Word Meanings - TAUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.

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• EVERYWHERENESS
  Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew.
• EVERYWHERE
  In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether.
• INSOLENTLY
  In an insolent manner.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• TAUNT
  Very high or tall; as, a ship with taunt masts. Totten.
• TAUNTING
  from Taunt, v. Every kind of insolent and taunting reflection. Burke.
• REFLECTION
  The transference of an excitement from one nerve fiber to another by means of the nerve cells, as in reflex action. See Reflex action, under Reflex. Angle of reflection, the angle which anything, as a ray of light, on leaving a reflecting surface,
• EVERYONE
  Everybody; -- commonly separated, every one.
• EVERYDAY
  Used or fit for every day; common; usual; as, an everyday suit or clothes. The mechanical drudgery of his everyday employment. Sir. J. Herchel.
• EVERYBODY
  Every person.
• INSOLENT
  1. Deviating from that which is customary; novel; strange; unusual. If one chance to derive any word from the Latin which is insolent to their ears . . . they forth with make a jest at it. Petti If any should accuse me of being new or insolent.
• EVERYWHEN
  At any or all times; every instant. "Eternal law is silently present everywhere and everywhen." Carlyle.
• EVERYTHING
  Whatever pertains to the subject under consideration; all things. More wise, more learned, more just, more everything. Pope.
• TAUNTINGLY
  In a taunting manner.
• TAUNTRESS
  A woman who taunts.
• EVERY
  1. All the parts which compose a whole collection or aggregate number, considered in their individuality, all taken separately one by one, out of an indefinite bumber. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5. Every door and
• BURKE
  1. To murder by suffocation, or so as to produce few marks of violence, for the purpose of obtaining a body to be sold for dissection. 2. To dispose of quietly or indirectly; to suppress; to smother; to shelve; as, to burke a parliamentary
• SUPERREFLECTION
  The reflection of a reflected image or sound. Bacon.
• REVERY
  See REVERIE
• EVERICH; EVERYCH
  each one; every one; each of two. See Every. Chaucer.
• FEVERY
  Feverish. B. Jonson.
• ATAUNT; ATAUNTO
  Fully rigged, as a vessel; with all sails set; set on end or set right.
• EVERICHON; EVERYCHON
  Every one. Chaucer.
• IRREFLECTION
  Want of reflection.