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Poor. Chaucer.

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  • SPILLET FISHING; SPILLIARD FISHING
    A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
  • INSTILL
    To drop in; to pour in drop by drop; hence, to impart gradually; to infuse slowly; to cause to be imbibed. That starlight dews All silently their tears of love instill. Byron. How hast thou instilled Thy malice into thousands. Milton. Syn. -- To
  • WASTEL
    A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
  • LAVISHNESS
    The quality or state of being lavish.
  • WASTETHRIFT
    A spendthrift.
  • IMPORTUNELY
    In an importune manner.
  • LAVISHER
    One who lavishes.
  • WASTEBOARD
    See 3
  • SQUANDER
    scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
  • IMPORTUNATOR
    One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys.
  • INSTILLATOR
    An instiller.
  • THROW
    Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
  • THROWING
    a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
  • IMPLANTATION
    The act or process of implantating.
  • IMPORTING
    Full of meaning. Shak.
  • IMPORTUNE
    derivative from the root of portus harbor, importunus therefore orig. 1. Inopportune; unseasonable. 2. Troublesome; vexatious; persistent; urgent; hence, vexatious on account of untimely urgency or perinacious solicitation. And their importune
  • IMPORTUOUS
    Without a port or harbor.
  • IMPORTUNATE
    1. Troublesomely urgent; unreasonably solicitous; overpressing in request or demand; urgent; teasing; as, an impotunate petitioner, curiosity. Whewell. 2. Hard to be borne; unendurable. Donne. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ly, adv. -- Im*por"tu*nate*ness, n.
  • DIFFUSE
    To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. Thence diffuse His good to worlds and
  • DIFFUSED
    Spread abroad; dispersed; loose; flowing; diffuse. It grew to be a widely diffused opinion. Hawthorne. -- Dif*fus"ed*ly, adv. -- Dif*fus"ed*ness, n.
  • ALKALI WASTE
    Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • OVERWASTED
    Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
  • MISTHROW
    To throw wrongly.
  • NONIMPORTATION
    Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.
  • FOREWASTE
    See GASCOIGNE

 

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