Word Meanings - SUPPURATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to suppurate; promoting suppuration. Suppurative fever , pyæmia.

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• 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
• FEVER
  A diseased state of the system, marked by increased heat, acceleration of the pulse, and a general derangement of the functions, including usually, thirst and loss of appetite. Many diseases, of which fever is the most prominent symptom,
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• FEVERFEW
  A perennial plant allied to camomile, having finely divided leaves and white blossoms; -- so named from its supposed febrifugal qualities.
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• FEVERISH
  1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. 2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• FEVERET
  A slight fever. Ayliffe.
• PROMOTE
  1. To contribute to the growth, enlargement, or prosperity of (any process or thing that is in course); to forward; to further; to encourage; to advance; to excite; as, to promote learning; to promote disorder; to promote a business venture. "Born
• SUPPURATION
  1. The act or process of suppurating. 2. The matter produced by suppuration; pus.
• PROMOTER
  1. One who, or that which, forwards, advances, or promotes; an encourager; as, a promoter of charity or philosophy. Boyle. 2. Specifically, one who sets on foot, and takes the preliminary steps in, a scheme for the organization of a corporation,
• PROMOTIVE
  Tending to advance, promote, or encourage. Hume.
• TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
  Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
• TENDRIL
  A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
• TENDER-HEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
• TENDRON
  A tendril. Holland.
• TEND
  To make a tender of; to offer or tender.
• FEVEROUS
  1. Affected with fever or ague; feverish. His heart, love's feverous citadel. Keats. 2. Pertaining to, or having the nature of, fever; as, a feverous pulse. All maladies . . . all feverous kinds. Milton. 3. Having the tendency to produce fever;
• SHODDY FEVER
  A febrile disease characterized by dyspnoa and bronchitis caused by inhaling dust.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• OBTEND
  1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• ENTEND
  To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• PORTEND
  to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch
• ATTENDMENT
  An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.
• BUCK FEVER
  Intense excitement at the sight of deer or other game, such as often unnerves a novice in hunting.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.