Word Meanings - RAKISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
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- RAKISH
Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay. - DEBAUCHMENT
The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - DISSOLUTE
1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed; - FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm. - DEBAUCHNESS
Debauchedness. - DEBAUCH
To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke. - LOOSE
laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair, - PROFLIGATENESS
The quality of being profligate; an abandoned course of life; profligacy. - DEBAUCHEDNESS
The state of being debauched; intemperance. Bp. Hall. - LOOSEN
Etym: 1. To make loose; to free from tightness, tension, firmness, or fixedness; to make less dense or compact; as, to loosen a string, or a knot; to loosen a rock in the earth. After a year's rooting, then shaking doth the tree good by loosening - LOOSESTRIFE
The name of several species of plants of the genus Lysimachia, having small star-shaped flowers, usually of a yellow color. Any species of the genus Lythrum, having purple, or, in some species, crimson flowers. Gray. False loosestrife, a plant - PROFLIGATELY
In a profligate manner. - DISSOLUTENESS
State or quality of being dissolute; looseness of morals and manners; addictedness to sinful pleasures; debauchery; dissipation. Chivalry had the vices of dissoluteness. Bancroft. - UNBRIDLE
To free from the bridle; to set loose. - VOLUPTUOUS
pleasure, volup agreeably, delightfully; probably akin to Gr. velle 1. Full of delight or pleasure, especially that of the senses; ministering to sensuous or sensual gratification; exciting sensual desires; luxurious; sensual. Music arose with - PROFLIGATE
or dash to the ground, to destroy; pro before + a word akin to 1. Overthrown; beaten; conquered. The foe is profligate, and run. Hudibras. 2. Broken down in respect of rectitude, principle, virtue, or decency; openly and shamelessly immoral or - LOOSENESS
The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles. - DEBAUCHEDLY
In a profligate manner. - FASTENING
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc. - TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
A tetrahexahedron. - UNFASTEN
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie. - COPPER-FASTENED
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. - UNLOOSEN
To loosen; to unloose. - OUTLOOSE
A loosing from; an escape; an outlet; an evasion. That "whereas" gives me an outloose. Selden. - REFASTEN
To fasten again.