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Word Meanings - SUPPLE-CHAPPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a limber tongue. "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.

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  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • SUPPLEMENT
    The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
  • TONGUELET
    A little tongue.
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • TONGUE-SHELL
    Any species of Lingula.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • SUPPLELY
    In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • TONGUESTER
    One who uses his tongue; a talker; a story-teller; a gossip. Step by step we rose to greatness; through the tonguesters we may fall. Tennyson.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • HAVERSIAN
    Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
  • TONGUED
    Having a tongue. Tongued like the night crow. Donne.
  • TONGUE-TIED
    1. Destitute of the power of distinct articulation; having an impediment in the speech, esp. when caused by a short frænum. 2. Unable to speak freely, from whatever cause. Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity. Shak.
  • SUPPLENESS
    The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
  • TONGUE-PAD
    A great talker.
  • HAVING
    Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
  • HAVIOR
    Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
  • TONGUE-SHAPED
    Shaped like a tongue; specifically , linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.
  • SERPENT-TONGUED
    Having a forked tongue, like a serpent.
  • HONEY-TONGUED
    Sweet speaking; persuasive; seductive. Shak.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • ADDER'S-TONGUE
    A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray.
  • LONG-TONGUE
    The wryneck.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • PLEASANT-TONGUED
    Of pleasing speech.
  • TRUMPET-TONGUED
    Having a powerful, far-reaching voice or speech.
  • TWO-TONGUED
    Double-tongued; deceitful. Sandys.

 

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