Word Meanings - NYMPHET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little or young nymph. "The nymphets sporting there." Drayton.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• NYMPHOMANIA
  Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
• NYMPHOLEPSY
  A species of demoniac enthusiasm or possession coming upon one who had accidentally looked upon a nymph; ecstasy. De Quincey. The nympholepsy of some fond despair. Byron.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• NYMPHALES
  An extensive family of butterflies including the nymphs, the satyrs, the monarchs, the heliconias, and others; -- called also brush-footed butterflies.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• NYMPHAL
  Of or pertaining to a nymph or nymphs; nymphean.
• SPORTLESS
  Without sport or mirth; joyless.
• NYMPHLIKE; NYMPHLY
  Resembling, or characteristic of, a nymph.
• SPORTING
  Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
• SPORTIVE
  Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
• LITTLE
  1. That which is little; a small quantity, amount, space, or the like. Much was in little writ. Dryden. There are many expressions, which carrying with them no clear ideas, are like to remove but little of my ignorance. Locke. 2. A small degree
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• DISPORT
  Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• MISTRANSPORT
  To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• TRANSPORTING
  That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• TRANSPORTAL
  Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.