Word Meanings - WRIGGLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To move the body to and fro with short, writhing motions, like a worm; to squirm; to twist uneasily or quickly about. Both he and successors would often wriggle in their seats, as long as the cushion lasted. Swift.

Related words: (words related to WRIGGLE)

• LAST
  of Last, to endure, contracted from lasteth. Chaucer.
• SHORT-WITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• ABOUT
  On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14. 7. Concerning; with regard to; on account of; touching. "To treat about thy ransom." Milton. She must have her way about Sarah. Trollope. (more info)
• LASTERY
  A red color. Spenser.
• LASTE
  of Last, to endure. Chaucer.
• SHORT CIRCUIT
  A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity.
• SHORT-HANDED
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• SHORTHEAD
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• CUSHIONLESS
  Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.
• TWISTING
  a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7.
• SWIFTNESS
  The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.
• SWIFTLET
  Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.
• SHORTCAKE
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.
• SWIFTER
  A rope used to retain the bars of the capstan in their sockets while men are turning it. A rope used to encircle a boat longitudinally, to strengthen and defend her sides. The forward shroud of a lower mast.
• SHORTLY
  1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in
• UNEASILY
  In an uneasy manner.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• OFTENNESS
  Frequency. Hooker.
• SHORT-JOINTED
  Having short intervals between the joints; -- said of a plant or an animal, especially of a horse whose pastern is too short.
• PROPLASTIC
  Forming a mold.
• ODONTOPLAST
  An odontoblast.
• EVERLASTINGLY
  In an everlasting manner.
• APLASTIC
  Not plastic or easily molded.
• LABIOPLASTY
  A plastic operation for making a new lip, or for replacing a lost tissue of a lip.
• STOMATOPLASTIC
  Of or pertaining to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.
• EMPLASTER
  See WISEMAN (more info) plaster or salve, fr. Gr.
• MONOPLAST
  A monoplastic element.
• WOLLASTON'S DOUBLET
  A magnifying glass consisting of two plano-convex lenses. It is designed to correct spherical aberration and chromatic dispersion.
• PROTOPLASTIC
  First-formed. Howell.
• PHELLOPLASTICS
  Art of modeling in cork.
• DIPLOBLASTIC
  Characterizing the ovum when it has two primary germinal layers.
• ROUNDABOUTNESS
  The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness.
• WATER BALLAST
  Water confined in specially constructed compartments in a vessel's hold, to serve as ballast.
• BLASTMENT
  A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause. Shak.
• GALVANOPLASTY
  The art or process of electrotypy.