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9,281 words match “EAR”

DEARNESS n. 2 definitions
The quality or state of being dear; costliness; excess of price. The dearness of corn. Swift.
DEARTH n.
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. Dryden.
DEARTICULATE v.
To disjoint.
DEARWORTH a.
Precious. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
DEARY n.
A dear; a darling. [Familiar]
DISAPPEAR v. 2 definitions
To cease to appear or to be perceived; to pass from view, gradually or suddenly; to vanish; to be no longer seen; as, darkness disappears at the approach of light; a ship disappears as she sails from port.
DISAPPEARANCE n.
The act of disappearing; cessation of appearance; removal from sight; vanishing. Addison.
DISAPPEARING n.
p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear.
DISHEART v.
To dishearten. [Obs.]
DISHEARTEN v.
hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.
DISHEARTENMENT n.
Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.
DOG'S-EAR n.
The corner of a leaf, in a book, turned down like the ear of a dog. Gray. -- Dog's"-eared`, a. Cowper.
DOG-EARED a.
reless or long-continued usage; -- said of a book. Statute books before unopened, not dog-eared. Ld. Mansfield.
DOG-HEARTED a.
Inhuman; cruel. Shak.
DOG-WEARY a.
Extremely weary. Shak.
DOUBLEHEARTED a.
Having a false heart; deceitful; treacherous. Sandys.
DOWNBEAR v.
To bear down; to depress.
DOWNHEARTED a.
Dejected; low-spirited.
DRAWGEAR n. 2 definitions
A harness for draught horses.
DREAR a. 2 definitions
Dismal; gloomy with solitude. "A drear and dying sound." Milton.
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