Word Meanings - DRAWL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To utter in a slow, lengthened tone.
Related words: (words related to DRAWL)
- UTTERLY
In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain. - UTTERNESS
The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. - LENGTHEN
To extent in length; to make longer in extent or duration; as, to lengthen a line or a road; to lengthen life; -- sometimes followed by out. What if I please to lengthen out his date. Dryden. - UTTER
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. - UTTERMOST
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton. - UTTERMORE
Further; outer; utter. Holland. - UTTERLESS
Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton. - UTTERER
One who utters. Spenser. - UTTERABLE
Capable of being uttered. - UTTEREST
Uttermost. To the utterest proof of her courage. Chaucer. - UTTERANCE
1. The act of uttering. Specifically: -- Sale by offering to the public. Bacon. Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes. Vocal expression; articulation; speech. At length gave utterance to these words. Milton. - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - MUTTERER
One who mutters. - GUTTER
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - SLUTTERY
The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton. - FLUTTER
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak. - TROILUS BUTTERFLY
A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear. - BUTTERMAN
A man who makes or sells butter. - CHALKCUTTER
A man who digs chalk. - BUTTERFLY
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell - BUTTERWORT
A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North - BUTTERMILK
The milk that remains after the butter is separated from the cream. - BUTTER
1. An oily, unctuous substance obtained from cream or milk by churning. 2. Any substance resembling butter in degree of consistence, or other qualities, especially, in old chemistry, the chloridess, as butter of antimony, sesquichloride