Word Meanings - SUMMIST - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who sums up; one who forms an abridgment or summary. Sir E. Dering.

Related words: (words related to SUMMIST)

• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• DERIVE
  To flow; to have origin; to descend; to proceed; to be deduced. Shak. Power from heaven Derives, and monarchs rule by gods appointed. Prior.
• DERMOSTOSIS
  Ossification of the dermis.
• DERMOBRANCHIATE
  Having the skin modified to serve as a gill.
• DERANGED
  Disordered; especially, disordered in mind; crazy; insane. The story of a poor deranged parish lad. Lamb.
• DERK
  Dark. Chaucer.
• DERBIO
  A large European food fish .
• DERAIGNMENT; DERAINMENT
  1. The act of deraigning. 2. The renunciation of religious or monastic vows. Blount.
• DERMA
  See DERMIS
• DERNFUL
  Secret; hence, lonely; sad; mournful. "Dernful noise." Spenser.
• DEROGATELY
  In a derogatory manner.
• DERELING
  Darling. Chaucer.
• DERELICTION
  A retiring of the sea, occasioning a change of high-water mark, whereby land is gained. (more info) 1. The act of leaving with an intention not to reclaim or resume; an utter forsaking abandonment. Cession or dereliction, actual or tacit, of other
• DERNE
  To hide; to skulk. He at length escaped them by derning himself in a foxearth. H. Miller.
• DERELICT
  1. Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands. The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion. Jer.
• DERMESTES
  A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.
• DERACINATION
  The act of pulling up by the roots; eradication.
• DERNIER
  Last; final. Dernier ressort ( Etym: , last resort or expedient.
• DERISIVE
  Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n.
• FLOODER
  One who floods anything.
• BONDER
  A bonding stone or brick; a bondstone. (more info) 1. One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• GASCONADER
  A great boaster; a blusterer.
• UNDERBRED
  Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith.
• UDDERED
  Having an udder or udders.
• GENDER
  A classification of nouns, primarily according to sex; and secondarily according to some fancied or imputed quality associated with sex. Gender is a grammatical distinction and applies to words only. Sex is natural distinction and applies to living
• UNDERSECRETARY
  A secretary who is subordinate to the chief secretary; an assistant secretary; as, an undersecretary of the Treasury.
• GREENLANDER
  A native of Greenland.
• CONFEDER
  To confederate. Sir T. North.
• CONFIDER
  One who confides.
• EQUIPONDERANCE; EQUIPONDERANCY
  Equality of weight; equipoise.
• SADDER
  See SADDA
• UNDERPLOT
  1. A series of events in a play, proceeding collaterally with the main story, and subservient to it. Dryden. 2. A clandestine scheme; a trick. Addison.
• UNDERNICENESS
  A want of niceness; indelicacy; impropriety.
• SEA LAVENDER
  See MARSH
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• UNDERSOIL
  The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
• UNDERDOLVEN
  p. p. of Underdelve.
• BROIDERER
  One who embroiders.