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Word Meanings - UPWREATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To rise with a curling motion; to curl upward, as smoke. Longfellow.

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  • MOTIONER
    One who makes a motion; a mover. Udall.
  • MOTIONIST
    A mover.
  • CURLY
    Curling or tending to curl; having curls; full of ripples; crinkled.
  • MOTION PICTURE
    A moving picture.
  • MOTIONLESS
    Without motion; being at rest.
  • SMOKEHOUSE
    A building where meat or fish is cured by subjecting it to a dense smoke.
  • SMOKELESS POWDER
    A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
  • MOTION
    An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant. Mozley & W. (more info) 1. The act, process, or state of changing place or position;
  • SMOKESTACK
    A chimney; esp., a pipe serving as a chimney, as the pipe which carries off the smoke of a locomotive, the funnel of a steam vessel, etc.
  • SMOKE BALL
    See PUFFBALL
  • CURLEW
    A wading bird of the genus Numenius, remarkable for its long, slender, curved bill. Note: The common European curlew is N. arquatus. The long-billed (N. longirostris), the Hudsonian , and the Eskimo curlew (N. borealis, are American species. The
  • CURL
    To shape into a curve. (more info) 1. To twist or form into ringlets; to crisp, as the hair. But curl their locks with bodkins and with braid. Cascoigne. 2. To twist or make onto coils, as a serpent's body. Of his tortuous train, Curled many
  • SMOKEJACK
    A contrivance for turning a spit by means of a fly or wheel moved by the current of ascending air in a chimney.
  • CURLINESS
    State of being curly.
  • CURLER
    1. One who, or that which, curls. 2. A player at the game called curling. Burns.
  • CURLED
    Having curls; curly; sinuous; wavy; as, curled maple (maple having fibers which take a sinnuous course). Curled hair , the hair of the manes and tails of horses, prepared for upholstery purposes. McElrath.
  • CURLYCUE
    Some thing curled or spiral,, as a flourish made with a pen on paper, or with skates on the ice; a trick; a frolicsome caper. To cut a curlycue, to make a flourish; to cut a caper. I gave a flourishing about the room and cut a curlycue with my right
  • CURLING
    1. The act or state of that which curls; as, the curling of smoke when it rises; the curling of a ringlet; also, the act or process of one who curls something, as hair, or the brim of hats. 2. A scottish game in which heavy weights of stone or
  • SMOKELESS
    Making or having no smoke. "Smokeless towers." Pope.
  • CURLINGLY
    With a curl, or curls.
  • EXCITO-MOTION
    Motion excited by reflex nerves. See Excito-motory.
  • NERVIMOTION
    The movement caused in the sensory organs by external agents and transmitted to the muscles by the nerves. Dunglison.
  • IDEO-MOTION
    An ideo-motor movement.
  • BESMOKE
    1. To foul with smoke. 2. To harden or dry in smoke. Johnson.
  • PREMOTION
    Previous motion or excitement to action.
  • ELECTRO-MOTION
    The motion of electricity or its passage from one metal to another in a voltaic circuit; mechanical action produced by means of electricity.
  • UNCURL
    To loose from curls, or ringlets; to straighten out, as anything curled or curly. He sheaths his paw, uncurls his angry mane. Dryden.
  • LINK MOTION
    A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very
  • EMOTIONALIZE
    To give an emotional character to. Brought up in a pious family where religion was not talked about emotionalized, but was accepted as the rule of thought and conduct. Froude.
  • EMOTIONALISM
    The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.
  • COMMOTION
    1. Disturbed or violent motion; agitation. commotion in the winds! Shak. 2. A popular tumult; public disturbance; riot. When ye shall hear of wars and commotions. Luke xxi. 9. 3. Agitation, perturbation, or disorder, of mind; heat; excitement.

 

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