Word Meanings - REVALESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Growing well; recovering strength. (more info) revalescere; pref. re- re- + valescere, v. incho. fr. valere to be

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• GROWLER
  The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• GROWL
  To utter a deep guttural sound, sa an angry dog; to give forth an angry, grumbling sound. Gay.
• STRENGTHFUL
  Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston.
• INCHOATE
  Recently, or just, begun; beginning; partially but not fully in existence or operation; existing in its elements; incomplete. -- In"cho*ate*ly, adv. Neither a substance perfect, nor a substance inchoate. Raleigh.
• STRENGTHENING
  That strengthens; giving or increasing strength. -- Strength"en*ing*ly, adv. Strengthening plaster , a plaster containing iron, and supposed to have tonic effects.
• GROWAN
  A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
• GROWER
  One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn; also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower.
• RECOVERANCE
  Recovery.
• GROW
  1. To increase in size by a natural and organic process; to increase in bulk by the gradual assimilation of new matter into the living organism; -- said of animals and vegetables and their organs. 2. To increase in any way; to become larger and
• RECOVERABLE
  Capable of being recovered or regained; capable of being brought back to a former condition, as from sickness, misfortune, etc.; obtainable from a debtor or possessor; as, the debt is recoverable; goods lost or sunk in the ocean are not recoverable.
• STRENGTHENER
  One who, or that which, gives or adds strength. Sir W. Temple.
• STRENGTH
  1. The quality or state of being strong; ability to do or to bear; capacity for exertion or endurance, whether physical, intellectual, or moral; force; vigor; power; as, strength of body or of the arm; strength of mind, of memory, or of judgment.
• RECOVERY
  The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court. 4. The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had. "Help be past recovery." Tusser. 5. In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position
• INCHOATIVE
  Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. "Some inchoative or imperfect rays." W. Montagu. -- n.
• INCHOATION
  Act of beginning; commencement; inception. The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate
• GROWLINGLY
  In a growling manner.
• GROWTHEAD
  A lazy person; a blockhead. Tusser.
• GROWTH
  1. The process of growing; the gradual increase of an animal or a vegetable body; the development from a seed, germ, or root, to full size or maturity; increase in size, number, frequency, strength, etc.; augmentation; advancement; production;
• STRENGTHNER
  See STRENGTHENER
• CINCHONIC
  Belonging to, or obtained from, cinchona. Mayne.
• UPGROW
  To grow up. Milton.
• CINCHONINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids isomeric with and resembling cinchonidine; -- called also cinchonia.
• FULL-GROWN
  Having reached the limits of growth; mature. "Full-grown wings." Lowell.
• MISGROWTH
  Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
• CINCHONIZE
  To produce cinchonism in; to poison with quinine or with cinchona.
• CINCHONIDINE
  One of the quinine group of alkaloids, found especially in red cinchona bark. It is a white crystalline substance, C19H22N2O, with a bitter taste and qualities similar to, but weaker than, quinine; -- sometimes called also cinchonidia.
• INGROWTH
  A growth or development inward. J. LeConte.
• OUTGROWTH
  That which grows out of, or proceeds from, anything; an excrescence; an offshoot; hence, a result or consequence.
• INGROWING
  Growing or appearing to grow into some other substance. Ingrowing nail, one whose edges are becoming imbedded in the adjacent flesh.
• LIVER-GROWN
  Having an enlarged liver. Dunglison.
• IRRECOVERABLE
  Not capable of being recovered, regained, or remedied; irreparable; as, an irrecoverable loss, debt, or injury. That which is past is gone and irrecoverable. Bacon. Syn. -- Irreparable; irretrievable; irremediable; unalterable; incurable; hopeless.
• CINCHONISM
  A condition produced by the excessive or long-continued use of quinine, and marked by deafness, roaring in the ears, vertigo, etc.