Word Meanings - ROMAUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A romantic story in verse; as, the "Romaunt of the Rose." O, hearken, loving hearts and bold, Unto my wild romaunt. Mrs. Browning.

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• LOVAGE
  An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian,
• LOVING
  1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words.
• VERSET
  A verse. Milton.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• VERSEMAN
  See PRIOR
• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• LOVELILY
  In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway.
• ROMANTICAL
  Romantic.
• ROMANTICIST
  One who advocates romanticism in modern literature. J. R. Seeley.
• STORYBOOK
  A book containing stories, or short narratives, either true or false.
• LOVELOCK
  A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott.
• LOVE-SICKNESS
  The state of being love-sick.
• HEARTSWELLING
  Rankling in, or swelling, the heart. "Heartswelling hate." Spenser.
• LOVABLE
  Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson.
• BROWNIE
  An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
• ROMANTICALY
  In a romantic manner.
• ROMANTIC
  1. Of or pertaining to romance; involving or resembling romance; hence, fanciful; marvelous; extravagant; unreal; as, a romantic tale; a romantic notion; a romantic undertaking. Can anything in nature be imagined more profane and impious, more
• LOVE-SICK
  1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden.
• LOVELORN
  Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. Milton.
• CONTROVERSER
  A disputant.
• SELF-LOVE
  The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used
• REVERSED
  Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side,
• AVERSENESS
  The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
• CLOVEN
  from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs.
• RENVERSEMENT
  A reversing.
• TRAVERSE
  Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches. Oak . . . being strong in all positions, may be better trusted in cross and traverse work. Sir H. Wotton. The ridges of the fallow field traverse.
• CLOVE
  imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight.
• INTERTRANSVERSE
  Between the transverse processes of the vertebræ.
• SLOVENLINESS
  The quality or state of being slovenly.