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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.

 

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