Word Meanings - HURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.

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• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• UPROARIOUS
  Making, or accompanied by, uproar, or noise and tumult; as, uproarious merriment. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Up*roar"i*ous*ness, n.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• HURLY
  Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.
• UPROAR
  Great tumult; violent disturbance and noise; noisy confusion; bustle and clamor. But the Jews which believed not, . . . set all the city on an uproar. Acts xvii. 5. (more info) uppror; D. op up + roeren to stir; akin to AS. hr to stir, hr stirring,
• DEATHWARD
  Toward death.
• HURLY-BURLY
  Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
• DEATH
  Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death
• NOISELESS
  Making, or causing, no noise or bustle; without noise; silent; as, the noiseless foot of time. So noiseless would I live. Dryden. -- Noise"less*ly, adv. -- Noise"less*ness, n.
• DEATHFULNESS
  Appearance of death. Jer. Taylor.
• DEATH'S-HERB
  The deadly nightshade . Dr. Prior.
• CONFUSION
  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult. The confusion of thought to which the Aristotelians were liable. Whewell. Moody beggars starving for a time Of pellmell havoc
• NOISEFUL
  Loud; clamorous. Dryden.
• DEATHBED
  The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last sickness. That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the Queen's deathbed is described. Thackeray.
• NOISETTE
  A hybrid rose produced in 1817, by a French gardener, Noisette, of Charleston, South Carolina, from the China rose and the musk rose. It has given rise to many fine varieties, as the Lamarque, the Marechal Niel, and the Cloth of gold. Most roses
• DEATHLESS
  Not subject to death, destruction, or extinction; immortal; undying; imperishable; as, deathless beings; deathless fame.
• DEATHSMAN
  An executioner; a headsman or hangman. Shak.
• DEATHBLOW
  A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys. The deathblow of my hope. Byron.
• ITSELF
  The neuter reciprocal pronoun of It; as, the thing is good in itself; it stands by itself. Borrowing of foreigners, in itself, makes not the kingdom rich or poor. Locke.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• CHINOISERIE
  Chinese conduct, art, decoration, or the like; also, a specimen of Chinese manners, art, decoration, etc.
• INCONFUSION
  Freedom from confusion; distinctness. Bacon.
• OUTNOISE
  To exceed in noise; to surpass in noisiness. Fuller.