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Word Meanings - STRAW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Chaucer.

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  • BUTTONHOLE
    The hole or loop in which a button is caught.
  • NOTHINGNESS
    1. Nihility; nonexistence. 2. The state of being of no value; a thing of no value.
  • STRAW-CUTTER
    An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
  • BUTTONY
    Ornamented with a large number of buttons. "The buttony boy." Thackeray. "My coat so blue and buttony." W. S. Gilbert.
  • GEWGAW
    A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble. A heavy gewgaw called a crown. Dryden. (more info) as OE. givegove gewgaw, apparently a reduplicated form fr. AS. gifan to give; cf. also F. joujou plaything, and E. gaud,
  • CIPHER
    A character which, standing by itself, expresses nothing, but when placed at the right hand of a whole number, increases its value tenfold. 2. One who, or that which, has no weight or influence. Here he was a mere cipher. W. Irving. 3. A character
  • TRIFLE
    trifle, probably the same word as F. truffe truffle, the word being 1. A thing of very little value or importance; a paltry, or trivial, affair. With such poor trifles playing. Drayton. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmation strong
  • STRAWED
    imp. & p. p. of Straw.
  • TRIFLER
    One who trifles. Waterland.
  • STRAW
    E. strew; akin to OFries. stre, D. stroo, G. stroh, OHG. stro, Icel. 1. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease. 2. The gathered and
  • BUBBLE SHELL
    A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
  • MOLEHILL
    A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.
  • STRAWBOARD
    Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
  • NONENTITY
    1. Nonexistence; the negation of being. 2. A thing not existing. South. 3. A person or thing of little or no account.
  • STRAW-COLORED
    Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
  • TRIVIALITY
    1. The quality or state of being trivial; trivialness. 2. That which is trivial; a trifle. The philosophy of our times does not expend itself in furious discussions on mere scholastic trivialities. Lyon Playfair.
  • NOTHINGARIAN
    One of no certain belief; one belonging to no particular sect.
  • BAUBLE
    It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus,a baburrus, 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan. 2. The fool's
  • LEVITY
    1. The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity. He gave the form of levity to that
  • STRAWWORM
    A caddice worm.
  • JACKSTRAW
    1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
  • MONOTHALAMAN
    A foraminifer having but one chamber.
  • MONOTHALMIC
    Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits. R. Brown.
  • ANOTHER-GUESS
    Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
  • AGONOTHETE
    An officer who presided over the great public games in Greece.
  • KNOW-NOTHING
    A member of a secret political organization in the United States, the chief objects of which were the proscription of foreigners by the repeal of the naturalization laws, and the exclusive choice of native Americans for office. Note: The
  • DINOTHERE; DINOTHERIUM
    A large extinct proboscidean mammal from the miocene beds of Europe and Asia. It is remarkable fora pair of tusks directed downward from the decurved apex of the lower jaw.
  • NEGINOTH
    Stringed instruments. Dr. W. Smith. To the chief musician on Neginoth. Ps. iv. 9heading).
  • DECIPHERMENT
    The act of deciphering.
  • ALEPPO BOIL; ALEPPO BUTTON; ALEPPO EVIL
    A chronic skin affection terminating in an ulcer, most commonly of the face. It is endemic along the Mediterranean, and is probably due to a specific bacillus. Called also Aleppo ulcer, Biskara boil, Delhi boil, Oriental sore, etc.
  • MONOTHEIST
    One who believes that there is but one God.
  • DO-NOTHINGISM; DO-NOTHINGNESS
    Inactivity; habitual sloth; idleness. Carlyle. Miss Austen.

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