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Word Meanings - DIMLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a dim or obscure manner; not brightly or clearly; with imperfect sight.

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  • OBSCURENESS
    Obscurity. Bp. Hall.
  • OBSCURER
    One who, or that which, obscures.
  • SOILY
    Dirty; soiled. Fuller.
  • SOILURE
    Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson.
  • DISCOVERTURE
    A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.
  • SOIL PIPE
    A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil.
  • DUSKY
    1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds
  • DISCOVERABLE
    Capable of being discovered, found out, or perceived; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope; truths discoverable by human industry.
  • SOIL
    A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil,
  • DISCOVERY
    1. The action of discovering; exposure to view; laying open; showing; as, the discovery of a plot. 2. A making known; revelation; disclosure; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his assets. In the clear discoveries of the next
  • SOILLESS
    Destitute of soil or mold.
  • DISCOVERER
    1. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact. The discoverers and searchers of the land. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. A scout; an explorer. Shak.
  • DISCOVERT
    An uncovered place or part. At discovert, uncovered. Chaucer.
  • OBSCUREMENT
    The act of obscuring, or the state of being obscured; obscuration. Pomfret.
  • OBSCURE
    Obscurity. Milton.
  • KNOWN
    of Know.
  • DISCOVERY DAY
    = Columbus Day, above.
  • TARNISH
    A thin film on the surface of a metal, usually due to a slight alteration of the original color; as, the steel tarnish in columbite. (more info) 1. The quality or state of being tarnished; stain; soil; blemish.
  • REVEAL
    1. To make known ; to unveil; to disclose; to show. Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own. Waller. 2. Specifically, to communicate (that which could not be known or discovered without divine
  • DINGY
    Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. "Scraps of dingy paper." Macaulay.
  • DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
    1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat.
  • UNDERSOIL
    The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil.
  • TRUSTY
    1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his
  • SUBOBSCURELY
    Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne.
  • TOPSOIL
    The upper layer of soil; surface soil.
  • INDISCOVERY
    Want of discovery.
  • CLARE-OBSCURE
    See CHIAROSCURO
  • ASSOILZIE; ASSOILYIE
    To absolve; to acquit by sentence of court. God assoilzie him for the sin of bloodshed. Sir W. Scott.

 

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