Word Meanings - PACTOLIAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to the Pactolus, a river in ancient Lydia famous for its golden sands.

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• GOLDEN
  1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• FAMOUSNESS
  The state of being famous.
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• SANDSTONE
  A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous,
• RIVERY
  Having rivers; as, a rivery country. Drayton.
• FAMOUSLY
  In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.
• RIVERET
  A rivulet. Drayton.
• LYDIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the ancient Greek modes or keys, the music in which was of a soft, pathetic, or voluptuous character. Softly sweet in
• RIVERSIDE
  The side or bank of a river.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• GOLDEN-EYE
  A duck , found in Northern Europe, Asia, and America. The American variety is larger. Called whistler, garrot, gowdy, pied widgeon, whiteside, curre, and doucker. Barrow's golden-eye of America is less common.
• ANCIENTNESS
  The quality of being ancient; antiquity; existence from old times.
• ANCIENTLY
  1. In ancient times. 2. In an ancient manner.
• RIVERED
  Supplied with rivers; as, a well rivered country.
• GOLDEN STATE
  California; -- a nickname alluding to its rich gold deposits.
• FAMOUSED
  Renowned. Shak.
• RIVERHOOD
  The quality or state of being a river. "Useful riverhood." H. Miller.
• GOLDEN-ROD
  A tall herb , bearing yellow flowers in a graceful elongated cluster. The name is common to all the species of the genus Solidago. Golden-rod tree , a shrub (Bosea Yervamora), a native of the Canary Isles.
• FAMOUS
  Celebrated in fame or public report; renowned; mach talked of; distinguished in story; -- used in either a good or a bad sense, chiefly the former; often followed by for; as, famous for erudition, for eloquence, for military skill; a famous pirate.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• INFAMOUSLY
  In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
• DRIVER
  A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
• SCREW-DRIVER
  A tool for turning screws so as to drive them into their place. It has a thin end which enters the nick in the head of the screw.
• CONTRIVER
  One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
• DEFAMOUS
  Defamatory.
• PERIVERTEBRAL
  Surrounding the vertebræ.