Word Meanings - PROWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To rove over, through, or about in a stealthy manner; esp., to search in, as for prey or booty. He prowls each place, still in new colors decked. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To collect by plunder; as, to prowl money.

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• STILLY
  Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
• COLLECTIVENESS
  A state of union; mass.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• PLUNDERER
  One who plunders or pillages.
• STILLBIRTH
  The birth of a dead fetus.
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• PLACENTARY
  Having reference to the placenta; as, the placentary system of classification.
• PLACE-KICK
  To make a place kick; to make by a place kick. -- Place"-kick`er, n.
• COLLECTIBLE
  Capable of being collected.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• COLLECTIVISM
  The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• STILLSTAND
  A standstill. Shak.
• COLLECTIVELY
  In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly.
• STILLING
  A stillion.
• PROWLER
  One that prowls. Thomson.
• STILLAGE
  A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• STILLION
  A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
• INSTILL
  To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
• PISTILLIFEROUS
  Pistillate.
• DISTILLABLE
  Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• DISTILLATION
  The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
• REPLACEMENT
  The removal of an edge or an angle by one or more planes. (more info) 1. The act of replacing.
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• UNDECKED
  1. Not decked; unadorned. undecked, save with herself, more lovely fair. Milton. 2. Not having a deck; as, an undecked vessel.
• THREE-DECKER
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.