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Word Meanings - COW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A chimney cap; a cowl

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  • ASSURER
    1. One who assures. Specifically: One who insures against loss; an insurer or underwriter. 2. One who takes out a life assurance policy.
  • 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.
  • CONFRONT
    1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
  • ASTONISH
    étonner, fr. L. ex out + tonare to thunder, but perhaps influenced by 1. To stun; to render senseless, as by a blow. The very cramp-fish . . . being herself not benumbed, is able to astonish others. Holland. 2. To strike with sudden
  • BOYCOTT
    The process, fact, or pressure of boycotting; a combining to withhold or prevent dealing or social intercourse with a tradesman, employer, etc.; social and business interdiction for the purpose of coercion.
  • SHAMEFAST
    Modest; shamefaced. -- Shame"fast*ly, adv. -- Shame"fast*ness, n. See Shamefaced. Shamefast she was in maiden shamefastness. Chaucer. is a blushing shamefast spirit. Shak. Modest apparel with shamefastness. 1 Tim. ii. 9 .
  • STARTLE
    1. To excite by sudden alarm, surprise, or apprehension; to frighten suddenly and not seriously; to alarm; to surprise. The supposition, at least, that angels do sometimes assume bodies need not startle us. Locke. 2. To deter; to cause to deviate.
  • BOYCOTTER
    A participant in boycotting.
  • DISCOURAGING
    Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.
  • DAUNTER
    One who daunts.
  • ENCOURAGER
    One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison.
  • CONFRONTATION
    Act of confronting. H. Swinburne.
  • ASTONISHING
    Very wonderful; of a nature to excite astonishment; as, an astonishing event. Syn. -- Amazing; surprising; wonderful; marvelous. As*ton"ish*ing*ly, adv. -- As*ton"ish*ing*ness, n.
  • DISHEARTENMENT
    Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
  • SHOCKDOG
    See 1
  • APPALACHIAN
    Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains. Note: The name Appalachian was given to the mountains by the Spaniards under De Soto, who derived it from the heighboring Indians. Am. Cyc.
  • AFFRIGHTER
    One who frightens.
  • ALARM
    1. A summons to arms, as on the approach of an enemy. Arming to answer in a night alarm. Shak. 2. Any sound or information intended to give notice of approaching danger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in
  • ABASHMENT
    The state of being abashed; confusion from shame.
  • COMPOSE
    To arrange in a composing stick in order for printing; to set . (more info) 1. To form by putting together two or more things or parts; to put together; to make up; to fashion. Zeal ought to be composed of the hidhest degrees of all
  • SUTURALLY
    In a sutural manner.
  • CALABASH
    Calebasse), lit., a dry gourd, fr. Ar. qar', fem., a kind of gourd + 1. The common gourd . 2. The fruit of the calabash tree. 3. A water dipper, bottle, backet, or other utensil, made from the dry shell of a calabash or gourd. Calabash tree.
  • CENTRALLY
    In a central manner or situation.
  • UNASSURED
    1. Not assured; not bold or confident. 2. Not to be trusted. Spenser. 3. Not insured against loss; as, unassured goods.
  • DECOMPOSE
    To separate the constituent parts of; to resolve into original elements; to set free from previously existing forms of chemical combination; to bring to dissolution; to rot or decay.
  • PASTORALLY
    1. In a pastoral or rural manner. 2. In the manner of a pastor.
  • UNDAUNTABLE
    Incapable of being daunted; intrepid; fearless; indomitable. Bp. Hall.
  • SQUABASH
    To crush; to quash; to squash. Sir W. Scott.
  • THUMBLESS
    Without a thumb. Darwin.

 

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