Word Meanings - RAG - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To scold or rail at; to rate; to tease; to torment; to banter. Pegge.

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• TEASER
  A jager gull. (more info) 1. One who teases or vexes.
• SCOLDER
  1. One who scolds. The oyster catcher; -- so called from its shrill cries. The old squaw.
• TORMENTFUL
  Full of torment; causing, or accompainied by, torment; excruciating. Tillotson.
• TORMENTOR
  An implement for reducing a stiff soil, resembling a harrow, but running upon wheels. Hebert. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, torments; one who inflicts penal anguish or tortures. Jer. Taylor. Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with
• SCOLDINGLY
  In a scolding manner.
• TORMENTIL
  A rosaceous herb , the root of which is used as a powerful astringent, and for alleviating gripes, or tormina, in diarrhea. (more info) tormentilla, Sp. tormentila; all fr. L. tormentum pain. So called
• TORMENT
  1. To put to extreme pain or anguish; to inflict excruciating misery upon, either of body or mind; to torture. " Art thou come hither to torment us before our time " Matt. viii. 29. 2. To pain; to distress; to afflict. Lord, my servant lieth at
• BANTER
  1. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity. Hag-ridden by my own fancy all night, and then bantered
• BANTERER
  One who banters or rallies.
• TORMENTISE
  Torture; torment. Chaucer.
• TORMENTER
  1. One who, or that which, torments; a tormentor. 2. An executioner. Chaucer.
• TEASELING
  The cutting and gathering of teasels; the use of teasels.
• PEGGER
  One who fastens with pegs.
• SCOLDING
  a. & n. from Scold, v. Scolding bridle, an iron frame. See Brank, n., 2.
• TORMENTRY
  Anything producing torment, annoyance, or pain. Chaucer.
• TEASE
  To tear or separate into minute shreds, as with needles or similar instruments. 4. To vex with importunity or impertinence; to harass, annoy, disturb, or irritate by petty requests, or by jests and raillery; to plague. Cowper. He . . . suffered
• SCOLD
  To find fault or rail with rude clamor; to brawl; to utter harsh, rude, boisterous rebuke; to chide sharply or coarsely; -- often with at; as, to scold at a servant. Pardon me, lords, 't is the first time ever I was forced to scold. Shak.
• TEASEL
  A plant of the genus Dipsacus, of which one species (D. fullonum) bears a large flower head covered with stiff, prickly, hooked bracts. This flower head, when dried, is used for raising a nap on woolen cloth. Note: Small teasel is Dipsacus pilosus,
• TORMENTING
  Causing torment; as, a tormenting dream. -- Tor*ment"ing*ly, adv.
• OUTSCOLD
  To exceed in scolding. Shak.
• SELF-TORMENTOR
  One who torments himself.