Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Eventuation

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Eventuation \E*ven`tu*a"tion\, n. The act of eventuating or happening as a result; the outcome. --R. W. Hamilton.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

Peruse

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Peruse \Pe*ruse"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perused; p. pr. & vb. n. Perusing.] [Pref. per- + use.] 1. To observe; to examine with care. [R.] Myself I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed. --Milton. 2. To read through; to read carefully. --Shak.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Stippled

Websters 1828 Dictionary
Stippled STIPPLED, pp. Engraved with dots.

WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
stippled adj 1: having a pattern of dots [syn: dotted, flecked, specked, speckled, stippled

Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary
stippled A surface that is stippled is covered with tiny spots. The room remains simple with bare, stippled green walls. ADJ

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Stipple \Stip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stippled; p. pr. & vb. n. Stippling.] [D. stippelen to make points, to spot, dot, from stippel, dim. of stip a dot, spot.] 1. To engrave by means of dots, in distinction from engraving in lines. The interlaying of small pieces can not altogether avoid a broken, stippled, spotty effect. --Milman. 2. To paint, as in water colors, by small, short touches which together produce an even or softly graded surface.

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
34 Moby Thesaurus words for "stippled": bespangled, blotched, blotchy, dotted, dotty, flea-bitten, flecked, fleckered, frecked, freckled, freckly, macular, maculate, maculated, patchy, peppered, pocked, pockmarked, pocky, pointille, pointillistic, polka-dot, punctated, spangled, specked, speckled, speckledy, speckly, splotched, splotchy, spotted, spotty, sprinkled, studded

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Clairvoyance

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Clairvoyance \Clair*voy"ance\, n. [F.] A power, attributed to some persons while in a mesmeric state, of discering objects not perceptible by the senses in their normal condition.

Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms
clairvoyance n. Seeing without eyes, seeing in a mesmeric state, trance-vision.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Vandyke Beard

WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
vandyke beard n 1: a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) [syn: vandyke beard, vandyke]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Vandyke beard \Van*dyke" beard`\ A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

Nosey-Parker

WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
nosey-parker n 1: a person who meddles in the affairs of others [syn: busybody, nosy-parker, nosey-parker

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Ultraconservative

WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005)
ultraconservative adj 1: extremely conservative n 1: an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism [syn: reactionary, ultraconservative, extreme right-winger]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
57 Moby Thesaurus words for "ultraconservative": Bircher, Bourbon, Tory, anarchistic, anarcho-syndicalist, backward, conservationist, conservatist, conservative, die-hard, diehard, extreme, extreme right-winger, extremist, extremistic, fogy, fogyish, hard hat, imperialist, laudator temporis acti, mildly radical, monarchist, mossback, nihilistic, nonprogressive, old fogy, old school, old-fashioned, old-fogyish, old-line, opposed to change, pink, preservative, radical, radical right, reactionarist, reactionary, reactionist, red, revolutionary, revolutionist, right, right of center, right wing, right-wing, right-winger, rightist, royalist, social Darwinist, standpat, standpatter, stick-in-the-mud, subversive, syndicalist, ultraist, ultraistic, unprogressive