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Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin

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Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin to OS. gin, D. genoeg, OHG. ginoug, G. genug, Icel. gn, Sw. nog, Dan. nok, Goth. gan), fr. geneah it suffices (akin to Goth. ganah); pref. ge- + a root akin to L. nancisci to get, Skr. na, Gr.

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  • CONTENTMENT
    1. The state of being contented or satisfied; content. Contentment without external honor is humility. Grew. Godliness with contentment is great gain. 1 Tim. vi. 6. 2. The act or process of contenting or satisfying; as, the contentment of avarice
  • FATHER-LASHER
    A European marine fish , allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.
  • CONTENTLY
    In a contented manner.
  • HIRUDINE
    Of or pertaining to the leeches.
  • BREADEN
    Made of bread.
  • FOLLOWING EDGE
    See ABOVE
  • BREADBASKET
    The stomach. S. Foote.
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • BREAD
    To spread. Ray.
  • BREADFRUIT
    The tree itself, which is one of considerable size, with large, lobed leaves. Cloth is made from the bark, and the timber is used for many purposes. Called also breadfruit tree and bread tree. (more info) 1. The fruit of a tree found
  • CONTENTIOUS
    Contested; litigated; litigious; having power to decide controversy. Contentious jurisdiction , jurisdiction over matters in controversy between parties, in contradistinction to voluntary jurisdiction, or that exercised upon matters not opposed
  • HIRE
    See CHAUCER
  • BREADTHWISE
    In the direction of the breadth.
  • GIVING
    1. The act of bestowing as a gift; a conferring or imparting. 2. A gift; a benefaction. Pope. 3. The act of softening, breaking, or yielding. "Upon the first giving of the weather." Addison. Giving in, a falling inwards; a collapse. -- Giving
  • BREADTHLESS
    Without breadth.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • FATHERLESSNESS
    The state of being without a father.
  • HIRELING
    One who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motive and interest in serving another are wholly gainful; a mercenary. "Lewd hirelings." Milton.
  • SPARE
    1. To use frugally or stintingly, as that which is scarce or valuable; to retain or keep unused; to save. "No cost would he spare." Chaucer. thy Father's dreadful thunder didst not spare. Milton. He that hath knowledge, spareth his words. Prov.
  • CONTENTED
    Content; easy in mind; satisfied; quiet; willing. -- Con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Con*tent"ed*ness, n.
  • SHIRT WAIST
    A belted waist resembling a shirt in plainness of cut and style, worn by women or children; -- in England called a blouse.
  • THIRSTILY
    In a thirsty manner.
  • SHIRKER
    One who shirks. Macaulay.
  • INSUFFICIENTLY
    In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately.
  • WHIRLBONE
    The huckle bone. The patella, or kneepan. Ainsworth.
  • CHIRRUP
    To quicken or animate by chirping; to cherup. (more info) Etym:
  • TERGIVERSATOR
    One who tergiversates; one who suffles, or practices evasion.
  • CHURME; CHIRM
    Clamor, or confused noise; buzzing. The churme of a thousand taunts and reproaches. Bacon.
  • CHIROGYMNAST
    A mechanocal contrivance for exercesing the fingers of a pianist.
  • TRANSPARENT
    transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • WHIRLWIND
    1. A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion. The swift dark whirlwind that uproots
  • CHIRETTA
    A plant found in Northern India, having medicinal properties to the gentian, and esteemed as a tonic and febrifuge.
  • CHIROGRAPHIST
    1. A chirographer; a writer or engrosser. 2. One who tells fortunes by examining the hand.

 

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