Word Meanings - ILLACRYMABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Incapable of weeping. Bailey.

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• INCAPABLE
  Unqualified or disqualified, in a legal sense; as, a man under thirty-five years of age is incapable of holding the office of president of the United States; a person convicted on impeachment is thereby made incapable of holding an office of profit
• BAILEY
  ballium bailey, OF. bail, baille, a palisade, baillier to inclose, 1. The outer wall of a feudal castle. 2. The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress. 3. A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as,
• WEEPING TREE
  Any tree having pendulous branches. A tree from which honeydew or other liquid secretions of insects drip in considerable quantities, esp. one infested by the larvæ of any species of the genus Ptylus, allied to the cuckoo spits, which in tropical
• WEEPER
  The capuchin. See Capuchin, 3 . (more info) 1. One who weeps; esp., one who sheds tears. 2. A white band or border worn on the sleeve as a badge of mourning. Goldsmith.
• WEEP
  The lapwing; the wipe; -- so called from its cry.
• WEEPFUL
  Full of weeping or lamentation; grieving. Wyclif.
• WEEPINGLY
  In a weeping manner.
• INCAPABLENESS
  The quality or state of being incapable; incapability.
• WEEPING-RIPE
  Ripe for weeping; ready to weep. Shak.
• WEEPING
  The act of one who weeps; lamentation with tears; shedding of tears.
• ENSWEEP
  To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson.
• PEASWEEP
  The pewit, or lapwing. The greenfinch.
• SWEEPAGE
  The crop of hay got in a meadow.
• FORWEEP
  To weep much.
• SWEEPING
  Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping
• SWEEP-SAW
  A bow-saw.
• SWEEPY
  Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden.
• SWEEPWASHER
  One who extracts the residuum of precious metals from the sweepings, potsherds, etc., of refineries of gold and silver, or places where these metals are used.
• SWEEPER
  One who, or that which, sweeps, or cleans by sweeping; a sweep; as, a carpet sweeper. It is oxygen which is the great sweeper of the economy. Huxley.
• SWEEPINGS
  Things collected by sweeping; rubbish; as, the sweepings of a street.
• SWEEP
  To draw or drag something over; as, to sweep the bottom of a river with a net. 7. To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation; as, to sweep the heavens with a telescope. To sweep, or sweep up, a mold , to form the
• OUTWEEP
  To exceed in weeping.
• SWEEPSTAKE
  1. A winning of all the stakes or prizes. Heylin. 2. A complete removal or carrying away; a clean sweep. Bp. Hacket.