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Word Meanings - SWARM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To climb a tree, pole, or the like, by embracing it with the arms and legs alternately. See Shin. At the top was placed a piece of money, as a prize for those who could swarm up and seize it. W. Coxe.

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  • MOUNTABLE
    Such as can be mounted.
  • OVERFLOWINGLY
    In great abundance; exuberantly. Boyle.
  • MOUNTING
    1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • WANTON
    wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
  • MOUNTAINOUS
    1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
  • MOUNTAINOUSNESS
    The state or quality of being mountainous.
  • CREEP
    to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. 1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl. Ye that walk The earth, and stately
  • NUMBERFUL
    Numerous.
  • PLENTIFUL
    1. Containing plenty; copious; abundant; ample; as, a plentiful harvest; a plentiful supply of water. 2. Yielding abundance; prolific; fruitful. If it be a long winter, it is commonly a more plentiful year. Bacon. 3. Lavish; profuse; prodigal.
  • REVELLENT
    Causing revulsion; revulsive. -- n.
  • CLIMB
    To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. (more info) 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • ASCENDENCY
    Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
  • REVEL
    See REVEAL
  • HORDEIN
    A peculiar starchy matter contained in barley. It is complex mixture.
  • CREEPY
    Crawly; having or producing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
  • SCALEBOARD
    A thin slip of wood used to justify a page. Crabb. 2. A thin veneer of leaf of wood used for covering the surface of articles of firniture, and the like. Scaleboard plane, a plane for cutting from a board a wide shaving forming a scaleboard.
  • MOUNTANT
    Raised; high.
  • CREEPLE
    1. A creeping creature; a reptile. There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. Morton . 2. One who is lame; a cripple. Thou knowest how lame a creeple
  • REINCREASE
    To increase again.
  • DEMOUNT
    To dismount.
  • GUNTER'S SCALE
    A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter , a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant. Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one side of which are marked scales
  • BRABBLE
    To clamor; to contest noisily.
  • INSURMOUNTABILITY
    The state or quality of being insurmountable.
  • UPSWELL
    To swell or rise up.
  • INTHRONG
    To throng or collect together. Fairfax.
  • TRUST COMPANY
    Any corporation formed for the purpose of acting as trustee. Such companies usually do more or less of a banking business.

 

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