Word Meanings - CREAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson.
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- SHARPLY
In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon. - GRATICULE
A design or draught which has been divided into squares, in order to reproduce it in other dimensions. - SHARPER
A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler. - CREAK
To make a prolonged sharp grating or ssqueaking sound, as by the friction of hard substances; as, shoes creak. The creaking locusts with my voice conspire. Dryden. Doors upon their hinges creaked. Tennyson. - SOUNDER
One who, or that which; sounds; specifically, an instrument used in telegraphy in place of a register, the communications being read by sound. - GRATICULATION
The division of a design or draught into squares, in order the more easily to reproduce it in larger or smaller dimensions. (more info) graticuler, craticuler, to square, fr. graticule, craticule, - DOORSTEAD
Entrance or place of a door. Bp. Warburton. - DOORSTEP
The stone or plank forming a step before an outer door. - DOORSTONE
The stone forming a threshold. - GRATITUDE
The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness. The debt immense of endless gratitude. Milton. - SOUNDLESS
Not capable of being sounded or fathomed; unfathomable. Shak. - SHARPIE
A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated. - GRATIOLIN
One of the essential principles of the hedge hyssop (Gratiola officinalis). - SOUNDLY
In a sound manner. - DOORSILL
The sill or threshold of a door. - GRATIFIER
One who gratifies or pleases. - SOUNDNESS
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude. - GRATIFICATION
1. The act of gratifying, or pleasing, either the mind, the taste, or the appetite; as, the gratification of the palate, of the appetites, of the senses, of the desires, of the heart. 2. That which affords pleasure; satisfaction; enjoyment; - SHARP-SET
Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope. - PROLONGE
A rope with a hook and a toggle, sometimes used to drag a gun carriage or to lash it to the limber, and for various other purposes. - MIGRATION
The act of migrating. - INTEGRATOR
That which integrates; esp., an instrument by means of which the area of a figure can be measured directly, or its moment of inertia, or statical moment, etc., be determined. - 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 - INGRATEFUL
1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness, - INVOICE
A written account of the particulars of merchandise shipped or sent to a purchaser, consignee, factor, etc., with the value or prices and charges annexed. Wharton. 2. The lot or set of goods as shipped or received; as, the merchant receives a large - REGRATE
To remove the outer surface of, as of an old hewn stone, so as to give it a fresh appearance. 2. To offend; to shock. Derham. - DEFLAGRATION
The act or process of deflagrating. (more info) 1. A burning up; conflagration. "Innumerable deluges and deflagrations." Bp. Pearson. - DENIGRATOR
One who, or that which, blackens.