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Word Meanings - CLANGOROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Making a clangor; having a ringing, metallic sound.

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  • MAKE AND BREAK
    Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
  • RINGWORM
    A contagious affection of the skin due to the presence of a vegetable parasite, and forming ring-shaped discolored patches covered with vesicles or powdery scales. It occurs either on the body, the face, or the scalp. Different varieties
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • MAKING-IRON
    A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
  • METALLIC
    Of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive. Metallic iron, iron in the state of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic
  • RINGHEAD
    An instrument used for stretching woolen cloth.
  • SOUNDER
    One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound.
  • RINGLEADER
    1. The leader of a circle of dancers; hence, the leader of a number of persons acting together; the leader of a herd of animals. A primacy of order, such an one as the ringleader hath in a dance. Barrow. 2. Opprobriously, a leader of a body of
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • RING ARMATURE
    An armature for a dynamo or motor having the conductors wound on a ring.
  • SOUNDLESS
    Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak.
  • RINGER
    A crowbar. Simmonds. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rings; especially, one who rings chimes on bells.
  • RINGTOSS
    A game in which the object is to toss a ring so that it will catch upon an upright stick.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • RINGING
    a & n. from Ring, v. Ringing engine, a simple form of pile driver in which the monkey is lifted by men pulling on ropes.
  • RINGBILL
    The ring-necked scaup duck; -- called also ring-billed blackhead. See Scaup.
  • METALLICLY
    In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
  • SOUNDLY
    In a sound manner.
  • RING WINDING
    Armature winding in which the wire is wound round the outer and inner surfaces alternately of an annular or cylindrical core.
  • WRINGING
    a. & n. from Wring, v. Wringing machine, a wringer. See Wringer, 2.
  • SYRINGOCOELE
    The central canal of the spinal cord. B. G. Wilder.
  • NIGHT-FARING
    Going or traveling in the night. Gay.
  • SUSURRINGLY
    In the manner of a whisper.
  • DISAPPEARING
    p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
  • WEATHERING
    The action of the elements on a rock in altering its color, texture, or composition, or in rounding off its edges.
  • GEER; GEERING
    See GEARING
  • PORRINGER
    A porridge dish; esp., a bowl or cup from which children eat or are fed; as, a silver porringer. Wordsworth.
  • NAVEL-STRING
    The umbilical cord.
  • MANTUAMAKER
    One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
  • TWITTERING
    1. The act of one who, or that which, twitters. 2. A slight nervous excitement or agitation, such as is caused by desire, expectation, or suspense. A widow, who had a twittering towards a second husband, took a gossiping companion to manage the
  • HIGH-SOUNDING
    Pompous; noisy; ostentatious; as, high-sounding words or titles.
  • RESOUND
    resonare; pref. re- re- + sonare to sound, sonus sound. See Sound to 1. To sound loudly; as, his voice resounded far. 2. To be filled with sound; to ring; as, the woods resound with song. 3. To be echoed; to be sent back, as sound. "Common fame
  • BURRING MACHINE
    A machine for cleansing wool of burs, seeds, and other substances.
  • CHAMBERING
    Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13.
  • EMBERINGS
    Ember days.

 

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