Word Meanings - WITLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person who has little wit or understanding; a pretender to wit or smartness. A beau and witing perished in the forming. Pope. Ye newspaper witlings! ye pert scribbling folks! Goldsmith.

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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
• PERSONNEL
  The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
• PERSONIFICATION
  A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
• WIT-CRACKER
  One who breaks jests; a joker. Shak.
• FORMICARY
  The nest or dwelling of a swarm of ants; an ant-hill.
• FORMULIZE
  To reduce to a formula; to formulate. Emerson.
• WITCH-ELM
  See WYCH-ELM
• WITCH
  A certain curve of the third order, described by Maria Agnesi under the name versiera. (more info) the same word as AS. witiga, witga, a soothsayer ; cf. Fries. wikke, a witch, LG. wikken to predict, Icel. vitki a wizard, 1. One who practices
• WITTS
  Tin ore freed from earthy matter by stamping. Knight.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• WITCHING
  That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
• FORMICAROID
  Like or pertaining to the family Formicaridæ or ant thrushes.
• UNDERSTANDINGLY
  In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved.
• FORME
  First. "Adam our forme father." Chaucer.
• FORMIDABLY
  In a formidable manner.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• WITCRAFT
  1. Art or skill of the mind; contrivance; invention; wit. Camden. 2. The art of reasoning; logic.
• WITTED
  Having a wit or understanding; as, a quick-witted boy.
• PERSONIZE
  To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
• OMNIFORMITY
  The condition or quality of having every form. Dr. H. More.
• FALCIFORM
  Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.
• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• DIVERSIFORM
  Of a different form; of varied forms.
• VARIFORM
  Having different shapes or forms.
• DISWITTED
  Deprived of wits or understanding; distracted. Drayton.
• PREFORM
  To form beforehand, or for special ends. "Their natures and preformed faculties. " Shak.
• 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.
• TWITTERING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
• FULL-FORMED
  Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.
• SCORIFORM
  In the form of scoria.
• PENNIFORM
  Having the form of a feather or plume.
• MALCONFORMATION
  Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
• REFORMATIVE
  Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.
• DENDRIFORM
  Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.