Word Meanings - BLASTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Blighted; withered. Upon this blasted heath. Shak. 2. Confounded; accursed; detestable. Some of her own blasted gypsies. Sir W. Scott. 3. Rent open by an explosive. The blasted quarry thunders, heard remote. Wordsworth.
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- CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - HEATHER
Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym: - BLASTMENT
A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak. - BLAST
1. To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom. 2. To blow; to blow on a trumpet. Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer. - HEATHENISHNESS
The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne. - QUARRY-FACED
Having a face left as it comes from the quarry and not smoothed with the chisel or point; -- said of stones. - HEATHENRY
1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations. - BLASTOSPHERE
The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum. Note: - QUARRY
A place, cavern, or pit where stone is taken from the rock or ledge, or dug from the earth, for building or other purposes; a stone pit. See 5th Mine . (more info) quadraria a quarry, whence squared stones are dug, fr. - BLASTOPHORE
That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them. - BLASTODERMATIC; BLASTODERMIC
Of or pertaining to the blastoderm. - HEATHY
Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott. - HEATHENISM
1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism. - WITHER-WRUNG
Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse. - THUNDERSHOWER
A shower accompanied with lightning and thunder. - BLASTOMERE
One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum. Balfour. - WITHERED
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - HEATHENISH
1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living. - CONFOUNDEDLY
Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith. - WITHERS
The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr. - UNSHEATHE
To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war. - DIPLOBLASTIC
Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers. - NEMATOBLAST
A spermatocyte or spermoblast. - ABLASTEMIC
Non-germinal. - SHEATHLESS
Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed. - SEA HEATH
A low perennial plant resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe. - CNIDOBLAST
One of the cells which, in the Coelenterata, develop into cnidæ. - POSTREMOTE
More remote in subsequent time or order. - INSHEATHE
To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes. - PREREMOTE
More remote in previous time or prior order. In some cases two more links of causation may be introduced; one of them may be termed the preremote cause, the other the postremote effect. E. Darwin. - MESOBLASTIC
Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.