Word Meanings - DESIREFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .

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• TROOPSHIP
  A vessel built or fitted for the conveyance of troops; a transport.
• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• FILLISTER
  1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
• FILL
  One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.
• FILLING
  Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See under Back, a. (more info) 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• FILLET
  A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• EAGERLY
  In an eager manner.
• FILLIP
  Etym: 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• FILLED CHEESE
  An inferior kind of cheese made from skim milk with a fatty "filling," such as oleomargarine or lard, to replace the fat removed in the cream.
• EAGER
  aigre, fr. L. acer sharp, sour, spirited, zealous; akin to Gr. a 1. Sharp; sour; acid. "Like eager droppings into milk." Shak. 2. Sharp; keen; bitter; severe. "A nipping and an eager air." "Eager words." Shak. 3. Excited by desire
• EAGERNESS
  1. The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire. "The eagerness of love." Addison. 2. Tartness; sourness. Syn. -- Ardor; vehemence; earnestness; impetuosity; heartiness; fervor; fervency; avidity; zeal; craving; heat; passion; greediness.
• FILLIBUSTER
  See FILIBUSTER
• MEAGERNESS; MEAGRENESS
  The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
• UPFILL
  To fill up.
• UNDERFILLING
  The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.
• FULFILLER
  One who fulfills. South.
• FULFILLMENT
  1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy. 2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
• OVERFILL
  To fill to excess; to surcharge.
• FULFILL
  1. To fill up; to make full or complete. "Fulfill her week" Gen. xxix. 27. Suffer thou that the children be fulfilled first, for it is not good to take the bread of children and give to hounds. Wyclif (Mark vii.