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Word Meanings - KNOCKDOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A felling by a knock, as of a combatant, or of an animal.

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  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • FELLY
    , adv. In a fell or cruel manner; fiercely; barbarously; savagely. Spenser.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • FELLABLE
    Fit to be felled.
  • KNOCKSTONE
    A block upon which ore is broken up.
  • FELLOE
    See FELLY
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLFARE
    The fieldfare.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • ANIMALCULE
    An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
  • KNOCKING
    A beating; a rap; a series of raps. The . . . repeated knockings of the head upon the ground by the Chinese worshiper. H. Spencer.
  • ASTROFEL; ASTROFELL
    A bitter herb, probably the same as aster, or starwort. Spenser.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • WOOLFELL
    A skin with the wool; a skin from which the wool has not been sheared or pulled.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.

 

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