Word Meanings - SWAINISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Pertaining to, or resembling, a swain; rustic; ignorant. "An ungentle and swainish beast." Milton. -- Swain"ish*ness, n. Emerson.

Related words: (words related to SWAINISH)

• BEASTLIHEAD
  Beastliness. Spenser.
• BEASTLIKE
  Like a beast.
• RUSTICAL
  Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.
• SWAINLING
  A little swain.
• BEASTLINESS
  The state or quality of being beastly.
• BEASTINGS
  See BIESTINGS
• RUSTICATE
  To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.
• RUSTICITY
  The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric
• IGNORANTLY
  In a ignorant manner; without knowledge; inadvertently. Whom therefoer ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. Acts xvii. 23.
• SWAINMOTE
  A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or freeholders,
• IGNORANTIST
  One opposed to the diffusion of knowledge; an obscuriantist.
• RESEMBLINGLY
  So as to resemble; with resemblance or likeness.
• BEASTHOOD
  State or nature of a beast.
• RUSTICLY
  In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• RUSTICATED
  resembling rustic work. See Rustic work , under Rustic.
• RESEMBLANT
  Having or exhibiting resemblance; resembling. Gower.
• SWAINSHIP
  The condition of a swain.
• UNGENTLE
  Not gentle; lacking good breeding or delicacy; harsh. Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind. Shak. That ungentle flavor which distinguishes nearly all our native and uncultivated grapes. Hawthorne. -- Un*gen"tle*ness, n. -- Un*gen"tly, adv.
• SWAIN
  1. A servant. Him behoves serve himself that has no swain. Chaucer. 2. A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry. It were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain. Shak.
• SEA BEAST
  Any large marine mammal, as a seal, walrus, or cetacean.
• BOATSWAIN
  An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties. The jager gull. The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain.
• COCKSWAIN
  The steersman of a boat; a petty officer who has charge of a boat and its crew.
• SELF-IGNORANT
  Ignorant of one's self.