Word Meanings - RIDDLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. "Riddling triplets." Tennyson. -- Rid"dling, adv.

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• CONTAINMENT
  That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
• RIDDLER
  One who riddles .
• SPEAKERSHIP
  The office of speaker; as, the speakership of the House of Representatives.
• CONTAINANT
  A container.
• SPEAKER
  1. One who speaks. Specifically: One who utters or pronounces a discourse; usually, one who utters a speech in public; as, the man is a good speaker, or a bad speaker. One who is the mouthpiece of others; especially, one who presides
• RIDDLING
  Speaking in a riddle or riddles; containing a riddle. "Riddling triplets." Tennyson. -- Rid"dling, adv.
• CONTAINABLE
  Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
• CONTAINER
  One who, or that which, contains.
• TENNYSONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Alfred Tennyson, the English poet ; resembling, or having some of the characteristics of, his poetry, as simplicity, pictorial quality, sensuousness, etc.
• SPEAK
  1. To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13. 2. To utter in a word or words; to say; to tell;
• SPEAKING
  1. The act of uttering words. 2. Public declamation; oratory.
• CONTAIN
  1. To hold within fixed limits; to comprise; to include; to inclose; to hold. Behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens can not contain thee; how much less this house! 2 Chron. vi. 18. When that this body did contain a spirit. Shak. What thy stores
• RIDDLE
  1. A sieve with coarse meshes, usually of wire, for separating coarser materials from finer, as chaff from grain, cinders from ashes, or gravel from sand. 2. A board having a row of pins, set zigzag, between which wire is drawn to straighten it.
• SPEAKABLE
  1. Capable of being spoken; fit to be spoken. Ascham. 2. Able to speak. Milton.
• BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
  See WORM
• ROADLESS
  Destitute of roads.
• RANCIDLY
  In a rancid manner.
• COLLECTEDLY
  Composedly; coolly.
• LANDLOCK
  To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
• CHANDLER
  of candles, LL. candelarius chandler, fr. L. candela candle. See 1. A maker or seller of candles. The chandler's basket, on his shoulder borne, With tallow spots thy coat. Gay. 2. A dealer in other commodities, which are indicated by
• RINDLESS
  Destitute of a rind.
• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• LORDLINESS
  The state or quality of being lordly. Shak.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• BOUNDLESS
  Without bounds or confines; illimitable; vast; unlimited. "The boundless sky." Bryant. "The boundless ocean." Dryden. "Boundless rapacity." "Boundless prospect of gain." Macaulay. Syn. -- Unlimited; unconfined; immeasurable; illimitable; infinite.
• FOODLESS
  Without food; barren. Sandys.
• ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
  A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
• MIDDLE
  1. Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age. 2. Intermediate; intervening.
• SPINDLE-SHAPED
  Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle.
• MEDDLING
  Meddlesome. Macaulay.
• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• PEDDLING
  1. Hawking; acting as a peddler. 2. Petty; insignificant. "The miserable remains of a peddling commerce." Burke.
• MIXEDLY
  In a mixed or mingled manner.