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Word Meanings - YOKEFELLOW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the

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An associate or companion in, or as in; a mate; a fellow; especially, a partner in marriage. Phil. iv. 3. The two languages became yokefellows in a still more intimate manner. Earle. Those who have most distinguished themselves by railing at the sex, very often choose one of the most worthless for a companion and yokefellow. Addison.

Related words: (words related to YOKEFELLOW)

  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • RAIL
    An outer cloak or covering; a neckerchief for women. Fairholt.
  • COMPANIONLESS
    Without a companion.
  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • INTIMATE
    corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
  • PARTNER
    An associate in any business or occupation; a member of a partnership. See Partnership. 3. pl. (more info) 1. One who has a part in anything with an other; a partaker; an associate; a sharer. "Partner of his fortune." Shak. Hence: A husband or
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • ASSOCIATE
    1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • STILLION
    A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
  • STILLROOM
    1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
  • THEMSELVES
    The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • STILL-HUNT
    A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
  • CONTRADISTINGUISH
    To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke.
  • INDISTINGUISHABLE
    Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • FRAILNESS
    Frailty.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • FRAIL
    A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • TAFFRAIL
    The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.

 

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