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Word Meanings - GLABRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.

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  • SMOOTHEN
    To make smooth.
  • SMOOTHNESS
    Quality or state of being smooth.
  • SMOOTH
    Causing no resistance to a body sliding along its surface; frictionless. Note: Smooth is often used in the formation of selfexplaining compounds; as, smooth-bodied, smooth-browed, smooth-combed, smooth- faced, smooth-finished, smooth-gliding,
  • SMOOTH-CHINNED
    Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
  • BECOME
    happen; akin to D. bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come 1. To pass from one state to another; to enter into some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional
  • SMOOTHLY
    In a smooth manner.
  • GLABROUS
    Smooth; having a surface without hairs or any unevenness.
  • SMOOTH-SPOKEN
    Speaking smoothly; plausible; flattering; smooth-tongued.
  • SMOOTHER
    One who, or that which, smooths.
  • SMOOTHING
    fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.
  • BECOMED
    Proper; decorous. And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
  • BECOMINGLY
    In a becoming manner.
  • BECOMINGNESS
    The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness. The becomingness of human nature. Grew.
  • BECOMING
    Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting. A low and becoming tone. Thackeray. Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of. Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden. Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
  • SMOOTH-TONGUED
    Having a smooth tongue; plausible; flattering.
  • SMOOTHBORE
    Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled. -- n.
  • UNBECOMING
    Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
  • UNBECOME
    To misbecome. Bp. Sherlock.
  • MISBECOMING
    Unbecoming. Milton. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Mis`be*com"ing*ness, n. Boyle.
  • MISBECOME
    Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay. Thy father will not act what misbecomes him. Addison.
  • DISBECOME
    To misbecome. Massinger.

 

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