Word Meanings - EMOLLIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Softening; making supple; acting as an emollient. "Emollient applications." Arbuthnot. (more info) soften; e out + mollire to soften, mollis soft: cf. F. émollient. See

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• ACTURE
  Action. Shak.
• ACTURIENCE
  Tendency or impulse to act. Acturience, or desire of action, in one form or another, whether as restlessness, ennui, dissatisfaction, or the imagination of something desirable. J. Grote.
• ACTINOLITE
  A bright green variety of amphibole occurring usually in fibrous or columnar masses.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• ACTINOSTOME
  The mouth or anterior opening of a coelenterate animal.
• ACTINARIA
  A large division of Anthozoa, including those which have simple tentacles and do not form stony corals. Sometimes, in a wider sense, applied to all the Anthozoa, expert the Alcyonaria, whether forming corals or not.
• ACTUARIAL
  Of or pertaining to actuaries; as, the actuarial value of an annuity.
• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• MAKING-IRON
  A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
• SUPPLEMENT
  The number of degrees which, if added to a specified arc, make it 180°; the quantity by which an arc or an angle falls short of 180 degrees, or an arc falls short of a semicircle. Syn. -- Appendix. -- Appendix, Supplement. An appendix is that which
• ACTIVITY
  The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human activities. "The activity of toil." Palfrey. Syn. -- Liveliness; briskness; quickness.
• ACTUATE
  Etym: 1. To put into action or motion; to move or incite to action; to influence actively; to move as motives do; -- more commonly used of persons. Wings, which others were contriving to actuate by the perpetual motion. Johnson. Men of the greatest
• ACTINOPHOROUS
  Having straight projecting spines.
• ACTION
  Effective motion; also, mechanism; as, the breech action of a gun. (more info) 1. A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• ACTINOST
  One of the bones at the base of a paired fin of a fish.
• ACTOR
  1. One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer. 2. A theatrical performer; a stageplayer. After a well graced actor leaves the stage. Shak. An advocate or proctor in civil courts or causes. Jacobs. One who institutes a suit; plaintiff or
• SUPPLELY
  In a supple manner; softly; pliantly; mildly. Cotgrave.
• ACTIONABLE
  That may be the subject of an action or suit at law; as, to call a man a thief is actionable.
• ACTINOLITIC
  Of the nature of, or containing, actinolite.
• SELF-ACTIVE
  Acting of one's self or of itself; acting without depending on other agents.
• HEMIDACTYL
  Any species of Old World geckoes of the genus Hemidactylus. The hemidactyls have dilated toes, with two rows of plates beneath.
• CHYLIFACTIVE
  Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.
• PHYLACTERED
  Wearing a phylactery.
• INACTUATE
  To put in action.
• CHARACTERISTIC
  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
• INTRACTABILITY
  The quality of being intractable; intractableness. Bp. Hurd.
• MANTUAMAKER
  One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• RIPPER ACT; RIPPER BILL
  An act or a bill conferring upon a chief executive, as a governor or mayor, large powers of appointment and removal of heads of departments or other subordinate officials.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• AUTODIDACT
  One who is self-taught; an automath.
• OLFACTOR
  A smelling organ; a nose.