Word Meanings - STAB - Book Publishers vocabulary database
to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
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to G. stab a staff, stick, E. staff; also Gael. stob to stab, as n., 1. To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person. 2. Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
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- ENTERPARLANCE
Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward. - ENTERPRISER
One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward. - ENTERDEAL
Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - AFFECTATIONIST
One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall. - AFFECTION
Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections - ENTERPRISE
1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak. - AFFECTIBILITY
The quality or state of being affectible. - ENTEROLITH
An intestinal concretion. - ENTERPLEAD
See INTERPLEAD - AFFECTIVELY
In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally. - ENTERTAINER
One who entertains. - ENTEROTOMY
Incision of the intestines, especially in reducing certain cases of hernia. - AFFECTIONED
1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak. - AFFECTER
One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker. - PIERCER
1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor. - AFFECTIVE
1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers. - EXCITEFUL
Full of exciting qualities; as, an exciteful story; exciteful players. Chapman. - AFFECTIONATED
Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed. - AFFECTIONATE
1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating - MESENTERY
The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum - CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge. - OVERAFFECT
To affect or care for unduly. Milton. - MISAFFECT
To dislike. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - REENTERING
The process of applying additional colors, by applications of printing blocks, to patterns already partly colored. - INTERPENETRATE
To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley. - ANENTEROUS
Destitute of a stomach or an intestine. Owen. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - ASSENTER
One who assents. - TRANSPIERCE
To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden. - INAFFECTED
Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. - SELF-CENTERING; SELF-CENTRING
Centering in one's self. - MESENTERON
All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod, a