Word Meanings - UNPOWER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
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- POWERFUL
Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any - POWERABLE
1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden. - WEAKNESS
1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading - POWERLESS
Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n. - PLOWMAN; PLOUGHMAN
1. One who plows, or who holds and guides a plow; hence, a husbandman. Chaucer. Macaulay. 2. A rustic; a countryman; a field laborer. Plowman's spikenard , a European composite weed , having fragrant roots. Dr. Prior. - POWER
See FISH - CANDLE POWER
Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle. - IMPOWER
See EMPOWER - POLICE POWER
The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers - DISEMPOWER
To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell. - EMPOWER
1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give - UNPOWER
Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman. - CONCERT OF THE POWERS
An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question. - UNPOWERFUL
Not powerful; weak. Cowley. - HORSE POWER
. 1. The power which a horse exerts. - OVERPOWER
To excel or exceed in power; to cause to yield; to vanquish; to subdue; as, the light overpowers the eyes. "And overpower'd that gallant few." Wordsworth. Syn. -- To overbear; overcome; vanquish; defeat; crush; overwhelm; overthrow; rout; conquer; - OUTPOWER
To excel in power; to overpover. Fuller. - OVERPOWERING
Excelling in power; too powerful; irresistible. -- O`ver*pow"er*ing*ly, adv. - WATER POWER
1. The power of water employed to move machinery, etc. 2. A fall of water which may be used to drive machinery; a site for a water mill; a water privilege.