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Word Meanings - STAID - Book Publishers vocabulary database

imp. & p. p. of Stay.

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  • DEMURE
    good manners); de of + murs, mours, meurs, mors, F. m, fr. L. mores manners, morals ; or more prob. fr. OF. meür, F. mûr mature, ripe in a phrase preceded by de, as de 1. Of sober or serious mien; composed and decorous in bearing; of modest
  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • SEDATE
    Undisturbed by passion or caprice; calm; tranquil; serene; not passionate or giddy; composed; staid; as, a sedate soul, mind, or temper. Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.
  • GRAVEL
    A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
  • MODESTLY
    In a modest manner.
  • STAIDNESS
    The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or Ant: levity. If sometimes he appears too gray, yet a secret gracefulness of youth accompanies his writings, though the staidness
  • MODESTY
    1. The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit. 2. Natural delicacy
  • STAID
    imp. & p. p. of Stay.
  • STAIDLY
    In a staid manner, sedately.
  • SOBERIZE
    To sober. Crabbe.
  • GRAVEN
    Carved. Graven image, an idol; an object of worship carved from wood, stone, etc. "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image." Ex. xx. 4.
  • DEMURENESS
    The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.
  • GRAVEYARD
    A yard or inclosure for the interment of the dead; a cemetery.
  • SOBERLY
    In a sober manner; temperately; cooly; calmly; gravely; seriously.
  • DEMURELY
    In a demure manner; soberly; gravely; -- now, commonly, with a mere show of gravity or modesty. They . . . looked as demurely as they could; for 't was a hanging matter to laugh unseasonably. Dryden.
  • GRAVELING; GRAVELLING
    1. The act of covering with gravel. 2. A layer or coating of gravel .
  • GRAVES' DISEASE
    See DISEASE
  • GRAVELESS
    Without a grave; unburied.
  • GRAVELLINESS
    State of being gravelly.
  • WILDGRAVE
    A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.
  • PALGRAVE
    See PALSGRAVE
  • PORTGREVE; PORTGRAVE
    In old English law, the chief magistrate of a port or maritime town.; a portreeve. Fabyan.
  • IMMODESTLY
    In an immodest manner.
  • CHRYSOBERYL
    A mineral, found in crystals, of a yellow to green or brown color, and consisting of aluminia and glucina. It is very hard, and is often used as a gem.
  • INGRAVE
    To engrave. "Whose gleaming rind ingrav'n." Tennyson.
  • INDISCREET
    Not discreet; wanting in discretion. So drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Shak. Syn. -- Imprudent; injudicious; inconsiderate; rash; hasty; incautious; heedless; undiscerning; foolish. -- In`dis*creet"ly, adv. -- In`dis*creet"ness, n. (more

 

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