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Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.

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  • PULSE
    Leguminous plants, or their seeds, as beans, pease, etc. If all the world Should, in a pet of temperance, feed on pulse. Milton.
  • WORLDLY
    1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
  • PEASE
    1. A pea. "A peose." "Bread . . . of beans and of peses." Piers Plowman. 2. A plural form of Pea. See the Note under Pea.
  • SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
    Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
  • WORLDLY-MINDED
    Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
  • WORLD-WIDE
    Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
  • SHOULDERED
    Having shoulders; -- used in composition; as, a broad- shouldered man. "He was short-shouldered." Chaucer.
  • SHOULDER
    The joint, or the region of the joint, by which the fore limb is connected with the body or with the shoulder girdle; the projection formed by the bones and muscles about that joint. 2. The flesh and muscles connected with the shoulder joint; the
  • WORLDLING
    A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
  • PULSELESSNESS
    The state of being pulseless.
  • WORLDLYWISE; WORLDLY-WISE
    Wise in regard to things of this world. Bunyan.
  • LEGUMINOUS
    Belonging to, or resembling, a very large natural order of plants , which bear legumes, including peas, beans, clover, locust trees, acacias, and mimosas. (more info) 1. Pertaining to pulse; consisting of pulse.
  • WORLDLINESS
    The quality of being worldly; a predominant passion for obtaining the good things of this life; covetousness; addictedness to gain and temporal enjoyments; worldly-mindedness.
  • MILTONIAN
    Miltonic. Lowell.
  • MILTONIC
    Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
  • SEEDSMAN
    1. A sower; one who sows or scatters seed. The seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak. 2. A person who deals in seeds.
  • TEMPERANCE
    1. Habitual moderation in regard to the indulgence of the natural appetites and passions; restrained or moderate indulgence; moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation,
  • SHOULD
    Used as an auxiliary verb, to express a conditional or contingent act or state, or as a supposition of an actual fact; also, to express moral obligation ; e. g.: they should have come last week; if I should go; I should think you could go. "You
  • WORLD
    worold; akin to OS. werold, D. wereld, OHG. weralt, worolt, werolt, werlt, G. welt, Icel. veröld, Sw. verld, Dan. verden; properly, the age of man, lifetime, humanity; AS. wer a man + a word akin to E. old; cf. AS. yld lifetime, age, ylde men,
  • PULSELESS
    Having no pulsation; lifeless.
  • REPULSER
    One who repulses, or drives back.
  • HUMP-SHOULDERED
    Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.
  • EXPULSER
    An expeller. Cotgrave.
  • REPULSE
    1. To repel; to beat or drive back; as, to repulse an assault; to repulse the enemy. Complete to have discovered and repulsed Whatever wiles of foe or seeming friend. Milton. 2. To repel by discourtesy, coldness, or denial; to reject; to send away;
  • INTERWORLD
    A world between other worlds. Holland.
  • DISTEMPERANCE
    Distemperature.
  • EXPULSE
    To drive out; to expel. If charity be thus excluded and expulsed. Milton.
  • UNDERWORLD
    1. The lower of inferior world; the world which is under the heavens; the earth. That overspreads This underworld. Daniel. 2. The mythological place of departed souls; Hades. 3. The portion of the world which is below the horizon; the opposite
  • WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
    An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
  • APPEASER
    One who appeases; a pacifier.

 

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