Word Meanings - SULTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. Dryden. 2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry

Additional info about word: SULTRY

1. Very hot, burning, and oppressive; as, Libya's sultry deserts. Such as, born beneath the burning sky And sultry sun, betwixt the tropics lie. Dryden. 2. Very hot and moist, or hot, close, stagnant, and oppressive, as air. When in the sultry glebe I faint, Or on the thirsty mountain plant. Addison.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SULTRY)

• Torrid
• Hot
• burning
• arid
• heated
• parching
• scorching
• sultry

Related words: (words related to SULTRY)

• BURN
  To apply a cautery to; to cauterize. (more info) birnen, v.i., AS. bærnan, bernan, v.t., birnan, v.i.; akin to OS. brinnan, OFries. barna, berna, OHG. brinnan, brennan, G. brennen, OD. bernen, D. branden, Dan. brænde, Sw. bränna, brinna, Icel.
• HEATHER
  Heath. Gorse and grass And heather, where his footsteps pass, The brighter seem. Longfellow. Heather bell , one of the pretty subglobose flowers of two European kinds of heather . (more info) Etym:
• HEATHENISHNESS
  The state or quality of being heathenish. "The . . . heathenishness and profaneness of most playbooks." Prynne.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• HEATHENRY
  1. The state, quality, or character of the heathen. Your heathenry and your laziness. C. Kingsley. 2. Heathendom; heathen nations.
• BURNIEBEE
  The ladybird.
• HEATHY
  Full of heath; abounding with heath; as, heathy land; heathy hills. Sir W. Scott.
• HEATHENISM
  1. The religious system or rites of a heathen nation; idolatry; paganism. 2. The manners or morals usually prevalent in a heathen country; ignorance; rudeness; barbarism.
• BURNET
  A genus of perennial herbs ; especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth , in England, a handsome moth , with crimson spots on the wings. -- Burnet saxifrage. See Saxifrage. -- Canadian burnet, a marsh plant . --
• HEATHENISH
  1. Of or pertaining to the heathen; resembling or characteristic of heathens. "Worse than heathenish crimes." Milton. 2. Rude; uncivilized; savage; cruel. South. 3. Irreligious; as, a heathenish way of living.
• BURNER
  1. One who, or that which, burns or sets fire to anything. 2. The part of a lamp, gas fixture, etc., where the flame is produced. Bunsen's burner , a kind of burner, invented by Professor Bunsen of Heidelberg, consisting of a straight tube, four
• PARCHING
  Scorching; burning; drying. "Summer's parching heat." Shak. -- Parch"ing*ly, adv.
• HEATHENIZE
  To render heathen or heathenish. Firmin.
• BURNED
  See BURNT
• TORRID
  1. Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert. "Barca or Cyrene's torrid soil." Milton. 2. Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone , that space or board belt of the earth,
• PARCH
  1. To burn the surface of; to scorch; to roast over the fire, as dry grain; as, to parch the skin; to parch corn. Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn. Lev. xxiii. 14. 2. To dry to extremity; to shrivel with heat; as, the mouth is parched
• HEATHENISHLY
  In a heathenish manner.
• PARCHMENTIZE
  To convert to a parchmentlike substance, esp. by sulphuric acid.
• HEATHENDOM
  1. That part of the world where heathenism prevails; the heathen nations, considered collectively. 2. Heathenism. C. Kingsley.
• OVERBURN
  To burn too much; to be overzealous.
• UNSHEATHE
  To deprive of a sheath; to draw from the sheath or scabbard, as a sword. To unsheathe the sword, to make war.
• SUNBURNING
  Sunburn; tan. Boyle.
• BUNSEN'S BATTERY; BUNSEN'S BURNER
  See BURNER
• SUNBURN
  To burn or discolor by the sun; to tan. Sunburnt and swarthy though she be. Dryden.
• GAS-BURNER
  The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.
• AUBURN
  1. Flaxen-colored. Florio. 2. Reddish brown. His auburn locks on either shoulder flowed. Dryden.
• TOPARCH
  The ruler or principal man in a place or country; the governor of a toparchy. The prince and toparch of that country. Fuller.
• ENTHEAT
  Divinely inspired. Drummond.
• SHEATHLESS
  Without a sheath or case for covering; unsheathed.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• SEA HEATH
  A low perennial plant resembling heath, growing along the seashore in Europe.
• EPARCH
  In ancient Greece, the governor or perfect of a province; in modern Greece, the ruler of an eparchy.
• EPARCHY
  A province, prefecture, or territory, under the jurisdiction of an eparch or governor; esp., in modern Greece, one of the larger subdivisions of a monarchy or province of the kingdom; in Russia, a diocese or archdiocese.
• INSHEATHE
  To insert as in a sheath; to sheathe. Hughes.