Word Meanings - SEVENFOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton.
Related words: (words related to SEVENFOLD)
- REPEAT
To repay or refund . To repeat one's self, to do or say what one has already done or said. -- To repeat signals, to make the same signals again; specifically, to communicate, by repeating them, the signals shown at headquarters. Syn. - HAVENED
Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats. - HAVENER
A harbor master. - REPEATEDLY
More than once; again and again; indefinitely. - SEVENNIGHT
A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight. - HAVELOCK
A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke. - TIMESERVING
Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power. - 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. - INCREASINGLY
More and more. - REPEATER
One who, or that which, repeats. Specifically: A watch with a striking apparatus which, upon pressure of a spring, will indicate the time, usually in hours and quarters. A repeating firearm. An instrument for resending a telegraphic message - SEVENFOLD
Repeated seven times; having seven thicknesses; increased to seven times the size or amount. "Sevenfold rage." Milton. - HAVENAGE
Harbor dues; port dues. - 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; - INCREASEMENT
Increase. Bacon. - SEVENTIETH
1. Next in order after the sixty-ninth; as, a man in the seventieth year of his age. 2. Constituting or being one of seventy equal parts. - 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. - SEVENTEENTH
1. Next in order after the sixteenth; coming after sixteen others. In . . . the seventeenth day of the month . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up. Gen. vii. 11. 2. Constituting or being one of seventeen equal parts into which - SEVENTY-FOUR
A naval vessel carrying seventy-four guns. - SEVENTEEN
One more than sixteen; ten and seven added; as, seventeen years. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - BETIME; BETIMES
1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes - SOMETIMES
1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . . - MISBEHAVE
To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun. - INSHAVE
A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves. - UNSEVEN
To render other than seven; to make to be no longer seven. "To unseven the sacraments of the church of Rome." Fuller. - DRAWSHAVE
See KNIFE - MISBEHAVIOR
Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.