Word Meanings - UNPLEASANTRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Want of pleasantry. 2. A state of disagreement; a falling out. Thackeray.
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- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - FALLALS; FAL-LALS
Gay ornaments; frippery; gewgaws. Thackeray. - STATEHOOD
The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood. - FALLER
A part which acts by falling, as a stamp in a fulling mill, or the device in a spinning machine to arrest motion when a thread breaks. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, falls. - FALLOW
Left untilled or unsowed after plowing; uncultivated; as, fallow ground. Fallow chat, Fallow finch , a small European bird, the wheatear . See Wheatear. (more info) vaal fallow, faded, OHG. falo, G. falb, fahl, Icel. fölr, and prob. to Lith. - STATE SOCIALISM
A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to - FALLOPIAN
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Fallopius; as, the Fallopian tubes or oviducts, the ducts or canals which conduct the ova from the ovaries to the uterus. - FALLENCY
An exception. Jer. Taylor. - STATECRAFT
The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship. - FALLEN
Dropped; prostrate; degraded; ruined; decreased; dead. Some ruined temple or fallen monument. Rogers. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - FALLFISH
A fresh-water fish of the United States ; - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species. - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - FALLING
from Fall, v. i. Falling away, Falling off, etc. See To fall away, To fall off, etc., under Fall, v. i. -- Falling band, the plain, broad, linen collar turning down over the doublet, worn in the early part of the 17th century. -- Falling sickness - STATEDLY
At stated times; regularly. - FALLIBLY
In a fallible manner. - FALLAX
Cavillation; a caviling. Cranmer. - STATELESS
Without state or pomp. - STATEMONGER
One versed in politics, or one who dabbles in state affairs. - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - SAGEBRUSH STATE
Nevada; -- a nickname. - THRYFALLOW
To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser. - OLD LINE STATE
Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line. - ENSTATE
See INSTATE - KATASTATE
A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic. - BAYOU STATE
Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous. - UNFALLIBLE
Infallible. Shak. - REESTATE
To reëstablish. Walis. - BLACKWATER STATE
Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - BICOSTATE
Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf. - MISFALL
To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily. Chaucer. - TRIPLICOSTATE
Three-ribbed. - DEHONESTATE
To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see - DEVASTATE
To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.