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Word Meanings - SPARKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. 2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.

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  • 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
  • ESTRANGER
    One who estranges.
  • DRESSINESS
    The state of being dressy.
  • SPARKER
    A spark arrester.
  • SPARKLING
    Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
  • SPARK GAP
    The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
  • SPARKLER
    One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
  • DRESS CIRCLE
    A gallery or circle in a theater, generally the first above the floor, in which originally dress clothes were customarily worn.
  • DRESSING
    An application to a sore or wound. Wiseman. 3. Manure or compost over land. When it remains on the surface, it is called a top-dressing. A preparation to fit food for use; a condiment; as, a dressing for salad. The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.;
  • SPARKLE
    1. A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott. 2. Brilliancy;
  • SPARKLINESS
    Vivacity. Aubrey.
  • ESTRANGEDNESS
    State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
  • DRESSY
    Showy in dress; attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.
  • SPARKISH
    1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. 2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.
  • SPARK COIL
    An induction coil, esp. of an internal-combustion engine, wireless telegraph apparatus, etc. A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.
  • DRESDEN WARE
    A superior kind of decorated porcelain made near Dresden in Saxony.
  • DRESS COAT
    A coat with skirts behind only, as distinct from the frock coat, of which the skirts surround the body. It is worn on occasions of ceremony. The dress coat of officers of the United States army is a full-skirted frock coat.
  • DRESSMAKING
    The art, process, or occupation, of making dresses.
  • DREST
    of Dress.
  • DRESS
    The system of furrows on the face of a millstone. Knight. Dress circle. See under Circle. -- Dress parade , a parade in full uniform for review. (more info) 1. That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit;
  • UNDRESS
    To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
  • DEMANDRESS
    A woman who demands.
  • OFFENDRESS
    A woman who offends. Shak.
  • OUTSPARKLE
    To exceed in sparkling.
  • DISPARK
    1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
  • REDRESSIVE
    Tending to redress. Thomson.
  • ADDRESS
    To consign or intrust to the care of another, as agent or factor; as, the ship was addressed to a merchant in Baltimore. To address one's self to. To prepare one's self for; to apply one's self to. To direct one's speech or discourse to. (more
  • DISPARKLE
    To scatter abroad. Holland.
  • SPARK
    cf. Icel. spraka to crackle, Lith. spragëti, Gr. sph to crackle, to 1. A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 2. A small, shining body,
  • TOP-DRESSING
    The act of applying a dressing of manure to the surface of land; also, manure so applied.
  • TOGIDER; TOGIDRES
    Together. Chaucer.
  • TENDRESSE
    Tender feeling; fondness.
  • UNDERDRESSED
    Not dresses enough.

 

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