Word Meanings - GREEKLING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.

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• ESTEEM
  1. To set a value on; to appreciate the worth of; to estimate; to value; to reckon. Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation. Deut. xxxii. 15. Thou shouldst esteem his censure and authority to be of
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• GREEK CALENDS; GREEK KALENDS
  A time that will never come, as the Greeks had no calends.
• GREEKLING
  A little Greek, or one of small esteem or pretensions. B. Jonson.
• ESTEEMABLE
  Worthy of esteem; estimable. "Esteemable qualities." Pope.
• GREEKISH
  Peculiar to Greece.
• SMALLCLOTHES
  A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
• SMALLPOX
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• SMALL
  sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
• ESTEEMER
  One who esteems; one who sets a high value on any thing. The proudest esteemer of his own parts. Locke.
• SMALLAGE
  A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
• SMALLY
  In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
• GREEKESS
  A female Greek.
• SMALLNESS
  The quality or state of being small.
• GREEK CALENDAR
  1. Any of various calendars used by the ancient Greek states. The Attic calendar divided the year into twelve months of 29 and 30 days, as follows: 1. Hecatombæon . 2. Metageitnion . 3. Boëdromion . 4. Pyanepsion . 5. Mæmacterion
• SMALLS
  See 3
• SMALLSWORD
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• MISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.
• DISESTEEMER
  One who disesteems. Boyle.
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• FENUGREEK
  A plant cultivated for its strong- smelling seeds, which are "now only used for giving false importance to horse medicine and damaged hay." J. Smith (Pop. Names of Plants,
• NEO-GREEK
  A member of a body of French painters of the middle 19th century. The term is rather one applied by outsiders to certain artists of grave and refined style, such as Hamon and Aubert, than a name adopted by the artists themselves.
• DISESTEEM
  Want of esteem; low estimation, inclining to dislike; disfavor; disrepute. Disesteem and contempt of the public affairs. Milton.
• ABYSMALLY
  To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.