Word Meanings - ARM-GRET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.

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• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• WREATHLESS
  Destitute of a wreath.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• WREATHE
  1. To cause to revolve or writhe; to twist about; to turn. And from so heavy sight his head did wreathe. Spenser. 2. To twist; to convolve; to wind one about another; to entwine. The nods and smiles of recognition into which this singular
• WREATH-SHELL
  A marine shell of the genus Turbo. See Turbo.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATEN
  To become large; to dilate. My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• GREAT
  great, AS. gret; akin to OS. & LG. grt, D. groot, OHG. grz, G. gross. 1. Large in space; of much size; big; immense; enormous; expanded; -- opposed to small and little; as, a great house, ship, farm, plain, distance, length. 2. Large in number;
• GREAT WHITE WAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• WREATHEN
  Twisted; made into a wreath. "Wreathen work of pure gold." Ex. xxviii. 22.
• WREATHY
  Wreathed; twisted; curled; spiral; also, full of wreaths. "Wreathy spires, and cochleary turnings about." Sir T. Browne.
• GREATCOAT
  An overcoat.
• WREATH
  An appendage to the shield, placed above it, and supporting the crest . It generally represents a twist of two cords of silk, one tinctured like the principal metal, the other like the principal color in the arms. (more info) 1. Something twisted,
• GREAT-BELLIED
  Having a great belly, bigbellied; pregnant; teeming. Shak.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• INTERWREATHE
  To weave into a wreath; to intertwine. Lovelace.
• INWREATHE
  Resplendent locks, inwreathed with beams. Milton.
• UPWREATH
  To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.
• TUN-GREAT
  Having the circumference of a tun. Chaucer.