Word Meanings - VILLANETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small villa.
Related words: (words related to VILLANETTE)
- VILLAGERY
Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak. - VILLANETTE
A small villa. - VILLANIZER
One who villanizes. - VILLA
A country seat; a country or suburban residence of some pretensions to elegance. Dryden. Cowper. (more info) vicus a village: cf. It. & F. villa. See Vicinity, and cf. Vill, - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - VILLANEL
A ballad. Cotton. - VILLAINOUS
1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine - VILLANY
See VILLAINY - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - VILLATIC
Of or pertaining to a farm or a village; rural. "Tame villatic fowl." Milton. - VILLANELLE
A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close. E. W. Gosse. - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - VILLANELLA
An old rustic dance, accompanied with singing. - VILLAINY
1. The quality or state of being a villain, or villainous; extreme depravity; atrocious wickedness; as, the villainy of the seducer. "Lucre of vilanye." Chaucer. The commendation is not in his wit, but in his villainy. Shak. 2. Abusive, reproachful - VILLANAGE
The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on I speak even now as if sin were condemned in a perpetual villanage, never to be manumitted. Milton. Some faint traces of villanage were detected by the curious so late as the days of the - VILLAGER
An inhabitant of a village. Brutus had rather be a villager Than to repute himself a son of Rome Under these hard condition. Shak. - VILLANOUS; VILLANOUSLY; VILLANOUSNESS
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A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - VILLANIZE
To make vile; to debase; to degrade; to revile. Were virtue by descent, a noble name Could never villanize his father's fame. Dryden. - OUTVILLAIN
To exceed in villainy. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - ALGAROVILLA
The agglutinated seeds and husks of the legumes of a South American tree . It is valuable for tanning leather, and as a dye.