Word Meanings - EXTUBERANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A swelling or rising; protuberance. Moxon.
Related words: (words related to EXTUBERANCE)
- RIS
A bough or branch; a twig. As white as is the blossom upon the ris. Chaucer. - RISIBLE
1. Having the faculty or power of laughing; disposed to laugh. Laughing is our busines, . . . it has been made the definition of man that he is risible. Dr. H. More. 2. Exciting laughter; worthy to be laughed at; amusing. "Risible absurdities." - RISQUE; RISQUEE
Hazardous; risky; esp., fig., verging upon impropriety; dangerously close to, or suggestive of, what is indecent or of doubtful morality; as, a risqué story. Henry Austin. - RIST
3d pers. sing. pres. of Rise, contracted from riseth. Chaucer. - RISEN
1. p. p. & a. from Rise. "Her risen Son and Lord." Keble. 2. Obs. imp. pl. of Rise. Chaucer. - PROTUBERANCE
That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - RISKER
One who risks or hazards. Hudibras. - RISORIAL
Pertaining to, or producing, laughter; as, the risorial muscles. - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - RISH
A rush . Chaucer. - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - RISIBILITY
The quality of being risible; as, risibility is peculiar to the human species. A strong and obvious disposition to risibility. Sir W. Scott. - RISING
1. Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon. 2. Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character. Among the rising - RISE
Icel. risa, Goth. urreisan, G. reise journey. CF. Arise, Raise, Rear, 1. To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird - RISER
A shaft excavated from below upward. (more info) 1. One who rises; as, an early riser. The upright piece of a step, from tread to tread. Hence: Any small upright face, as of a seat, platform, veranda, or the like. - SWELLING
an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; - RISOTTO
A kind of pottage. - RISK
Hazard of loss; liabillity to loss in property. To run a risk, to incur hazard; to encounter danger. Syn. -- Danger; hazard; peril; jeopardy; exposure. See Danger. (more info) Sp. riesgo, and also Sp. risco a steep rock; all probably - RISSOID
Any one of very numerous species of small spiral gastropods of the genus Rissoa, or family Rissoidæ, found both in fresh and salt water. - HORRISONOUS
Sounding dreadfully; uttering a terrible sound. Bailey. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - TRISYLLABIC; TRISYLLABICAL
Of or pertaining to a trisyllable; consisting of three syllables; as, "syllable" is a trisyllabic word. -- Tris`yllab"ic*al*ly, adv. - GRISLY
Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible, - CHARACTERISTIC
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay. - GRISTMILL
A mill for grinding grain; especially, a mill for grinding grists, or portions of grain brought by different customers; a custom mill. - SPAGYRIST
1. A chemist, esp. one devoted to alchemistic pursuits. 2. One of a sect which arose in the days of alchemy, who sought to discover remedies for disease by chemical means. The spagyrists historically preceded the iatrochemists. Encyc. Brit. - LUTHERANISM; LUTHERISM
The doctrines taught by Luther or held by the Lutheran Church. - METAPHORIST
One who makes metaphors. - ARTILLERIST
A person skilled in artillery or gunnery; a gunner; an artilleryman. - TANTRISM
The system of doctrines and rites taught in the tantras. -- Tan"trist , n. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. - PERISTALSIS
Peristaltic contraction or action. - PURISM
Rigid purity; the quality of being affectedly pure or nice, especially in the choice of language; over-solicitude as to purity. "His political purism." De Quincey. The English language, however, . . . had even already become too thoroughly - PORISMATIC; PORISMATICAL
Of or pertaining to a porism; poristic. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - NATURISM
The belief or doctrine that attributes everything to nature as a sanative agent. - GRIST
1. Ground corn; that which is ground at one time; as much grain as is carried to the mill at one time, or the meal it produces. Get grist to the mill to have plenty in store. Tusser. Q. 2. Supply; provision. Swift. 3. In rope making, a given size - CHORIST
A singer in a choir; a chorister.