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Word Meanings - AUGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight

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nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight channel or groove, like the half of a bean pod. A screw auger has a twisted blade, by the spiral groove of which the chips are discharge. 2. An instrument for boring or perforating soils or rocks, for determining the quality of soils, or the nature of the rocks or strata upon which they lie, and for obtaining water. Auger bit, a bit with a cutting edge or blade like that of an anger.

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    1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
  • WARMTH
    The glowing effect which arises from the use of warm colors; hence, any similar appearance or effect in a painting, or work of color. Syn. -- Zeal; ardor; fervor; fervency; heat; glow; earnestness; cordiality; animation; eagerness; excitement;
  • MANIAC
    Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  • ROUSE
    To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
  • AUGER
    nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
  • INFLAMER
    The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
  • IMBITTER
    To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant. Is there anything that more imbitters the enjoyment of this life than shame South. Imbittered against each other by former contests. Bancroft.
  • FEROCITY
    Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
  • INFLAMED
    Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
  • FEELINGLY
    In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • IMBITTERMENT
    The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
  • INCENSEMENT
    Fury; rage; heat; exasperation; as, implacable incensement. Shak.
  • MANIABLE
    Manageable. Bacon.
  • FEELER
    One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything,
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    Exasperated; imbittered. Shak. Like swallows which the exasperate dying year Sets spinning. Mrs. Browning. (more info) roughen, exasperate; ex out + asperare to make rough, asper
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    Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman.
  • INCENSER
    One who instigates or incites.
  • ANIMATION
    1. The act of animating, or giving life or spirit; the state of being animate or alive. The animation of the same soul quickening the whole frame. Bp. Hall. Perhaps an inanimate thing supplies me, while I am speaking, with whatever I posses of
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    1. To set on fire; to inflame; to kindle; to burn. Twelve Trojan princes wait on thee, and labor to incense Thy glorious heap of funeral. Chapman. 2. To inflame with anger; to endkindle; to fire; to incite; to provoke; to heat; to madden.
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    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • MISKINDLE
    To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
  • SELF-KINDLED
    Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
  • MEGALOMANIA
    A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
  • SAUGER
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  • TROUSERING
    Cloth or material for making trousers.
  • INANIMATION
    Want of animation; lifeless; dullness.
  • NYMPHOMANIA
    Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
  • ICONOMANIA
    A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
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    Trousers. Spenser.
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  • ELEUTHEROMANIAC
    Mad for freedom.

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