Word Meanings - GIDDY-PACED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Moving irregularly; flighty; fickle. Shak.

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• MOVER
  1. A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place. 2. A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor. 3. One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These
• MOVELESS
  Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
• MOVABLE
  1. Capable of being moved, lifted, carried, drawn, turned, or conveyed, or in any way made to change place or posture; susceptible of motion; not fixed or stationary; as, a movable steam engine. 2. Changing from one time to another; as, movable
• MOVE
  To transfer from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king. 3. To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence. Minds desirous of
• MOVIE
  A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl.
• FLIGHTY
  1. Fleeting; swift; transient. The flighty purpose never is o'ertook, Unless the deed go with it. Shak. 2. Indulging in flights, or wild and unrestrained sallies, of imagination, humor, caprice, etc.; given to disorder Proofs of my flighty and
• FICKLE
  Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. Shak. They know how fickle common lovers are. Dryden. Syn. -- Wavering; irresolute; unsettled;
• MOVING PICTURE
  A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision,
• MOVENT
  Moving. Grew.
• MOVING
  1. Changing place or posture; causing motion or action; as, a moving car, or power. 2. Exciting movement of the mind; adapted to move the sympathies, passions, or affections; touching; pathetic; as, a moving appeal. I sang an old moving story.
• MOVINGLY
  In a moving manner. Addison.
• MOVEMENT
  A system of mechanism for transmitting motion of a definite character, or for transforming motion; as, the wheelwork of a watch. Febrille movement , an elevation of the body temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement
• MOVABLY
  In a movable manner or condition.
• MOVABILITY
  Movableness.
• MOVINGNESS
  The power of moving.
• IRREGULARLY
  In an irregular manner.
• MOVABLENESS
  The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
• FICKLENESS
  The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. Shak.
• ENMOVE
  See EMMOVE
• PROMOVE
  To move forward; to advance; to promote. Bp. Fell.
• IRREMOVABLE
  Not removable; immovable; inflexible. Shak. -- Ir`re*mov"a*bly, adv.
• THERMOVOLTAIC
  Of or relating to heat and electricity; especially, relating to thermal effects produced by voltaic action. Faraday.
• UNMOVABLY
  Immovably. J. Ellis.
• IMMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.
• COUNTERMOVE
  To move in a contrary direction to.
• SELF-MOVED
  Moved by inherent power., without the aid of external impulse.
• IRREMOVABILITY
  The quality or state of being irremovable; immovableness.
• IMMOVABLE
  Not liable to be removed; permanent in place or tenure; fixed; as, an immovable estate. See Immovable, n. Blackstone. Immovable apparatus , an appliance, like the plaster of paris bandage, which keeps fractured parts firmly in place. -- Immovable
• COMMOVE
  Etym: 1. To urge; to persuade; to incite. Chaucer. 2. To put in motion; to disturb; to unsettle. Straight the sands, Commoved around, in gathering eddies play. Thomson.
• REMOVER
  One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.