Word Meanings - DISTRUSTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
That distrusts; suspicious; lacking confidence in. -- Dis*trust"ing*ly, adv.
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- CONFIDENCE
1. The act of confiding, trusting, or putting faith in; trust; reliance; belief; -- formerly followed by of, now commonly by in. Society is built upon trust, and trust upon confidence of one another's integrity. South. A cheerful confidence in - TRUSTEE
A person to whom property is legally committed in trust, to be applied either for the benefit of specified individuals, or for public uses; one who is intrusted with property for the benefit of another; also, a person in whose hands the effects - 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 - TRUST COMPANY
Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business. - LACKLUSTER; LACKLUSTRE
A want of luster. -- a. - TRUSTLESS
That may not be trusted; not worthy of trust; unfaithful. -- Trust"less*ness, n. - TRUSTING
Having or exercising trust; confiding; unsuspecting; trustful. -- Trust"ing*ly, adv. - SUSPICIOUS
1. Inclined to suspect; given or prone to suspicion; apt to imagine without proof. Nature itself, after it has done an injury, will ever be suspicious; and no man can love the person he suspects. South. Many mischievous insects are daily at work - LACKBRAIN
One who is deficient in understanding; a witless person. Shak. - TRUSTER
One who makes a trust; -- the correlative of trustee. (more info) 1. One who trusts, or credits. - LACKEY
An attending male servant; a footman; a servile follower. Like a Christian footboy or a gentleman's lackey. Shak. Lackey caterpillar , the caterpillar, or larva, of any bombycid moth of the genus Clisiocampa; -- so called from its party- colored - TRUSTEE PROCESS
The process of attachment by garnishment. - TRUSTEE STOCK
High-grade stock in which trust funds may be legally invested. - LACKER
One who lacks or is in want. - LACK
1. Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense. Chaucer. 2. Deficiency; want; need; destitution; failure; as, a lack of sufficient food. She swooneth now and now for lakke of blood. Chaucer. Let his lack of years be no impediment. Shak. - TRUST
An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one - TRUSTWORTHY
Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n. - TRUSTINESS
The quality or state of being trusty. - TRUSTFUL
1. Full of trust; trusting. 2. Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- Trust"ful*ly,adv. -- Trust"ful*ness, n. - LACKADAISY
An expression of languor. - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - CLACK
MHG. klac crack, Ir. clagaim I make a noise, ring. Cf. Clack, n., 1. To make a sudden, sharp noise, or a succesion of such noises, as by striking an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the - SELF-TRUST
Faith in one's self; self-reliance. - BLACK LETTER
The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type. - FORSLACK
To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser. - BLACKEN
Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - MAGNASE BLACK
A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt. - MISTRUSTLESS
Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith. - DISTRUSTLESS
Free from distrust. Shenstone. - BLACK FLAGS
An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their - AIR-SLACKED
Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime. - POLACK
A Polander. Shak. - SHOEBLACK
One who polishes shoes. - JET-BLACK
Black as jet; deep black. - BLACK-JACK
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.