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Word Meanings - CAROLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A song of joy or devotion; a singing, as of carols. Coleridge. Such heavenly notes and carolings. Spenser.

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  • SINGLE-BREASTED
    Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
  • SINGLY
    1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
  • DEVOTIONALLY
    In a devotional manner; toward devotion.
  • SING-SING
    The kob.
  • SINGULAR
    Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
  • SINGLE-ACTING
    Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
  • SINGSTER
    A songstress. Wyclif.
  • SINGLE-HANDED
    Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
  • SINGLE-HEARTED
    Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
  • SINGHALESE
    See CINGALESE
  • SINGINGLY
    With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North .
  • SINGULT
    A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne.
  • HEAVENLY
    1. Pertaining to, resembling, or inhabiting heaven; celestial; not earthly; as, heavenly regions; heavenly music. As is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly. 1 Cor. xv.
  • SINGLE-MINDED
    Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
  • SINGLENESS
    1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
  • DEVOTIONAL
    Pertaining to, suited to, or used in, devotion; as, a devotional posture; devotional exercises; a devotional frame of mind.
  • SINGLES
    See 2
  • SINGSPIEL
    A dramatic work, partly in dialogue and partly in song, of a kind popular in Germany in the latter part of the 18th century. It was often comic, had modern characters, and patterned its music on folk song with strictly subordinated accompaniment.
  • SINGLET
    An unlined or undyed waistcoat; a single garment; -- opposed to doublet.
  • SINGULARITY
    1. The quality or state of being singular; some character or quality of a thing by which it is distinguished from all, or from most, others; peculiarity. Pliny addeth this singularity to that soil, that the second year the very falling down of
  • MONOTESSARON
    A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
  • MINNESINGER
    A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
  • LOSINGLY
    In a manner to incur loss.
  • DECREASING
    Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
  • PHASING CURRENT
    The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
  • CHASING
    The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
  • NEESING
    Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli.
  • BLESSING
    A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
  • DEBASINGLY
    In a manner to debase.
  • DISGUISING
    A masque or masquerade.
  • DESPISINGLY
    Contemptuously.
  • SURPASSING
    Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
  • GASSING
    The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. 2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk.
  • SELF-DEVOTION
    The act of devoting one's self, or the state of being self- devoted; willingness to sacrifice one's own advantage or happiness for the sake of others; self-sacrifice.
  • IMPOSINGNESS
    The quality of being imposing.
  • WINSING
    Winsome. Chaucer.

 

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