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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.

 

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