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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.

 

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