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Word Meanings - FORAYER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.

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  • MIGHTILY
    1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully. Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily. Col. i. 29. 2. To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused
  • MIGHT
    Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity. What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might
  • MIGHTY
    1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
  • CHOOSER
    One who chooses; one who has the power or right of choosing; an elector. Burke.
  • FORAYER
    One who makes or joins in a foray. They might not choose the lowand road, For the Merse forayers were abroad. Sir W. Scott.
  • MAKESHIFT
    That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.
  • SCOTTICIZE
    To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish.
  • FORAY
    A sudden or irregular incursion in border warfare; hence, any irregular incursion for war or spoils; a raid. Spenser. The huge Earl Doorm, . . . Bound on a foray, rolling eyes of prey. Tennyson.
  • ABROAD
    1. At large; widely; broadly; over a wide space; as, a tree spreads its branches abroad. The fox roams far abroad. Prior. 2. Without a certain confine; outside the house; away from one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James',
  • SCOTTISH
    Of or pertaining to the inhabitants of Scotland, their country, or their language; as, Scottish industry or economy; a Scottish chief; a Scottish dialect.
  • MIGHTINESS
    1. The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak. 2. Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.
  • CHOOSE
    1. To make a selection; to decide. They had only to choose between implicit obedience and open rebellion. Prescott. 2. To do otherwise. "Can I choose but smile" Pope. Can not choose but, must necessarily. Thou canst not choose but know who I am.
  • SCOTTISH TERRIER
    See TERRIER
  • MIGHTFUL
    Mighty. Shak.
  • SCOTTERING
    The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.
  • MIGHTLESS
    Without; weak.
  • SCOTTICISM
    An idiom, or mode of expression, peculiar to Scotland or Scotchmen. That, in short, in which the Scotticism of Scotsmen most intimately consists, is the habit of emphasis. Masson.
  • ALMIGHTINESS
    Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
  • MISCHOOSE
    To choose wrongly. Milton.
  • ALMIGHTILY
    With almighty power.
  • SOMERSAULT; SOMERSET
    A leap in which a person turns his heels over his head and Donne. Now I'll only Make him break his neck in doing a sommerset. Beau. & Fl. (more info) soubresault, It. soprassalto an overleap, fr. L. supra over + saltus a leap, fr. salire to leap;
  • DEMERSED
    Situated or growing under water, as leaves; submersed.
  • IMMERSED
    Growing wholly under water. Gray. (more info) 1. Deeply plunged into anything, especially a fluid. 2. Deeply occupied; engrossed; entangled.
  • IMMERSE
    Immersed; buried; hid; sunk. "Things immerse in matter." Bacon.
  • DEMERSE
    To immerse. Boyle.
  • SMIGHT
    To smite. Spenser.
  • SOMMERSET
    See SOMERSAULT
  • ALMIGHTFUL; ALMIGHTIFUL
    All-powerful; almighty. Udall.
  • MASCOT; MASCOTTE
    A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.

 

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