Word Meanings - ALLISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.

Related words: (words related to ALLISION)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• DASHER
  1. That which dashes or agitates; as, the dasher of a churn. 2. A dashboard or splashboard. 3. One who makes an ostentatious parade.
• DASH
  1. To throw with violence or haste; to cause to strike violently or hastily; -- often used with against. If you dash a stone against a stone in the botton of the water, it maketh a sound. Bacon. 2. To break, as by throwing or by collision;
• DASHY
  Calculated to arrest attention; ostentatiously fashionable; showy.
• STRIKE
  Strucken ; p. pr. & vb. n. Striking. Struck is more commonly proceed, flow, AS. strican to go, proceed, akin to D. strijken to rub, stroke, strike, to move, go, G. streichen, OHG. strihhan, L. stringere to touch lightly, to graze, to strip off
• STRIKING
  a. & n. from Strike, v. Striking distance, the distance through which an object can be reached by striking; the distance at which a force is effective when directed to a particular object. -- Striking plate. The plate against which the latch of
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• DASHINGLY
  Conspicuously; showily. A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne.
• ALLISION
  The act of dashing against, or striking upon. The boisterous allision of the sea. Woodward.
• BOISTEROUSLY
  In a boisterous manner.
• WOODWARDIA
  A genus of ferns, one species of which is a showy plant in California, the Azores, etc.
• DASHISM
  The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.
• WOODWARD
  An officer of the forest, whose duty it was to guard the woods.
• BOISTEROUSNESS
  The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness.
• STRIKLE
  See STRICKLE
• DASHING
  Bold; spirited; showy. The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell.
• BOISTEROUS
  1. Rough or rude; unbending; unyielding; strong; powerful. "Boisterous sword." "Boisterous hand." Shak. 2. Exhibiting tumultuous violence and fury; acting with noisy turbulence; violent; rough; stormy. The waters swell before a boisterous storm.
• STRIKER
  1. One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wieds the sledge. 2. A harpoon; also, a harpooner. Wherever we come to an anchor, we always send out our strikers, and put out hooks and lines overboard, to try
• DASHPOT
  A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock. Note: It consists of a chamber, containing air or a liquid, in which a piston , attached to the weight, falls freely until it enters
• DASHBOARD
  1. A board placed on the fore part of a carriage, sleigh, or other vechicle, to intercept water, mud, or snow, thrown up by the heels of the horses; -- in England commonly called splashboard. The float of a paddle wheel. A screen at the bow af
• SPLATTERDASH
  Uproar. Jamieson.
• HABERDASHERY
  The goods and wares sold by a haberdasher; also , trifles. Burke.
• BERDASH
  ,n.A kind of neckcloth. A treatise against the cravat and berdash. Steele.
• INTERDASH
  To dash between or among; to intersperse. Cowper.
• OVERSTRIKE
  To strike beyond.
• THUNDERSTRIKE
  1. To strike, blast, or injure by, or as by, lightning. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To astonish, or strike dumb, as with something terrible; -- rarely used except in the past participle. drove before him, thunderstruck. Milton.
• BALDERDASH
  clatter, and E. dash; hence, perhaps, unmeaning noise, then hodgepodge, mixture; or W. baldorduss a prattling, baldordd, 1. A worthless mixture, especially of liquors. Indeed beer, by a mixture of wine, hath lost both name and nature, and is called
• HABERDASHER
  trifles, perh. through French. It is possibly akin to E. haversack, and to Icel. taska trunk, chest, pocket, G. tasche pocket, and the 1. A dealer in small wares, as tapes, pins, needles, and thread; also, a hatter. The haberdasher heapeth wealth
• TEN-STRIKE
  A knocking down of all ten pins at one delivery of the ball. 2. Any quick, decisive stroke or act.