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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.
  • LANDLOCK
    To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
  • COLLECTEDLY
    Composedly; coolly.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • SELF-KINDLED
    Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
  • FOODLESS
    Without food; barren. Sandys.
  • ADDLE-BRAIN; ADDLE-HEAD; ADDLE-PATE
    A foolish or dull-witted fellow.
  • MEDDLING
    Meddlesome. Macaulay.
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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