Word Meanings - LOSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Given to flattery or deceit; flattering; cozening. Amongst the many simoniacal that swarmed in the land, Herbert, Bishop of Thetford, must not be forgotten; nick-named Losing, that is, the Fratterer. Fuller.
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- FLATTER
1. One who, or that which, makes flat or flattens. A flat-faced fulling hammer. A drawplate with a narrow, rectangular orifice, for drawing flat strips, as watch springs, etc. - NAMELESSLY
In a nameless manner. - NAMABLE
Capable of being named. - COZENAGE
The art or practice of cozening; artifice; fraud. Shak. - LOSINGLY
In a manner to incur loss. - 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. - BISHOPDOM
Jurisdiction of a bishop; episcopate. "Divine right of bishopdom." Milton. - NAMELESS
1. Without a name; not having been given a name; as, a nameless star. Waller. 2. Undistinguished; not noted or famous. A nameless dwelling and an unknown name. Harte. 3. Not known or mentioned by name; anonymous; as, a nameless writer."Nameless - BISHOPLY
Bishoplike; episcopal. - NAMER
One who names, or calls by name. - FULLER
One whose occupation is to full cloth. Fuller's earth, a variety of clay, used in scouring and cleansing cloth, to imbibe grease. -- Fuller's herb , the soapwort , formerly used to remove stains from cloth. -- Fuller's thistle or weed - FLATTERY
The act or practice of flattering; the act of pleasing by artiful commendation or compliments; adulation; false, insincere, or excessive praise. Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. Rambler. Flattery corrupts both the receiver - NAMAYCUSH
A large North American lake trout . It is usually spotted with red, and sometimes weighs over forty pounds. Called also Mackinaw trout, lake trout, lake salmon, salmon trout, togue, and tuladi. - BISHOP-STOOL
A bishop's seat or see. - SWARM
To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe. - NAMESAKE
One that has the same name as another; especially, one called after, or named out of regard to, another. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - BISHOP'S-WEED
An umbelliferous plant of the genus Ammi. Goutweed . - DECEITLESS
Free from deceit. Bp. Hall. - PAXILLOSE
Resembling a little stake. - CALLOSUM
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - FLOSSIFICATION
A flowering; florification. Craig. - DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - 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 - TYPHLOSOLE
A fold of the wall which projects into the cavity of the intestine in bivalve mollusks, certain annelids, starfishes, and some other animals. - CYCLOSTYLE
A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred - FILOSELLE
A kind of silk thread less glossy than floss, and spun from coarser material. It is much used in embroidery instead of floss. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - FLOSH
A hopper-shaped box or Knight. - UNCLOSE
1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal. - ENCLOSE
To inclose. See Inclose. - GLANDULOSITY
Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne. - PARCLOSE
A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook. - BEFLATTER
To flatter excessively. - GLOSSA
The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.