Word Meanings - AGAPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.

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• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• WONDER
  Etym: 1. To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel. I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals. Swift. We cease to wonder at what we understand. Johnson.
• GAPER
  1. One who gapes. A European fish. See 4th Comber. A large edible clam , of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam. An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• CROWDER
  One who crowds or pushes.
• GAPES; THE GAPES
  A fit of yawning. A disease of young poultry and other birds, attended with much gaping. It is caused by a parasitic nematode worm (Syngamus trachealis), in the windpipe, which obstructs the breathing. See Gapeworm.
• EXPECTATION
  The leaving of the disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure. Expectation of life, the mean or average duration of the life individuals after any specified age. Syn. -- Anticipation; confidence; trust. (more info) 1. The act
• AGAPE
  Gaping, as with wonder, expectation, or eager attention. Dazzles the crowd and sets them all agape. Milton.
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• WONDERMENT
  Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
• EAGERLY
  In an eager manner.
• WONDER-WORKER
  One who performs wonders, or miracles.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• GAPINGSTOCK
  One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder. I was to be a gapingstock and a scorn to the young volunteers. Godwin.
• WONDEROUS
  See WONDROUS
• GAPEWORM
  The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.
• MEGAPODE
  Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl under Jungle, and Leipoa.
• GAP
  An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass. Miseries ensued by the opening of that
• UNEXPECTATION
  Absence of expectation; want of foresight. Bp. Hall.
• CROWD
  1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• SAGAPENUM
  A fetid gum resin obtained from a species of Ferula. It has been used in hysteria, etc., but is now seldom met with. U. S. Disp.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• PREEXPECTATION
  Previous expectation.
• AIR GAP
  An air-filled gap in a magnetic or electric circuit; specif., in a dynamo or motor, the space between the field-magnet poles and the armature; clearance.
• NONATTENTION
  Inattention.