Word Meanings - MORIBUND - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland.
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- DYNAMO
A dynamo-electric machine. - STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - DEATHLIKE
1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - DYNAMOMETRY
The art or process of measuring forces doing work. - DEATHLY
Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive. - DYSPHAGIA; DYSPHAGY
Difficulty in swallowing. - DYNAMOMETER
An apparatus for measuring force or power; especially, muscular effort of men or animals, or the power developed by a motor, or that required to operate machinery. Note: It usually embodies a spring to be compressed or weight to be sustained by - DEATHLINESS
The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey. - DYSODILE
An impure earthy or coaly bitumen, which emits a highly fetid odor when burning. - POINT SWITCH
A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track. - MORIBUND
In a dying state; dying; at the point of death. The patient was comatose and moribund. Copland. - POINTLESSLY
Without point. - DYNAMO-ELECTRIC
Pertaining to the development of electricity, especially electrical currents, by power; producing electricity or electrical currents by mechanical power. - POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis - DYNASTIC
Of or relating to a dynasty or line of kings. Motley. - DYNAMIC; DYNAMICAL
1. Of or pertaining to dynamics; belonging to energy or power; characterized by energy or production of force. Science, as well as history, has its past to show, -- a past indeed, much larger; but its immensity is dynamic, not divine. J. Martineau. - DYER
One whose occupation is to dye cloth and the like. Dyer's broom, Dyer's rocket, Dyer's weed. See Dyer's broom, under Broom. - POINTAL
The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer. - POINTED
1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope. - TODDY
1. A juice drawn from various kinds of palms in the East Indies; or, a spirituous liquor procured from it by fermentation. 2. A mixture of spirit and hot water sweetened. Note: Toddy differs from grog in having a less proportion of spirit, and - LARDY
Containing, or resembling, lard; of the character or consistency of lard. - COMPATIENT
Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck. - DISCANDY
To melt; to dissolve; to thaw. - BLADY
Consisting of blades. "Blady grass." Drayton. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - DEEDY
Industrious; active. Cowper. - ROWDY
One who engages in rows, or noisy quarrels; a ruffianly fellow. M. Arnold. - TETRADYMITE
A telluride of bismuth. It is of a pale steel-gray color and metallic luster, and usually occurs in foliated masses. Calles also telluric bismuth. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - UNBODY
To free from the body; to disembody. Her soul unbodied of the burdenous corse. Spenser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - KIDDYISH
Frolicsome; sportive. - OVERPATIENT
Patient to excess. - FOOLHARDY
Daring without judgment; foolishly adventurous and bold. Howell. Syn. -- Rash; venturesome; venturous; precipitate; reckless; headlong; incautious. See Rash. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - EPIDIDYMITIS
Inflammation of the epididymis, one of the common results of gonorrhea.