Word Meanings - SPLENDIFEROUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale . "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton.
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- SPLENDIDIOUS
Splendid. - SPLENDIFEROUS
Splendor-bearing; splendid. Bale . "A splendiferous woman." Haliburton. - SPLENDOR
1. Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun. B. Jonson. 2. Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like. "Rejoice in splendor of mine own." Shak. 3. Brilliancy; - WOMANLY
Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne. - BEARISH
Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. - BEARWARD
A keeper of bears. See Bearherd. Shak. - SPLENDIDLY
In a splendid manner; magnificently. - BEAR'S-BREECH
See Acanthus, n., 1. The English cow parsnip Dr. Prior. - BEAR'S-EAR
A kind of primrose , so called from the shape of the leaf. - BEARDLESSNESS
The state or quality of being destitute of beard. - BEARABLE
Capable of being borne or endured; tolerable. -- Bear"a*bly, adv. - WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
Womanhood. Chaucer. - BEAR
1. To produce, as fruit; to be fruitful, in opposition to barrenness. This age to blossom, and the next to bear. Dryden. 2. To suffer, as in carrying a burden. But man is born to bear. Pope. 3. To endure with patience; to be patient. I can not, - BEARDIE
The bearded loach of Europe. - BEARDLESS
1. Without a beard. Hence: Not having arrived at puberty or manhood; youthful. 2. Destitute of an awn; as, beardless wheat. - BEARING CLOTH
A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized. Shak. - 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. - SPLENDID
1. Possessing or displaying splendor; shining; very bright; as, a splendid sun. 2. Showy; magnificent; sumptuous; pompous; as, a splendid palace; a splendid procession or pageant. 3. Illustrious; heroic; brilliant; celebrated; famous; - BEARDED
Having a beard. "Bearded fellow." Shak. "Bearded grain." Dryden. Bearded vulture, Bearded eagle. See Lammergeir. -- Bearded tortoise. See Matamata. - WOMANHOOD
1. The state of being a woman; the distinguishing character or qualities of a woman, or of womankind. Unspotted faith, and comely womanhood. Spenser. Perhaps the smile and the tender tone Came out of her pitying womanhood. Tennyson. 2. - WATER-BEARER
The constellation Aquarius. - AIRWOMAN
A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft. - SHIELD-BEARER
Any small moth of the genus Aspidisca, whose larva makes a shieldlike covering for itself out of bits of leaves. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, carries a shield. - ENGLISHWOMAN
Fem. of Englishman. Shak. - UNWOMAN
To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning. - SEABEARD
A green seaweed growing in dense tufts. - DOWNBEAR
To bear down; to depress. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - BLUEBEARD
The hero of a mediƦval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it - ANT-BEAR
An edentate animal of tropical America , living on ants. It belongs to the genus Myrmecophaga. - BONDSWOMAN
See BONDWOMAN - GRAYBEARD
An old man. Shak. - MISBEAR
To carry improperly; to carry wrongly; to misbehave. Chaucer. - FORKBEARD
A European fish , having a large flat head; -- also called tadpole fish, and lesser forked beard. The European forked hake or hake's-dame ; -- also called great forked beard. - PALLBEARER
One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them. - UNDERBEARER
One who supports or sustains; especially, at a funeral, one of those who bear the copse, as distinguished from a bearer, or pallbearer, who helps to hold up the pall.