Word Meanings - WITHERING - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.
Related words: (words related to WITHERING)
- CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - CAUSATIVE
1. Effective, as a cause or agent; causing. Causative in nature of a number of effects. Bacon. 2. Expressing a cause or reason; causal; as, the ablative is a causative case. - CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté. - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDANCE
1. The act of attending or waiting; attendance. Spenser. The breath Of her sweet tendance hovering over him. Tennyson. 2. Persons in attendance; attendants. Shak. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - SHRINKINGLY
In a shrinking manner. - CAUSATOR
One who causes. Sir T. Browne. - CAUSTICILY
1. The quality of being caustic; corrosiveness; as, the causticity of potash. 2. Severity of language; sarcasm; as, the causticity of a reply or remark. - CAUSAL
A causal word or form of speech. Anglo-Saxon drencan to drench, causal of Anglo-Saxon drincan to drink. Skeat. - TENDRESSE
Tender feeling; fondness. - SHRINKING
from Shrink. Shrinking head , a body of molten metal connected with a mold for the purpose of supplying metal to compensate for the shrinkage of the casting; -- called also sinking head, and riser. - TENDON
A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew. Tendon reflex , a kind of reflex act in which a muscle is made to contract by a blow upon its tendon. Its absence is generally - CAUSATIVELY
In a causative manner. - WITHER-WRUNG
Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse. - CAUSTICALLY
In a caustic manner. - CAUSATIONIST
One who believes in the law of universal causation. - WITHERED
Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall. - WITHERS
The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr. - SHRINKER
One who shrinks; one who withdraws from danger. - ANTICAUSODIC
See ANTICAUSOTIC - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - INTENDENT
See N - INTENDIMENT
Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser. - OBTEND
1. To oppose; to hold out in opposition. Dryden. 2. To offer as the reason of anything; to pretend. Dryden - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - ENTEND
To attend to; to apply one's self to. Chaucer. - PRETENDER
The pretender , the son or the grandson of James II., the heir of the royal family of Stuart, who laid claim to the throne of Great Britain, from which the house was excluded by law. It is the shallow, unimproved intellects that are the confident - PRETENDANT
A pretender; a claimant. - PORTEND
to impend, from an old preposition used in comp. + tendere to 1. To indicate as in future; to foreshow; to foretoken; to bode; -- now used esp. of unpropitious signs. Bacon. Many signs portended a dark and stormy day. Macaulay. 2. To stretch - ATTENDMENT
An attendant circumstance. The uncomfortable attendments of hell. Sir T. Browne.