Word Meanings - EXPULSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the power of driving out or away; serving to expel. The expulsive power of a new affection. Chalmers.
Related words: (words related to EXPULSIVE)
- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - SERVING
a & n. from Serve. Serving board , a flat piece of wood used in serving ropes. -- Serving maid, a female servant; a maidservant. -- Serving mallet , a wooden instrument shaped like a mallet, used in serving ropes. -- Serving man, a male servant, - HAVENER
A harbor master. - SERVO-MOTOR
A relay apparatus; specif.: An auxiliary motor, regulated by a hand lever, for quickly and easily moving the reversing gear of a large marine engine into any desired position indicated by that of the hand lever, which controls the valve - POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - SERVILELY
In a servile manner; slavishly. - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - DRIVEL
To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym: - DRIVE
To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - SERVILENESS
Quality of being servile; servility. - SERVABLE
Capable of being preserved. (more info) 1. Capable of being served. 2. Etym: - SERVITORSHIP
The office, rank, or condition of a servitor. Boswell. - SERVER
1. One who serves. 2. A tray for dishes; a salver. Randolph. - HAVE
haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2. - SERVIAN
Of or pertaining to Servia, a kingdom of Southern Europe. -- n. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - DISSERVE
To fail to serve; to do injury or mischief to; to damage; to hurt; to harm. Have neither served nor disserved the interests of any party. Jer. Taylor. (more info) Etym: - RESERVE
1. To keep back; to retain; not to deliver, make over, or disclose. "I have reserved to myself nothing." Shak. 2. Hence, to keep in store for future or special use; to withhold from present use for another purpose or time; to keep; to retain. Gen. - DESERVEDNESS
Meritoriousness. - CONSERVATIONAL
Tending to conserve; preservative. - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - MISOBSERVE
To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke. - SUBSERVIENCE; SUBSERVIENCY
The quality or state of being subservient; instrumental fitness or use; hence, willingness to serve another's purposes; in a derogatory sense, servility. The body wherein appears much fitness, use, and subserviency to infinite functions. Bentley. - INSERVE
To be of use to an end; to serve. - PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety. - OBSERVANCY
Observance. - MANSERVANT
A male servant.