Word Meanings - SWASHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes a blustering show of valor or force of arms. Shak.

Related words: (words related to SWASHER)

• FORCE
  To stuff; to lard; to farce. Wit larded with malice, and malice forced with wit. Shak.
• VALOROUS
  Possessing or exhibiting valor; brave; courageous; valiant; intrepid. -- Val"or*ous*ly, adv.
• VALORIZATION
  Act or process of attempting to give an arbitrary market value or price to a commodity by governmental interference, as by maintaining a purchasing fund, making loans to producers to enable them to hold their products, etc.; -- used chiefly of such
• FORCEPS
  The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing. (more info) 1. A pair of pinchers, or tongs; an instrument for grasping, holding firmly, or exerting traction upon, bodies
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• FORCEFUL
  Full of or processing force; exerting force; mighty. -- Force"ful*ly, adv. Against the steed he threw His forceful spear. Dryden.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• FORCEMENT
  The act of forcing; compulsion. It was imposed upon us by constraint; And will you count such forcement treachery J. Webster.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• VALOR
  1. Value; worth. "The valor of a penny." Sir T. More. 2. Strength of mind in regard to danger; that quality which enables a man to encounter danger with firmness; personal bravery; courage; prowess; intrepidity. For contemplation he and valor
• FORCED
  Done or produced with force or great labor, or by extraordinary exertion; hurried; strained; produced by unnatural effort or pressure; as, a forced style; a forced laugh. Forced draught. See under Draught. -- Forced march , a march of one or more
• FORCELESS
  Having little or no force; feeble. These forceless flowers like sturdy trees support me. Shak.
• BLUSTERING
  1. Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak. 2. Uttering noisy threats; noisy and swaggering; boisterous. "A blustering fellow." L'Estrange.
• BLUSTER
  Etym: 1. To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton. 2. To talk with noisy violence; to swagger, as a turbulent or boasting person;
• FORCE PUMP
  A pump having a solid piston, or plunger, for drawing and forcing a liquid, as water, through the valves; in distinction from a pump having a bucket, or valved piston. A pump adapted for delivering water at a considerable height above the pump,
• BLUSTERER
  One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
• FORCER
  1. One who, or that which, forces or drives. The solid piston of a force pump; the instrument by which water is forced in a pump. A small hand pump for sinking pits, draining cellars, etc.
• FORCEMEAT
  Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing.
• REINFORCEMENT
  See REëNFORCEMENT
• DEFORCEOR
  See DEFORCIANT
• REENFORCE
  To strengthen with new force, assistance, material, or support; as, to reënforce an argument; to reënforce a garment; especially, to strengthen with additional troops, as an army or a fort, or with additional ships, as a fleet.
• DEFORCE
  To keep from the rightful owner; to withhold wrongfully the possession of, as of lands or a freehold. To resist the execution of the law; to oppose by force, as an officer in the execution of his duty. Burrill.
• OVERFORCE
  Excessive force; violence.
• AFFORCE
  To reënforce; to strengthen. Hallam.
• REENFORCEMENT
  1. The act of reënforcing, or the state of being reënforced. 2. That which reënforces; additional force; especially, additional troops or force to augment the strength of any army, or ships to strengthen a navy or fleet.
• ENFORCED
  Compelled; forced; not voluntary. "Enforced wrong." "Enforced smiles." Shak. -- En*for"ced*ly, adv. Shak.
• REENFORCED CONCRETE
  Concrete having within its mass a system of strengthening iron or steel supports. = Ferro-concrete.