Word Meanings - OUTBABBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To utter foolishly or excessively; to surpass in babbling. Milton.
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- SURPASS
To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip. - UTTERLY
In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain. - UTTERNESS
The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost. - SURPASSING
Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n. - BABBLEMENT
Babble. Hawthorne. - UTTER
1. Outer. "Thine utter eyen." Chaucer. "By him a shirt and utter mantle laid." Chapman. As doth an hidden moth The inner garment fret, not th' utter touch. Spenser. 2. Situated on the outside, or extreme limit; remote from the center; outer. - BABBLER
A name given to any one of family of thrushlike birds, having a chattering note. (more info) 1. An idle talker; an irrational prater; a teller of secrets. Great babblers, or talkers, are not fit for trust. L'Estrange. 2. A hound too noisy on - UTTERMOST
Extreme; utmost; being; in the farthest, greatest, or highest degree; as, the uttermost extent or end. "In this uttermost distress." Milton. - BABBLE
It. babbolare; prob. orig., to keep saying ba, imitative of a child 1. To utter words indistinctly or unintelligibly; to utter inarticulate sounds; as a child babbles. 2. To talk incoherently; to utter unmeaning words. 3. To talk much; to chatter; - UTTERMORE
Further; outer; utter. Holland. - UTTERLESS
Incapable of being uttered. A clamoring debate of utterless things. Milton. - UTTERER
One who utters. Spenser. - BABBLERY
Babble. Sir T. More - MILTONIAN
Miltonic. Lowell. - UTTERABLE
Capable of being uttered. - MILTONIC
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose. - FOOLISHLY
In a foolish manner. - SURPASSABLE
That may be surpassed. - UTTEREST
Uttermost. To the utterest proof of her courage. Chaucer. - UTTERANCE
1. The act of uttering. Specifically: -- Sale by offering to the public. Bacon. Putting in circulation; as, the utterance of false coin, or of forged notes. Vocal expression; articulation; speech. At length gave utterance to these words. Milton. - UNUTTERABLE
Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv. - MUTTERER
One who mutters. - GUTTER
1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove; - BUTTER-SCOTCH
A kind of candy, mainly composed of sugar and butter. Dickens. - STRAW-CUTTER
An instrument to cut straw for fodder. - SWARD-CUTTER
A plow for turning up grass land. A lawn mower. - PUTTER-ON
An instigator. Shak. - SLUTTERY
The qualities and practices of a slut; sluttishness; slatternlines. Drayton. - FLUTTER
1. To vibrate or move quickly; as, a bird flutters its wings. 2. To drive in disorder; to throw into confusion. Like an eagle in a dovecote, I Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli. Shak. - TROILUS BUTTERFLY
A large American butterfly . It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear. - BUTTERMAN
A man who makes or sells butter. - CHALKCUTTER
A man who digs chalk. - BUTTERFLY
A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera. Note: Asclepias butterfly. See under Asclepias. -- Butterfly fish , the ocellated blenny of Europe. See Blenny. The term is also applied to the flying gurnard. -- Butterfly shell - BUTTERWORT
A genus of low herbs having simple leaves which secrete from their glandular upper surface a viscid fluid, to which insects adhere, after which the margin infolds and the insects are digested by the plant. The species are found mostly in the North