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Word Meanings - WHISKERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having elongated hairs, feathers, or bristles on the cheeks. The whiskered vermin race. Grainger. (more info) 1. Formed into whiskers; furnished with whiskers; having or wearing whiskers. Our forefathers, a grave, whiskered race. Cowper.

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  • FORMALITY
    The dress prescribed for any body of men, academical, municipal, or sacerdotal. The doctors attending her in their formalities as far as Shotover. Fuller. 6. That which is formal; the formal part. It unties the inward knot of marriage, . . . while
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • GRAVES
    The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
  • GRAVEDIGGER
    See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • WEARIABLE
    That may be wearied.
  • FURNISHMENT
    The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • WEARING
    1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
  • FORMICARY
    The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
  • FORMULIZE
    To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
  • WEARILY
    In a weary manner.
  • VERMINATION
    1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.
  • GRAVEL
    A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
  • FORMERLY
    In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
  • 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,
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • FORMICAROID
    Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
  • FORMIDABLY
    In a formidable manner.
  • FORMICATE
    Resembling, or pertaining to, an ant or ants.
  • FALCIFORM
    Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
  • OMNIFORMITY
    The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
  • INFORMITY
    Want of regular form; shapelessness.
  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DIVERSIFORM
    Of a different form; of varied forms.
  • PREFORM
    To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
  • VARIFORM
    Having different shapes or forms.
  • RESINIFORM
    Having the form of resin.
  • BIFORM
    Having two forms, bodies, or shapes. Croxall.
  • VILLIFORM
    Having the form or appearance of villi; like close-set fibers, either hard or soft; as, the teeth of perch are villiform.
  • REFORMALIZE
    To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness.
  • FULL-FORMED
    Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
  • SCORIFORM
    In the form of scoria.
  • MALCONFORMATION
    Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
  • PENNIFORM
    Having the form of a feather or plume.
  • REFORMATIVE
    Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
  • DENDRIFORM
    Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

 

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