Word Meanings - SONGSTRESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A woman who sings; a female singing bird. Thomson.

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• FEMALE
  A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant. (more info) 1. An individual of the sex which conceives and brings forth young, or
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• SINGLY
  1. Individually; particularly; severally; as, to make men singly and personally good. 2. Only; by one's self; alone. Look thee, 't is so! Thou singly honest man. Shak. 3. Without partners, companions, or associates; single-handed; as, to attack
• SING-SING
  The kob.
• SINGULAR
  Existing by itself; single; individual. The idea which represents one . . . determinate thing, is called a singular idea, whether simple, complex, or compound. I. Watts. (more info) 1. Separate or apart from others; single; distinct. Bacon. And
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• SINGLE
  1. To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate. Dogs who hereby can single out their master in the dark. Bacon. His blood! she faintly screamed her mind Still singling one from
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• SINGSTER
  A songstress. Wyclif.
• SINGLE-HANDED
  Having but one hand, or one workman; also, alone; unassisted.
• SINGLE-HEARTED
  Having an honest heart; free from duplicity. -- Sin"gle-heart"ed*ly, adv.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• SINGHALESE
  See CINGALESE
• SINGINGLY
  With sounds like singing; with a kind of tune; in a singing tone. G. North .
• SINGE
  A burning of the surface; a slight burn.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• SINGULT
  A sigh or sobbing; also, a hiccough. Spenser. W. Browne.
• SINGLE-MINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• SINGLENESS
  1. The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity. 2. Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity;
• WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN TEMPERANCE UNION
  An association of women formed in the United States in 1874, for the advancement of temperance by organizing preventive, educational, evangelistic, social, and legal work.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• LOSINGLY
  In a manner to incur loss.
• DECREASING
  Becoming less and less; diminishing. -- De*creas"ing*ly, adv. Decreasing series , a series in which each term is numerically smaller than the preceding term.
• PHASING CURRENT
  The momentary current between two alternating-current generators when juxtaposed in parallel and not agreeing exactly in phase or period.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• CHASING
  The art of ornamenting metal by means of chasing tools; also, a piece of ornamental work produced in this way.
• NEESING
  Sneezing. "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• BLESSING
  A gift. Gen. xxxiii. 11. 5. Grateful praise or worship. (more info) 1. The act of one who blesses. 2. A declaration of divine favor, or an invocation imploring divine favor on some or something; a benediction; a wish of happiness pronounces.
• DEBASINGLY
  In a manner to debase.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• DISGUISING
  A masque or masquerade.
• DESPISINGLY
  Contemptuously.
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• GASSING
  The process of passing cotton goods between two rollers and exposing them to numerous minute jets of gas to burn off the small fibers; any similar process of singeing. 2. Boasting; insincere or empty talk.