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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.

 

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