Word Meanings - SPRIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To throw out with force from a narrow orifice; to eject; to spurt out. Sir T. Browne.
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- FORCE
To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak. - EJECTOR
A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses. - EJECTMENT
A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of - THROW
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden. - THROWING
a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried - FORCEPS
The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies - NARROW-MINDED
Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean. -- Nar"row-mind`ed*ness, n. - THROW-OFF
A start in a hunt or a race. - FORCEFUL
Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden. - FORCEMENT
The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster. - NARROWER
One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More. - EJECTA
Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body. - THROWER
One who throws. Specifically: One who throws or twists silk; a throwster. One who shapes vessels on a throwing engine. - FORCED
Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more - THROWN
a. & p. p. from Throw, v. Thrown silk, silk thread consisting of two or more singles twisted together like a rope, in a direction contrary to that in which the singles of which it is composed are twisted. M'Culloch. -- Thrown singles, silk thread - THROWSTER
One who throws or twists silk; a thrower. - NARROWLY
1. With little breadth; in a narrow manner. 2. Without much extent; contractedly. 3. With minute scrutiny; closely; as, to look or watch narrowly; to search narrowly. 4. With a little margin or space; by a small distance; hence, closely; hardly; - FORCELESS
Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak. - SPURTLE
To spurt or shoot in a scattering manner. Drayton. - NARROWNESS
The condition or quality of being narrow. - DEJECTION
1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides, - DEJECTORY
1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand. - REINFORCEMENT
See REëNFORCEMENT - DEFORCEOR
See DEFORCIANT - MISTHROW
To throw wrongly. - REENFORCE
To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet. - DEFORCE
To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill. - REJECTER
One who rejects. - IRREJECTABLE
That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle. - REJECT
re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among - OVERFORCE
Excessive force; violence. - DEJECTURE
That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.