Word Meanings - MISCELLANY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries;

Additional info about word: MISCELLANY

A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. B. Jonson. (more info) of. miscellaneus: cf. F. miscellanée, pl. miscellanées. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISCELLANY)

• Crew
• Complement
• company
• gang
• herd
• set
• miscellany
• horde
• swarm
• band
• Medley
• Jumble
• tumult
• confusion
• mixture
• hodge-podge
• litter
• diversity
• Variety
• Difference
• medley
• multiplicity
• multiformity
• abnormity

Related words: (words related to MISCELLANY)

• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• VARIETY SHOW
  A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show.
• HORDEIN
  A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
• 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.
• LITTERATEUR
  One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.
• DIFFERENCE
  An addition to a coat of arms to distinguish the bearings of two persons, which would otherwise be the same. See Augmentation, and Marks of cadency, under Cadency. (more info) 1. The act of differing; the state or measure of being different or
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• HORDE
  A wandering troop or gang; especially, a clan or tribe of a nomadic people migrating from place to place for the sake of pasturage, plunder, etc.; a predatory multitude. Thomson.
• MULTIFORMITY
  The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing. Purchas.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• COMPLEMENTARY
  Serving to fill out or to complete; as, complementary numbers. Complementary colors. See under Color. -- Complementary angles , two angles whose sum is 90°.
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• MULTIPLICITY
  The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects. "A multiplicity of goods." South.
• COMPLEMENT
  A second quantity added to a given quantity to make equal to a third given quantity. 5. Something added for ornamentation; an accessory. Without vain art or curious complements. Spenser. (more info) 1. That which fills up or completes; the quantity
• HORDEIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, barley; as, hordeic acid, an acid identical or isomeric with lauric acid.
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• HORDEOLUM
  A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• TUMULTUATION
  Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
• BORDEAUX MIXTURE
  A fungicidal mixture composed of blue vitriol, lime, and water. The formula in common use is: blue vitriol, 6 lbs.; lime, 4 lbs.; water, 35 -- 50 gallons.
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• TRUST COMPANY
  Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.
• CHORDEE
  A painful erection of the penis, usually with downward curvature, occurring in gonorrhea.
• DISCOMPANY
  To free from company; to dissociate. It she be alone now, and discompanied. B. Jonson.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• SLITTER
  One who, or that which, slits.
• BEJUMBLE
  To jumble together.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.