Word Meanings - VERMINATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels.
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- VERMINATION
1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels. - 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, - GRIPPLE
A grasp; a gripe. Spenser. - GRIPSACK
A traveler's handbag. - GRIPINGLY
In a griping or oppressive manner. Bacon. - GRIPER
One who gripes; an oppressor; an extortioner. Burton. - VERMINATE
To breed vermin. - VERMINOUSLY
In a verminous manner. - GRIPMAN
The man who manipulates a grip. - GRIPPLENESS
The quality of being gripple. - BREEDING
1. The act or process of generating or bearing. 2. The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding. 3. Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. - BREEDER
1. One who, or that which, breeds, produces, brings up, etc. She was a great breeder. Dr. A. Carlyle. Italy and Rome have been the best breeders of worthy men. Ascham. 2. A cause. "The breeder of my sorrow." Shak. - GENERATION
The formation or production of any geometrical magnitude, as a line, a surface, a solid, by the motion, in accordance with a mathematical law, of a point or a magnitude; as, the generation of a line or curve by the motion of a point, of a surface - GRIPEFUL
Disposed to gripe; extortionate. - BREEDBATE
One who breeds or originates quarrels. "No telltale nor no breedbate." Shak. - GRIP CAR
A car with a grip to clutch a traction cable. - VERMINOUS
1. Tending to breed vermin; infested by vermin. Some . . . verminous disposition of the body. Harvey. 2. Caused by, or arising from the presence of, vermin; as, verminous disease. - BREED
brood; akin to D. broeden to brood, OHG. bruoten, G. brĂ¼ten. See 1. To produce as offspring; to bring forth; to bear; to procreate; to generate; to beget; to hatch. Yet every mother breeds not sons alike. Shak. If the sun breed maggots in a dead - VERMINLY
Resembling vermin; in the manner of vermin. Gauden. - GRIP
The griffin. - INGENERATION
Act of ingenerating. - UNREGENERATION
Unregeneracy. - INTERBREED
To breed by crossing different stocks of animals or plants. - CROSSBREED
1. A breed or an animal produced from parents of different breeds; a new variety, as of plants, combining the qualites of two parent varieties or stocks. 2. Anything partaking of the natures of two different things; a hybrid. - DEGENERATION
That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure; as, fatty degeneration of the liver. (more info) 1. The act or state of growing worse, - OVERBREED
To breed to excess. - UPBREED
To rear, or bring up; to nurse. "Upbred in a foreign country." Holinshed. - PROGENERATION
The act of begetting; propagation. - WALLERIAN DEGENERATION
A form of degeneration occurring in nerve fibers as a result of their division; -- so called from Dr. Waller, who published an account of it in 1850. - HALF-BREED
Half-blooded. - HANDYGRIPE
Seizure by, or grasp of, the hand; also, close quarters in fighting. Hudibras.