Word Meanings - WARMFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. Chapman.
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- WARMTH
The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement; - GIVES
Fetters. - GARMENT
Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16. - GIVING
1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving - GARMENTURE
Clothing; dress. - ABOUND
1. To be in great plenty; to be very prevalent; to be plentiful. The wild boar which abounds in some parts of the continent of Europe. Chambers. Where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Rom. v. 20. 2. To be copiously supplied; -- followed - WARMTHLESS
Being without warmth; not communicating warmth; cold. Coleridge. - GIVER
One who gives; a donor; a bestower; a grantor; one who imparts or distributes. It is the giver, and not the gift, that engrosses the heart of the Christian. Kollock. - WARMFUL
Abounding in capacity to warm; giving warmth; as, a warmful garment. Chapman. - GIVEN
p. p. & a. from Give, v. - GIVE
To set forth as a known quantity or a known relation, or as a premise from which to reason; -- used principally in the passive form given. 9. To allow or admit by way of supposition. I give not heaven for lost. Mlton. 10. To attribute; to assign; - CAPACITY
Legal or noral qualification, as of age, residence, character, etc., necessary for certain purposes, as for holding office, for marrying, for making contracts, will, etc.; legal power or right; competency. Capacity for heat, the power of absorbing - CHAPMAN
akin to D. koopman, Sw. köpman, Dan. kiöpmand, G. kaufmann.f. Chap to 1. One who buys and sells; a merchant; a buyer or a seller. The word of life is a quick commodity, and ought not, as a drug to be obtruded on those chapmen who are unwilling - GARMENTED
Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley. - TERGIVERSATOR
One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion. - THANKSGIVING
1. The act of rending thanks, or expressing gratitude for favors or mercies. Every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving. 1 Tim. iv. 4. In the thanksgiving before meat. Shak. And taught by thee - ALMSGIVING
The giving of alms. - MISGIVING
Evil premonition; doubt; distrust. "Suspicious and misgivings." South. - FUNGIVOROUS
Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails. - REGIVE
To give again; to give back. - FORGIVER
One who forgives. Johnson. - OGIVE
The arch or rib which crosses a Gothic vault diagonally. - THANKSGIVER
One who gives thanks, or acknowledges a kindness. Barrow. - THANKSGIVE
To give or dedicate in token of thanks. Mede. - UPGIVE
To give up or out. - LIFE-GIVING
Giving life or spirit; having power to give life; inspiriting; invigorating. - FORGIVING
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp. - MISGIVE
1. To give or grant amiss. Laud. 2. Specifically: To give doubt and apprehension to, instead of confidence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. - ARGIVE
Of or performance to Argos, the capital of Argolis in Greece. -- n.