Word Meanings - WHINOCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The small pig of a litter.

Related words: (words related to WHINOCK)

• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• LITTERATEUR
  One who occupies himself with literature; a literary man; a literatus. " Befriended by one kind-hearted littérateur after another." C. Kingsley.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• LITTERY
  Covered or encumbered with litter; consisting of or constituting litter.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• LITTER
  1. A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it. There is a litter ready; lay him in 't. Shak. 2. Straw, hay, etc., scattered on a floor, as bedding for animals to rest on; also,
• FLITTERMOUSE
  A bat; -- called also flickermouse, flindermouse, and flintymouse.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• PHASE SPLITTER
  A device by which a single-phase current is split into two or more currents differing in phase. It is used in starting single-phase induction motors.
• SLITTER
  One who, or that which, slits.
• HORSE-LITTER
  A carriage hung on poles, and borne by and between two horses. Milton.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• SPLITTER
  One who, or that which, splits.
• FLITTER
  To flutter. Chaucer.
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• HAIRSPLITTER
  One who makes excessively nice or needless distinctions in reasoning; one who quibbles. "The caviling hairsplitter." De Quincey.
• GLITTERAND
  Glittering. Spenser.