Word Meanings - THERMOPHILIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Heat-loving; -- applied esp. to certain bacteria.
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- LOVAGE
An umbelliferous plant , sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant. (more info) indigenous to Liguria, lovage, from Ligusticus Ligustine, Ligurian, - LOVING
1. Affectionate. The fairest and most loving wife in Greece. Tennyson. 2. Expressing love or kindness; as, loving words. - APPLICABLE
Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv. - APPLICATIVE
Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv. - LOVERWISE
As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells. - LOVELILY
In manner to excite love; amiably. Otway. - APPLICANCY
The quality or state of being applicable. - BACTERIAL
Of or pertaining to bacteria. - APPLICABILITY
The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied. - LOVELOCK
A long lock of hair hanging prominently by itself; an earlock; -- worn by men of fashion in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. Burton. A long lovelock and long hair he wore. Sir W. Scott. - APPLICATORILY
By way of application. - LOVE-SICKNESS
The state of being love-sick. - LOVABLE
Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love; worthy of love. Elaine the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine, the lily maid of Astolat. Tennyson. - LOVE-SICK
1. Languishing with love or amorous desire; as, a love-sick maid. To the dear mistress of my love-sick mind. Dryden. 2. Originating in, or expressive of, languishing love. Where nightingales their love-sick ditty sing. Dryden. - BACTERIA
See BACTERIUM - LOVELORN
Forsaken by one's love. The lovelorn nightingale. Milton. - CERTAINTY
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth - LOVING-KINDNESS
Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33. - LOVINGNESS
Affection; kind regard. The only two bands of good will, loveliness and lovingness. Sir. P. Sidney. - LOVER
1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. 2. A friend; one strongly attached to another; - SELF-LOVE
The love of one's self; desire of personal happiness; tendency to seek one's own benefit or advantage. Shak. Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul. Pope. Syn. -- Selfishness. -- Self-love, Selfishness. The term self-love is used - UNAPPLIABLE
Inapplicable. Milton. - ASCERTAINMENT
The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke. - CLOVEN
from Cleave, v. t. To show the cloven foot or hoof, to reveal a devilish character, or betray an evil purpose, notwithstanding disguises, -- Satan being represented dramatically and symbolically as having cloven hoofs. - ASCERTAINABLE
That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv. - REAPPLICATION
The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied. - CLOVE
imp. of Cleave. Cleft. Spenser. Clove hitch See under Hitch. -- Clove hook , an iron two-part hook, with jaws overlapping, used in bending chain sheets to the clews of sails; -- called also clip hook. Knight. - SLOVENLINESS
The quality or state of being slovenly. - INAPPLICABILITY
The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness. - TRUELOVE
A plant. See Paris. 3. An unexplained word occurring in Chaucer, meaning, perhaps, an aromatic sweetmeat for sweetening the breath. T. R. Lounsbury. Under his tongue a truelove he bore. Chaucer. Truelove knot, a complicated, involved knot that does - LIGHT-O'-LOVE
1. An old tune of a dance, the name of which made it a proverbial expression of levity, especially in love matters. Nares. "Best sing it to the tune of light-o'-love." Shak. 2. Hence: A light or wanton woman. Beau. & Fl.