Word Meanings - FLUTIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby. 2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan. 3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no

Additional info about word: FLUTIST

A performer on the flute; a flautist. Busby. 2. To move with quick vibrations or undulations; as, a sail flutters in the wind; a fluttering fan. 3. To move about briskly, irregularly, or with great bustle and show, without much result. No rag, no scrap, of all the beau, or wit, That once so fluttered, and that once so writ. Pope. 4. To be in agitation; to move irregularly; to flucttuate; to be uncertainty. Long we fluttered on the wings of doubtful success. Howell. His thoughts are very fluttering and wandering. I. Watts.

Related words: (words related to FLUTIST)

• FLAUTIST
  A player on the flute; a flutist.
• BUSBY
  A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• FLUTED
  1. Thin; fine; clear and mellow; flutelike; as, fluted notes. Busby. 2. Decorated with flutes; channeled; grooved; as, a fluted column; a fluted ruffle; a fluted spectrum.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• RESULTIVE
  Resultant. Fuller.
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• BUSTLER
  An active, stirring person.
• FLUTTER
  1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• BRISKLY
  In a brisk manner; nimbly.
• FLUTEMOUTH
  A fish of the genus Aulostoma, having a much elongated tubular snout.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.