Word Meanings - FLYBLOWN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.

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• WHEREVER
  At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury.
• TAINTWORM
  A destructive parasitic worm or insect larva.
• ASSEMBLY
  A beat of the drum or sound of the bugle as a signal to troops to assemble. Note: In some of the United States, the legislature, or the popular branch of it, is called the Assembly, or the General Assembly. In the Presbyterian Church, the General
• ASSEMBLE
  To collect into one place or body; to bring or call together; to convene; to congregate. Thither he assembled all his train. Milton. All the men of Israel assembled themselves. 1 Kings viii. 2. (more info) together to collect; L. ad +
• TAINTURE
  Taint; tinge; difilement; stain; spot. Shak.
• TAINTLESSLY
  In a taintless manner.
• FLYBLOWN
  Tainted or contaminated with flyblows; damaged; foul. Wherever flyblown reputations were assembled. Thackeray.
• ASSEMBLER
  One who assembles a number of individuals; also, one of a number assembled.
• DAMAGE FEASANT
  Doing injury; trespassing, as cattle. Blackstone.
• CONTAMINATE
  To soil, stain, or corrupt by contact; to tarnish; to sully; to taint; to pollute; to defile. Shall we now Contaminate our figures with base bribes Shak. I would neither have simplicity imposed upon, nor virtue contaminated. Goldsmith. Syn. -- To
• ASSEMBLANCE
  1. Resemblance; likeness; appearance. Care I for the . . . stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man Shak. 2. An assembling; assemblage. To weete the cause of their assemblance. Spenser.
• DAMAGEABLE
  1. Capable of being injured or impaired; liable to, or susceptible of, damage; as, a damageable cargo. 2. Hurtful; pernicious. That it be not demageable unto your royal majesty. Hakluit.
• CONTAMINATION
  The act or process of contaminating; pollution; defilement; taint; also, that which contaminates.
• DAMAGE
  The estimated reparation in money for detriment or injury sustained; a compensation, recompense, or satisfaction to one party, for a wrong or injury actually done to him by another. Note: In common-law action, the jury are the proper judges
• ASSEMBLAGE
  1. The act of assembling, or the state o In sweet assemblage every blooming grace. Fenton. 2. A collection of individuals, or of individuals, or of particular things; as, a political assemblage; an assemblage of ideas. Syn. -- Company;
• TAINT
  1. A thrust with a lance, which fails of its intended effect. This taint he followed with his sword drawn from a silver sheath. Chapman. 2. An injury done to a lance in an encounter, without its being broken; also, a breaking of a lance
• TAINTLESS
  Free from taint or infection; pure.
• ASSEMBLYMAN
  A member of an assembly, especially of the lower branch of a state legislature.
• INDAMAGED
  Not damaged. Milton.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ENDAMAGE
  To bring loss or damage to; to harm; to injure. The trial hath endamaged thee no way. Milton.
• REASSEMBLE
  To assemble again.
• ENDAMAGEMENT
  Damage; injury; harm. Shak.
• ENDAMAGEABLE
  Capable of being damaged, or injured; damageable.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• REASSEMBLAGE
  Assemblage a second time or again.
• HYDRA-TAINTED
  Dipped in the gall of the fabulous hydra; poisonous; deadly. Cowper.