Word Meanings - ONAGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt. (more info) Gr.

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• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• SLOW
  A moth. Rom. of R.
• SLAPE
  Slippery; smooth; crafty; hypocritical. Slape ale, plain ale, as opposed to medicated or mixed ale.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• OPERATIC; OPERATICAL
  Of or pertaining to the opera or to operas; characteristic of, or resembling, the opera.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• SLIGHTNESS
  The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.
• SLOUGHING
  The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• SLAW; SLAWEN
  p. p. of Slee, to slay. With a sword drawn out he would have slaw himself. Wyclif (Acts xvi.
• SLIMNESS
  The quality or state of being slim.
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• SLIVE
  To cut; to split; to separate. Holland.
• SLEDDING
  1. The act of transporting or riding on a sled. 2. The state of the snow which admits of the running of sleds; as, the sledding is good.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SLUGS
  Half-roasted ore.
• SLAUGHTER
  1. To visit with great destruction of life; to kill; to slay in battle. Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered. Shak. 2. To butcher; to kill for the market, as beasts.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• SLUMP
  The gross amount; the mass; the lump.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• SCINTILLOUSLY
  In a scintillant manner.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• AIR ENGINE
  An engine driven by heated or by compressed air. Knight.
• ANXIOUSLY
  In an anxious manner; with painful uncertainty; solicitously.
• TUSSLE
  To struggle, as in sport; to scuffle; to struggle with.