Word Meanings - SPOONDRIFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Spray blown from the tops waves during a gale at sea; also, snow driven in the wind at sea; -- written also spindrift.

Related words: (words related to SPOONDRIFT)

• DURAMEN
  The heartwood of an exogenous tree.
• DURIO
  A fruit tree of the Indian Archipelago. It bears the durian.
• WAVESON
  Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
• DUROUS
  Hard.
• DURANTE
  During; as, durante vita, during life; durante bene placito, during pleasure.
• DURANCY
  Duration. Dr. H. More.
• BLOWN
  1. Swollen; inflated; distended; puffed up, as cattle when gorged with green food which develops gas. 2. Stale; worthless. 3. Out of breath; tired; exhausted. "Their horses much blown." Sir W. Scott. 4. Covered with the eggs and larvæ of flies;
• DURRA
  A kind of millet, cultivated throughout Asia, and introduced into the south of Europe; a variety of Sorghum vulgare; -- called
• DUR
  Major; in the major mode; as, C dur, that is, C major.
• DURABILITY
  The state or quality of being durable; the power of uninterrupted or long continuance in any condition; the power of resisting agents or influences which tend to cause changes, decay, or dissolution; lastingness. A Gothic cathedral raises ideas
• DURATION
  The state or quality of lasting; continuance in time; the portion of time during which anything exists. It was proposed that the duration of Parliament should be limited. Macaulay. Soon shall have passed our own human duration. D. Webster.
• SPINDRIFT
  See MARR
• SPRAYBOARD
  See
• DURUKULI
  A small, nocturnal, South American monkey (Nyctipthecus trivirgatus).
• DURING
  In the time of; as long as the action or existence of; as, during life; during the space of a year.
• DURST
  of Dare. See Dare, v. i.
• DURGA
  See DOORGA
• SPRAY
  1. A small shoot or branch; a twig. Chaucer. The painted birds, companions of the spring, Hopping from spray, were heard to sing. Dryden. 2. A collective body of small branches; as, the tree has a beautiful spray. And from the trees did lop the
• DRIVEN
  of Drive. Also adj. Driven well, a well made by driving a tube into the earth to an aqueous stratum; -- called also drive well.
• DURANT
  See 3
• REVERDURE
  To cover again with verdure. Ld. Berners.
• PODURA
  Any small leaping thysanurous insect of the genus Podura and related genera; a springtail. Podura scale , one of the minute scales with which the body of a podura is covered. They are used as test objects for the microscope. (more info) podo`s,
• OBDURATION
  A hardening of the heart; hardness of heart.
• ORDURE
  1. Dung; excrement; fæces. Shak. 2. Defect; imperfection; fault. Holland.
• BORDURE
  A border one fifth the width of the shield, surrounding the field. It is usually plain, but may be charged.
• ENDURANT
  Capable of enduring fatigue, pain, hunger, etc. The ibex is a remarkably endurant animal. J. G. Wood.
• ADUROL
  Either of two compounds, a chlorine derivative and bromine derivative, of hydroquinone, used as developers.
• ENDUREMENT
  Endurance. South.
• OBDURENESS; OBDUREDNESS
  Hardness. Bp. Hall.
• ADURE
  To burn up. Bacon.
• EURHIPIDUROUS
  Having a fanlike tail; belonging to the Eurhipiduræ, a division of Aves which includes all living birds.