Word Meanings - FANTASTICALLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a fantastic manner. the letter A, in scarlet, fantastically embroidered with gold thread, upon her bosom. Hawthorne.

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• FANTASTIC
  1. Existing only in imagination; fanciful; imaginary; not real; chimerical. 2. Having the nature of a phantom; unreal. Shak. 3. Indulging the vagaries of imagination; whimsical; full of absurd fancies; capricious; as, fantastic minds; a fantastic
• FANTASTICALITY
  Fantastically.
• EMBROIDER
  To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf. Thou shalt embroider the coat of fine linen. Ex. xxviii. 39.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• THREAD
  wire, thread, OHG. drat, Icel. a thread, Sw. tråd, Dan. traad, and 1. A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled,
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• FANTASTICLY
  Fantastically.
• THREADFISH
  The cutlass fish. A carangoid fish having the anterior rays of the soft dorsal and anal fins prolonged in the form of long threads.
• FANTASTICISM
  The quality of being fantastical; fancifulness; whimsicality. Ruskin.
• THREADER
  1. A device for assisting in threading a needle. 2. A tool or machine for forming a thread on a screw or in a nut.
• LETTER
  One who lets or permits; one who lets anything for hire.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• THREADFIN
  Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.
• FANTASTICAL
  Fanciful; unreal; whimsical; capricious; fantastic.
• LETTERN
  See LECTURN
• EMBROIDERY
  1. Needlework used to enrich textile fabrics, leather, etc.; also, the art of embroidering. 2. Diversified ornaments, especially by contrasted figures and colors; variegated decoration. Fields in spring's embroidery are dressed. Addison. A mere
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• FANTASTICNESS
  Fantasticalness.
• LETTERPRESS
  Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction from the illustrations. Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in distinction from printing from plates.
• THREADBARENESS
  The state of being threadbare.
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• EMBOSOM
  1. To take into, or place in, the bosom; to cherish; to foster. Glad to embosom his affection. Spenser. 2. To inclose or surround; to shelter closely; to place in the midst of something. His house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower
• DOUBLETHREADED
  Having two screw threads instead of one; -- said of a screw in which the pitch is equal to twice the distance between the centers of adjacent threads. (more info) 1. Consisting of two threads twisted together; using two threads.
• IMBOSOM
  1. To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom. 2. To inclose or place in the midst of; to surround or shelter; as, a house imbosomed in a grove. "Villages imbosomed soft in trees." Thomson. The Father infinite, By whom
• UNBOSOM
  To disclose freely; to reveal in confidence, as secrets; to confess; -- often used reflexively; as, to unbosom one's self. Milton.