Word Meanings - SCIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Knowing; having knowledge. "Brutes may be and are scious." Coleridge.

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• KNOWINGLY
  1. With knowledge; in a knowing manner; intelligently; consciously; deliberately; as, he would not knowingly offend. Strype. 2. By experience. Shak.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• KNOWINGNESS
  The state or quality of being knowing or intelligent; shrewdness; skillfulness.
• KNOW-NOTHING
  A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• SCIOUS
  Knowing; having knowledge. "Brutes may be and are scious." Coleridge.
• KNOWING
  1. Skilful; well informed; intelligent; as, a knowing man; a knowing dog. The knowing and intelligent part of the world. South. 2. Artful; cunning; as, a knowing rascal.
• 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.
• KNOWABLENESS
  The state or quality of being knowable. Locke.
• 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.
• 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.
• KNOWER
  One who knows. Shak.
• KNOWLECHING
  Knowledge. Chaucer.
• HAVING
  Possession; goods; estate. I 'll lend you something; my having is not much. Shak.
• KNOWN
  of Know.
• HAVIOR
  Behavior; demeanor. Shak. (more info) having, of same origin as E. aver a work horse. The h is due to
• KNOW-ALL
  One who knows everything; hence, one who makes pretension to great knowledge; a wiseacre; -- usually ironical.
• PREKNOWLEDGE
  Prior knowledge.
• UNCONSCIOUS
  1. Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper. 2. Not known or apprehended by consciousness; as, an unconscious
• FOREKNOWER
  One who foreknows.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• ACKNOWLEDGE
  1. To of or admit the knowledge of; to recognize as a fact or truth; to declare one's belief in; as, to acknowledge the being of a God. I acknowledge my transgressions. Ps. li. 3. For ends generally acknowledged to be good. Macaulay. 2. To own
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• BEKNOW
  To confess; to acknowledge. Chaucer.
• UNKNOW
  1. To cease to know; to lose the knowledge of. 2. To fail of knowing; to be ignorant of.
• UNKNOWLEDGED
  Not acknowledged or recognized. For which bounty to us lent Of him unknowledged or unsent. B. Jonson.
• CONSCIOUSLY
  In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.
• LUSCIOUS
  1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden. 2. Cloying; fulsome. He had a tedious, luscious way of talking. Jeffrey. 3. Gratifying a depraved sense;