Word Meanings - MALINGERER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

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• DOWNWEED
  Cudweed, a species of Gnaphalium.
• DONATOR
  One who makes a gift; a donor; a giver.
• DOWNPOUR
  A pouring or streaming downwards; esp., a heavy or continuous shower.
• DOG-ROSE
  A common European wild rose, with single pink or white flowers.
• DOG'S-EAR
  The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• DODECASYLLABIC
  Having twelve syllables.
• DOIT
  1. A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak. 2. A thing of small value; as, I care not a doit.
• DORMANCY
  The state of being dormant; quiescence; abeyance.
• DOGMATIC
  One of an ancient sect of physicians who went by general principles; -- opposed to the Empiric.
• DOVECOT; DOVECOTE
  A small house or box, raised to a considerable height above the ground, and having compartments, in which domestic pigeons breed; a dove house. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak.
• SOLDIERLY
  Like or becoming a real soldier; brave; martial; heroic; honorable; soldierlike. "Soldierly discipline." Sir P. Sidney.
• DOVELET
  A young or small dove. Booth.
• DOMITE
  A grayish variety of trachyte; -- so called from the Puy-de- Dôme in Auvergne, France, where it is found.
• DOQUET
  A warrant. See Docket.
• SOLDIERLIKE
  Like a soldier; soldierly.
• DODIPATE; DODIPOLL
  A stupid person; a fool; a blockhead. Some will say, our curate is naught, an ass-head, a dodipoll. Latimer.
• DOCTORATE
  The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
• DOMINATOR
  A ruler or ruling power. "Sole dominator of Navarre." Shak. Jupiter and Mars are dominators for this northwest part of the world. Camden.
• DOUBLEGANGER
  An apparition or double of a living person; a doppelgänger. Either you are Hereward, or you are his doubleganger. C. Kingsley.
• ADONAI
  A Hebrew name for God, usually translated in the Old Testament by the word "Lord". The later Jews used its vowel points to fill out the tetragrammaton Yhvh, or Ihvh, "the incommunicable name," and in reading substituted "Adonai".
• ADORABILITY
  Adorableness.
• FORESHADOW
  To shadow or typi Dryden.
• UNDERDOER
  One who underdoes; a shirk.
• PSEUDO-MONOCOTYLEDONOUS
  Having two coalescent cotyledons, as the live oak and the horse-chestnut.
• PAEDOGENESIS
  Reproduction by young or larval animals.
• PAEDOGENETIC
  Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.
• HADDOCK
  A marine food fish , allied to the cod, inhabiting the northern coasts of Europe and America. It has a dark lateral line and a black spot on each side of the body, just back of the gills. Galled also haddie, and dickie. Norway haddock, a marine
• MICRODONT
  Having small teeth.
• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• MAJOR GENERAL
  . An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
• ACCELERANDO
  Gradually accelerating the movement.
• TORPEDO
  Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical.
• GRENADO
  See GRENADE
• JURDON
  Jordan. Chaucer.