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Word Meanings - EMBALM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Etym: 1. To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate , with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the
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Etym: 1. To anoint all over with balm; especially, to preserve from decay by means of balm or other aromatic oils, or spices; to fill or impregnate , with aromatics and drugs that it may resist putrefaction. Joseph commanded his servants, the physicians, to embalm embalmed Israel. Gem. l. 2. 2. To fill or imbue with sweet odor; to perfume. With fresh dews embalmed the earth. Milton. 3. To preserve from decay or oblivion as if with balm; to perpetuate in remembrance. Those tears eternal that embalm the dead. Pope.
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- DISREGARDFULLY
Negligently; heedlessly. - WASTEL
A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott. - CONSECRATE
Consecrated; devoted; dedicated; sacred. They were assembled in that consecrate place. Bacon. - WASTETHRIFT
A spendthrift. - CHERISHMENT
Encouragement; comfort. Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser. - TREASURER
One who has the care of a treasure or treasure or treasury; an officer who receives the public money arising from taxes and duties, or other sources of revenue, takes charge of the same, and disburses it upon orders made by the proper authority; - WASTEBOARD
See 3 - SQUANDER
scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely; - DISESTEEMER
One who disesteems. Boyle. - TREASURERSHIP
The office of treasurer. - ENSHRINE
To inclose in a shrine or chest; hence, to preserve or cherish as something sacred; as, to enshrine something in memory. We will enshrine it as holy relic. Massinger. - BETRAYAL
The act or the result of betraying. - WASTE
the kindred German word; cf. OHG. wuosti, G. wüst, OS. w, D. woest, 1. Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless. The dismal situation waste and wild. Milton. His heart became appalled as he gazed forward into - DISSIPATED
1. Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson. 2. Wasteful of health, money, etc., in the pursuit of pleasure; dissolute; intemperate. A life irregular and dissipated. Johnson. - EMBALMER
One who embalms. - WASTEFUL
1. Full of waste; destructive to property; ruinous; as; wasteful practices or negligence; wasteful expenses. 2. Expending, or tending to expend, property, or that which is valuable, in a needless or useless manner; lavish; prodigal; as, a wasteful - SCATTERLING
One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser. - TREASURESS
A woman who is a treasurer. - TREASURE-HOUSE
A house or building where treasures and stores are kept. - SCATTER-BRAIN
A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention. - ALKALI WASTE
Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste. - BESCATTER
1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser. - OVERWASTED
Wasted or worn out; Drayton. - DECONSECRATE
To deprive of sacredness; to secularize. -- De*con`se*cra"tion, n. - ARCHTREASURER
A chief treasurer. Specifically, the great treasurer of the German empire. - DISCONSECRATE
To deprive of consecration or sacredness. - FOREWASTE
See GASCOIGNE - SUBTREASURER
The public officer who has charge of a subtreasury.