Word Meanings - MORTIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bringing or producing death; deadly; destructive; as, a mortiferous herb. Gov. of Tongue.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MORTIFEROUS)

• Pestiferous
• Insalubrious
• pestilential
• deleterious
• mephitic
• virulent
• mortiferous
• infectious
• contagious
• catching
• lethal
• morbific

Related words: (words related to MORTIFEROUS)

• INFECTIOUSLY
  In an infectious manner. Shak.
• MEPHITIC; MEPHITICAL
  1. Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions. 2. Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors. Mephitic air , carbon dioxide; -- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic acid,
• CATCHWORK
  A work or artificial watercourse for throwing water on lands that lie on the slopes of hills; a catchdrain.
• CATCHER
  The player who stands behind the batsman to catch the ball. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, catches.
• CATCHWORD
  The first word of any page of a book after the first, inserted at the right hand bottom corner of the preceding page for the assistance of the reader. It is seldom used in modern printing. 3. A word or phrase caught up and repeated for effect; as,
• VIRULENT
  1. Extremely poisonous or venomous; very active in doing injury. A contagious disorder rendered more virulent by uncleanness. Sir W. Scott. 2. Very bitter in enmity; actuated by a desire to injure; malignant; as, a virulent invective.
• CATCH TITLE
  A short expressive title used for abbreviated book lists, etc.
• LETHAL
  One of the higher alcohols of the paraffine series obtained from spermaceti as a white crystalline solid. It is so called because it occurs in the ethereal salt of lauric acid.
• INFECTIOUS
  Contaminating with illegality; exposing to seizure and forfeiture. Contraband articles are said to be of an infectious nature. Kent. 4. Capable of being easily diffused or spread; sympathetic; readily communicated; as, infectious mirth. The laughter
• CATCHPENNY
  Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show. -- n.
• CATCHDRAIN
  A dich or drain along the side of a hill to catch the surface water; also, a ditch at the side of a canal to catch the surplus water.
• CATCHFLY
  A plant with the joints of the stem, and sometimes other parts, covered with a viscid secretion to which small insects adhere. The species of Silene are examples of the catchfly.
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE
  Any disease caused by the entrance, growth, and multiplication of bacteria or protozoans in the body; a germ disease. It may not be contagious. Sometimes, as distinguished from contagious disease, such a disease communicated by germs carried in
• CATCHPOLL
  A bailiff's assistant.
• CATCHWATER
  A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
• PESTILENTIALLY
  Pestilently.
• CATCHWEED
  See CLEAVERS
• CONTAGIOUSLY
  In a contagious manner.
• MORBIFIC; MORBIFICAL
  Causing disease; generating a sickly state; as, a morbific matter.
• VIRULENTED
  Made virulent; poisoned.
• SCATCH
  A kind of bit for the bridle of a horse; -- called also scatchmouth. Bailey.
• BEAUCATCHER
  A small flat curl worn on the temple by women.
• CONY-CATCH
  To deceive; to cheat; to trick. Take heed, Signor Baptista, lest you be cony-catched in the this business. Shak.
• WORD-CATCHER
  One who cavils at words.
• TORPEDO CATCHER
  A small fast vessel for pursuing and destroying torpedo boats.
• BIRDCATCHER
  One whose employment it is to catch birds; a fowler.
• SCATCHES
  Stilts.
• COWCATCHER
  A strong inclined frame, usually of wrought-iron bars, in front of a locomotive engine, for catching or throwing off obstructions on a railway, as cattle; the pilot.
• FLYCATCHER
  One of numerous species of birds that feed upon insects, which they take on the wing. Note: The true flycatchers of the Old World are Oscines, and belong to the family Muscicapidæ, as the spotted flycatcher (Muscicapa grisola). The American
• CONY-CATCHER
  A cheat; a sharper; a deceiver. Minsheu.