Word Meanings - VERMINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - 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 - BREAKABLE
Capable of being broken. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - BREADEN
Made of bread. - BREECHCLOTH
A cloth worn around the breech. - ARISTATE
Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray. - VERMINATION
1. The generation or breeding of vermin. Derham. 2. A griping of the bowels. - 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. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - BREADBASKET
The stomach. S. Foote. - BREWER
One who brews; one whose occupation is to prepare malt liquors. - 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. - BREAD
To spread. Ray. - 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, - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - HODGKIN'S DISEASE
A morbid condition characterized by progressive anæmia and enlargement of the lymphatic glands; -- first described by Dr. Hodgkin, an English physician. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - JUMPING DISEASE
A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine. - LIBRETTO
A book containing the words of an opera or extended piece of music. The words themselves. - LAWBREAKER
One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a. - IMPARISYLLABIC
Not consisting of an equal number of syllables; as, an imparisyllabic noun, one which has not the same number of syllables in all the cases; as, lapis, lapidis; mens, mentis. - PANDARISM
See SWIFT - SABRE
See SABER - SPANKING BREEZE
a strong breeze. - TIMBREL
A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal - PARISYLLABIC; PARISYLLABICAL
Having the same number of syllables in all its inflections. - CELLARIST
See CELLARER