Word Meanings - LANGUISHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Becoming languid and weak; pining; losing health and strength. 2. Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

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• PINNIPED
  One of the Pinnipedia; a seal. One of the Pinnipedes.
• PINCPINC
  An African wren warbler. .
• PINCHBECK
  An alloy of copper and zinc, resembling gold; a yellow metal, composed of about three ounces of zinc to a pound of copper. It is much used as an imitation of gold in the manufacture of cheap jewelry.
• PENSIVE
  weigh, ponder, consider, v. intens. fr. pendere to weigh. See 1. Thoughtful, sober, or sad; employed in serious reflection; given to, or favorable to, earnest or melancholy musing. The pensive secrecy of desert cell. Milton. Anxious cares
• PINNATIFID
  Divided in a pinnate manner, with the divisions not reaching to the midrib.
• PINGUIDINOUS
  Containing fat; fatty.
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• PINENCHYMA
  Tabular parenchyma, a form of cellular tissue in which the cells are broad and flat, as in some kinds of epidermis.
• PINEAPPLE
  A tropical plant ; also, its fruit; -- so called from the resemblance of the latter, in shape and external appearance, to the cone of the pine tree. Its origin is unknown, though conjectured to be American.
• LOSENGERIE
  Flattery; deceit; trickery. Chaucer.
• LOSEL
  One who loses by sloth or neglect; a worthless person; a lorel. Spenser. One sad losel soils a name for aye. Byron.
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• PINNULA
  See PINNULE
• PINNULATED
  Having pinnules.
• PINGUID
  Fat; unctuous; greasy. "Some clays are more pinguid." Mortimer.
• PINUS
  A large genus of evergreen coniferous trees, mostly found in the northern hemisphere. The genus formerly included the firs, spruces, larches, and hemlocks, but is now limited to those trees which have the primary leaves of the branchlets reduced
• PINWORM
  A small nematoid worm , which is parasitic chiefly in the rectum of man. It is most common in children and aged persons.
• PINDARICAL
  Pindaric. Too extravagant and Pindarical for prose. Cowley.
• PINPATCH
  The common English periwinkle.
• PINK STERN
  See PINK
• PAXILLOSE
  Resembling a little stake.
• LAMBERT PINE
  The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
• CALLOSUM
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• FLOSSIFICATION
  A flowering; florification. Craig.
• SUPINITY
  Supineness. Sir T. Browne.
• SUPPING
  1. The act of one who sups; the act of taking supper. 2. That which is supped; broth. Holland.
• PROPINQUITY
  1. Nearness in place; neighborhood; proximity. 2. Nearness in time. Sir T. Browne. 3. Nearness of blood; kindred; affinity. Shak.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• STRAPPING
  Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
• PHILOSOPHIZE
  To reason like a philosopher; to search into the reason and nature of things; to investigate phenomena, and assign rational causes for their existence. Man philosophizes as he lives. He may philosophize well or ill, but philosophize he must. Sir
• IMPINGUATE
  To fatten; to make fat. Bacon.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• OPINER
  One who opines. Jer. Taylor.
• TYPHLOSOLE
  A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals.
• STOPPING
  A partition or door to direct or prevent a current of air. (more info) 1. Material for filling a cavity.
• OPINIONATOR
  An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South.
• FILOSELLE
  A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss.