Word Meanings - TINKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A grackle native of Jamaica. It often associates with domestic cattle, and rids them of insects. (more info) 1. A tinkle, or succession of tinkles. Drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds. Gray.

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• DROWSY
  1. Inclined to drowse; heavy with sleepiness; lethargic; dozy. "When I am drowsy." Shak. Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Shak. To our age's drowsy blood Still shouts the inspiring sea. Lowell. 2. Disposing to sleep; lulling; soporific.
• DISTANT
  stand apart, be separate or distant; dis- + stare to stand. See 1. Separated; having an intervening space; at a distance; away. One board had two tenons, equally distant. Ex. xxxvi. 22. Diana's temple is not distant far. Shak. 2. Far separated;
• DOMESTICATE
  1. To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self. 2. To cause to be, as it were, of one's family or country; as, to domesticate a foreign custom or word. 3. To tame or reclaim from a wild state; as, to domesticate wild
• DISTANTIAL
  Distant. More distantial from the eye. W. Montagu.
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• JAMAICA
  One of the West India is islands. Jamaica ginger, a variety of ginger, called also white ginger, prepared in Jamaica from the best roots, which are deprived of their epidermis and dried separately. -- Jamaica pepper, allspice. -- Jamaica rose ,
• NATIVE
  1. Arising by birth; having an origin; born. Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth. 2. Of or pertaining to one's birth; natal; belonging to the place or the circumstances
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• NATIVE STEEL
  A sort of steel which has been found where a burning coal seam had reduced and carbonized adjacent iron ore.
• DOMESTICATION
  The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.
• TINKLE
  1. To make, or give forth, small, quick, sharp sounds, as a piece of metal does when struck; to clink. As sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. 1 Cor. xiii. 1. The sprightly horse Moves to the music of his tinkling bells. Dodsley. 2. To hear, or
• SUCCESSIONIST
  A person who insists on the importance of a regular succession of events, offices, etc.; especially , one who insists that apostolic succession alone is valid.
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• DOMESTICAL
  A family; a household.
• DOMESTICANT
  Forming part of the same family. Sir E. Dering.
• OFTEN
  Frequent; common; repeated. "Thine often infirmities." 1 Tim. v. 23. And weary thee with often welcomes. Beau. & Fl.
• DOMESTICALLY
  In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.
• GRACKLE
  One of several American blackbirds, of the family Icteridæ; as, the rusty grackle ; the boat-tailed grackle ; the purple grackle (Quiscalus quiscula, or Q. versicolor). See Crow blackbird, under Crow. An Asiatic bird of the genus Gracula. See
• TINKLER
  A tinker.
• NATIVELY
  By natural or original condition; naturally; originally.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• EMANATIVE
  Issuing forth; effluent.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• REGNATIVE
  Ruling; governing.
• COORDINATIVE
  Expressing coördination. J. W. Gibbs.
• TINKERSHIRE; TINKLE
  The common guillemot.
• EQUIDISTANT
  Being at an equal distance from the same point or thing. -- E`qui*dis"tant*ly, adv. Sir T. Browne.
• DENOMINATIVE
  Connotative; as, a denominative name. 3. Possessing, or capable of possessing, a distinct denomination or designation; denominable. The least denominative part of time is a minute. Cocker. (more info) 1. Conferring a denomination or name.
• GLUTINATIVE
  Having the quality of cementing; tenacious; viscous; glutinous.
• CONGLUTINATIVE
  Conglutinant.
• URINATIVE
  Provoking the flow of urine; uretic; diuretic. Bacon.
• EMANATIVELY
  By an emanation.
• ALTERNATIVENESS
  The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two.