Word Meanings - TINDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou. -- Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept. (more info) tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra,

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• KINDLY
  1. According to the kind or nature; natural. The kindly fruits of the earth. Book of Com. Prayer. An herd of bulls whom kindly rage doth sting. Spenser. Whatsoever as the Son of God he may do, it is kindly for Him as the Son of Man to save the
• TENDANCE
  1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak.
• GERMANIZATION
  The act of Germanizing. M. Arnold.
• SPARKER
  A spark arrester.
• SPARKLER
  One who scatters; esp., one who scatters money; an improvident person.
• SPARKLING
  Emitting sparks; glittering; flashing; brilliant; lively; as, sparkling wine; sparkling eyes. -- Spar"kling*ly, adv. -- Spar"kling*ness, n. Syn. -- Brilliant; shining. See Shining.
• SPARK
  cf. Icel. spraka to crackle, Lith. spragëti, Gr. sph to crackle, to 1. A small particle of fire or ignited substance which is emitted by a body in combustion. Man is born unto trouble, as hte sparks fly upward. Job v. 7. 2. A small, shining body,
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• SPARK GAP
  The space filled with air or other dielectric between high potential terminals (as of an electrostatic machine, induction coil, or condenser), through which the discharge passes; the air gap of a jump spark.
• LINENER
  A dealer in linen; a linen draper.
• GERMANISM
  1. An idiom of the German language. 2. A characteristic of the Germans; a characteristic German mode, doctrine, etc.; rationalism. J. W. Alexander.
• GERMANE
  Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. The phrase would be more germane to the matter. Shak. must be germane. Barclay .
• INFLAMMABLENESS
  The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability. Boyle.
• TINDER
  Something very inflammable, used for kindling fire from a spark, as scorched linen. German tinder. Same as Amadou. -- Tinder box, a box in which tinder is kept. (more info) tendan to kindle, D. tonder tinder, G. zunder, OHG. zuntara, zuntra,
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• KINDLING
  Materials, easily lighted, for starting a fire. (more info) 1. The of causing to burn, or of exciting or inflaming the passions. 2. pl.
• SPARKLE
  1. A little spark; a scintillation. As fire is wont to quicken and go From a sparkle sprungen amiss, Till a city brent up is. Chaucer. The shock was sufficiently strong to strike out some sparkles of his fiery temper. Prescott. 2. Brilliancy;
• SPARKLINESS
  Vivacity. Aubrey.
• AMADOU
  A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking
• KINDLINESS
  1. Natural inclination; natural course. Milton. 2. The quality or state of being kindly; benignity; benevolence; gentleness; tenderness; as, kindliness of disposition, of treatment, or of words. In kind a father, but not in kindliness. Sackville.
• MISKINDLE
  To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
• SELF-KINDLED
  Kindled of itself, or without extraneous aid or power. Dryden.
• OUTSPARKLE
  To exceed in sparkling.
• DISPARK
  1. To throw ; to treat as a common. The Gentiles were made to be God's people when the Jews' inclosure was disparked. Jer. Taylor. 2. To set at large; to release from inclosure. Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.
• DISPARKLE
  To scatter abroad. Holland.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• INTENDANT
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
• DOGGERMAN
  A sailor belonging to a dogger.
• BROTHER GERMAN
  A brother by both the father's and mother's side, in contradistinction to a uterine brother, one by the mother only. Bouvier.