Word Meanings - NIBELUNGS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In German mythology, the children of the mist, a race of dwarfs or demonic beings, the original possessors of the famous hoard and ring won by Siegfrid; also, the Burgundian kings in the Nibelungenlied.

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• DEMONIC
  Of or pertaining to a demon or to demons; demoniac. "Demonic ambushes." Lowell.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• HOARDING
  A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement
• MYTHOLOGY
  mythologia, Gr. 1. The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths. 2. A body of myths; esp., the collective myths which describe the gods of a heathen people; as, the mythology of the Greeks.
• FAMOUSNESS
  The state of being famous.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• FAMOUSLY
  In a famous manner; in a distinguished degree; greatly; splendidly. Then this land was famously enriched With politic grave counsel. Shak.
• KINGSHIP
  The state, office, or dignity of a king; royalty. Landor.
• KINGSTON VALVE
  A conical valve, opening outward, to close the mouth of a pipe which passes through the side of a vessel below the water line.
• GERMAN
  Nearly related; closely akin. Wert thou a leopard, thou wert german to the lion. Shak. Brother german. See Brother german. -- Cousins german. See the Note under Cousin. (more info) full, own ;
• CHILDREN
  pl. of Child.
• ORIGINAL
  1. Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the original laws of a country; the original inventor of a process. His form had yet not lost
• KINGSTON; KINGSTONE
  The black angel fish. See Angel fish, under Angel.
• GERMANIZE
  To make German, or like what is distinctively German; as, to Germanize a province, a language, a society.
• FAMOUSED
  Renowned. Shak.
• KINGSTON METAL
  . An alloy of tin, copper, and mercury, sometimes used for the bearings and packings of machinery. McElrath.
• NIBELUNGENLIED
  A great medieval German epic of unknown authorship containing traditions which refer to the Burgundians at the time of Attila and mythological elements pointing to heathen times.
• HOARD
  See SMART
• HOARDER
  One who hoards.
• ABORIGINALLY
  Primarily.
• INFAMOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
• UPHOARD
  To hoard up. Shak.
• INFAMOUSLY
  In an infamous manner or degree; scandalously; disgracefully; shamefully. The sealed fountain of royal bounty which had been infamously monopolized and huckstered. Burke.
• MOCKINGSTOCK
  A butt of sport; an object of derision.
• UNKINGSHIP
  The quality or condition of being unkinged; abolition of monarchy. Unkingship was proclaimed, and his majesty's statues thrown down. Evelyn.
• ABORIGINAL
  1. First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America. "Mantled o'er with aboriginal turf." Wordsworth. 2. Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.
• INDO-GERMANIC
  1. Same as Aryan, and Indo-European. 2. Pertaining to or denoting the Teutonic family of languages as related to the Sanskrit, or derived from the ancient Aryan language.
• DEFAMOUS
  Defamatory.
• EUDEMONICS; EUDAEMONICS
  That part of moral philosophy which treats of happiness; the science of happiness; -- contrasted with aretaics. J. Grote.