Word Meanings - RUFESCENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Reddish; tinged with red.

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• TINGIS
  A genus of small hemipterous insects which injure trees by sucking the sap from the leaves. See Illustration in Appendix.
• REDDISH
  Somewhat red; moderately red. -- Red"dish*ness, n.
• TINGENT
  Having the power to tinge. As for the white part, it appears much less enriched with the tingent property. Boyle.
• TING
  A sharp sound, as of a bell; a tinkling.
• TINGLE
  Etym: 1. To feel a kind of thrilling sensation, as in hearing a shrill sound. At which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle. 1 Sam. iii. 11. 2. To feel a sharp, thrilling pain. The pale boy senator yet tingling stands. Pope.
• TINGE
  A degree, usually a slight degree, of some color, taste, or something foreign, infused into another substance or mixture, or added to it; tincture; color; dye; hue; shade; taste. His notions, too, respecting the government of the state, took a tinge
• TINGID
  Of or pertaining to the genus Tingis.
• TINGER
  One who, or that which, tinges.
• COTINGA
  A bird of the family Cotingidæ, including numerous bright- colored South American species; -- called also chatterers.
• CONTINGENT
  Dependent for effect on something that may or may not occur; as, a contingent estate. If a contingent legacy be left to any one when he attains, or if he attains, the age of twenty-one. Blackstone. (more info) touch on all sides, to happen; con-
• FORTHPUTING
  Bold; forward; aggressive.
• BOOTING
  Advantage; gain; gain by plunder; booty. Sir. J. Harrington.
• GREETING
  Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
• CONTRADISTINGUISH
  To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
• OSCILLATING
  That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
• WAITINGLY
  By waiting.
• MOUNTING
  1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• DISINTERESTING
  Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton.
• STRUTTING
  from Strut, v. -- Strut"ting*ly, adv.
• YELTING
  The Florida and West Indian red snapper ; also, sometimes, one of certain other allied species, as L. caxis.
• DEBATING
  The act of discussing or arguing; discussion. Debating society or club, a society or club for the purpose of debate and improvement in extemporaneous speaking.
• INDISTINGUISHABLE
  Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• SNIFTING
  from Snift. Snifting valve, a small valve opening into the atmosphere from the cylinder or condenser of a steam engine, to allow the escape of air when the piston makes a stroke; -- so called from the noise made by its action.
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or