Word Meanings - VOLUBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem , a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv. (more info) turn round; akin to Gr. welle

Additional info about word: VOLUBLE

Having the power or habit of turning or twining; as, the voluble stem of hop plants. Voluble stem , a stem that climbs by winding, or twining, round another body. -- Vol"u*ble*ness, n. -- Vol"u*bly, adv. (more info) turn round; akin to Gr. welle a wave: cf. F. voluble. Cf. F. Well of water, Convolvulus, Devolve, Involve, Revolt, Vault an arch, Volume, 1. Easily rolling or turning; easily set in motion; apt to roll; rotating; as, voluble particles of matter. 2. Moving with ease and smoothness in uttering words; of rapid speech; nimble in speaking; glib; as, a flippant, voluble, tongue. a knave very voluble. Shak. Note: Voluble was used formerly to indicate readiness of speech merely, without any derogatory suggestion. "A grave and voluble eloquence." Bp. Hacket. 3. Changeable; unstable; fickle.

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  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• WIND-RODE
  Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other. Totten.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• TWINLEAF
  See JEFFERSONIA
• WINDINGLY
  In a winding manner.
• WINDTIGHT
  So tight as to prevent the passing through of wind. Bp. Hall.
• ROUNDWORM
  A nematoid worm.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• WINDLACE
  See SCOTT
• HABITURE
  Habitude.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• ROUNDISH
  Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• TURNINGNESS
  The quality of turning; instability; tergiversation. Sir P. Sidney.
• TURNSTONE
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• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• WINDBORE
  The lower, or bottom, pipe in a lift of pumps in a mine. Ansted.
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• TURNING
  The pieces, or chips, detached in the process of turning from the material turned. (more info) 1. The act of one who, or that which, turns; also, a winding; a bending course; a fiexure; a meander. Through paths and turnings often trod
• TWINNER
  One who gives birth to twins; a breeder of twins. Tusser.
• RE-TURN
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• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
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• COHABITER
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• NOCTURNAL
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