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Word Meanings - VIBRATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Consisting in, or causing, vibration, or oscillation; vibrating; as, a vibratory motion; a vibratory power.

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  • RINGWORM
    A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • SHARPLY
    In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • SHIVER-SPAR
    A variety of calcite, so called from its slaty structure; -- called also slate spar.
  • SHARPER
    A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
  • SHRILL-TONGUED
    Having a shrill voice. "When shrill-tongued Fulvia scolds." Shak.
  • RINGHEAD
    An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
  • RINGLEADER
    1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
  • SHRILLNESS
    The quality or state of being shrill.
  • JARRAH
    The mahoganylike wood of the Australian Eucalyptus marginata. See Eucalyptus.
  • RING ARMATURE
    An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
  • JARRING
    Shaking; disturbing; discordant. "A jarring sound." Dryden.
  • MUSICALLY
    In a musical manner.
  • RINGER
    A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
  • SHAKINESS
    Quality of being shaky.
  • SHRILL
    Acute; sharp; piercing; having or emitting a sharp, piercing tone or sound; -- said a sound, or of that which produces a sound. Hear the shrill whistle which doth order give To sounds confused. Shak. Let winds be shrill, let waves roll high. Byron.
  • SHARPIE
    A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
  • RINGTOSS
    A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
  • TREMBLING
    Shaking; tottering; quivering. -- Trem"bling*ly, adv. Trembling poplar , the aspen.
  • WRINGING
    a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
  • SYRINGOCOELE
    The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
  • SUSURRINGLY
    In the manner of a whisper.
  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • DISAPPEARING
    p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
  • WEATHERING
    The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
  • GEER; GEERING
    See GEARING
  • PORRINGER
    A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
  • NAVEL-STRING
    The umbilical cord.
  • PHILOMUSICAL
    Loving music. Busby.
  • MOJARRA
    Any of certain basslike marine fishes (mostly of tropical seas, and having a deep, compressed body, protracile mouth, and large silvery scales) constituting the family Gerridæ, as Gerres plumieri, found from Florida to Brazil and used as food.
  • TWITTERING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
  • DISSHIVER
    To shiver or break in pieces.
  • BURRING MACHINE
    A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • EMBERINGS
    Ember days.
  • UNIVOCALLY
    In a univocal manner; in one term; in one sense; not equivocally. How is sin univocally distinguished into venial and mortal, if the venial be not sin Bp. Hall.

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