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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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.

 

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