Word Meanings - EXCRUCIATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman. (more info) excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment.
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- CROSSLY
Athwart; adversely; unfortunately; peevishly; fretfully; with ill humor. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - HEARTWOOD
The hard, central part of the trunk of a tree, consisting of the old and matured wood, and usually differing in color from the outer layers. It is technically known as duramen, and distinguished from the softer sapwood or alburnum. - CROSS-EXAMINER
One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination. - HEART
A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood. Why does my blood thus muster to my heart! Shak. Note: In adult mammals and birds, the heart is four-chambered, the right auricle and ventricle - CROSSJACK
The lowest square sail, or the lower yard of the mizzenmast. - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - TORMENTFUL
Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson. - CROSSOPTERYGIAN
Of or pertaining to the Crossopterygii. -- n. - CROSSBRED
Produced by mixing distinct breeds; mongrel. - TORMENTOR
An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with - EXCRUCIATE
Excruciated; tortured. And here my heart long time excruciate. Chapman. (more info) excruciate; ex out + cruciare to put to death on a cross, to torment. - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - CROSS-STONE
See STAUROTIDE - HEARTBROKEN
Overcome by crushing sorrow; deeply grieved. - CROSS-ARMED
With arms crossed. - CROSSGRAINED
1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon. - HEARTGRIEF
Heartache; sorrow. Milton. - HEARTEN
1. To encourage; to animate; to incite or stimulate the courage of; to embolden. Hearten those that fight in your defense. Shak. 2. To restore fertility or strength to, as to land. - TORTURINGLY
So as to torture. Beau. & Fl. - HOLLOW-HEARTED
Insincere; deceitful; not sound and true; having a cavity or decayed spot within. Syn. -- Faithless; dishonest; false; treacherous. - LACROSSE
A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught - WHITE-HEART
A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin. - SWEETHEART
A lover of mistress. - GREAT-HEARTED
1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble. - PIGEON-HEARTED
Timid; easily frightened; chicken-hearted. Beau. & Fl.