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Word Meanings - GASSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. 2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk.

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  • PASS
    passer, LL. passare, fr. L. passus step, or from pandere, passum, to 1. To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal phrase defining the kind
  • EXPOSER
    One who exposes or discloses.
  • COTTONY
    1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
  • PASSOVER
    A feast of the Jews, instituted to commemorate the sparing of the Hebrews in Egypt, when God, smiting the firstborn of the Egyptians, passed over the houses of the Israelites which were marked with the blood of a lamb. The sacrifice offered at
  • PASSUS
    A division or part; a canto; as, the passus of Piers Plowman. See 2d Fit.
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • PASSIBILITY
    The quality or state of being passible; aptness to feel or suffer; sensibility. Hakewill.
  • EXPOSTULATOR
    One who expostulates. Lamb.
  • BOASTFUL
    Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising. -- Boast"ful*ly, adv. -- Boast"ful*ness, n.
  • PASSIONAL
    Of or pertaining to passion or the passions; exciting, influenced by, or ministering to, the passions. -- n.
  • PASSIVE FLIGHT
    Flight, such as gliding and soaring, accomplished without the use of motive power.
  • EXPOSITION
    1. The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view. 2. The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or
  • SIMILARY
    Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
  • EXPOSEDNESS
    The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
  • PASSENGER MILE
    A unit of measurement of the passenger transportation performed by a railroad during a given period, usually a year, the total of which consists of the sum of the miles traversed by all the passengers on the road in the period in question.
  • PASSIFLORA
    A genus of plants, including the passion flower. It is the type of the order Passifloreæ, which includes about nineteen genera and two hundred and fifty species.
  • EXPOSTULATE
    To reason earnestly with a person on some impropriety of his conduct, representing the wrong he has done or intends, and urging him to make redress or to desist; to remonstrate; -- followed by with. Men expostulate with erring friends; they bring
  • COTTONADE
    A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • INNUMEROUS
    Innumerable. Milton.
  • MINNESINGER
    A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
  • SURPASS
    To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • OUTPASSION
    To exceed in passion.
  • ACID PROCESS
    That variety of either the Bessemer or the open-hearth process in which the converter or hearth is lined with acid, that is, highly siliceous, material. Opposed to basic process.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • DISSIMILARLY
    In a dissimilar manner; in a varied style. With verdant shrubs dissimilarly gay. C. Smart.
  • REPASS
    To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea.

 

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