Word Meanings - HURLY-BURLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.

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• FILLIPEEN
  See PHILOPENA
• FILLIBEG
  A kilt. See Filibeg.
• FILLETING
  The protecting of a joint, as between roof and parapet wall, with mortar, or cement, where flashing is employed in better work. 2. The material of which fillets are made; also, fillets, collectively.
• FILLER
  One who, or that which, fills; something used for filling. 'T is mere filer, to stop a vacancy in the hexameter. Dryden. They have six diggers to four fillers, so as to keep the fillers always at work. Mortimer.
• BUSTLER
  An active, stirring person.
• HURLY
  Noise; confusion; uproar. That, with the hurly, death itself awakes. Shak.
• FILLISTER
  1. The rabbet on the outer edge of a sash bar to hold the glass and the putty. Knight. 2. A plane for making a rabbet. Fillister screw had, a short cylindrical screw head, having a convex top.
• FILL
  One of the thills or shafts of a carriage. Mortimer. Fill horse, a thill horse. Shak.
• HURLY-BURLY
  Tumult; bustle; confusion. Shak. All places were filled with tumult and hurly-burly. Knolles.
• TUMULTER
  A maker of tumults. He severely punished the tumulters. Milton.
• TUMULTUARILY
  In a tumultuary manner.
• TUMULTUARINESS
  The quality or state of being tumultuary.
• FILLING
  Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. Back filling. See under Back, a. (more info) 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space
• FILLET
  A piece of lean meat without bone; sometimes, a long strip rolled together and tied. Note: A fillet of beef is the under side of the sirlom; also called tenderloin. A fillet of veal or mutton is the fleshy part of the thigh. A fillet of fish is
• BUSTLE
  To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.
• BURLY
  1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; -- now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals, in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate things that were huge and bulky. "Burly sacks." Drayton. In his latter
• 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
• TUMULTUARY
  1. Attended by, or producing, a tumult; disorderly; promiscuous; confused; tumultuous. "A tumultuary conflict." Eikon Basilike. A tumultuary attack of the Celtic peasantry. Macaulay. Sudden flight or tumultuary skirmish. De Quincey. 2. Restless;
• FILLIP
  Etym: 1. To strike with the nail of the finger, first placed against the ball of the thumb, and forced from that position with a sudden spring; to snap with the finger. "You filip me o' the head." Shak. 2. To snap; to project quickly. The use of
• TUMULTUATION
  Irregular or disorderly movement; commotion; as, the tumultuation of the parts of a fluid. Boyle.
• UPFILL
  To fill up.
• UNDERFILLING
  The filling below or beneath; the under part of a building. Sir H. Wotton.
• FULFILLER
  One who fulfills. South.
• FULFILLMENT
  1. The act of fulfilling; accomplishment; completion; as, the fulfillment of prophecy. 2. Execution; performance; as, the fulfillment of a promise.
• OVERFILL
  To fill to excess; to surcharge.