Word Meanings - MIRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ant. See Pismire. (more info) Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr.

SLOUGHING
The act of casting off the skin or shell, as do insects and crustaceans; ecdysis.
DESPONDENCY
The state of desponding; loss of hope and cessation of effort; discouragement; depression or dejection of the mind. The unhappy prince seemed, during some days, to be sunk in despondency. Macaulay.
DESPOND
To give up, the will, courage, or spirit; to be thoroughly disheartened; to lose all courage; to become dispirited or depressed; to take an unhopeful view. I should despair, or at least despond. Scott's Letters. Others depress their own minds,
DESPONDINGLY
In a desponding manner.
DESPONDER
One who desponds.
DIFFICULTY
difficilis difficult; dif- = dis- + facilis easy: cf. F. difficulté. 1. The state of being difficult, or hard to do; hardness; arduousness; -- opposed to easiness or facility; as, the difficulty of a task or enterprise; a work of difficulty. Not
SLOUGH
Slow. Chaucer.
DESPONDENT
Marked by despondence; given to despondence; low-spirited; as, a despondent manner; a despondent prisoner. -- De*spond"ent*ly, adv.
SLOUGHY
Full of sloughs, miry.
DESPONDENCE
Despondency. The people, when once infected, lose their relish for happiness saunter about with looks of despondence. Goldsmith.