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Word Meanings - UNCOMELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner. 1 Cor. vii. 36.

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  • PLAINTIVE
    1. Repining; complaining; lamenting. Dryden. 2. Expressive of sorrow or melancholy; mournful; sad. "The most plaintive ditty." Landor. -- Plain"tive*ly, adv. -- Plain"tive*ness, n.
  • COURSED
    1. Hunted; as, a coursed hare. 2. Arranged in courses; as, coursed masonry.
  • PLAINTIFF
    One who commences a personal action or suit to obtain a remedy for an injury to his rights; -- opposed to Ant: defendant. (more info) French equiv. to plaignant complainant, prosecutor, fr. plaindre. See
  • COURSE
    1. The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage. And when we had finished our course from Tyre, we came to Ptolemais. Acts xxi. 7. 2. THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket.
  • PLAINT
    A private memorial tendered to a court, in which a person sets forth his cause of action; the exhibiting of an action in writing. Blackstone. (more info) planctum , to beat, beat the breast, lament. Cf. 1. Audible expression of sorrow;
  • PLAINLY
    In a plain manner; clearly.
  • PLAIN-SPOKEN
    Speaking with plain, unreserved sincerity; also, spoken sincerely; as, plain-spoken words. Dryden.
  • PLAINTLESS
    Without complaint; unrepining. "Plaintless patience." Savage.
  • PLAIN-HEARTED
    Frank; sincere; artless. Milton. -- Plain"-heart`ed*ness, n.
  • HOMELYN
    The European sand ray ; -- called also home, mirror ray, and rough ray.
  • PLAINSMAN
    One who lives in the plains.
  • COURSEY
    A space in the galley; a part of the hatches. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
  • UNCOMELY
    Not comely. -- adv. In an uncomely manner. 1 Cor. vii. 36.
  • PLAIN-DEALING
    Practicing plain dealing; artless. See Plain dealing, under Dealing. Shak.
  • PLAIN
    To lament; to bewail; to complain. Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.
  • PLAINTFUL
    Containing a plaint; complaining; expressing sorrow with an audible voice. "My plaintful tongue." Sir P. Sidney.
  • HOMELY
    1. Belonging to, or having the characteristics of, home; domestic; familiar; intimate. With all these men I was right homely, and communed with, them long and oft. Foxe. Their homely joys, and destiny obscure. Gray. 2. Plain; unpretending; rude
  • PLAINNESS
    The quality or state of being plain.
  • PLAINANT
    One who makes complaint; the plaintiff.
  • PLAINING
    Complaint. Shak.
  • RECOURSEFUL
    Having recurring flow and ebb; moving alternately. Drayton.
  • CHAMPLAIN PERIOD
    A subdivision of the Quaternary age immediately following the Glacial period; -- so named from beds near Lake Champlain. Note: The earlier deposits of this period are diluvial in character, as if formed in connection with floods attending
  • EXPLAIN
    out+plandare to make level or plain, planus plain: cf. OF. esplaner, 1. To flatten; to spread out; to unfold; to expand. The horse-chestnut is . . . ready to explain its leaf. Evelyn. 2. To make plain, manifest, or intelligible; to clear
  • INTERCOURSE
    A This sweet intercourse Of looks and smiles. Milton. Sexual intercourse, sexual or carnal connection; coition. Syn. -- Communication; connection; commerce; communion; fellowship; familiarity; acquaintance. (more info) commerce, exchange,
  • DISCOURSE
    fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range
  • DISCOURSER
    1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer. In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward. 2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation. Philologers and critical discoursers. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLOCKING COURSE
    The finishing course of a wall showing above a cornice.
  • CONCOURSE
    1. A moving, flowing, or running together; confluence. The good frame of the universe was not the product of chance or fortuitous concourse of particles of matter. Sir M. Hale. 2. An assembly; a gathering formed by a voluntary or spontaneous moving
  • CHAPLAINSHIP
    1. The office or business of a chaplain. The Bethesda of some knight's chaplainship. Milton. 2. The possession or revenue of a chapel. Johnson.

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