Word Meanings - DROLLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat droll. Sterne.

DROLLIST
A droll. Glanvill.
SOMEWHAT
1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
DROLLISH
Somewhat droll. Sterne.
STERNER
A director. Dr. R. Clerke.
STERNED
Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.
DROLLER
A jester; a droll. Glanvill.
DROLL
Queer, and fitted to provoke laughter; ludicrous from oddity; amusing and strange. Syn. -- Comic; comical; farcical; diverting; humorous; ridiculous; queer; odd; waggish; facetious; merry; laughable; ludicrous. -- Droll, Laughable, Comical.
DROLLERY
1. The quality of being droll; sportive tricks; buffoonery; droll stories; comical gestures or manners. The rich drollery of "She Stoops to Conquer." Macaulay. 2. Something which serves to raise mirth; as: A puppet show; also, a puppet. Shak.
STERNEBRA
One of the segments of the sternum. -- Ster"ne*bral, a.
DROLLINGLY
In a jesting manner.
PINK-STERNED
Having a very narrow stern; -- said of a vessel.
WESTERNER
A native or inhabitant of the west.
BEADROLL
A catalogue of persons, for the rest of whose souls a certain number of prayers are to be said or counted off on the beads of a chaplet; hence, a catalogue in general. On Fame's eternal beadroll worthy to be field. Spenser. It is quite startling,