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Word Meanings - TOUCHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Peevish; irritable; irascible; techy; apt to take fire. It may be said of Dryden that he was at no time touchy about personal attacks. Saintsbury.

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  • RAGULED; RAGGULED
    Notched in regular diagonal breaks; -- said of a line, or a bearing having such an edge.
  • HYPERCRITICALLY
    In a hypercritical manner.
  • NETTLER
    One who nettles. Milton.
  • RAGE
    1. Violent excitement; eager passion; extreme vehemence of desire, emotion, or suffering, mastering the will. "In great rage of pain." Bacon. He appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. Macaulay. Convulsed with a rage of grief.
  • CARPET
    packing cloth, rug , LL. carpeta, carpita, woolly cloths, fr. L. carpere to pluck, to card ; cf. 1. A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be
  • CARPOGENIC
    Productive of fruit, or causing fruit to be developed.
  • CROSSLY
    Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • CROSSJACK
    The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast.
  • CROSSOPTERYGIAN
    Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n.
  • CROSSBRED
    Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel.
  • INCENSIVE
    Tending to excite or provoke; inflammatory. Barrow.
  • RAGLAN
    A loose overcoat with large sleeves; -- named from Lord Raglan, an English general.
  • CARPETBAG
    A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet.
  • EXCITABLE
    Capable of being excited, or roused into action; susceptible of excitement; easily stirred up, or stimulated.
  • CHAFFERY
    Traffic; bargaining. Spenser.
  • CROSS-STONE
    See STAUROTIDE
  • CRITICALLY
    1. In a critical manner; with nice discernment; accurately; exactly. Critically to discern good writers from bad. Dryden. 2. At a crisis; at a critical time; in a situation. place, or condition of decisive consequence; as, a fortification
  • CROSS-ARMED
    With arms crossed.
  • TETRAGYNIA
    A Linnæan order of plants having four styles.
  • PHRAGMOCONE
    The thin chambered shell attached to the anterior end of a belemnite.
  • MOORAGE
    A place for mooring.
  • OUTRAGEOUS
    Of the nature of an outrage; exceeding the limits of right, reason, or decency; involving or doing an outrage; furious; violent; atrocious. "Outrageous weeping." Chaucer. "The most outrageous villainies." Sir P. Sidney. "The vile, outrageous
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • CORAL-RAG
    See CORALLIAN
  • LACROSSE
    A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught
  • INTERAGENT
    An intermediate agent.
  • VORAGINOUS
    Pertaining to a gulf; full of gulfs; hence, devouring. Mallet.
  • ACCOURAGE
    To encourage.

 

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