Word Meanings - CUNNINGMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fortune teller; one who pretends to reveal mysteries. Hudibras.

Related words: (words related to CUNNINGMAN)

• TELLER
  1. One who tells, relates, or communicates; an informer, narrator, or describer. 2. One of four officers of the English Exchequer, formerly appointed to receive moneys due to the king and to pay moneys payable by the king. Cowell. 3. An officer
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• FORTUNE
  1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. Chaucer. 2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. Dryden.
• HUDIBRASTIC
  Similar to, or in the style of, the poem "Hudibras," by Samuel Butler; in the style of doggerel verse. Macaulay.
• REVEAL
  1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
• REVEALABLE
  Capable of being revealed. -- Re*veal"a*ble*ness, n.
• REVEALABILITY
  The quality or state of being revealable; revealableness.
• REVEALER
  One who, or that which, reveals.
• REVEALMENT
  Act of revealing.
• TELLERSHIP
  The office or employment of a teller.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
• STELLERID
  A starfish.
• FORETELLER
  One who predicts. Boyle.
• STORY-TELLER
  1. One who tells stories; a narrator of anecdotes,incidents, or fictitious tales; as, an amusing story-teller. 2. An historian; -- in contempt. Swift. 3. A euphemism or child's word for "a liar."
• BEFORTUNE
  To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
• STELLERIDA
  An extensive group of echinoderms, comprising the starfishes and ophiurans.
• TALETELLER
  One who tells tales or stories, especially in a mischievous or officious manner; a talebearer; a telltale; a tattler.
• MISFORTUNE
  Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance. Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. Addison. Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster.
• IRREVEALABLE
  Incapable of being revealed. -- Ir`re*veal"a*bly, adv.
• STELLER
  The rytina; -- called also stellerine.
• STELLERIDAN; STELLERIDEAN
  A starfish, or brittle star.
• TRUTH-TELLER
  One who tells the truth. Truth-teller was our England's Alfred named. Tennyson.