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Word Meanings - ROUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To whisper. Shak. Holland. The Bishop of Glasgow rounding in his ear, "Ye are not a wise man," . . . he rounded likewise to the bishop, and said, "Wherefore brought ye me here" Calderwood.

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  • STRAPPING
    Tall; strong; lusty; large; as, a strapping fellow. There are five and thirty strapping officers gone. Farquhar.
  • REVERSED
    Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
  • DERANGER
    One who deranges.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • CIRCULARLY
    In a circular manner.
  • STEREOTYPER
    One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.
  • DERANGEMENT
    The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
  • ROUNDWORM
    A nematoid worm.
  • RANGEMENT
    Arrangement. Waterland.
  • METAMORPHOSE
    To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.
  • CONVERTIBILITY
    The condition or quality of being convertible; capability of being exchanged; convertibleness. The mutual convertibility of land into money, and of money into land. Burke.
  • ALTERNATING CURRENT
    A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow.
  • SYSTEMATIZE
    To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
  • ROUNDISH
    Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
  • PLACEMENT
    1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
  • ALTERNATION
    Permutation. 3. The response of the congregation speaking alternately with the minister. Mason. Alternation of generation. See under Generation. (more info) 1. The reciprocal succession of things in time or place; the act of following and being
  • SHAPE
    is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to. I was shapen in iniquity. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and
  • ADAPTABLE
    Capable of being adapted.
  • ROUNDABOUTNESS
    The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
  • CHANGEFUL
    Full of change; mutable; inconstant; fickle; uncertain. Pope. His course had been changeful. Motley. -- Change"ful*ly, adv. -- Change"ful*ness, n.
  • MISGROUND
    To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
  • INCONSEQUENCE
    The quality or state of being inconsequent; want of just or logical inference or argument; inconclusiveness. Bp. Stillingfleet. Strange, that you should not see the inconsequence of your own reasoning! Bp. Hurd.
  • SAFE-CONDUCT
    That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
  • SUBALTERNANT
    A universal proposition. See Subaltern, 2. Whately.
  • ESTRANGE
    extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
  • ORANGEADE
    A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
  • CITRANGE
    A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
  • 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.
  • ACCUSTOMARILY
    Customarily.
  • FALTER
    To thrash in the chaff; also, to cleanse or sift, as barley. Halliwell.
  • MISALTER
    To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

 

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