Word Meanings - WIELDANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or power of wielding. "Our weak wieldance." Bp. Hall.

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• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• POWERABLE
  1. Capable of being effected or accomplished by the application of power; possible. J. Young. 2. Capable of exerting power; powerful. Camden.
• WIELDSOME
  Admitting of being easily wielded or managed. Golding.
• WIELD
  gewyldan, from wealdan; akin to OS. waldan, OFries. walda, G. walten, OHG. waltan, Icel. valda, Sw. vålla to occasion, to cause, Dan. volde, Goth. waldan to govern, rule, L. valere to be strong. Cf. 1. To govern; to rule; to keep, or
• WIELDLESS
  Not to be wielded; unmanageable; unwieldy. "Wieldless might." Spenser.
• POWERLESS
  Destitute of power, force, or energy; weak; impotent; not able to produce any effect. -- Pow"er*less*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*less*ness, n.
• WIELDY
  Capable of being wielded; manageable; wieldable; -- opposed to unwieldy. Johnson.
• WIELDER
  One who wields or employs; a manager; a controller. A wielder of the great arm of the war. Milton.
• POWER
  The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number. (more info) v., fr. LL. potere, for L. posse, potesse, to be able, to have power. 1. Ability to act,
• WIELDABLE
  Capable of being wielded.
• WIELDANCE
  The act or power of wielding. "Our weak wieldance." Bp. Hall.
• WIELDING
  Power; authority; rule. To have them in your might and in your wielding. Chaucer.
• CANDLE POWER
  Illuminating power, as of a lamp, or gas flame, reckoned in terms of the light of a standard candle.
• IMPOWER
  See EMPOWER
• POLICE POWER
  The inherent power of a government to regulate its police affairs. The term police power is not definitely fixed in meaning. In the earlier cases in the United States it was used as including the whole power of internal government, or the powers
• DISEMPOWER
  To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.
• EMPOWER
  1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize ; as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor. 2. To give
• UNPOWER
  Want of power; weakness. Piers Plowman.
• CONCERT OF THE POWERS
  An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question.
• UNWIELDY
  Not easily wielded or carried; unmanageable; bulky; ponderous. "A fat, unwieldy body of fifty-eight years old." Clarendon. -- Un*wield"i*ly, adv. -- Un*wield"i*ness, n.
• UNPOWERFUL
  Not powerful; weak. Cowley.
• HORSE POWER
  . 1. The power which a horse exerts.