Word Meanings - ILLUSTROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Without luster.
Related words: (words related to ILLUSTROUS)
- WITHOUT-DOOR
Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak. - WITHOUTFORTH
Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer. - LUSTER
One who lusts. - LUSTERING
1. The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery. 2. The brightening of a metal in the crucible when it becomes pure, as in certain refining processes. - LUSTERLESS; LUSTRELESS
Destitute of luster; dim; dull. - WITHOUTEN
Without. Chaucer. - WITHOUT
1. On or at the outside of; out of; not within; as, without doors. Without the gate Some drive the cars, and some the coursers rein. Dryden. 2. Out of the limits of; out of reach of; beyond. Eternity, before the world and after, is without our - LUSTER; LUSTRE
A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke. - CLUSTERY
Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson. - LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
A want of luster. -- a. - BLUSTERINGLY
In a blustering manner. - OUTLUSTER; OUTLUSTRE
To excel in brightness or luster. Shak. - BLUSTEROUS
Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley. - BALUSTERED
Having balusters. Dryden. - FLUSTERATION
The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. - CLUSTER
1. A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser. 2. A number of similar things collected together or lying contiguous; - BLUSTERING
1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange. - BLUSTER
Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person; - BALUSTER
A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building. (more info) the flower of the wild pomegranate, fr. Gr. ; -- so named from the - BLUSTERER
One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.