Word Meanings - FLUMMERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke. 2. Something insipid, or not worth having;
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oatmeal steeped in water until it has turned sour, fr. llumrig harsh, 1. A light kind of food, formerly made of flour or meal; a sort of pap. Milk and flummery are very fit for children. Locke. 2. Something insipid, or not worth having; empty compliment; trash; unsubstantial talk of writing. The flummery of modern criticism. J. Morley.
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- GASCONADER
A great boaster; a blusterer. - RAVENER
1. One who, or that which, ravens or plunders. Gower. 2. A bird of prey, as the owl or vulture. Holland. - RAVISHER
One who ravishes . - RAVENOUS
1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n. - RAVELIN
A detached work with two embankments with make a salient angle. It is raised before the curtain on the counterscarp of the place. Formerly called demilune and half-moon. - FROTHILY
In a frothy manner. - RAVEN
A large black passerine bird , similar to the crow, but larger. It is native of the northern part of Europe, Asia and America, and is noted for its sagacity. Sea raven , the cormorant. (more info) Icel. hrafn, Dan. ravn, and perhaps to L. corvus, - FROTHY
1. Full of foam or froth, or consisting of froth or light bubbles; spumous; foamy. 2. Not firm or solid; soft; unstable. Bacon. 3. Of the nature of froth; light; empty; unsubstantial; as, a frothy speaker or harangue. Tillotson. - RAVENING
Eagerness for plunder; rapacity; extortion. Luke xi. 39. - BOASTFUL
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n. - RAVISHING
Rapturous; transporting. - RAVAGER
One who, or that which, ravages or lays waste; spoiler. - RAVEL
1. To become untwisted or unwoven; to be disentangled; to be relieved of intricacy. 2. To fall into perplexity and confusion. Till, by their own perplexities involved, They ravel more, still less resolved. Milton. 3. To make investigation - BOASTER
A stone mason's broad-faced chisel. - RAVAGE
Desolation by violence; violent ruin or destruction; devastation; havoc; waste; as, the ravage of a lion; the ravages of fire or tempest; the ravages of an army, or of time. Would one think 't were possible for love To make such ravage in a noble - RAVER
One who raves. - FROTHING
Exaggerated declamation; rant. - BOMBAST
a doublet of cotton; hence, padding, wadding, fustian. See 1. Originally, cotton, or cotton wool. A candle with a wick of bombast. Lupton. 2. Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. How now, my sweet - RAVENALA
A genus of plants related to the banana. Note: Ravenala Madagascariensis, the principal species, is an unbranched tree with immense oarlike leaves growing alternately from two sides of the stem. The sheathing bases of the leafstalks collect and - RAVELER
One who ravels. - PARAVAIL
At the bottom; lowest. Cowell. Note: In feudal law, the tenant paravail is the lowest tenant of the fee, or he who is immediate tenant to one who holds over of another. Wharton. - GRAVIDATION
Gravidity. - MORAVIAN
Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren. See Moravian, n. - GRAVES
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves. - MARGRAVATE; MARGRAVIATE
The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave. - GRAVEDIGGER
See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves. - TRAVEL
1. To labor; to travail. Hooker. 2. To go or march on foot; to walk; as, to travel over the city, or through the streets. 3. To pass by riding, or in any manner, to a distant place, or to many places; to journey; as, a man travels for his health; - AGGRAVATING
1. Making worse or more heinous; as, aggravating circumstances. 2. Exasperating; provoking; irritating. A thing at once ridiculous and aggravating. J. Ingelow. - WILDGRAVE
A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott. - DRAVIDIAN
Of or pertaining to the Dravida. Dravidian languages, a group of languages of Southern India, which seem to have been the idioms of the natives, before the invasion of tribes speaking Sanskrit. Of these languages, the Tamil is the most important. - GRAVIDITY
The state of being gravidated; pregnancy. - EXTRAVENATE
Let out of the veins. "Extravenate blood." Glanvill. - CONTRAVENE
1. To meet in the way of opposition; to come into conflict with; to oppose; to contradict; to obstruct the operation of; to defeat. So plain a proposition . . . was not likely to be contravened. Southey. 2. To violate; to nullify; to