Word Meanings - BRASHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly. Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered. F. T. Bullen. 2. Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.

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• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• BULLEN-NAIL
  A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.
• PROGRESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to progression; tending to, or capable of, progress.
• PROGRESS
  to go forth or forward; pro forward + gradi to step, go: cf. F. 1. A moving or going forward; a proceeding onward; an advance; specifically: In actual space, as the progress of a ship, carriage, etc. In the growth of an animal or plant; increase.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• PROGRESSION
  Regular or proportional advance in increase or decrease of numbers; continued proportion, arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonic. (more info) 1. The act of moving forward; a proceeding in a course; motion onward. 2. Course; passage; lapse
• BRASHY
  1. Resembling, or of the nature of, brash, or broken fragments; broken; crumbly. Our progress was not at all impeded by the few soft, brashy floes that we encountered. F. T. Bullen. 2. Showery; characterized by brashes, or showers.
• IMPEDE
  To hinder; to stop in progress; to obstruct; as, to impede the advance of troops. Whatever hinders or impedes The action of the nobler will. Logfellow.
• BROKEN-WINDED
  Having short breath or disordered respiration, as a horse.
• PROGRESSIST
  One who makes, or holds to, progress; a progressionist.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• CRUMBLY
  EAsily crumbled; friable; brittle. "The crumbly soil." Hawthorne.
• SHOWERY
  1. Raining in showers; abounding with frequent showers of rain. 2. Of or pertaining to a shower or showers. "Colors of the showery arch." Milton.
• IMPEDIMENT
  That which impedes or hinders progress, motion, activity, or effect. Thus far into the bowels of the land Have we marched on without impediment. Shak. Impediment in speech, a defect which prevents distinct utterance. Syn. -- Hindrance; obstruction;
• BROKEN-BACKED
  Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• BULLEN-BULLEN
  The lyre bird.
• STONEBRASH
  A subsoil made up of small stones or finely-broken rock; brash.
• UNNATURE
  To change the nature of; to invest with a different or contrary nature. A right heavenly nature, indeed, as if were unnaturing them, doth so bridle them . Sir P. Sidney.
• HEARTBROKEN
  Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved.
• DEMINATURED
  Having half the nature of another. Shak.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• ORNATURE
  Decoration; ornamentation. Holinshed.
• CONSIGNATURE
  Joint signature. Colgrave.
• TRANSNATURE
  To transfer or transform the nature of. We are transelemented, or transnatured. Jewel.