Word Meanings - SCURVY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy

Additional info about word: SCURVY

1. Covered or affected with scurf or scabs; scabby; scurfy; specifically, diseased with the scurvy. "Whatsoever man . . . be scurvy or scabbed." lev. xxi. 18, 20. 2. Vile; mean; low; vulgar; contemptible. "A scurvy trick." Ld. Lytton. That scurvy custom of taking tobacco. Swift. spoke spoke such scurvy and provoking terms. Shak.

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  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• SPECIFICALLY
  In a specific manner.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• TRICK
  The whole number of cards played in one round, and consisting of as many cards as there are players. On one nice trick depends the general fate. Pope. (more info) draw; akin to LG. trekken, MHG. trecken, trechen, Dan. trække, and 1. An artifice
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• SCABBEDNESS
  Scabbiness.
• TRICKISH
  Given to tricks; artful in making bargains; given to deception and cheating; knavish. -- Trick"ish*ly, adv. -- Trick"ish*ness, n.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• SCABBINESS
  The quality or state of being scabby.
• SCABBED
  1. Abounding with scabs; diseased with scabs. 2. Fig.: Mean; paltry; vile; worthless. Bacon.
• TRICKING
  Given to tricks; tricky. Sir W. Scott.
• DISEASEFUL
  1. Causing uneasiness. Disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people. Bacon. 2. Abounding with disease; producing diseases; as, a diseaseful climate.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• CONTEMPTIBLENESS
  The state or quality of being contemptible, or of being despised.
• HODGKIN'S DISEASE
  A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician.
• JUMPING DISEASE
  A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.
• RECOVER
  To cover again. Sir W. Scott.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• STRICKLE
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