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Word Meanings - FUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak. 2. Moping. A melancholy, fusty humor. Pepys.

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    A native of Greenland.
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  • STALELY
    1. In a state stale manner. 2. Of old; long since. B. Jonson.
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    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
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    See GREENBROOM
  • FETIDNESS
    The quality or state of being fetid.
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • MUSTY
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    The state or quality of being green; verdure. The greenth of summer. G. Eliot.
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    To chagrin.
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    See GREEN

 

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