Word Meanings - CRONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A crone. "Marry not an old crony." Burton. 2. An intimate companion; a familiar frend. He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time. W. Irving.

Related words: (words related to CRONY)

• FAMILIARLY
  In a familiar manner.
• MARRY
  1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the
• RATHER
  Prior; earlier; former. Now no man dwelleth at the rather town. Sir J. Mandeville.
• COMPANIONLESS
  Without a companion.
• CRONET
  The coronet of a horse.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• CRONY
  1. A crone. "Marry not an old crony." Burton. 2. An intimate companion; a familiar frend. He soon found his former cronies, though all rather the worse for the wear and tear of time. W. Irving.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• THOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Think.
• THOUGHTLESS
  1. Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act. 2. Giddy; gay; dissipated. Johnson. 3. Deficient in reasoning power; stupid; dull. Thoughtless as monarch oaks that shade the plain. Dryden. -- Thought"less*ly,
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• WORSER
  Worse. Thou dost deserve a worser end. Beau. & Fl. From worser thoughts which make me do amiss. Bunyan. A dreadful quiet felt, and, worser far Than arms, a sullen interval of war. Dryden. Note: This old and redundant form of the comparative occurs
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• COMPANIONABLE
  Fitted to be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.
• INTIMATELY
  In an intimate manner.
• DEFORMER
  One who deforms.
• 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.
• ACRONYCALLY
  In an acronycal manner as rising at the setting of the sun, and vise versâ.
• NIRVANA
  In the Buddhist system of religion, the final emancipation of the soul from transmigration, and consequently a beatific enfrachisement from the evils of wordly existence, as by annihilation or absorption into the divine. See Buddhism.
• ACRONYCTOUS
  Acronycal.
• BETHOUGHT
  imp. & p. p. of Bethink.
• UNMARRY
  To annul the marriage of; to divorce. Milton.