Word Meanings - PRURIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful. -- Pru"ri*ent*ly, adv. The eye of the vain and prurient is darting from object to object of illicit attraction. I. Taylor.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• OBJECTIST
  One who adheres to, or is skilled in, the objective philosophy. Ed. Rev.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• OBJECT
  before, to oppose; ob + jacere to throw: cf. objecter. See 1. To set before or against; to bring into opposition; to oppose. Of less account some knight thereto object, Whose loss so great and harmful can not prove. Fairfax. Some strong
• OBJECTIVATE
  To objectify.
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• OBJECTLESS
  Having no object; purposeless.
• ILLICIT
  Not permitted or allowed; prohibited; unlawful; as, illicit trade; illicit intercourse; illicit pleasure. One illicit . . . transaction always leads to another. Burke. -- Il*lic"it*ly, adv. -- Il*lic"it*ness, n. (more info) licere to be allowed
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• HAVANA
  Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
• UNEASY
  1. Not easy; difficult. Things . . . so uneasy to be satisfactorily understood. Boyle. The road will be uneasy to find. Sir W. Scott. 2. Restless; disturbed by pain, anxiety, or the like; disquieted; perturbed. The soul, uneasy and confined from
• HAVERSIAN
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century. Haversian canals , the small canals through which the blood vessels ramify in bone.
• OBJECTIVITY
  The state, quality, or relation of being objective; character of the object or of the objective. The calm, the cheerfulness, the disinterested objectivity have disappeared . M. Arnold.
• DART
  A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac , a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure. (more info) 1. A pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance;
• LUSTFUL
  1. Full of lust; excited by lust Spenser. Tillotson. 2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. " Lustful orgies." Milton. 3. Strong; lusty. " Lustful health." Sackville. Syn. -- sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd;
• TAYLOR-WHITE PROCESS
  A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toughness to self-hardening steels. The steel is heated almost to fusion, cooled to a temperature of from 700º to 850º C. in molten lead, further cooled in
• DARTLE
  To pierce or shoot through; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• UNWITCH
  To free from a witch or witches; to fee from witchcraft. B. Jonson.
• QUITCH
  See TENNYSON
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• WITCH-ELM
  See WYCH-ELM
• INCURIOSITY
  Want of curiosity or interest; inattentiveness; indifference. Sir H. Wotton.
• CHITCHAT
  Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
• KITCHEN MIDDENS
  Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WITCHING
  That witches or enchants; suited to enchantment or witchcraft; bewitching. "The very witching time of night." Shak. -- Witch"ing*ly, adv.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.