Word Meanings - HAMLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small village; a little cluster of houses in the country. The country wasted, and the hamlets burned. Dryden. Syn. -- Village; neighborhood. See Village. (more info) hameau, LL. hamellum, a dim. of German origin; cf. G. heim home. sq.

Related words: (words related to HAMLET)

• WASTING
  Causing waste; also, undergoing waste; diminishing; as, a wasting disease; a wasting fortune. Wasting palsy , progressive muscular atrophy. See under Progressive.
• COUNTRY-DANCE
  See MACUALAY
• VILLAGERY
  Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• WAST
  The second person singular of the verb be, in the indicative mood, imperfect tense; -- now used only in solemn or poetical style. See Was.
• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• COUNTRY SEAT
  A dwelling in the country, used as a place of retirement from the city.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• WASTAGE
  Loss by use, decay, evaporation, leakage, or the like; waste.
• ORIGINABLE
  Capable of being originated.
• CLUSTERY
  Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• ORIGINATION
  1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca
• ORIGINANT
  Originating; original. An absolutely originant act of self will. Prof. Shedd.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.