Word Meanings - INFARCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot.
Related words: (words related to INFARCE)
- SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - STUFFING
Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint - INFARCT
An obstruction or embolus. The morbid condition of a limited area resulting from such obstruction; as, a hemorrhagic infarct. - HUMORSOMENESS
Quality of being humorsome. - HUMORSOMELY
Pleasantly; humorously. - WATERY
1. Of or pertaining to water; consisting of water. "The watery god." Dryden. "Fish within their watery residence." Milton. 2. Abounding with water; wet; hence, tearful. 3. Resembling water; thin or transparent, as a liquid; as, watery humors. The - SWELL
1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions, by matter added within, or by expansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation. 2. To increase in - STUFFINESS
The quality of being stuffy. - SWELLDOM
People of rank and fashion; the class of swells, collectively. - INFARCTION
The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation. - STUFFER
One who, or that which, stuffs. - INFARCE
To stuff; to swell. The body is infarced with . . . watery humors. Sir T. Elyot. - SWELLING
an unnatural prominence or protuberance; as, a scrofulous swelling. The superficies of such plates are not even, but have many cavities and swellings. Sir I. Newton. (more info) 1. The act of that which swells; as, the swelling of rivers in spring; - STUFFY
1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close. - STUFF
A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See - SWELLISH
Dandified; stylish. - SWELLFISH
Any plectognath fish that dilates itself, as the bur fish, puffer, or diodon. - HUMORSOME
1. Moody; whimsical; capricious. Hawthorne. The commons do not abet humorsome, factious arms. Burke. 2. Jocose; witty; humorous. Swift. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - UNSWELL
To sink from a swollen state; to subside. Chaucer. - HEARTSWELLING
Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser. - BREADSTUFF
Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made. - BOSWELLISM
The style of Boswell. - DYESTUFF
A material used for dyeing. - HIGH-SWELLING
Inflated; boastful. - SPLIT STUFF
Timber sawn into lengths and then split.