Word Meanings - DASHISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox.

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• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• CHARACTER
  1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
• 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.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• UNIVERSALLY
  In a universal manner; without exception; as, God's laws are universally binding on his creatures.
• CHARACTERISM
  A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
• FIGHTINGLY
  Pugnaciously.
• BEFORETIME
  Formerly; aforetime. dwelt in their tents, as beforetime. 2 Kings xiii. 5.
• FIGHT
  fechten, Sw. fäkta, Dan. fegte, and perh. to E. fist; cf. L. pugnare 1. To strive or contened for victory, with armies or in single combat; to attempt to defeat, subdue, or destroy an enemy, either by blows or weapons; to contend in
• BLUSTERINGLY
  In a blustering manner.
• CLAIMABLE
  Capable of being claimed.
• BLUSTEROUS
  Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.
• MAKE
  A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. Chaucer.
• MAKED
  Made. Chaucer.
• FIGHTWITE
  A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.
• MAKE-UP
  The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character. The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. L. F. Ward.
• MAKESHIFT
  That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• RECLAIMABLE
  That may be reclaimed.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• BOOTMAKER
  One who makes boots. -- Boot"mak`ing, n.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• RECLAIMER
  One who reclaims.
• MALLOWWORT
  Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.
• BRICKMAKER
  One whose occupation is to make bricks. -- Brick"mak*ing, n.
• ACCLAIM
  1. To applaud. "A glad acclaiming train." Thomson. 2. To declare by acclamations. While the shouting crowd Acclaims thee king of traitors. Smollett. 3. To shout; as, to acclaim my joy.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• THEREBEFORE; THEREBIFORN
  Before that time; beforehand. Many a winter therebiforn. Chaucer.
• TALLOW-FACED
  Having a sickly complexion; pale. Burton.