Word Meanings - DETERRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The uncovering of anything buried or covered with earth; a taking out of the earth or ground. Woodward.
Related words: (words related to DETERRATION)
- BURINIST
One who works with the burin. For. Quart. Rev. - EARTHLY-MINDED
Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n. - EARTH FLAX
A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - TAKING
1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n. - EARTHDIN
An earthquake. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - GROUNDNUT
The fruit of the Arachis hypogæa ; the peanut; the earthnut. A leguminous, twining plant , producing clusters of dark purple flowers and having a root tuberous and pleasant to the taste. The dwarf ginseng . Gray. A European plant of the genus - EARTHSTAR
A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores. - EARTHBRED
Low; grovelling; vulgar. - EARTHBANK
A bank or mound of earth. - GROUNDLESS
Without ground or foundation; wanting cause or reason for support; not authorized; false; as, groundless fear; a groundless report or assertion. -- Ground"less*ly, adv. -- Ground"less*ness, n. - TAKE
Taken. Chaucer. - EARTHQUAVE
An earthquake. - ANYTHINGARIAN
One who holds to no particular creed or dogma. - TAKE-OFF
An imitation, especially in the way of caricature. - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - UNMISTAKABLE
Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - LEAVE-TAKING
Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak. - DANBURITE
A borosilicate of lime, first found at Danbury, Conn. It is near the topaz in form. Dana. - MISTAKING
An error; a mistake. Shak. - UNEARTHLY
Not terrestrial; supernatural; preternatural; hence, weird; appalling; terrific; as, an unearthly sight or sound. -- Un*earth"li*ness, n. - MISTAKINGLY
Erroneously.