Word Meanings - SINGSONG - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Bad singing or poetry. 2. A drawling or monotonous tone, as of a badly executed song.
Related words: (words related to SINGSONG)
- SINGLE-BREASTED
Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast. - EXECUTOR
1. One who executes or performs; a doer; as, an executor of baseness. Shak. 2. An executioner. Delivering o'er to executors pa . . . The lazy, yawning drone. Shak. authority in the distribution of the estate of a deceased person. - SINGLY
1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack - SING-SING
The kob. - EXECUTORIAL
Of or pertaining to an executive. - SINGULAR
Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And - DRAWLINK
See - SINGLE-ACTING
Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc. - SINGSTER
A songstress. Wyclif. - SINGLE-HANDED
Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted. - EXECUTIVE
Designed or fitted for execution, or carrying into effect; as, executive talent; qualifying for, concerned with, or pertaining to, the execution of the laws or the conduct of affairs; as, executive power or authority; executive duties, officer, - EXECUTIONER
1. One who executes; an executer. Bacon. 2. One who puts to death in conformity to legal warrant, as a hangman. - SINGLE-HEARTED
Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv. - DRAWL
To utter in a slow, lengthened tone. - SINGHALESE
See CINGALESE - SINGINGLY
With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North . - SINGULT
A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne. - MONOTONOUS
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n. - SINGLE-MINDED
Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted. - SINGLENESS
1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; - MINNESINGER
A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their - LOSINGLY
In a manner to incur loss. - DECREASING
Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term. - PHASING CURRENT
The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period. - COEXECUTOR
A joint executor. - CHASING
The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way. - NEESING
Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli. - MALEXECUTION
Bad execution. D. Webster. - BLESSING
A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces. - DEBASINGLY
In a manner to debase. - DISGUISING
A masque or masquerade. - DESPISINGLY
Contemptuously. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - GASSING
The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. 2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk. - IMPOSINGNESS
The quality of being imposing.