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Word Meanings - DEFUNCT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak. The boar, defunct, lay tripped up, near. Byron. (more info) self of, to perform, finish, depart, die; de + fungi to perform,

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • LIFELESS
    Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless
  • DESERTER
    One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
  • UNCONSCIOUS
    1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • INSENSIBLENESS
    Insensibility. Bp. Hall.
  • DEPARTURE
    The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
  • DEPARTMENT
    1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • DEPARTMENTAL
    Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • DEFUNCTION
    Death. After defunction of King Pharamond. Shak.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • STILLION
    A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
  • INANIMATE
    To animate. Donne.
  • STILLROOM
    1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
  • DESERTLESS
    Without desert.
  • STILL-HUNT
    A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
  • HEAVY-HEADED
    Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
  • STILLATORY
    1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
  • INDESERT
    Ill desert. Addison.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • MISDESERT
    Ill desert. Spenser.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.

 

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