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One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.

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  • LATINIZATION
    The act or process of Latinizing, as a word, language, or country. The Germanization of Britain went far deeper than the Latinization of France. M. Arnold.
  • SMATTERER
    One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
  • SMATTERING
    A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.
  • LATINITY
    The Latin tongue, style, or idiom, or the use thereof; specifically, purity of Latin style or idiom. "His eleLatinity." Motley.
  • LATIN
    Latium a country of Italy, in which Rome was situated. Cf. Ladin, 1. Of or pertaining to Latium, or to the Latins, a people of Latium; Roman; as, the Latin language. 2. Of, pertaining to, or composed in, the language used by the Romans or Latins;
  • WALKER
    A forest officer appointed to walk over a certain space for inspection; a forester. 4. Etym: (more info) 1. One who walks; a pedestrian. 2. That with which one walks; a foot. Lame Mulciber, his walkers quite misgrown. Chapman.
  • LATINLY
    In the manner of the Latin language; in correct Latin. Heylin.
  • LATINISTIC
    Of, pertaining to, or derived from, Latin; in the Latin style or idiom. "Latinistic words." Fitzed. Hall.
  • LATINITASTER
    One who has but a smattering of Latin. Walker.
  • SMATTER
    to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything;
  • LATINIST
    One skilled in Latin; a Latin scholar. Cowper. He left school a good Latinist. Macaulay.
  • LATINIZE
    1. To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin. 2. To bring under the power or influence of the Romans or Latins; to affect with the usages of the Latins, especially in speech. "Latinized races." Lowell. 3. To
  • LATINISM
    A Latin idiom; a mode of speech peculiar to Latin; also, a mode of speech in another language, as English, formed on a Latin model. Note: The term is also sometimes used by Biblical scholars to designate a Latin word in Greek letters, or the Latin
  • OSCILLATING
    That oscillates; vibrating; swinging. Oscillating engine, a steam engine whose cylinder oscillates on trunnions instead of being permanently fixed in a perpendicular or other direction. Weale.
  • VACILLATING
    Inclined to fluctuate; wavering. Tennyson. -- Vac"il*la`ting*ly, adv.
  • SHOPWALKER
    One who walks about in a shop as an overseer and director. Cf. Floorwalker.
  • PLATINIRIDIUM
    A natural alloy of platinum and iridium occurring in grayish metallic rounded or cubical grains with platinum.
  • SLEEPWALKER
    One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist.
  • GELATINATION
    The act of process of converting into gelatin, or a substance like jelly.
  • GELATINIZATION
    See GELATINATION
  • TRACKWALKER
    A person employed to walk over and inspect a section of tracks.
  • NASOPALATAL; NASOPALATINE
    Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.
  • OSCILLATING CURRENT
    A current alternating in direction.
  • PLATINOID
    Resembling platinum.
  • PLATINICHLORIC
    Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid consisting of platinic chloride and hydrochloric acid, and obtained as a brownish red crystalline substance, called platinichloric, or chloroplatinic, acid.
  • NITROGELATIN
    An explosive consisting of gun cotton and camphor dissolved in nitroglycerin.
  • ELECTROPLATING
    The art or process of depositing a coating of silver, gold, or nickel on an inferior metal, by means of electricity.
  • ROPEWALKER
    A ropedancer.
  • PLATINIZE
    To cover or combine with platinum.
  • PLATINOCYANIDE
    A double cyanide of platinum and some other metal or radical; a salt of platinocyanic acid.
  • GELATINIFEROUS
    Yielding gelatin on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
  • FLOORWALKER
    One who walks about in a large retail store as an overseer and director.

 

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