Word Meanings - INTOXICATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were 1. Intoxicated. 2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.

Related words: (words related to INTOXICATE)

• MOTHER-OF-PEARL
  The hard pearly internal layer of several kinds of shells, esp. of pearl oysters, river mussels, and the abalone shells; nacre. See Pearl.
• MOTHER'S DAY
  A day appointed for the honor and uplift of motherhood by the loving remembrance of each person of his mother through the performance of some act of kindness, visit, tribute, or letter. The founder of the day is Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia, who
• MOTHERING
  A rural custom in England, of visiting one's parents on Midlent Sunday, -- supposed to have been originally visiting the mother church to make offerings at the high altar.
• MOTHERLESS
  Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children.
• POISON CUP
  1. A cup containing poison. 2. A cup that was supposed to break on having poison put into it.
• MOTHER-OF-THYME
  An aromatic plant ; -- called also wild thyme.
• POISONSOME
  Poisonous. Holland.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• GRIEFFUL
  Full of grief or sorrow. Sackvingle.
• MOTHERLINESS
  The state or quality of being motherly.
• GRIEFLESS
  Without grief. Huloet.
• MOTHER-IN-LAW
  The mother of one's husband or wife.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• ENOUGH
  Satisfying desire; giving content; adequate to meet the want; sufficient; -- usually, and more elegantly, following the noun to which it belongs. How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare! Luke xv. 17. (more info) (akin
• OVEREXCITE
  To excite too much.
• INTOXICATEDNESS
  The state of being intoxicated; intoxication; drunkenness.
• POISON BUSH
  Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc. The plant Myoporum deserti, often distinguished as Ellangowan poison bush or
• MOTHER-NAKED
  Naked as when born.
• MOTHERHOOD
  The state of being a mother; the character or office of a mother.
• INTOXICATE
  or poison; pref. in- in + L. toxicum a poison in which arrows were 1. Intoxicated. 2. Overexcited, as with joy or grief. Alas, good mother, be not intoxicate for me; I am well enough. Chapman.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• EMPOISONMENT
  The act of poisoning. Bacon.
• AGRIEF
  In grief; amiss. Chaucer.
• STEPMOTHER
  The wife of one's father by a subsequent marriage.
• HEARTGRIEF
  Heartache; sorrow. Milton.
• SMOTHERINESS
  The quality or state of being smothery.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.