Word Meanings - LOATHNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon.
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- BACON
The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's - BACONIAN
Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction. - GENERALIZED
Comprising structural characters which are separated in more specialized forms; synthetic; as, a generalized type. - GENERALIZABLE
Capable of being generalized, or reduced to a general form of statement, or brought under a general rule. Extreme cases are . . . not generalizable. Coleridge - GENERALTY
Generality. Sir M. Hale. - SPEAKERSHIP
The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives. - GENERALITY
1. The state of being general; the quality of including species or particulars. Hooker. 2. That which is general; that which lacks specificalness, practicalness, or application; a general or vague statement or phrase. Let us descend from - SPEAKER
1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides - GENERALISSIMO
The chief commander of an army; especially, the commander in chief of an army consisting of two or more grand divisions under separate commanders; -- a title used in most foreign countries. - GENERALLY
1. In general; commonly; extensively, though not universally; most frequently. 2. In a general way, or in general relation; in the main; upon the whole; comprehensively. Generally speaking, they live very quietly. Addison. 3. Collectively; as a - GENERALIZE
1. To bring under a genus or under genera; to view in relation to a genus or to genera. Copernicus generalized the celestial motions by merely referring them to the moon's motion. Newton generalized them still more by referring this last to the - GENERALIZATION
1. The act or process of generalizing; the act of bringing individuals or particulars under a genus or class; deduction of a general principle from particulars. Generalization is only the apprehension of the one in the many. Sir W. Hamilton. 2. - GENERAL
One of the chief military officers of a government or country; the commander of an army, of a body of men not less than a brigade. In European armies, the highest military rank next below field marshal. Note: In the United States the office - GENERALIA
Generalities; general terms. J. S. Mill. - GENERALIZER
One who takes general or comprehensive views. Tyndall. - LOATHNESS
Unwillingness; reluctance. A general silence and loathness to speak. Bacon. - GENERALSHIP
1. The office of a general; the exercise of the functions of a general; -- sometimes, with the possessive pronoun, the personality of a general. Your generalship puts me in mind of Prince Eugene. Goldsmith. 2. Military skill in a general officer - SILENCER
The muffler of an internal-combustion engine. Any of various devices to silence the humming noise of telegraph wires. A device for silencing the report of a firearm shooting its projectiles singly, as a tubular attachment for the muzzle having - GENERALNESS
The condition or quality of being general; frequency; commonness. Sir P. Sidney. - SPEAKING
1. Uttering speech; used for conveying speech; as, man is a speaking animal; a speaking tube. 2. Seeming to be capable of speech; hence, lifelike; as, a speaking likeness. A speaking acquaintance, a slight acquaintance with a person, or one which - MAJOR GENERAL
. An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps. - BESPEAKER
One who bespeaks. - OUTSPEAK
1. To exceed in speaking. 2. To speak openly or boldly. T. Campbell. 3. To express more than. Shak. - UNBESPEAK
To unsay; hence, to annul or cancel. Pepys. - POSTMASTER-GENERAL
The chief officer of the post-office department of a government. In the United States the postmaster-general is a member of the cabinet. - FORSPEAK
1. To forbid; to prohibit. Shak. 2. To bewitch. Drayton. - FORESPEAKING
A prediction; also, a preface. Camden. Huloet. - BRIGADIER GENERAL
An officer in rank next above a colonel, and below a major general. He commands a brigade, and is sometimes called, by a shortening of his title, simple a brigadier. - UNSPEAK
To retract, as what has been spoken; to recant; to unsay. Shak. - BESPEAK
besprecan, to speak to, accuse; pref. be- + sprecan to speak. See 1. To speak or arrange for beforehand; to order or engage against a future time; as, to bespeak goods, a right, or a favor. Concluding, naturally, that to gratify his avarice was - LIEUTENANT GENERAL
. An army officer in rank next below a general and next above a major general. Note: In the United States, before the civil war, this rank had been conferred only on George Washington and on Winfield Scott. In 1864 it was revived by Congress and