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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.

 

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