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Word Meanings - RETCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • RETCH
    Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • BESEECH
    1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • INARTICULATELY
    In an inarticulate manner. Hammond.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • INARTICULATE
    1. Not uttered with articulation or intelligible distinctness, as speech or words. Music which is inarticulate poesy. Dryden. Not jointed or articulated; having no distinct body segments; as, an inarticulate worm. Without a hinge; -- said of an
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • INARTICULATED
    Not articulated; not jointed or connected by a joint.
  • STILLION
    A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
  • STILLROOM
    1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
  • STILL-HUNT
    A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
  • BESEECHING
    Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.
  • STILLATORY
    1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
  • STILL-CLOSING
    Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
  • STILLATITIOUS
    Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
  • BESEECHER
    One who beseeches.
  • STILL-BURN
    To burn in the process of distillation; as, to still-burn brandy.
  • BYRONIC
    Pertaining to, or in the style of, Lord Byron. With despair and Byronic misanthropy. Thackeray
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • DRETCH
    See DRECCHE
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
  • STONE-STILL
    As still as a stone. Shak.
  • DISTILLATORY
    Belonging to, or used in, distilling; as, distillatory vessels. -- n.

 

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