Word Meanings - ACHERON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A river in the Nether World or infernal regions; also, the infernal regions themselves. By some of the English poets it was supposed to be a flaming lake or gulf. Shak.

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• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• INFERNALLY
  In an infernal manner; diabolically. "Infernally false." Bp. Hacket.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• FLAMINEOUS
  Pertaining to a flamen; flaminical.
• ENGLISH
  A twist or spinning motion given to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King. (more info) 1. Collectively, the people of England;
• WORLD-WIDE
  Extended throughout the world; as, world-wide fame. Tennyson.
• FLAMINICAL
  Pertaining to a flamen. Milton.
• FLAMMIFEROUS
  Producing flame.
• NETHER
  Situated down or below; lying beneath, or in the lower part; having a lower position; belonging to the region below; lower; under; -- opposed to upper. 'Twixt upper, nether, and surrounding fires. Milton. This darksome nether world her light Doth
• FLAMING
  1. Emitting flames; afire; blazing; consuming; illuminating. 2. Of the color of flame; high-colored; brilliant; dazzling. "In flaming yellow bright." Prior. 3. Ardent; passionate; burning with zeal; irrepressibly earnest; as, a flaming proclomation
• RIVER
  One who rives or splits.
• NETHERMOST
  Lowest; as, the nethermost abyss. Milton.
• FLAMBOYER
  A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.
• INFERNAL
  1. Of or pertaining to or suitable for the lower regions, inhabited, according to the ancients, by the dead; pertaining to Pluto's realm of the dead, the Tartarus of the ancients. The Elysian fields, the infernal monarchy. Garth. 2. Of
• RIVERLING
  A rivulet. Sylvester.
• POETSHIP
  The state or personality of a poet.
• THEMSELVES
  The plural of himself, herself, and itself. See Himself, Herself, Itself.
• WORLDLING
  A person whose soul is set upon gaining temporal possessions; one devoted to this world and its enjoyments. A foutre for the world and worldlings base. Shak. If we consider the expectations of futurity, the worldling gives up the argument. Rogers.
• FLAMELET
  A small flame. The flamelets gleamed and flickered. Longfellow.
• INFLAMER
  The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
• DISINFLAME
  To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
• INFLAMED
  Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
• INFLAMMABILLTY
  Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.
• PRESUPPOSITION
  1. The act of presupposing; an antecedent implication; presumption. 2. That which is presupposed; a previous supposition or surmise.