Word Meanings - REASTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n.
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- RANCIDLY
In a rancid manner. - FROWZY
Slovenly; unkempt; untidy; frouzy. "With head all frowzy." Spenser. The frowzy soldiers' wives hanging out clothes. W. D. Howells. - FETIDNESS
The quality or state of being fetid. - MUSTY
1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat - TAINTWORM
A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva. - TAINTURE
Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak. - TAINTLESSLY
In a taintless manner. - RANCIDITY
The quality or state of being rancid; a rancid scent or flavor, as of old oil. Ure. - FETID
Having an offensive smell; stinking. Most putrefactions . . . smell either fetid or moldy. Bacon. - RANCIDNESS
The quality of being rancid. - TAINT
1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. 2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance - TAINTLESS
Free from taint or infection; pure. - FETIDITY
Fetidness. - REASTY
Rusty and rancid; -- applied to salt meat. Tusser. -- Reas"ti*ness, n. - RANCID
Having a rank smell or taste, from chemical change or decomposition; musty; as, rancid oil or butter. - UNCERTAINTY
1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - ASAFETIDA; ASAFOETIDA
The fetid gum resin or inspissated juice of a large umbelliferous plant of Persia and the East India. - HYDRA-TAINTED
Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper. - TRAVEL-TAINTED
Harassed; fatigued with travel. Shak. - ATTAINT
To find guilty; to convict; -- said esp. of a jury on trial for giving a false verdict. Upon sufficient proof attainted of some open act by men of his own condition. Blackstone. (more info) ateint, p. p. of ateindre, ataindre. The meanings 3, 4, - ATTAINTMENT
Attainder; attainture; conviction.