Word Meanings - SLUBBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To do lazily, imperfectly, or coarsely. Slubber not business for my sake. Shak. 2. To daub; to stain; to cover carelessly. There is no art that hath more . . . slubbered with aphorisming pedantry than the art of policy. Milton.

Related words: (words related to SLUBBER)

• SLUBBERDEGULLION
  A mean, dirty wretch.
• THEREAGAIN
  In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• THERETO
  1. To that or this. Chaucer. 2. Besides; moreover. Spenser. Her mouth full small, and thereto soft and red. Chaucer.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• THEREOUT
  1. Out of that or this. He shall take thereout his handful of the flour. Lev. ii. 2. 2. On the outside; out of doors. Chaucer.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• COARSELY
  In a coarse manner; roughly; rudely; inelegantly; uncivilly; meanly.
• THEREUNDER
  Under that or this.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• STAIN
  1. To discolor by the application of foreign matter; to make foul; to spot; as, to stain the hand with dye; armor stained with blood. 2. To color, as wood, glass, paper, cloth, or the like, by processess affecting, chemically or otherwise, the
• THEREAFTER
  1. After that; afterward. 2. According to that; accordingly. I deny not but that it is of greatest concernment in the church and commonwealth to have a vigilant eye how books demean themselves as well as men; and thereafter to confine, imprison,
• STAINLESS
  Free from stain; immaculate. Shak. The veery care he took to keep his name Stainless, with some was evidence of shame. Crabbe. Syn. -- Blameless; spotless; faultless. See Blameless.
• THERE-ANENT
  Concerning that.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• COVERCHIEF
  A covering for the head. Chaucer.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• BESLUBBER
  To beslobber.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• SUSTAINABLE
  Capable of being sustained or maintained; as, the action is not sustainable.
• IMPOLICY
  The quality of being impolitic; inexpedience; unsuitableness to the end proposed; bads policy; as, the impolicy of fraud. Bp. Horsley.
• ETHEREALITY
  The state of being ethereal; etherealness. Something of that ethereality of thought and manner which belonged to Wordsworth's earlier lyrics. J. C. Shairp.
• TAXGATHERER
  One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n.
• ETHEREALLY
  In an ethereal manner.
• MISPOLICY
  Wrong policy; impolicy.