Word Meanings - MORSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite; prob. akin to E. 1. A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South. 2. A small quantity; a little piece; a fragment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MORSEL)

• Bait
• Morsel
• snare
• decoy
• enticement
• allurement
• inducement
• Bit
• piece
• fragment
• part
• Driblet
• Drop
• dole
• instalment
• scrap
• morsel
• bit
• particle
• Fragment
• Piece
• chip
• driblet
• remnant
• Jot
• Tittle
• cipher
• trifle
• rush
• fig
• atom
• thought
• idea
• fraction
• iota
• whit

Related words: (words related to MORSEL)

• SNARE
  An instrument, consisting usually of a wireloop or noose, for removing tumors, etc., by avulsion. Snare drum, the smaller common military drum, as distinguished from the bass drum; -- so called because it has stretched across its lower head a
• TITTLEBAT
  The three-spined stickleback.
• TRIFLE
  trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
• DECOYER
  One who decoys another.
• SCRAPING
  1. The act of scraping; the act or process of making even, or reducing to the proper form, by means of a scraper. 2. Something scraped off; that which is separated from a substance, or is collected by scraping; as, the scraping of the street.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• CIPHER
  A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• PIECER
  1. One who pieces; a patcher. 2. A child employed in spinning mill to tie together broken threads.
• PIECEMEALED
  Divided into pieces.
• FRACTION
  One or more aliquot parts of a unit or whole number; an expression for a definite portion of a unit or magnitude. Common, or Vulgar, fraction, a fraction in which the number of equal parts into which the integer is supposed to be divided
• ENTICEMENT
  1. The act or practice of alluring or tempting; as, the enticements of evil companions. 2. That which entices, or incites to evil; means of allurement; alluring object; as, an enticement to sin. Syn. -- Allurement; attraction; temptation;
• PIECEMEAL
  1. In pieces; in parts or fragments. "On which it piecemeal brake." Chapman. The beasts will tear thee piecemeal. Tennyson. 2. Piece by piece; by little and little in succession. Piecemeal they win, this acre first, than that. Pope.
• TRIFLER
  One who trifles. Waterland.
• DECOY-DUCK
  A duck used to lure wild ducks into a decoy; hence, a person employed to lure others into danger. Beau. & Fl.
• TITTLE-TATTLE
  1. Idle, trifling talk; empty prattle. Arbuthnot. 2. An idle, trifling talker; a gossip. Tatler.
• TITTLE-TATTLING
  The act or habit of parting idly or gossiping.
• REMNANT
  Remaining; yet left. "Because of the remnant dregs of his disease." Fuller. And quiet dedicate her remnant life To the just duties of an humble wife. Prior.
• THOUGHTFUL
  1. Full of thought; employed in meditation; contemplative; as, a man of thoughtful mind. War, horrid war, your thoughtful walks invades. Pope. 2. Attentive; careful; exercising the judgment; having the mind directed to an object; as, thoughtful
• FRAGMENTIST
  A writer of fragments; as, the fragmentist of Wolfenbüttel.
• DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• SPARPIECE
  The collar beam of a roof; the spanpiece. Gwilt.
• INSNARER
  One who insnares.
• DRIFTPIECE
  An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
• CODPIECE
  A part of male dress in front of the breeches, formerly made very conspicuous. Shak. Fosbroke.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• UNREMORSELESS
  Utterly remorseless. "Unremorseless death." Cowley.
• FORETHOUGHT
  Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon.
• DECIPHERMENT
  The act of deciphering.
• REMORSELESS
  Being without remorse; having no pity; hence, destitute of sensibility; cruel; insensible to distress; merciless. "Remorseless adversaries." South. "With remorseless cruelty." Milton. Syn. -- Unpitying; pitiless; relentless; unrelenting; implacable;
• NEW THOUGHT
  Any form of belief in mental healing other than Christian Science and hypnotism or psychotherapy. Its central principle is affirmative thought, or suggestion, employed with the conviction that man produces changes in his health, his finances,