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Word Meanings - MOURNER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron. 2. One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange.

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  • FRIENDLINESS
    The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • DEATHLIKE
    1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
  • FRIENDED
    1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
  • DEATHLY
    Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
  • HIRUDINE
    Of or pertaining to the leeches.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • GRIEVE
    1. To occasion grief to; to wound the sensibilities of; to make sorrowful; to cause to suffer; to affect; to hurt; to try. Grieve not the Holy Spirit of God. Eph. iv. 30. The maidens grieved themselves at my concern. Cowper, 2. To sorrow over;
  • DEATHLINESS
    The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.
  • GRIEVABLE
    Lamentable.
  • PROVIDENCE
    A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction. He that hath a numerous family, and many to provide for, needs a greater providence of God. Jer. Taylor. 4. Prudence in
  • HIRE
    See CHAUCER
  • FRIENDSHIP
    1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
  • DEATHWATCH
    A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
  • ATTENDMENT
    An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
  • HIRELING
    One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.
  • PROVIDORE
    One who makes provision; a purveyor. De Foe.
  • FRIENDLY
    1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
  • FRIEND
    freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • THIRSTILY
    In a thirsty manner.
  • SHIRKER
    One who shirks. Macaulay.
  • WHIRLBONE
    The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
  • CHIRRUP
    To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
  • UNFRIEND
    One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
  • CHURME; CHIRM
    Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.
  • CHIROGYMNAST
    A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.
  • WHIRLWIND
    1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
  • CHIRETTA
    A plant found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
  • CHIROGRAPHIST
    1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.

 

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