Word Meanings - VERRUGAS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An endemic disease occurring in the Andes in Peru, characterized by warty tumors which ulcerate and bleed. It is probably due to a special bacillus, and is often fatal.

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• WARTY-BACK
  An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons.
• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• BLEACHED
  Whitened; make white. Let their bleached bones, and blood's unbleaching stain, Long mark the battlefield with hideous awe. Byron.
• WARTY
  1. Having warts; full of warts; overgrow with warts; as, a warty leaf. 2. Of the nature of warts; as, a warty excrescence. Warty egg , a marine univalve shell , having the surface covered with wartlike elevations.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• BLENCH
  deceive; akin to Icel. blekkja to impose upon. Prop. a causative of 1. To shrink; to start back; to draw back, from lack of courage or resolution; to flinch; to quail. Blench not at thy chosen lot. Bryant. This painful, heroic task he undertook,
• BLEATING
  Crying as a sheep does. Then came the shepherd back with his bleating flocks from the seaside. Longfellow.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• BLENHEIM SPANIEL
  A small variety of spaniel, kept as a pet.
• BLENNOGENOUS
  Generating mucus.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• BLEW
  of Blow.
• BLEND
  akin to Goth. blandan to mix, Icel. blanda, Sw. blanda, Dan. blande, 1. To mix or mingle together; esp. to mingle, combine, or associate so that the separate things mixed, or the line of demarcation, can not be distinguished. Hence: To confuse;
• BLEST
  Blessed. "This patriarch blest." Milton. White these blest sounds my ravished ear assail. Trumbull.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• BLENDER
  One who, or that which, blends; an instrument, as a brush, used in blending.
• BLEATER
  One who bleats; a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. Dyer.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• BLEAR-EYED
  1. Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant. 2. Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.
• ANDESITE
  An eruptive rock allied to trachyte, consisting essentially of a triclinic feldspar, with pyroxene, hornblende, or hypersthene.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• CURBLESS
  Having no curb or restraint.
• SHAMBLE
  One of a succession of niches or platforms, one above another, to hold ore which is thrown successively from platform to platform, and thus raised to a higher level. 2. pl. (more info) a bench, form, stool, fr. L. scamellum, dim. of scamnum
• RESPONSIBLE
  1. Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office. 2. Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy,
• FORTIFIABLE
  Capable of being fortified. Johnson.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• INEFFABLENESS
  The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• REMEDIABLE
  Capable of being remedied or cured. -- Re*me"di*a*ble*ness, n. -Re*me"di*a*bly, adv.
• INDECOMPOSABLENESS
  Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability.
• INSANABLE
  Not capable of being healed; incurable; irremediable.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• ABLE
  Legally qualified; possessed of legal competence; as, able to inherit or devise property. Note: Able for, is Scotticism. "Hardly able for such a march." Robertson. Syn. -- Competent; qualified; fitted; efficient; effective; capable; skillful;
• ASSUMABLE
  That may be assumed.
• VOCABLE
  A word; a term; a name; specifically, a word considered as composed of certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle. (more info) fr. vocare to call, fr. vox, vocis,
• VIABLE
  Capable of living; born alive and with such form and development of organs as to be capable of living; -- said of a newborn, or a prematurely born, infant. Note: Unless he is born viable, he acquires no rights, and can not transmit them to his
• NUBBLE
  To beat or bruise with the fist. Ainsworth.