Word Meanings - NODDLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

is the nodding part of the body, or perh. akin to E. knot; cf. Prov. 1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. For occasion ... turneth a bald

Additional info about word: NODDLE

is the nodding part of the body, or perh. akin to E. knot; cf. Prov. 1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. For occasion ... turneth a bald noddle, after she hath presented her locks in front, and no hold taken. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to NODDLE)

• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• PROJECTION
  The representation of something; delineation; plan; especially, the representation of any object on a perspective plane, or such a delineation as would result were the chief points of the object thrown forward upon the plane, each in the direction
• NODDING
  Curved so that the apex hangs down; having the top bent downward.
• PROJECTMENT
  Design; contrivance; projection. Clarendon.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• MASTERSHIP
  1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• MASTEROUS
  Masterly. Milton.
• CONTEMPTUOUSLY
  In a contemptuous manner; with scorn or disdain; despitefully. The apostles and most eminent Christians were poor, and used contemptuously. Jer. Taylor.
• NODDY
  1. A simpleton; a fool. L'Estrange. Any tern of the genus Anous, as A. stolidus. The arctic fulmar . Sometimes also applied to other sea birds. 3. An old game at cards. Halliwell. 4. A small two-wheeled one-horse vehicle. 5. An inverted pendulum
• PROJECTURE
  A jutting out beyond a surface.
• MASTERFULLY
  In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay.
• MASTERSINGER
  One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
• NODDER
  One who nods; a drowsy person.
• PROJECTOR
  One who projects a scheme or design; hence, one who forms fanciful or chimerical schemes. L'Estrange.
• OCCASIONABLE
  Capable of being occasioned or caused. Barrow.
• ESTRANGEDNESS
  State of being estranged; estrangement. Prynne.
• MASTER
  A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
• NODDLE
  is the nodding part of the body, or perh. akin to E. knot; cf. Prov. 1. The head; -- used jocosely or contemptuously. Come, master, I have a project in my noddle. L'Estrange. 2. The back part of the head or neck. For occasion ... turneth a bald
• OCCASIONALLY
  In an occasional manner; on occasion; at times, as convenience requires or opportunity offers; not regularly. Stewart. The one, Wolsey, directly his subject by birth; the other, his subject occasionally by his preferment. Fuller.
• CREMASTERIC
  Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery.
• BAGGAGE MASTER
  One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel.
• TOASTMASTER
  A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts.
• TASKMASTER
  One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton.
• BANDMASTER
  The conductor of a musical band.
• HARBOR MASTER
  An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor.
• WEIGHMASTER
  One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher.
• BEEMASTER
  One who keeps bees.
• POSTMASTERSHIP
  The office of postmaster.