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.
Related words: (words related to CAROLING)
- 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.