Word Meanings - VISORED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Wearing a visor; masked. Visored falsehood and base forgery. Milton.

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• WEARIABLE
  That may be wearied.
• WEARING
  1. The act of one who wears; the manner in which a thing wears; use; conduct; consumption. Belike he meant to ward, and there to see his wearing. Latimer. 2. That which is worn; clothes; garments. Give me my nightly wearing and adieu. Shak.
• WEARILY
  In a weary manner.
• MASK SHELL
  Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
• WEARABLE
  Capable of being worn; suitable to be worn.
• WEARILESS
  Incapable of being wearied.
• MASK
  A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron. In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. A screen for a battery. (more
• WEARISH
  1. Weak; withered; shrunk. "A wearish hand." Ford. A little, wearish old man, very melancholy by nature. Burton. 2. Insipid; tasteless; unsavory. Wearish as meat is that is not well tasted. Palsgrave.
• FORGERY
  1. The act of forging metal into shape. Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton. 2. The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purporting to be
• MASKER
  One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
• WEAR
  See WEIR
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• WEARER
  1. One who wears or carries as appendant to the body; as, the wearer of a cloak, a sword, a crown, a shackle, etc. Cowls, hoods, and habits, with their wearers, tossed, And fluttered into rags. Milton. 2. That which wastes or diminishes.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• MASKINONGE
  The muskellunge.
• FALSEHOOD
  1. Want of truth or accuracy; an untrue assertion or representation; error; misrepresentation; falsity. Though it be a lie in the clock, it is but a falsehood in the hand of the dial when pointing at a wrong hour, if rightly following the direction
• WEARY
  1. Having the strength exhausted by toil or exertion; worn out in respect to strength, endurance, etc.; tired; fatigued. I care not for my spirits if my legs were not weary. Shak. am weary, thinking of your task. Longfellow. 2. Causing weariness;
• WEARINESS
  The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue. With weariness and wine oppressed. Dryden. A man would die, though he were neither valiant nor miserable, only upon a weariness to do the same thing so oft
• WEARIFUL
  Abounding in qualities which cause weariness; wearisome. -- Wea"ri*ful*ly, adv.
• WEARISOME
  Causing weariness; tiresome; tedious; weariful; as, a wearisome march; a wearisome day's work; a wearisome book. These high wild hills and rough uneven ways Draws out our miles, and makes them wearisome. Shak. Syn. -- Irksome; tiresome; tedious;
• BERGOMASK
  A rustic dance, so called in ridicule of the people of Bergamo, in Italy, once noted for their clownishness.
• MAINSWEAR
  To swear falsely. Blount.
• ANTIC-MASK
  An antimask. B. Jonson.
• FORSWEARER
  One who rejects of renounces upon oath; one who swears a false oath.
• UNWEARY
  To cause to cease being weary; to refresh. Dryden.
• PROVISORILY
  In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.
• SUPRAVISOR
  A supervisor.
• ANTIMASK
  A secondary mask, or grotesque interlude, between the parts of a serious mask. Bacon.
• SWEARER
  1. One who swears; one who calls God to witness for the truth of his declaration. 2. A profane person; one who uses profane language. Then the liars and swearers are fools. Shak.
• SUPERVISORY
  Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.
• PROVISORSHIP
  The office or position of a provisor. J. Webster.
• UNWEARIED
  Not wearied; not fatigued or tired; hence, persistent; not tiring or wearying; indefatigable. -- Un*wea"ried*ly, adv. -- Un*wea"ried*ness, n.
• LIFE-WEARY
  Weary of living. Shak.
• ADVISORY
  Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.