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Word Meanings - INACCESSIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not accessible; not to be reached, obtained, or approached; as, an inaccessible rock, fortress, document, prince, etc. -- In`ac*cess"i*ble*ness, n. -- In`ac*cess"i*bly, adv.
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- ARIDITY
1. The state or quality of being arid or without moisture; dryness. 2. Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris. - VENTILATE
brandish in the air, to fan, to winnow, from ventus wind; akin to E. 1. To open and expose to the free passage of air; to supply with fresh air, and remove impure air from; to air; as, to ventilate a room; to ventilate a cellar; to ventilate a - STEEP
Bright; glittering; fiery. His eyen steep, and rolling in his head. Chaucer. - STEEPLE
A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire. "A weathercock on a steeple." Shak. Rood steeple. See Rood tower, under Rood. -- Steeple bush , a low shrub having dense panicles - EXSICCATE
To exhaust or evaporate moisture from; to dry up. Sir T. Browne. - STEEPLY
In a steep manner; with steepness; with precipitous declivity. - ABRUPTNESS
1. The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness. 2. Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner. - STEEP-DOWN
Deep and precipitous, having steep descent. Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire. Shak. - PRECIPITOUS
1. Steep, like a precipice; as, a precipitous cliff or mountain. 2. Headlong; as, precipitous fall. 3. Hasty; rash; quick; sudden; precipitate; as, precipitous attempts. Sir T. Browne. "Marian's low, precipitous `Hush!'" Mrs. Browning. - ELEVATOR
One who, or that which, raises or lifts up anything; as: A mechanical contrivance, usually an endless belt or chain with a series of scoops or buckets, for transferring grain to an upper loft for storage. A cage or platform and the hoisting - CRAGGY
Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson. - STEEPLE-CROWNED
1. Bearing a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned building. 2. Having a crown shaped like a steeple; as, a steeple-crowned hat; also, wearing a hat with such a crown. This grave, beared, sable-cloaked, and steeple-crowned progenitor. Hawthorne. - STEEPEN
To become steep or steeper. As the way steepened . . . I could detect in the hollow of the hill some traces of the old path. H. Miller. - STEEPER
A vessel, vat, or cistern, in which things are steeped. - ELEVATED
Uplifted; high; lofty; also, animated; noble; as, elevated thoughts. Elevated railway, one in which the track is raised considerably above the ground, especially a city railway above the line of street travel. - STEEPNESS
1. Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof. 2. Height; loftiness. Chapman. - STEEPINESS
Steepness. Howell. - ELEVATORY
Tending to raise, or having power to elevate; as, elevatory forces. - ABRUPTION
A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. Woodward. - STEEPY
Steep; precipitous. No more, my goats, shall I belong you climb The steepy cliffs, or crop the flow'ry thyme. Dryden. - CHILLY
Moderately cold; cold and raw or damp so as to cause shivering; causing or feeling a disagreeable sensation of cold, or a shivering. - PHILLYREA
A genus of evergreen plants growing along the shores of the Mediterranean, and breading a fruit resembling that of the olive. - PHILLYGENIN
A pearly crystalline substance obtained by the decomposition of phillyrin. - RELEVATION
A raising or lifting up. - SCRAGGY
1. Rough with irregular points; scragged. "A scraggy rock." J. Philips. 2. Lean and rough; scragged. "His sinewy, scraggy neck." Sir W. Scott.