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