Word Meanings - EXCERPT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller.
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- COLLECTIVENESS
A state of union; mass. - COLLECTEDLY
Composedly; coolly. - ELICITATION
The act of eliciting. Abp. Bramhall. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - EXTOLMENT
Praise. Shak. - COLLECTIBLE
Capable of being collected. - COLLECTIVISM
The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism. W. G. Summer. - EXTRACTABLE; EXTRACTIBLE
Capable of being extracted. - COLLECTIVELY
In a mass, or body; in a collected state; in the aggregate; unitedly. - SWEEPAGE
The crop of hay got in a meadow. - GATHERER
An attachment for making gathers in the cloth. (more info) 1. One who gathers or collects. - CONFOUNDEDLY
Extremely; odiously; detestably. "Confoundedly sick." Goldsmith. - GATHERABLE
Capable of being gathered or collected; deducible from premises. Godwin. - EXTRACT
1. To draw out or forth; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.; as, to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, a splinter from the finger. The bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid - EXTOL
1. To place on high; to lift up; to elevate. Who extolled you in the half-crown boxes, Where you might sit and muster all the beauties. Beau. 2. To elevate by praise; to eulogize; to praise; to magnify; as, to extol virtue; to extol an act or a - SWEEPING
Cleaning off surfaces, or cleaning away dust, dirt, or litter, as a broom does; moving with swiftness and force; carrying everything before it; including in its scope many persons or things; as, a sweeping flood; a sweeping majority; a sweeping - COLLECTORATE
The district of a collector of customs; a collectorship. - SWEEP-SAW
A bow-saw. - SWEEPY
Moving with a sweeping motion. The branches bend before their sweepy away. Dryden. - EXCERPT
To select; to extract; to cite; to quote. Out of which we have excerpted the following particulars. Fuller. - ENSWEEP
To sweep over or across; to pass over rapidly. Thomson. - MEGATHEROID
One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc. - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - FELICITATE
Made very happy. I am alone felicitate In your dear highness' love. Shak. - SEXTOLET
A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four. - BEQUOTE
To quote constantly or with great frequency. - SEDUCER
One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden. - TAXGATHERER
One who collects taxes or revenues. -- Tax"gath`er*ing, n. - REDUCE
To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from - UPGATHER
To gather up; to contract; to draw together. Himself he close upgathered more and more. Spenser.