Word Meanings - DUMPLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.

Related words: (words related to DUMPLE)

• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• SCOTTICIZE
  To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
• ANOTHER
  1. One more, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect. Another yet! -- a seventh! I 'll see no more. Shak. Would serve to scale another Hero's tower. Shak. 2. Not the same; different. He winks,
• DUMPLE
  To make dumpy; to fold, or bend, as one part over another. He was a little man, dumpled up together. Sir W. Scott.
• SCOTTISH
  Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
• TOGETHER
  togædre, togadere; to to + gador together. *29. See To, prep., and 1. In company or association with respect to place or time; as, to live together in one house; to live together in the same age; they walked together to the town. Soldiers can
• DUMPLING
  A roundish mass of dough boiled in soup, or as a sort of pudding; often, a cover of paste inclosing an apple or other fruit, and boiled or baked; as, an apple dumpling. (more info) dompelen to plunge, dip, duck, Scot. to dump in to plunge into, and
• ANOTHER-GAINES
  Of another kind. Sir P. Sidney.
• SCOTTISH TERRIER
  See TERRIER
• DUMPY
  1. From Dump a short ill-shapen piece. 1. Short and thick; of low stature and disproportionately stout. 2. Sullen or discontented. Halliwell.
• SCOTTERING
  The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• ANOTHER-GATES
  Of another sort. "Another-gates adventure." Hudibras.
• DUMPY LEVEL
  A level having a short telescope rigidly fixed to a table capable only of rotatory movement in a horizontal plane. The telescope is usually an inverting one. It is sometimes called the Troughton level, from the name of the inventor, and a variety
• SCOTTICISM
  An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• NORFOLK DUMPLING
  A kind of boiled dumpling made in Norfolk. A native or inhabitant of Norfolk.
• ALTOGETHER
  1. All together; conjointly. Altogether they wenChaucer. 2. Without exception; wholly; completely. Every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Ps. xxxix. 5.
• MASCOT; MASCOTTE
  A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
• TITANOTHERIUM
  A large American Miocene mammal, allied to the rhinoceros, and more nearly to the extinct Brontotherium.