Word Meanings - DIMINUTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Small; diminished; diminutive. Jer. Taylor.

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• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• DIMINISHER
  One who, or that which, diminishes anything. Clerke .
• DIMINUTIVE
  1. Below the average size; very small; little. 2. Expressing diminution; as, a diminutive word. 3. Tending to diminish. Diminutive of liberty. Shaftesbury.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• DIMINISHABLE
  Capable of being diminished or lessened.
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• DIMINISHMENT
  Diminution. Cheke.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• DIMINUTIVENESS
  The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• DIMINUTIVELY
  In a diminutive manner.
• DIMINISHINGLY
  In a manner to diminish.
• REDIMINISH
  To diminish again.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.
• INDIMINISHABLE
  Incapable of being diminished. Milton.