Word Meanings - TITILLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.
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- TICKLE
to tickle, D. kittelen, G. kitzlen, OHG. chizzilon, chuzzilon, Icel. 1. To touch lightly, so as to produce a peculiar thrilling sensation, which commonly causes laughter, and a kind of spasm which become dengerous if too long protracted. If you - AMUSE
1. To occupy or engage the attention of; to lose in deep thought; to absorb; also, to distract; to bewilder. Camillus set upon the Gauls when they were amused in receiving their gold. Holland. Being amused with grief, fear, and fright, he could - PLEASER
One who pleases or gratifies. - TICKLENBURG
A coarse, mixed linen fabric made to be sold in the West Indies. - TITILLATE
To tickle; as, to titillate the nose with a feather. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope. - TICKLE-FOOTED
Uncertain; inconstant; slippery. Beau. & Fl. - GRATIFY
1. To please; to give pleasure to; to satisfy; to soothe; to indulge; as, to gratify the taste, the appetite, the senses, the desires, the mind, etc. For who would die to gratify a foe Dryden. 2. To requite; to recompense. It remains - TICKLENESS
Unsteadiness. For hoard hath hate, and climbing tickleness. Chaucer. - AMUSEMENT
1. Deep thought; muse. Here I . . . fell into a strong and deep amusement, revolving in my mind, with great perplexity, the amazing change of our affairs. Fleetwood. 2. The state of being amused; pleasurable excitement; that which amuses; - PLEASED
Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n. - PLEASEMAN
An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak. - AMUSED
1. Diverted. 2. Expressing amusement; as, an amused look. - AMUSETTE
A light field cannon, or stocked gun mounted on a swivel. - AMUSER
One who amuses. - PLEASE
1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take - TICKLER
1. One who, or that which, tickles. 2. Something puzzling or difficult. 3. A book containing a memorandum of notes and debts arranged in the order of their maturity. Bartlett. 4. A prong used by coopers to extract bungs from casks. - OVERPLEASE
To please excessively. - STICKLEBACK
Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, - BANSTICKLE
A small fish, the three-spined stickleback. - TIMEPLEASER
One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak. - MEN-PLEASER
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6. - DISPLEASER
One who displeases. - SUPERPLEASE
To please exceedingly. B. Jonson.