Word Meanings - FAMISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains
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1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains of famished Tantalus he'll feel. Dryden. 3. To kill, or to cause to suffer extremity, by deprivation or denial of anything necessary. And famish him of breath, if not of bread. Milton. 4. To force or constrain by famine. He had famished Paris into a surrender. Burke.
Related words: (words related to FAMISH)
- CRITICISER
One who criticises; a critic. - CRINICULTURAL
Relating to the growth of hair. - CRIBBER; CRIB-BITER
A horse that has the habit of cribbing. - CRINGLE
An iron or pope thimble or grommet worked into or attached to the edges and corners of a sail; -- usually in the plural. The cringles are used for making fast the bowline bridles, earings, etc. (more info) 1. A withe for fastening a gate. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - PEOPLE
1. The body of persons who compose a community, tribe, nation, or race; an aggregate of individuals forming a whole; a community; a nation. Unto him shall the gathering of the people be. Gen. xlix. 10. The ants are a people not strong. Prov. xxx. - CRISPER
One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla. - CRIBELLUM
A peculiar perforated organ of certain spiders , used for spinning a special kind of silk. - CRICKETER
One who plays at cricket. - CRIBRATE
Cribriform. - DESTROYABLE
Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham. - CRIBBING
A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc. 4. A vicious habit of a horse; crib-biting. The horse lays hold of the crib or manger with his teeth and draws air into the stomach with a - CRIMINATORY
Relating to, or involving, crimination; accusing; as, a criminatory conscience. - CRITICALLY
1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification - BREADBASKET
The stomach. S. Foote. - BREAD
To spread. Ray. - CRIMPER
One who, or that which, crimps; as: A curved board or frame over which the upper of a boot or shoe is stretched to the required shape. A device for giving hair a wavy apperance. A machine for crimping or ruffling textile fabrics. - CRIMPY
Having a crimped appearance; frizzly; as, the crimpy wool of the Saxony sheep. - CRITICASTER
A contemptible or vicious critic. The rancorous and reptile crew of poeticules, who decompose into criticasters. Swinburne. - ON-HANGER
A hanger-on. - PALEOCRINOIDEA
A suborder of Crinoidea found chiefly in the Paleozoic rocks. - SACRILEGIOUS
Violating sacred things; polluted with sacrilege; involving sacrilege; profane; impious. Above the reach of sacrilegious hands. pope. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ly, adv. -- Sac`ri*le"gious*ness, n. - ENCRINUS
A genus of fossil encrinoidea, from the Mesozoic rocks. - HYPERCRITICALLY
In a hypercritical manner. - ONIROCRITIC
See ONEIROCRITIC - DISCRIMINOUS
Hazardous; dangerous. Harvey. - SCRIBABLE
Capable of being written, or of being written upon. - LUCRIFIC
Producing profit; gainful. - AFTERPAINS
The pains which succeed childbirth, as in expelling the afterbirth. - ACRIDLY
In an acid manner. - SCRIBBLE
To card coarsely; to run through the scribling machine. - PROCRIS
Any species of small moths of the genus Procris. The larvæ of some species injure the grapevine by feeding in groups upon the leaves.