Word Meanings - MORIBUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.

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• DYNAMO
  A dynamo-electric machine.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• DYNAMOMETRY
  The art or process of measuring forces doing work.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
  Difficulty in swallowing.
• DYNAMOMETER
  An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DYSODILE
  An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• MORIBUND
  In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
  Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• DYNASTIC
  Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings. Motley.
• DYNAMIC; DYNAMICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau.
• DYER
  One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom.
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• TODDY
  1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and
• COMPATIENT
  Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
• LARDY
  Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard.
• BLADY
  Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton.
• DISCANDY
  To melt; to dissolve; to thaw.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• DEEDY
  Industrious; active. Cowper.
• ROWDY
  One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold.
• TETRADYMITE
  A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNBODY
  To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• KIDDYISH
  Frolicsome; sportive.
• OVERPATIENT
  Patient to excess.
• FOOLHARDY
  Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash.
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• EPIDIDYMITIS
  Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.