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Word Meanings - LONGING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An eager desire; a craving; a morbid appetite; an earnest wish; an aspiration. Put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me. Shak.

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  • LONG-SUFFERANCE
    Forbearance to punish or resent.
  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREETING
    Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GRENADO
    See GRENADE
  • CONFIDENCE
    1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in
  • TRUSTEE
    A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects
  • LONGIPALP
    One of a tribe of beetles, having long maxillary palpi.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • TRUSTY
    1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
  • LONGSPUN
    Spun out, or extended, to great length; hence, long-winded; tedious. The longspun allegories fulsome grow, While the dull moral lies too plain below. Addison.
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • VISIONARY
    1. Of or pertaining to a visions or visions; characterized by, appropriate to, or favorable for, visions. The visionary hour When musing midnight reigns. Thomson. 2. Affected by phantoms; disposed to receive impressions on the imagination; given
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • ARDENT
    1. Hot or burning; causing a sensation of burning; fiery; as, ardent spirits, that is, distilled liquors; an ardent fever. 2. Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden. 3. Warm, applied
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • BURN
    To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
  • GLOWLAMP
    An aphlogistic lamp. See Aphlogistic.
  • LONGSOME
    Extended in length; tiresome. Bp. Hall. Prior. -- Long"some*ness, n. Fuller.
  • ASPIRATOR
    An apparatus for passing air or gases through or over certain liquids or solids, or for exhausting a closed vessel, by means of suction.
  • OVERBURN
    To burn too much; to be overzealous.
  • ARM-GRET
    Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
  • AGGREGATOR
    One who aggregates.
  • UNSHEATHE
    To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
  • SUNBURNING
    Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
    See BURNER
  • SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
    See GRAIL
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • SELF-TRUST
    Faith in one's self; self-reliance.
  • UNPEDIGREED
    Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.

 

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