Word Meanings - LOVE-SICK - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.
Related words: (words related to LOVE-SICK)
- WHEREIN
1. In which; in which place, thing, time, respect, or the like; -- used relatively. Her clothes wherein she was clad. Chaucer. There are times wherein a man ought to be cautious as well as innocent. Swift. 2. In what; -- used interrogatively. Yet - DITTY
p. p. neut. of dictare to say often, dictate, compose. See Dictate, 1. A saying or utterance; especially, one that is short and frequently repeated; a theme. O, too high ditty for my simple rhyme. Spenser. 2. A song; a lay; a little poem intended - WHEREVER
At or in whatever place; wheresoever. He can not but love virtue wherever it is. Atterbury. - AMOROUSNESS
The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. - WHERETO
1. To which; -- used relatively. "Whereto we have already attained." Phil. iii. 16. Whereto all bonds do tie me day by day. Shak. 2. To what; to what end; -- used interrogatively. - WHEREAS
1. Considering that; it being the case that; since; -- used to introduce a preamble which is the basis of declarations, affirmations, commands, requests, or like, that follow. 2. When in fact; while on the contrary; the case being in truth that; - WHERE'ER
Wherever; -- a contracted and poetical form. Cowper. - ORIGINATION
1. The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production. "The origination of the universe." Keill. What comes from spirit is a spontaneous origination. Hickok. 2. Mode of production, or bringing into being. This eruca - MISTRESS
magistrissa, for L. magistra, fem. of magister. See Master, Mister, 1. A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! - ORIGINATOR
One who originates. - WHEREINTO
1. Into which; -- used relatively. Where is that palace whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Shak. The brook, whereinto he loved to look. Emerson. 2. Into what; -- used interrogatively. - WHERESOE'ER
Wheresoever. "Wheresoe'er they rove." Milton. - WHERETHROUGH
Through which. "Wherethrough that I may know." Chaucer. Windows . . . wherethrough the sun Delights to peep, to gaze therein on thee. Shak. - WHERESO
Wheresoever. - EXPRESSIVE
1. Serving to express, utter, or represent; indicative; communicative; -- followed by of; as, words expressive of his gratitude. Each verse so swells expressive of her woes. Tickell. 2. Full of expression; vividly representing the meaning - WHEREUNTO
See WHERETO - WHEREUPON
Upon which; in consequence of which; after which. The townsmen mutinied and sent to Essex; whereupon he came thither. Clarendon. - ORIGINATE
To give an origin or beginning to; to cause to be; to bring into existence; to produce as new. A decomposition of the whole civill and political mass, for the purpose of originating a new civil order. Burke. - LANGUISH
languere; cf. Gr. lakra to lag behind; prob. akin to E. lag, lax, and 1. To become languid or weak; to lose strength or animation; to be or become dull, feeble or spiritless; to pine away; to wither or fade. We . . . do languish of such diseases. - DESIREFUL
Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey . - WHER; WHERE
Whether. Piers Plowman. Men must enquire , Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. Chaucer. - CLAMOROUS
Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness, - EVERYWHERENESS
Ubiquity; omnipresence. Grew. - EVERYWHERE
In every place; in all places; hence, in every part; throughly; altogether. - ALLWHERE
Everywhere. - EACHWHERE
Everywhere. The sky eachwhere did show full bright and fair. Spenser. - ELSEWHERE
1. In any other place; as, these trees are not to be found elsewhere. 2. In some other place; in other places, indefinitely; as, it is reported in town and elsewhere.