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.