Word Meanings - ADULT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age.
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- HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - MATURENESS
The state or quality of being mature; maturity. - 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; - STRENGTHFUL
Abounding in strength; full of strength; strong. -- Strength"ful*ness, n. Florence my friend, in court my faction Not meanly strengthful. Marston. - ADULTERATION
1. The act of adulterating; corruption, or debasement (esp. of food or drink) by foreign mixture. The shameless adulteration of the coin. Prescott. 2. An adulterated state or product. - MATURITY
1. The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan. 2. Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, - PLANTIGRADA
A subdivision of Carnivora having plantigrade feet. It includes the bears, raccoons, and allied species. - ADULTERY
The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery. (more info) 1. The unfaithfulness of a married person to the marriage bed; sexual intercourse by a married man with another than his wife, or voluntary sexual intercourse by a married woman - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - PLANTULE
The embryo which has begun its development in the act of germination. - PLANTIGRADE
Walking on the sole of the foot; pertaining to the plantigrades. Having the foot so formed that the heel touches the ground when the leg is upright. - ADULT
Having arrived at maturity, or to full size and strength; matured; as, an adult person or plant; an adult ape; an adult age. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - ADULTER
To commit adultery; to pollute. B. Jonson. - PERSONATE
To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton. - ADULTERIZE
To commit adultery. Milton. - PERSONATOR
One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson. - ARRIVANCE
Arrival. Shak. - DISPLANTATION
The act of displanting; removal; displacement. Sir W. Raleigh. - SUPPLANT
heels, to throw down; sub under + planta the sole of the foot, also, 1. To trip up. "Supplanted, down he fell." Milton. 2. To remove or displace by stratagem; to displace and take the place of; to supersede; as, a rival supplants another in the - HEMATURIA
Passage of urine mingled with blood. - NONARRIVAL
Failure to arrive. - LIMATURE
1. The act of filing. 2. That which is filed off; filings. Johnson. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - THAUMATURGICS
Feats of legerdemain, or magical performances. - LAMINIPLANTAR
Having the tarsus covered behind with a horny sheath continuous on both sides, as in most singing birds, except the larks.