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.