Word Meanings - USTULATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle. The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing. The burning of wine. 4. Lascivious passion; concupiscence.

Additional info about word: USTULATION

The operation of expelling one substance from another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a muffle. The roasting or drying of moist substances so as prepare them for pulverizing. The burning of wine. 4. Lascivious passion; concupiscence. It is not certain that they took the better part when they chose ustulation before marriage, expressly against the apostle. Jer. Taylor. (more info) 1. The act of burning or searing. Sir W. Petty.

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• SULPHUR-BOTTOM
  A very large whalebone whale of the genus Sibbaldius, having a yellowish belly; especially, S. sulfureus of the North Pacific, and S. borealis of the North Atlantic; -- called also sulphur whale.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• DRY-RUB
  To rub and cleanse without wetting. Dodsley.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• PULVERIZATION
  The action of reducing to dust or powder.
• PASSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
• SULPHURWORT
  The hog's fennel. See under Fennel.
• MOISTNESS
  The quality or state of being moist.
• DRY GOODS
  A commercial name for textile fabrics, cottons, woolens, linen, silks, laces, etc., -- in distinction from groceries.
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• MOISTURE
  1. A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon. 2. That which moistens or makes damp or wet; exuding fluid; liquid in small quantity. All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat. Shak.
• SULPHURY
  Resembling, or partaking of the nature of, sulphur; having the qualities of sulphur.
• DRY-FISTED
  Niggardly.
• MOISTURELESS
  Without moisture.
• DRYSALTER
  A dealer in salted or dried meats, pickles, sauces, etc., and in the materials used in pickling, salting, and preserving various kinds of food Hence drysalters usually sell a number of saline substances and miscellaneous drugs. Brande & C.
• DRY-BEAT
  To beat severely. Shak.
• SULPHURATION
  The act or process of combining or impregnating with sulphur or its compounds; also, the state of being so combined or impregnated.
• MOISTENER
  One who, or that which, moistens. Johnson.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• PROTOSULPHURET
  A protosulphide.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• SUNDRY
  1. Several; divers; more than one or two; various. "Sundry wines." Chaucer. "Sundry weighty reasons." Shak. With many a sound of sundry melody. Chaucer. Sundry foes the rural realm surround. Dryden. 2. Separate; diverse. Every church almost had
• POLYANDRY
  The possession by a woman of more than one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with Ant: monandry. Note: In law, this falls under the head of polygamy.
• SMOULDRY
  See SMOLDRY
• OUTPASSION
  To exceed in passion.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne