Word Meanings - SPRAINTS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The dung of an otter. (more info) espreinte a desire to go to stool, from espreindre. See Sprain, v.

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• STOOL
  A plant from which layers are propagated by bending its branches into the soil. P. Henderson.
• SPRAINTS
  The dung of an otter. (more info) espreinte a desire to go to stool, from espreindre. See Sprain, v.
• SPRAIN
  To weaken, as a joint, ligament, or muscle, by sudden and excessive exertion, as by wrenching; to overstrain, or stretch injuriously, but without luxation; as, to sprain one's ankle.
• DESIREFUL
  Filled with desire; eager. The desireful troops. Godfrey .
• DESIRE
  sidus star, constellation, and hence orig., to turn the eyes from the 1. To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet. Neither shall any man desire thy land. Ex. xxxiv. 24. Ye desire your child to live. Tennyson. 2. To express a wish
• DESIRER
  One who desires, asks, or wishes.
• STOOLBALL
  A kind of game with balls, formerly common in England, esp. with young women. Nausicaa With other virgins did at stoolball play. Chapman.
• DESIRELESS
  Free from desire. Donne.
• DESIREFULNESS
  The state of being desireful; eagerness to obtain and possess. The desirefulness of our minds much augmenteth and increaseth our pleasure. Udall.
• OTTER
  Any carnivorous animal of the genus Lutra, and related genera. Several species are described. They have large, flattish heads, short ears, and webbed toes. They are aquatic, and feed on fish. Their fur is soft and valuable. The common
• POTTERN
  Of or pertaining to potters. Pottern ore, a species of ore which, from its aptness to vitrify like the glazing of potter's wares, the miners call by this name. Boyle.
• FREEDSTOOL
  See FRIDSTOL
• BOYCOTTER
  A participant in boycotting.
• SNOTTER
  To snivel; to cry or whine. Grose.
• TOTTER
  1. To shake so as to threaten a fall; to vacillate; to be unsteady; to stagger; as,an old man totters with age. "As a bowing wall shall ye be, and as a tottering fence." Ps. lxii. 3. 2. To shake; to reel; to lean; to waver. Troy nods from high,
• JOTTER
  1. One who jots down memoranda. 2. A memorandum book.
• TITTER-TOTTER
  See TEETER
• PLOTTER
  One who plots or schemes; a contriver; a conspirator; a schemer. Dryden.
• BISHOP-STOOL
  A bishop's seat or see.
• CLOTTER
  To concrete into lumps; to clot. "Clottered blood." Chapman.
• LOTTERY
  1. A scheme for the distribution of prizes by lot or chance; esp., a gaming scheme in which one or more tickets bearing particular numbers draw prizes, and the rest of tickets are blanks. Fig. : An affair of chance. Note: The laws of the United
• BOGTROTTER
  One who lives in a boggy country; -- applied in derision to the lowest class of Irish. Halliwell.
• CUTTYSTOOL
  1. A low stool 2. A seat in old Scottish churches, where offenders were made to sit, for public rebuke by the minister.
• ALLOTTERY
  Allotment. Shak.
• SNOTTERY
  Filth; abomination. To purge the snottery of our slimy time. Marston.
• TROTTER
  1. One that trots; especially, a horse trained to be driven in trotting matches. 2. The foot of an animal, especially that of a sheep; also, humorously, the human foot.
• BLOTTER
  A wastebook, in which entries of transactions are made as they take place. (more info) 1. One who, or that which blots; esp. a device for absorbing superfluous ink.