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Word Meanings - VORACIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Greedy in eating; very hungry; eager to devour or swallow; ravenous; gluttonous; edacious; rapacious; as, a voracious man or appetite; a voracious gulf or whirlpool. Dampier. -- Vo*ra"cious*ly, adv. -- Vo*ra"cious*ness, n.

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  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • GREETING
    Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak. Syn. -- Salutation; salute; compliment.
  • GREENLET
    l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species
  • GRENADO
    See GRENADE
  • RAVENOUS
    1. Devouring with rapacious eagerness; furiously voracious; hungry even to rage; as, a ravenous wolf or vulture. 2. Eager for prey or gratification; as, a ravenous appetite or desire. -- Rav"en*ous*ly, adv. -- Rav"en*ous*ness, n.
  • GREENSAND
    A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because
  • GREENFISH
    See POLLOCK
  • GREENOCKITE
    Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation.
  • HUNGRY
    1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
  • GREAT-HEARTED
    1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
  • GREAT-GRANDFATHER
    The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
  • GREENHOUSE
    A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather.
  • GREENWEED
    See GREENBROOM
  • GREASINESS
    The quality or state of being greasy, oiliness; unctuousness; grossness.
  • GRASP
    1. To seize and hold by clasping or embracing with the fingers or arms; to catch to take possession of. Thy hand is made to grasp a palmer's staff. Shak. 2. To lay hold of with the mind; to become thoroughly acquainted or conversant with;
  • GREENHORN
    A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving.
  • GREEN-STALL
    A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale.
  • GREMIAL
    Of or pertaining to the lap or bosom.
  • GRE
    See STEP
  • GREENISH
    Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n.
  • ARM-GRET
    Great as a man's arm. A wreath of gold, arm-gret. Chaucer.
  • AGGREGATOR
    One who aggregates.
  • SANGRAAL; SANGREAL
    See GRAIL
  • DISAGREEABLENESS
    The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
  • INGREAT
    To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
  • UNPEDIGREED
    Not distinguished by a pedigree. Pollok.
  • REGREDE
    To go back; to retrograde, as the apsis of a planet's orbit. Todhunter.
  • AMBERGREASE
    See AMBERGRIS
  • RETROGRESS
    Retrogression. H. Spenser.
  • OVERGREEDY
    Excessively greedy.
  • CONGRESSIVE
    Encountering, or coming together. Sir T. Browne.
  • AYEGREEN
    The houseleek . Halliwell.

 

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