Word Meanings - LEMURES - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton.

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• MIDNIGHT SUN
  The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.
• PLAINTIVE
  1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
• MIDNIGHT
  The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night. The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve. Shak.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• PLAINTIFF
  One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
• PLAINT
  A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
• PLAINTLESS
  Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
• DEPART
  distribute, se départir to separate one's self, depart; pref. dé- (L. de) + partir to part, depart, fr. L. partire, partiri, to divide, fr. 1. To part; to divide; to separate. Shak. 2. To go forth or away; to quit, leave, or separate, as from
• DEPARTER
  1. One who refines metals by separation. 2. One who departs.
• DEPARTABLE
  Divisible. Bacon.
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• PLAINTFUL
  Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• LEMURES
  Spirits or ghosts of the departed; specters. The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT STORE
  A store keeping a great variety of goods which are arranged in several departments, esp. one with dry goods as the principal stock.
• UNDEPARTABLE
  Incapable of being parted; inseparable. Chaucer. Wyclif.
• COMPLAINTFUL
  Full of complaint.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• SUBSISTENCE DEPARTMENT
  A staff department of the United States army charged, under the supervision of the Chief of Staff, with the purchasing and issuing to the army of such supplies as make up the ration. It also supplies, for authorized sales, certain articles of food
• COMPLAINT
  A formal allegation or charge against a party made or presented to the appropriate court or officer, as for a wrong done or a crime committed ; an information; accusation; the initial bill in proceedings in equity. Syn. -- Lamentation; murmuring;