    An offender. Holland.
  • DISCANDY
    To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
  • GENDER
    A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
  • DEEDY
    Industrious; active. Cowper.
  • ROWDY
    One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
  • ACCENDIBILITY
    Capacity of being kindled, or of becoming inflamed; inflammability.
  • TETRADYMITE
    A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
  • STIPEND
    Settled pay or compensation for services, whether paid daily, monthly, or annually.
  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • DECRESCENDO
    With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff , or indicated by the sign.
  • SEA LAVENDER
    See MARSH
  • SHENDFUL
    Destructive; ruinous; disgraceful. -- Shend"ful*ly, adv. Fabyan.

 

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