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Word Meanings - PRUNELLO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A species of dried plum; prunelle.

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  • DRINKABLE
    Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
  • DRIBBLET; DRIBLET
    A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
  • DRIFTBOLT
    A bolt for driving out other bolts.
  • DRINK
    p. pr. & vb. n. Drinking. Drunken is now rarely used, except as a verbal adj. in sense of habitually intoxicated; the form drank, not drincan; akin to OS. drinkan, D. drinken, G. trinken, Icel. drekka, 1. To swallow anything liquid, for quenching
  • DRIVEL
    To be weak or foolish; to dote; as, a driveling hero; driveling love. Shak. Dryden. (more info) 1. To slaver; to let spittle drop or flow from the mouth, like a child, idiot, or dotard. 2. Etym:
  • DRIVE
    To dig Horizontally; to cut a horizontal gallery or tunnel. Tomlinson. 7. To pass away; -- said of time. Chaucer. Note: Drive, in all its senses, implies forcible or violent action. It is the reverse of to lead. To drive a body is to move it by
  • DRIFTPIECE
    An upright or curved piece of timber connecting the plank sheer with the gunwale; also, a scroll terminating a rail.
  • SPECIES
    A group of individuals agreeing in common attributes, and designated by a common name; a conception subordinated to another conception, called a genus, or generic conception, from which it differs in containing or comprehending more attributes,
  • DRINKER
    One who drinks; as, the effects of tea on the drinker; also, one who drinks spirituous liquors to excess; a drunkard. Drinker moth , a large British moth .
  • DRIFTPIN
    A smooth drift. See Drift, n., 9.
  • DRIFTLESS
    Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.
  • DRILL PRESS
    A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
  • DRIVER
    A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically: The driving wheel of a locomotive.
  • DRIFTAGE
    1. Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway. 2. Anything that drifts.
  • DRILY
    See THACKERAY
  • DRIFTWEED
    Seaweed drifted to the shore by the wind. Darwin.
  • DRIED
    of Day. Also adj.; as, dried apples.
  • PRUNELLE
    A kind of small and very acid French plum; -- applied especially to the stoned and dried fruit.
  • DRIVEWAY
    A passage or way along or through which a carriage may be driven.
  • DRINKABLENESS
    State of being drinkable.
  • CHONDRIN
    A colorless, amorphous, nitrogenous substance, tasteless and odorless, formed from cartilaginous tissue by long-continued action of boiling water. It is similar to gelatin, and is a large ingredient of commercial gelatin.
  • MIDRIB
    A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
  • SUNDRILY
    In sundry ways; variously.
  • HYPOCHONDRIACISM
    Hypochondriasis.
  • DENDRIFORM
    Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.
  • MAUNDRIL
    A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
  • QUADRIBLE
    Quadrable.
  • CHONDRIFICATION
    Formation of, or conversion into, cartilage.
  • ADRIATIC
    Of or pertaining to a sea so named, the northwestern part of which is known as the Gulf of Venice.
  • QUADRICEPS
    The great extensor muscle of the knee, divided above into four parts which unite in a single tendon at the knee.
  • SUNDRIES
    Many different or small things; sundry things.
  • QUADRIGEMINAL; QUADRIGEMINOUS
    Fourfold; having four similar parts, or two pairs of similar parts. Quadrigeminal bodies , two pairs of lobes, or elevations, on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the optic lobes. The anterior pair are called the nates,
  • QUADRIREME
    A galley with four banks of oars or rowers.
  • OVERDRINK
    To drink to excess.

 

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