Word Meanings - PRESENTANEOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.

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• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• EFFECTUOSE; EFFECTUOUS
  Effective. B. Jonson.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• READY-MADE
  Made already, or beforehand, in anticipation of need; not made to order; as, ready-made clothing; ready-made jokes.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• IMMEDIATE
  1. Not separated in respect to place by anything intervening; proximate; close; as, immediate contact. You are the most immediate to our throne. Shak. 2. Not deferred by an interval of time; present; instant. "Assemble we immediate council." Shak.
• QUICKSILVER
  The metal mercury; -- so called from its resemblance to liquid silver. Quicksilver horizon, a mercurial artificial horizon. See under Horizon. -- Quicksilver water, a solution of mercury nitrate used in artificial silvering; quick water.
• QUICKHATCH
  The wolverine.
• QUICKEN TREE
  The European rowan tree; -- called also quickbeam, and quickenbeam. See Rowan tree. (more info) aspen or some tree with quivering leaves; cf. G. quickenbaum,
• EFFECTOR
  An effecter. Derham.
• QUICKWORK
  All the submerged section of a vessel's planking. The planking between the spirketing and the clamps. The short planks between the portholes.
• QUICK-WITTED
  Having ready wit Shak.
• EFFECTUATE
  To bring to pass; to effect; to achieve; to accomplish; to fulfill. A fit instrument to effectuate his desire. Sir P. Sidney. In order to effectuate the thorough reform. G. T. Curtis.
• QUICKENS
  Quitch grass.
• POISON BUSH
  Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc. The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or
• QUICK-SCENTED
  Acute of smell.
• IMMEDIATENESS
  The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• OVERREADY
  Too ready. -- O"ver*read"*i*ly, adv. -- O"ver*read"i*ness, n.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• INEFFECTIVENESS
  Quality of being ineffective.
• ALREADY
  Prior to some specified time, either past, present, or future; by this time; previously. "Joseph was in Egypt already." Exod. i. 5. I say unto you, that Elias is come already. Matt. xvii. 12. Note: It has reference to past time, but may be used
• INEFFECTIVE
  Not effective; ineffectual; futile; inefficient; useless; as, an ineffective appeal. The word of God, without the spirit, a dead and ineffective letter. Jer. Taylor.