Word Meanings - GORGELET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small gorget, as of a humming bird.

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• HUMMEL
  To separate from the awns; -- said of barley.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• HUMMER
  A humming bird. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming. Ainsworth.
• GORGET
  A crescent-shaped, colored patch on the neck of a bird or mammal. Gorget hummer , a humming bird of the genus Trochilus. See Rubythroat. (more info) 1. A piece of armor, whether of chain mail or of plate, defending the throat and upper part of
• HUMMOCKY
  Abounding in hummocks.
• HUMMOCKING
  The process of forming hummocks in the collision of Arctic ice. Kane.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• HUMMOCK
  1. A rounded knoll or hillock; a rise of ground of no great extent, above a level surface. 2. A ridge or pile of ice on an ice field. 3. Timbered land. See Hammock.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• HUMMING
  Emitting a murmuring sound; droning; murmuring; buzzing.
• HUMMELER
  One who, or a machine which, hummels.
• HUMMUM
  A sweating bath or place for sweating. Sir T. Herbert.
• THUMMIE
  The chiff-chaff.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• THUMMIM
  A mysterious part or decoration of the breastplate of the Jewish high priest. See the note under Urim.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.