Word Meanings - DRAUGHTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room.
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- COMFORTLESS
Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n. - DRAUGHTSMANSHIP
The office, art, or work of a draughtsman. - DRAUGHT
The act of selecting or detaching soldiers; a draft (see Draft, n., 2) The act of drawing up, marking out, or delineating; representation. Dryden. 2. That which is drawn; as: That which is taken by sweeping with a net. Launch out into the deep, - DRAUGHTSMAN
1. One who draws pleadings or other writings. 2. One who draws plans and sketches of machinery, structures, and places; also, more generally, one who makes drawings of any kind. 3. A "man" or piece used in the game of draughts. 4. One who drinks - PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant - DRAUGHTBOARD
A checkered board on which draughts are played. See Checkerboard. - DRAUGHTHOUSE
A house for the reception of waste matter; a privy. 2 Kings x. 27. - CURRENTNESS
1. The quality of being current; currency; circulation; general reception. 2. Easiness of pronunciation; fluency. When currentness with staidness, how can the language . . . sound other than most full of sweetness Camden. - CURRENT
of curre, corre, F. courre, courir, to run, from L. currere; perh. 1. Running or moving rapidly. Like the current fire, that renneth Upon a cord. Gower. To chase a creature that was current then In these wild woods, the hart with golden horns. - DRAUGHTY
Pertaining to a draught, or current of air; as, a draughtly, comfortless room. - CURRENTLY
In a current manner; generally; commonly; as, it is currently believed. - DRAUGHTS
A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 . - DIRECT CURRENT
A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the - JAPAN CURRENT
A branch of the equatorial current of the Pacific, washing the eastern coast of Formosa and thence flowing northeastward past Japan and merging into the easterly drift of the North Pacific; -- called also Kuro-Siwo, or Black Stream, in allusion - PHASING CURRENT
The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period. - ALTERNATING CURRENT
A current which periodically changes or reverses its direction of flow. - PERCURRENT
Running through the entire length. - SNEAK CURRENT
A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out. - OSCILLATING CURRENT
A current alternating in direction. - NONRECURRENT
Not recurring. - THERMOCURRENT
A current, as of electricity, developed, or set in motion, by the action of heat. - FOUCAULT CURRENT
An eddy current. - EXCURRENT
Running or extending out; as, an excurrent midrib, one which projects beyond the apex of a leaf; an excurrent steam or trunk, one which continues to the top. (more info) 1. Running or flowing out; as: - RECOMFORTLESS
Without comfort. - INTERCURRENT
1. Running between or among; intervening. Boyle. Bp. Fell. Not belonging to any particular season. Said of diseases occurring in the course of another disease. Dunglison. - DISCURRENT
Not current or free to circulate; not in use. Sir E. Sandys.