Word Meanings - SPARKLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small spark.

Related words: (words related to SPARKLET)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• 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
  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,
• 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.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• 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.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• 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.
• SPARKISH
  1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. 2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SPARKLET
  A small spark.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SPARKFUL
  Lively; brisk; gay. "Our sparkful youth." Camden.
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• 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
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• DISPARKLE
  To scatter abroad. Holland.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.