Word Meanings - VERMIFUGAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tending to prevent, destroy, or expel, worms or vermin; anthelmintic.

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• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• VERMINATION
  1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• 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.
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• VERMIN
  F. vermine, from L. vermis a worm; cf. LL. vermen a worm, L. 1. An animal, in general. Wherein were all manner of fourfooted beasts of the earth, and vermin, and worms, and fowls. Acts x. 12. . This crocodile is a mischievous fourfooted beast,
• PREVENTABLE
  Capable of being prevented or hindered; as, preventable diseases.
• PREVENTINGLY
  So as to prevent or hinder.
• PREVENT
  1. To go before; to precede; hence, to go before as a guide; to direct. We which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 1 Thess. iv. 15. We pray thee that thy grace may always prevent and follow
• TENDRESSE
  Tender feeling; fondness.
• TENDON
  A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally
• PREVENTABILITY
  The quality or state of being preventable.
• TENDRILED; TENDRILLED
  Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.
• EXPELLER
  One who. or that which, expels.
• TENDRIL
  A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally. Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as
• VERMINATE
  To breed vermin.
• TENDER-HEARTED
  Having great sensibility; susceptible of impressions or influence; affectionate; pitying; sensitive. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ly, adv. -- Ten"der-heart`ed*ness, n. Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them. 2 Chron. xiii. 7.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• IMPREVENTABILITY
  The state or quality of being impreventable.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• INTENDENT
  See N
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• OBTEND
  1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ENTEND
  To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer.
• PRETENDER
  The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident
• PRETENDANT
  A pretender; a claimant.