Word Meanings - RETCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Beloved Julia, hear me still beseeching! (Here he grew inarticulate with retching.) Byron.
Related words: (words related to RETCH)
- 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.