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Word Meanings - STINGINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being stingy.

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  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREETING
    Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GRENADO
    See GRENADE
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • GREASINESS
    The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
  • GRIPPLE
    A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • GREMIAL
    Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
  • GRE
    See STEP
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • GREAT-GRANDSON
    A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
  • GRESSORIAL; GRESSORIOUS
    Adapted for walking; anisodactylous; as the feet of certain birds and insects. See Illust. under Aves.
  • ARM-GRET
    Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
  • AGGREGATOR
    One who aggregates.
  • SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
    See GRAIL
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • UNPEDIGREED
    Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
  • REGREDE
    To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.
  • AMBERGREASE
    See AMBERGRIS
  • RETROGRESS
    Retrogression. H. Spenser.
  • OVERGREEDY
    Excessively greedy.
  • CONGRESSIVE
    Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.

 

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