Word Meanings - FORAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.

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• MIGHTILY
  1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused
• MIGHT
  Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might
• MIGHTY
  1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
• CHOOSER
  One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.
• FORAYER
  One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• FORAY
  A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.
• ABROAD
  1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• MIGHTINESS
  1. The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak. 2. Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.
• CHOOSE
  1. To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott. 2. To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile" Pope. Can not choose but, must necessarily. Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• MIGHTFUL
  Mighty. Shak.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• MIGHTLESS
  Without; weak.
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• ALMIGHTINESS
  Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
• MISCHOOSE
  To choose wrongly. Milton.
• ALMIGHTILY
  With almighty power.
• SOMERSAULT; SOMERSET
  A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl. (more info) soubresault, It. soprassalto an overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to leap;
• DEMERSED
  Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
• IMMERSED
  Growing wholly under water. Gray. (more info) 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. 2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
• IMMERSE
  Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
• DEMERSE
  To immerse. Boyle.
• SMIGHT
  To smite. Spenser.
• SOMMERSET
  See SOMERSAULT
• ALMIGHTFUL; ALMIGHTIFUL
  All-powerful; almighty. Udall.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.