Word Meanings - IMPORTLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Void of meaning. Shak.

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• MEAN
  menen, AS. mænan to recite, tell, intend, wish; akin to OS. menian to have in mind, mean, D. meenen, G. meinen, OHG. meinan, Icel. meina, 1. To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you
• MEANDROUS; MEANDRY
  Winding; flexuous.
• MEANDER
  Fretwork. See Fret. (more info) 1. A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries. Sir M. Hale. While lingering rivers in meanders glide. Sir R. Blackmore. 2. A tortuous or intricate movement.
• MEANLY
  Moderately. A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others. Ascham.
• MEAN-SPIRITED
  Of a mean spirit; base; groveling. -- Mean"-spir`it*ed*ness, n.
• MEANDRINA
  A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
• MEANTIME; MEANWHILE
  The intervening time; as, in the meantime .
• MEANNESS
  1. The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess. This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship. Addison. 2. A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
• MEANT
  of Mean.
• MEANDRIAN
  Winding; having many turns.
• MEANING
  1. That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent. If there be any good meaning towards you. Shak. 2. That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the
• MISDEMEAN
  To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
• DEMEANURE
  Behavior. Spenser.
• REMEANT
  Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley.
• ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
  Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n.
• INTERMEAN
  Something done in the meantime; interlude. B. Jonson.
• UNMEANT
  Not meant or intended; unintentional. Dryden.
• DEMEANANCE
  Demeanor. Skelton.
• FOREMEANT
  Intended beforehand; premeditated. Spenser.
• CADMEAN
  Of or pertaining to Cadmus, a fabulous prince of Thebes, who was said to have introduced into Greece the sixteen simple letters of the alphabet -- Cadmean letters. Cadmean victory, a victory that damages the victors as much as the vanquished;
• PIGMEAN
  See PYGMEAN
• RAMEAN
  A Ramist. Shipley.
• REMEAN
  To give meaning to; to explain the meaning of; to interpret. Wyclif.
• NEMEAN
  Of or pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.