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.