Word Meanings - GLABRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Becoming smooth or glabrous from age. Gray.
Related words: (words related to GLABRATE)
- 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.