Word Meanings - SMICKERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Amorous glance or inclination. "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• AMOROUSNESS
  The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• SMICKERING
  Amorous glance or inclination. "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• INCLINATION
  The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth's equator to the plane of the ecliptic is about 23º 28'; the inclination of two rays of light. 5. A leaning or tendency of the mind, feelings, preferences, or
• YOUNGLING
  A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley.
• SMICKER
  To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.
• AMOROUS
  1. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition. 2. Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on. Thy roses amorous of the moon. Keats.
• YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar
• GLANCE
  A name given to some sulphides, mostly dark-colored, which have a brilliant metallic luster, as the sulphide of copper, called copper glance. Glance coal, anthracite; a mineral composed chiefly of carbon. -- Glance cobalt, cobaltite, or gray cobalt.
• YOUNGGER
  One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• YOUNGTHLY
  Pertaining to, or resembling, youth; youthful. Spenser.
• YOUNGSTER
  A young person; a youngling; a lad. "He felt himself quite a youngster, with a long life before him." G. Eliot.
• AMOROUSLY
  In an amorous manner; fondly.
• CLAMOROUS
  Speaking and repeating loud words; full of clamor; calling or demanding loudly or urgently; vociferous; noisy; bawling; loud; turbulent. "My young ones were clamorous for a morning's excursion." Southey. -- Clam"or*ous*ly, adv. -- Clam"or*ous*ness,
• EYEGLANCE
  A glance of eye.
• OVERGLANCE
  To glance over.
• DISINCLINATION
  The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. Guardian. Syn.