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Word Meanings - HUDIBRASTIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.

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  • VERSET
    A verse. Milton.
  • VERSEMAN
    See PRIOR
  • STYLET
    A small poniard; a stiletto. An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. A stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to maintain their shape
  • BUTLERSHIP
    The office of a butler.
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • BUTLER
    An officer in a king's or a nobleman's household, whose principal business it is to take charge of the liquors, plate, etc.; the head servant in a large house. The butler and the baker of the king of Egypt. Gen. xl. 5. Your wine locked up, your
  • HUDIBRASTIC
    Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
  • SIMILARLY
    In a similar manner.
  • VERSEMONGER
    A writer of verses; especially, a writer of commonplace poetry; a poetaster; a rhymer; -- used humorously or in contempt.
  • VERSED
    Acquainted or familiar, as the result of experience, study, practice, etc.; skilled; practiced. Deep versed in books and shallow in himself. Milton. Opinions . . . derived from studying the Scriptures, wherein he was versed beyond any person of
  • VERSE
    and, in poetry, a verse, from vertere, versum, to turn, to turn round; akin to E. worth to become: cf. F. vers. See Worth to become, and cf. Advertise, Averse, Controversy, Convert, Divers, Invert, 1. A line consisting of a certain number
  • BUTLERAGE
    A duty of two shillings on every tun of wine imported into England by merchant strangers; -- so called because paid to the king's butler for the king. Blackstone.
  • SIMILARITY
    The quality or state of being similar; likeness; resemblance; as, a similarity of features. Hardly is there a similarity detected between two or three facts, than men hasten to extend it to all. Sir W. Hamilton.
  • DOGGEREL
    Low in style, and irregular in measure; as, doggerel rhymes. This may well be rhyme doggerel, quod he. Chaucer.
  • STYLE
    The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates (more info) style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t.,
  • SIMILAR
    1. Exactly corresponding; resembling in all respects; precisely like. 2. Nearly corresponding; resembling in many respects; somewhat like; having a general likeness. 3. Homogenous; uniform. Boyle. Similar figures , figures which differ from
  • VERSER
    A versifier. B. Jonson.
  • CONTROVERSER
    A disputant.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • ARAEOSTYLE
    See INTERCOLUMNIATION
  • AVERSENESS
    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • SURSTYLE
    To surname.
  • RENVERSEMENT
    A reversing.
  • AMPHIPROSTYLE
    Doubly prostyle; having columns at each end, but not at the sides. -- n.
  • INSTYLE
    To style. Crashaw.
  • TRAVERSE
    Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
  • ENDOSTYLE
    A fold of the endoderm, which projects into the blood cavity of ascidians. See Tunicata.
  • DISSIMILARLY
    In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
  • INTERTRANSVERSE
    Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
  • DODECASTYLE
    Having twelve columns in front. -- n.

 

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