Word Meanings - DISTRICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.

Related words: (words related to DISTRICTION)

• COLLIERY
  1. The place where coal is dug; a coal mine, and the buildings, etc., belonging to it. 2. The coal trade. Johnson.
• SMILER
  One who smiles. Tennyson.
• DISPLAYER
  One who, or that which, displays.
• FLASHING
  The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
• SMILE
  mirari to wonder at, Skr. smi to smile; and probably to E. smicker. 1. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. He doth nothing but frown . . . He hears merry tales and
• SUDDEN
  soudain, L. subitaneus, fr. subitus sudden, that has come unexpectedly, p.p. of subire to come on, to steal upon; sub under, 1. Happening without previous notice or with very brief notice; coming unexpectedly, or without the common preparation;
• SUDDENTY
  Suddenness; a sudden. On a suddenty, on a sudden. Sir W. Scott.
• FLASH
  1. To burst or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed. 2. To break forth, as a sudden flood of light; to burst instantly and brightly on the sight; to show a momentary
• SMILET
  A little smile. Those happy smilets That played on her ripe lip. Shak.
• FLASHY
  1. Dazzling for a moment; making a momentary show of brilliancy; transitorily bright. A little flashy and transient pleasure. Barrow. 2. Fiery; vehement; impetuous. A temper always flashy. Burke. 3. Showy; gay; gaudy; as, a flashy dress. 4. Without
• FLASH BURNER
  A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.
• DISTRICTION
  Sudden display; flash; glitter. A smile . . . breaks out with the brightest distriction. Collier.
• GLITTERINGLY
  In a glittering manner.
• GLITTERAND
  Glittering. Spenser.
• FLASH BOILER
  A variety of water-tube boiler, used chiefly in steam automobiles, consisting of a nest of strong tubes with very little water space, kept nearly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam
• FLASHILY
  In a flashy manner; with empty show.
• FLASHINESS
  The quality of being flashy.
• SMILELESS
  Not having a smile.
• FLASHBOARD
  A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard.
• DISPLAYED
  With wings expanded; -- said of a bird of pray, esp. an eagle. (more info) 1. Unfolded; expanded; exhibited conspicuously or ostentatiously.
• AGLITTER
  Clittering; in a glitter.
• SIDEFLASH
  A disruptive discharge between a conductor traversed by an oscillatory current of high frequency and neighboring masses of metal, or between different parts of the same conductor.