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Word Meanings - FIRMLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.

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  • STILLY
    Still; quiet; calm. The stilly hour when storms are gone. Moore.
  • STILLBIRTH
    The birth of a dead fetus.
  • CONTROLLABLENESS
    Capability of being controlled.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • STILLSTAND
    A standstill. Shak.
  • STILLING
    A stillion.
  • CONTROLLABILITY
    Capability of being controlled; controllableness.
  • STILLAGE
    A low stool to keep the goods from touching the floor. Knight.
  • FIRMLESS
    1. Detached from substance. Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope. 2. Infirm; unstable. "Firmless sands." Sylvester.
  • STILLION
    A stand, as for casks or vats in a brewery, or for pottery while drying.
  • STILLROOM
    1. A room for distilling. 2. An apartment in a house where liquors, preserves, and the like, are kept. Floors are rubbed bright, . . . stillroom and kitchen cleared for action. Dickens.
  • STILL-HUNT
    A hunting for game in a quiet and cautious manner, or under cover; stalking; hence, colloquially, the pursuit of any object quietly and cautiously. -- Still"-hunt`er, n. -- Still"-hunt`ing, n.
  • SANDSTONE
    A rock made of sand more or less firmly united. Common or siliceous sandstone consists mainly of quartz sand. Note: Different names are aplied to the various kinds of sandstone according to their composition; as, granitic, argillaceous, micaceous,
  • DETACHED
    Separate; unconnected, or imperfectly connected; as, detached parcels. "Extensive and detached empire." Burke. Detached escapement. See Escapement.
  • PASSIONLESS
    Void of passion; without anger or emotion; not easily excited; calm. "Self-contained and passionless." Tennyson.
  • STILLATORY
    1. An alembic; a vessel for distillation. Bacon. 2. A laboratory; a place or room in which distillation is performed. Dr. H. More. Sir H. Wotton.
  • STILL-CLOSING
    Ever closing. "Still-clothing waters." Shak.
  • SUBSTANCE
    See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
  • STILLATITIOUS
    Falling in drops; drawn by a still.
  • INFIRMNESS
    Infirmity; feebleness. Boyle.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • PISTILLIFEROUS
    Pistillate.
  • DISTILLABLE
    Capable of being distilled; especially, capable of being distilled without chemical change or decomposition; as, alcohol is distillable; olive oil is not distillable.
  • DISTILLATION
    The separation of the volatile parts of a substance from the more fixed; specifically, the operation of driving off gas or vapor from volatile liquids or solids, by heat in a retort or still, and the condensation of the products as far as possible
  • FINESTILLER
    One who finestills.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • PISTILLATION
    The act of pounding or breaking in a mortar; pestillation. Sir T. Browne.
  • SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
    The substance of the medullary sheath.
  • COMPOUND CONTROL
    A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
  • IMPASSIONABLE
    Excitable; susceptible of strong emotion.

 

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