Word Meanings - PERTURBANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disturbance; perturbation. "Perturbance of the mind." Sharp.

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• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• DISTURBANCE
  The hindering or disquieting of a person in the lawful and peaceable enjoyment of his right; the interruption of a right; as, the disturbance of a franchise, of common, of ways, and the like. Blackstone. Syn. -- Tumult; brawl; commotion; turmoil;
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• PERTURBATION
  A disturbance in the regular elliptic or other motion of a heavenly body, produced by some force additional to that which causes its regular motion; as, the perturbations of the planets are caused by their attraction on each other. Newcomb. (more
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• SHARP-CUT
  Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
• SHARPSAW
  The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
• PERTURBATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to perturbation, esp. to the perturbations of the planets. "The perturbational theory." Sir J. Herschel.
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• PERTURBANCE
  Disturbance; perturbation. "Perturbance of the mind." Sharp.
• SHARPSHOOTING
  A shooting with great precision and effect; hence, a keen contest of wit or argument.
• SHARP-WITTED
  Having an acute or nicely discerning mind.
• SHARPSHOOTER
  One skilled in shooting at an object with exactness; a good marksman.
• SHARPTAIL
  The pintail duck. The pintail grouse, or prairie chicken.
• SHARPLING
  A stickleback.
• IMPERTURBATION
  Freedom from agitation of mind; calmness; quietude. W. Montagu.
• INDISTURBANCE
  Freedom from disturbance; calmness; repose; apathy; indifference.