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Word Meanings - DUDGEON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde . 2. The haft of a dagger. Shak. 3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras.

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  • INDIGNATION
    1. The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence. Shak. Indignation expresses a strong and elevated disapprobation of mind, which is also inspired by something flagitious
  • MANIAC
    Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
  • AUGER
    nave of a wheel + gar spear, and therefore meaning properly and 1. A carpenter's tool for boring holes larger than those bored by a gimlet. It has a handle placed crosswise by which it is turned with both hands. A pod auger is one with a straight
  • FEROCITY
    Savage wildness or fierceness; fury; cruelty; as, ferocity of countenance. The pride and ferocity of a Highland chief. Macaulay.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • MANIABLE
    Manageable. Bacon.
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • CHOLEROID
    Choleriform.
  • DUDGEON
    1. The root of the box tree, of which hafts for daggers were made. Gerarde . 2. The haft of a dagger. Shak. 3. A dudgeon-hafted dagger; a dagger. Hudibras.
  • RABIDITY
    Rabidness; furiousness.
  • PASSIONATE
    1. Capable or susceptible of passion, or of different passions; easily moved, excited or agitated; specifically, easily moved to anger; irascible; quick-tempered; as, a passionate nature. Homer's Achilles is haughty and passionate. Prior.
  • PASSIONARY
    A book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. T. Warton.
  • MANIACAL
    Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.
  • PASSIONTIDE
    The last fortnight of Lent.
  • MANIA
    1. Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium. 2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: , madness from drinking; delirium tremens. Syn. -- Insanity;
  • CHOLER
    1. The bile; -- formerly supposed to be the seat and cause of irascibility. His complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton. 2. Irritation of the passions; anger; wrath. He is rash and very
  • CHOLERIFORM
    Resembling cholera.
  • CHOLERAIC
    Relating to, or resulting from, or resembling, cholera.
  • PASSIONATELY
    1. In a passionate manner; with strong feeling; ardently. Sorrow expresses itself . . . loudly and passionately. South. 2. Angrily; irascibly. Locke.
  • FRENZY
    Any violent agitation of the mind approaching to distraction; violent and temporary derangement of the mental faculties; madness; rage. All else is towering frenzy and distraction. Addison. The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling. Shak. Syn. --
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • MEGALOMANIA
    A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
  • SAUGER
    An American fresh-water food fish ; -- called also gray pike, blue pike, hornfish, land pike, sand pike, pickering, and pickerel.
  • NYMPHOMANIA
    Morbid and uncontrollable sexual desire in women, constituting a true disease.
  • ICONOMANIA
    A mania or infatuation for icons, whether as objects of devotion, bric-a-brac, or curios.
  • DECALCOMANIA; DECALCOMANIE
    The art or process of transferring pictures and designs to china, glass, marble, etc., and permanently fixing them thereto.
  • ELEUTHEROMANIAC
    Mad for freedom.
  • KLEPTOMANIA
    A propensity to steal, claimed to be irresistible. This does not constitute legal irresponsibility. Wharton.
  • TASMANIAN
    Of or pertaining to Tasmania, or Van Diemen's Land. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Tasmania; specifically , in the plural, the race of men that formerly inhabited Tasmania, but is now extinct. Tasmanain cider tree. See the Note under Eucalyptus.
  • GAUGER
    One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • DOMANIAL
    Of or relating to a domain or to domains.
  • DIPSOMANIAC
    One who has an irrepressible desire for alcoholic drinks.
  • IMPASSIONABLE
    Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

 

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