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Word Meanings - FALCONER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A person who breeds or trains hawks for taking birds or game; one who follows the sport of fowling with hawks. Johnson.

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  • TAKING
    1. Apt to take; alluring; attracting. Subtile in making his temptations most taking. Fuller. 2. Infectious; contageous. Beau. & Fl. -- Tak"ing*ly, adv. -- Tak"ing*ness, n.
  • PERSONNEL
    The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel.
  • PERSONIFICATION
    A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying;
  • FOWLERITE
    A variety of rhodonite, from Franklin Furnace, New Jersey, containing some zinc.
  • PERSONIZE
    To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson.
  • PERSONATE
    To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise. In fable, hymn, or song so personating Their gods ridiculous. Milton.
  • PERSONATOR
    One who personates. "The personators of these actions." B. Jonson.
  • TAKE
    Taken. Chaucer.
  • SPORTLESS
    Without sport or mirth; joyless.
  • SPORTING
    Of pertaining to, or engaging in, sport or sporrts; exhibiting the character or conduct of one who, or that which, sports. Sporting book, a book containing a record of bets, gambling operations, and the like. C. Kingsley. -- Sporting house, a house
  • TAKE-OFF
    An imitation, especially in the way of caricature.
  • SPORTIVE
    Tending to, engaged in, or provocate of, sport; gay; froliscome; playful; merry. Is it I That drive thee from the sportive court Shak. -- Sport"ive*ly, adv. -- Sport"ive*ness, n.
  • JOHNSONIANISM
    A manner of acting or of writing peculiar to, or characteristic of, Dr. Johnson.
  • JOHNSONESE
    The literary style of Dr. Samuel Johnson, or one formed in imitation of it; an inflated, stilted, or pompous style, affecting classical words. E. Everett.
  • SPORTAL
    Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports. "Sportal arms." Dryden.
  • PERSONAL
    Denoting person; as, a personal pronoun. Personal action , a suit or action by which a man claims a debt or personal duty, or damages in lieu of it; or wherein he claims satisfaction in damages for an injury to his person or property,
  • PERSONIFY
    1. To regard, treat, or represent as a person; to represent as a rational being. The poets take the liberty of personifying inanimate things. Chesterfield. 2. To be the embodiment or personification of; to impersonate; as, he personifies the law.
  • PERSONIFIER
    One who personifies.
  • SPORTFUL
    1. Full of sport; merry; frolicsome; full of jesting; indulging in mirth or play; playful; wanton; as, a sportful companion. Down he alights among the sportful herd. Milton. 2. Done in jest, or for mere play; sportive. They are no sportful
  • PERSONA
    See 8
  • DISPORT
    Play; sport; pastime; diversion; playfulness. Milton.
  • UNMISTAKABLE
    Incapable of being mistaken or misunderstood; clear; plain; obvious; evident. -- Un`mis*tak"a*bly, adv.
  • LEAVE-TAKING
    Taking of leave; parting compliments. Shak.
  • MISTRANSPORT
    To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. Bp. Hall.
  • SEA FOWL
    Any bird which habitually frequents the sea, as an auk, gannet, gull, tern, or petrel; also, all such birds, collectively.
  • MISTAKING
    An error; a mistake. Shak.
  • MISTAKINGLY
    Erroneously.
  • TRANSPORTING
    That transports; fig., ravishing. Your transporting chords ring out. Keble.
  • UNIPERSONAL
    Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God.
  • TRANSPORTAL
    Transportation; the act of removing from one locality to another. "The transportal of seeds in the wool or fur of quadrupeds." Darwin.
  • TRANSPORTABILITY
    The quality or state of being transportable.
  • OUTTAKE
    Except. R. of Brunne.
  • STAKTOMETER
    A drop measurer; a glass tube tapering to a small orifice at the point, and having a bulb in the middle, used for finding the number of drops in equal quantities of different liquids. See Pipette. Sir D. Brewster.
  • BATFOWLER
    One who practices or finds sport in batfowling.

 

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