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Word Meanings - WILDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To bewilder; to perplex. Long lost and wildered in the maze of fate. Pope. Again the wildered fancy dreams Of spouting fountains, frozen as they rose. Bryant. (more info) bewildered, villa to bewilder; cf. AS. wildor a wild animal. See

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  • SPOUTSHELL
    Any marine gastropod shell of the genus Apporhais having an elongated siphon. See Illust. under Rostrifera.
  • ANIMALIZATION
    1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
  • VILLAGERY
    Villages; a district of villages. "The maidens of the villagery." Shak.
  • ANIMALCULISM
    The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
  • ANIMALITY
    Animal existence or nature. Locke.
  • AGAINSTAND
    To withstand.
  • VILLANETTE
    A small villa.
  • ANIMALLY
    Physically. G. Eliot.
  • VILLANIZER
    One who villanizes.
  • ANIMALNESS
    Animality.
  • 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,
  • AGAINSAY
    To gainsay. Wyclif.
  • VILLANEL
    A ballad. Cotton.
  • ANIMALCULIST
    1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
  • PERPLEX
    1. To involve; to entangle; to make intricate or complicated, and difficult to be unraveled or understood; as, to perplex one with doubts. No artful wildness to perplex the scene. Pope. What was thought obscure, perplexed, and too hard for our
  • SPOUTLESS
    Having no spout. Cowper.
  • FANCYWORK
    Ornamental work with a needle or hook, as embroidery, crocheting, netting, etc.
  • ANIMAL
    1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
  • AGAIN
    again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
  • FANCYMONGER
    A lovemonger; a whimsical lover. Shak.
  • OUTVILLAIN
    To exceed in villainy.
  • UNPERPLEX
    To free from perplexity. Donne.
  • THEREAGAIN
    In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
  • DISFANCY
    To dislike.
  • INFANCY
    The state or condition of one under age, or under the age of twenty-one years; nonage; minority. (more info) 1. The state or period of being an infant; the first part of life; early childhood. The babe yet lies in smiling infancy. Milton. Their

 

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