Word Meanings - FREMESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence , n.

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• FREMESCENT
  Becoming murmurous, roaring. "Fremescent clangor." Carlyle. -- Fre*mes"cence , n.
• BECOME
  happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
• MURMUROUS
  Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring. The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings. Tennyson.
• CLANGOR
  A sharp, harsh, ringing sound. Dryden.
• BECOMED
  Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
• ROARING FORTIES
  The middle latitudes of the southern hemisphere. So called from the boisterous and prevailing westerly winds, which are especially strong in the South Indian Ocean up to 50º S.
• BECOMINGLY
  In a becoming manner.
• ROARER
  A horse subject to roaring. See Roaring, 2. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, roars. Specifically: A riotous fellow; a roaring boy. A lady to turn roarer, and break glasses. Massinger.
• ROARING
  An affection of the windpipe of a horse, causing a loud, peculiar noise in breathing under exertion; the making of the noise so caused. See Roar, v. i., 5. (more info) 1. A loud, deep, prolonged sound, as of a large beast, or of a person
• ROARINGLY
  In a roaring manner.
• CLANGOROUS
  Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.
• BECOMINGNESS
  The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
• BECOMING
  Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
• ROAR
  1. To cry with a full, loud, continued sound. Specifically: To bellow, or utter a deep, loud cry, as a lion or other beast. Roaring bulls he would him make to tame. Spenser. To cry loudly, as in pain, distress, or anger. Sole on the barren sands,
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• COGNOSCENCE
  Cognizance. Dr. H. More.
• CALESCENCE
  Growing warmth; increasing heat.
• TUMESCENCE
  The act of becoming tumid; the state of being swollen; intumescence.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• INNOCENCE
  1. The state or quality of being innocent; freedom from that which is harmful or infurious; harmlessness. 2. The state or quality of being morally free from guilt or sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades
• PUBESCENCE
  1. The quality or state of being pubescent, or of having arrived at puberty. Sir T. Browne. 2. A covering of soft short hairs, or down, as one some plants and insects; also, the state of being so covered.
• PUTRESCENCE
  The state of being putrescent; putrescent matter.
• EFFERVESCENCE; EFFERVESCENCY
  A kind of natural ebullition; that commotion of a fluid which takes place when some part of the mass flies off in a gaseous form, producing innumerable small bubbles; as, the effervescence of a carbonate with citric acid.
• OUTROAR
  To exceed in roaring.
• EXCANDESCENCE
  1. A growing hot; a white or glowing heat; incandescence. 2. Violent anger; a growing angry. Blount.
• INTUMESCENCE
  1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson. 2. Anything swollen or enlarged,
• COMPLACENCE; COMPLACENCY
  1. Calm contentment; satisfaction; gratification. The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously. Atterbury. Others proclaim the infirmities of a great man with satisfaction and complacency, if they discover none of the like
• FRONDESCENCE
  The time at which each species of plants unfolds its leaves. The act of bursting into leaf. Milne. Martyn.
• CONCRESCENCE
  Coalescence of particles; growth; increase by the addition of particles. Sir W. Raleigh.
• EVANESCENCE
  The act or state of vanishing away; disappearance; as, the evanescence of vapor, of a dream, of earthly plants or hopes. Rambler.
• RUBESCENCE
  The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
• UNBECOME
  To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.