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.
Related words: (words related to EXPIRING)
- 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.