Word Meanings - FADGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same

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• FADGE
  To fit; to suit; to agree. They shall be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together. Milton. Well, Sir, how fadges the new design Wycherley. (more info) unit, G. fügen, or AS. afægian to depict; all perh. form the same
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• DEPICTURE
  To make a picture of; to paint; to picture; to depict. Several persons were depictured in caricature. Fielding.
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SPITE
  1. Ill-will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the disposition to irritate, annoy, or thwart; petty malice; grudge; rancor; despite. Pope. This is the deadly spite that angers. Shak. 2. Vexation; chargrin; mortification. Shak. In spite
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• DESIGNATOR
  An officer who assigned to each his rank and place in public shows and ceremonies. 2. One who designates.
• DESIGNATIVE
  Serving to designate or indicate; pointing out.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• DESIGNFUL
  Full of design; scheming. -- De*sign"ful*ness, n. Barrow.
• AGREER
  One who agrees.
• DESIGNEDLY
  By design; purposely; intentionally; -- opposed to accidentally, ignorantly, or inadvertently.
• DEPICTION
  A painting or depicting; a representation.
• DEPICT
  1. To form a colored likeness of; to represent by a picture; to paint; to portray. His arms are fairly depicted in his chamber. Fuller. 2. To represent in words; to describe vividly. Cæsar's gout was then depicted in energetic language. Motley.
• DESIGNLESS
  Without design. -- De*sign"less*ly, adv.
• SHALLOT
  A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot.
• SHALL
  sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll,
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
  Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook.
• FOREDESIGN
  To plan beforehand; to intend previously. Cheyne.
• SHAGREEN
  To chagrin.
• DISAGREER
  One who disagrees. Hammond.
• BAGREEF
  The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.