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Word Meanings - HURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.

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  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • 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.
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • HURLY
    Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.
  • UPROAR
    Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
  • DEATHWARD
    Toward death.
  • HURLY-BURLY
    Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
  • DEATH
    Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
  • NOISELESS
    Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
  • DEATHFULNESS
    Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
  • DEATH'S-HERB
    The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
  • CONFUSION
    1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
  • NOISEFUL
    Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
  • DEATHBED
    The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
  • NOISETTE
    A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
  • DEATHLESS
    Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
  • DEATHSMAN
    An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
  • DEATHBLOW
    A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
  • ITSELF
    The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • CHINOISERIE
    Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
  • INCONFUSION
    Freedom from confusion; distinctness. Bacon.
  • OUTNOISE
    To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.

 

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