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Word Meanings - SPARKLET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small spark.

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  • SMALLISH
    Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
  • SPARKER
    A spark arrester.
  • SPARKLER
    One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
  • SPARKLING
    Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
  • SPARK
    cf. Icel. spraka to crackle, Lith. spragëti, Gr. sph to crackle, to 1. A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 2. A small, shining body,
  • SPARK GAP
    The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
  • SMALLCLOTHES
    A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches.
  • SMALLPOX
    A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick
  • SPARKLE
    1. A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott. 2. Brilliancy;
  • SPARKLINESS
    Vivacity. Aubrey.
  • SMALL
    sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity
  • SPARKISH
    1. Like a spark; airy; gay. W. Walsh. 2. Showy; well-dresed; fine. L'Estrange.
  • SPARK COIL
    An induction coil, esp. of an internal-combustion engine, wireless telegraph apparatus, etc. A self-induction coil used to increase the spark in an electric gas-lighting apparatus.
  • SMALLAGE
    A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery.
  • SMALLY
    In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham.
  • SMALLNESS
    The quality or state of being small.
  • SPARKLET
    A small spark.
  • SMALLS
    See 3
  • SPARKFUL
    Lively; brisk; gay. "Our sparkful youth." Camden.
  • SMALLSWORD
    A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
  • OUTSPARKLE
    To exceed in sparkling.
  • DISPARK
    1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
  • DISMALLY
    In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
  • DISPARKLE
    To scatter abroad. Holland.
  • ABYSMALLY
    To a fathomless depth; profoundly. "Abysmally ignorant." G. Eliot.

 

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