Word Meanings - ADDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Liquid filth; mire. 2. Lees; dregs. Wright.

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• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• LIQUIDATION
  The act or process of liquidating; the state of being liquidated. To go into liquidation , to turn over to a trustee one's assets and accounts, in order that the several amounts of one's indebtedness be authoritatively ascertained, and that the
• LIQUIDIZE
  To render liquid.
• FILTHINESS
  1. The state of being filthy. Let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit. 2 Cor. vii. 1. 2. That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity. Carry forth the filthiness out of
• LIQUIDLY
  In a liquid manner; flowingly.
• LIQUIDATOR
  1. One who, or that which, liquidates. 2. An officer appointed to conduct the winding up of a company, to bring and defend actions and suits in its name, and to do all necessary acts on behalf of the company. Mozley & W.
• FILTHILY
  In a filthy manner; foully.
• LIQUIDAMBER
  See LIQUIDAMBAR
• LIQUIDNESS
  The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.
• FILTH
  1. Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness. 2. Anything that sullies or defiles the moral character; corruption; pollution. To purify the soul from the dross and filth of sensual delights. Tillotson. Filth disease , a disease
• LIQUIDAMBAR
  A genus consisting of two species of tall trees having star- shaped leaves, and woody burlike fruit. Liquidambar styraciflua is the North American sweet qum, and L. Orientalis is found in Asia Minor. 2. The balsamic juice which is obtained from
• LIQUID AIR
  A transparent limpid liquid, slightly blue in color, consisting of a mixture of liquefied oxygen and nitrogen. It is prepared by subjecting air to great pressure and then cooling it by its own expansion to a temperature below the boiling point of
• LIQUID
  Being in such a state that the component parts move among themselves, but do not tend to separate from each other as the particles of gases and vapors do; neither solid nor aëriform; as, liquid mercury, in distinction from mercury solidified or
• WRIGHTINE
  A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree , and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.
• LIQUIDATE
  To determine by agreement or by litigation the precise amount of ; or, where there is an indebtedness to more than one person, to determine the precise amount of ; to make the amount of ; clear and certain. A debt or demand is liquidated whenever
• LIQUIDITY
  The state or quality of being liquid.
• FILTHY
  Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• UNLIQUIDATED
  Not liquidated; not exactly ascertained; not adjusted or settled. Unliquidated damages , penalties or damages not ascertained in money. Burrill.
• WAINWRIGHT
  See WAGONWRIGHT
• MILLWRIGHT
  A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
  One who makes or repairs plows.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• SEMILIQUIDITY
  The quality or state of being semiliquid; partial liquidity.
• SEMILIQUID
  Half liquid; semifluid.