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Word Meanings - REVALESCENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of growing well; the state of being revalescent. Would this prove that the patient's revalescence had been independent of the medicines given him Coleridge.

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  • BELLMAN
    A man who rings a bell, especially to give notice of anything in the streets. Formerly, also, a night watchman who called the hours. Milton.
  • PROVENTRIULUS
    The glandular stomach of birds, situated just above the crop.
  • PROVERBIAL
    1. Mentioned or comprised in a proverb; used as a proverb; hence, commonly known; as, a proverbial expression; his meanness was proverbial. In case of excesses, I take the German proverbial cure, by a hair of the same beast, to be the worst. Sir
  • BELIAL
    An evil spirit; a wicked and unprincipled person; the personification of evil. What concord hath Christ with Belia 2 Cor. vi. 15. A son of Belial, a worthless, wicked, or thoroughly depraved person. 1 Sam. ii. 12.
  • BESCRATCH
    To tear with the nails; to cover with scratches.
  • BEASTLIHEAD
    Beastliness. Spenser.
  • BEWRAP
    To wrap up; to cover. Fairfax.
  • BERGOMASK
    A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
  • BESCATTER
    1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
  • BELEAVE
    To leave or to be left. May.
  • BEVELMENT
    The replacement of an edge by two similar planes, equally inclined to the including faces or adjacent planes.
  • BESCORN
    To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
  • BETSO
    A small brass Venetian coin.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • BELLADONNA
    An herbaceous European plant with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries. The whole plant and its fruit are very poisonous, and the root and leaves are used as powerful medicinal agents. Its properties are largely due
  • BECHE DE MER
    The trepang.
  • BETOKEN
    1. To signify by some visible object; to show by signs or tokens. A dewy cloud, and in the cloud a bow . . . Betokening peace from God, and covenant new. Milton. 2. To foreshow by present signs; to indicate something future by that which is seen
  • GROWLER
    The large-mouthed black bass. 3. A four-wheeled cab. (more info) 1. One who growls.
  • BETROTHAL
    The act of betrothing, or the fact of being betrothed; a mutual promise, engagement, or contract for a future marriage between the persons betrothed; betrothment; affiance. "The feast of betrothal." Longfellow.
  • BESLUBBER
    To beslobber.
  • GABBER
    1. A liar; a deceiver. 2. One addicted to idle talk.
  • COMBER
    1. One who combs; one whose occupation it is to comb wool, flax, etc. Also, a machine for combing wool, flax, etc. 2. A long, curling wave.
  • HAIRBELL
    See HAREBELL
  • ORBED
    Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.
  • COMPATIENT
    Suffering or enduring together. Sir G. Buck.
  • LAMBERT PINE
    The gigantic sugar pine of California and Oregon (Pinus Lambertiana). It has the leaves in fives, and cones a foot long. The timber is soft, and like that of the white pine of the Eastern States.
  • GERBE
    A kind of ornamental firework. Farrow.
  • WATER-BEARER
    The constellation Aquarius.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • GABELER
    A collector of gabels or taxes.
  • ABERRATE
    To go astray; to diverge. Their own defective and aberrating vision. De Quincey.
  • CORYMBED
    Corymbose.

 

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