Word Meanings - THRILLANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Piercing; sharp; thrilling. "His thrillant spear." Spenser.

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• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• THRILLING
  Causing a thrill; causing tremulous excitement; deeply moving; as, a thrilling romance. -- Thrill"ing*ly, adv. -- Thrill"ing*ness, n.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• SPEARHEAD
  The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• THRILLANT
  Piercing; sharp; thrilling. "His thrillant spear." Spenser.
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies
• SPEARWORT
  A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
• SPEARY
  Having the form of a spear.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• SPEAR
  1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: "A sharp ground spear." Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• SPEARMINT
  A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
• SHARP-CUT
  Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
• SHARPSAW
  The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
• PIERCEL
  A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• IMPIERCE
  To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
• EMPIERCE
  To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
• ENPIERCE
  To pierce. Shak.