Word Meanings - VERMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.

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• VERMINATION
  1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.
• VERMIN
  F. vermine, from L. vermis a worm; cf. LL. vermen a worm, L. 1. An animal, in general. Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. . This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast,
• GRIPPLE
  A grasp; a gripe. Spenser.
• GRIPSACK
  A traveler's handbag.
• GRIPINGLY
  In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon.
• GRIPER
  One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton.
• VERMINATE
  To breed vermin.
• VERMINOUSLY
  In a verminous manner.
• GRIPMAN
  The man who manipulates a grip.
• GRIPPLENESS
  The quality of being gripple.
• BREEDING
  1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge.
• BREEDER
  1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. 2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak.
• GENERATION
  The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface
• GRIPEFUL
  Disposed to gripe; extortionate.
• BREEDBATE
  One who breeds or originates quarrels. "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak.
• GRIP CAR
  A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable.
• VERMINOUS
  1. Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin. Some . . . verminous disposition of the body. Harvey. 2. Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease.
• BREED
  brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brüten. See 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead
• VERMINLY
  Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. Gauden.
• GRIP
  The griffin.
• INGENERATION
  Act of ingenerating.
• UNREGENERATION
  Unregeneracy.
• INTERBREED
  To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants.
• CROSSBREED
  1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid.
• DEGENERATION
  That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse,
• OVERBREED
  To breed to excess.
• UPBREED
  To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed.
• PROGENERATION
  The act of begetting; propagation.
• WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
  A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850.
• HALF-BREED
  Half-blooded.
• HANDYGRIPE
  Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.