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Word Meanings - OMISSIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Leaving out; omitting. Bp. Hall. -- O*mis"sive*ly, adv.

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  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • LEAVED
    Bearing, or having, a leaf or leaves; having folds; -- used in combination; as, a four-leaved clover; a two-leaved gate; long- leaved.
  • LEAVENING
    1. The act of making light, or causing to ferment, by means of leaven. 2. That which leavens or makes light. Bacon.
  • OMITTER
    One who omits. Fuller.
  • LEAVELESS
    Leafless. Carew.
  • LEAVEN
    alleviation, mitigation; but taken in the sense of, a raising, that 1. Any substance that produces, or is designed to produce, fermentation, as in dough or liquids; esp., a portion of fermenting dough, which, mixed with a larger quantity of dough,
  • LEAVINGS
    1. Things left; remnants; relics. 2. Refuse; offal.
  • LEAVINESS
    Leafiness.
  • LEAVENOUS
    Containing leaven. Milton.
  • LEAVER
    One who leaves, or withdraws.
  • OMITTANCE
    The act of omitting, or the state of being omitted; forbearance; neglect. Shak.
  • LEAVE
    To send out leaves; to leaf; -- often with out. G. Fletcher.
  • LEAVY
    Leafy. Chapman.
  • LEAVES
    pl. of Leaf.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • CLEAVER
    One who cleaves, or that which cleaves; especially, a butcher's instrument for cutting animal bodies into joints or pieces.
  • FIVE-LEAFED; FIVE-LEAVED
    Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
  • PARKLEAVES
    A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
  • CLEAVELANDITE
    A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.
  • CLEAVE
    clifian; akin to OS. klibon, G. kleben, LG. kliven, D. kleven, Dan. klæbe, Sw. klibba, and also to G. kleiben to cleve, paste, Icel. 1. To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling. My bones cleave to my skin. Ps. cii. 5. The diseases of
  • FORLEAVE
    To leave off wholly. Chaucer.
  • SLEAVED
    Raw; not spun or wrought; as, sleaved thread or silk. Holinshed.
  • INTROMITTER
    One who intromits.
  • CLEAVAGE
    The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment
  • DISLEAVE
    To deprive of leaves. The cankerworms that annually that disleaved the elms. Lowell.

 

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