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353 words match “READY”

TEMPER v.
have or get a proper or desired state or quality; to grow soft and pliable. I have him already tempering between my finger and my thumb, and shortly will I seal with him. Shak.
TEMPORIZER n.
s with the prevailing opinions, fashions, or occasions; a trimmer. A sort of temporizers, ready to embrace and maintain all that is, or shall be, proposed, in hope of preferment. Burton.
TEXTMAN n.
One ready in quoting texts. [R.] Bp. Sanderston.
THANKFUL a.
Impressed with a sense of kindness received, and ready to acknowledge it; grateful. Be thankful unto him, and bless his name. Ps. c. 4. -- Thank"ful*ly, adv. -- Thank"ful*ness, n.
THREADINESS n.
Quality of being thready.
TIFT n.
A fit of pettishness, or slight anger; a tiff. After all your fatigue you seem as ready for a tift with me as if you had newly come from church. Blackwood's Mag.
TIMBER n.
A single piece or squared stick of wood intended for building, or already framed; collectively, the larger pieces or sticks of wood, forming the framework of a house, ship, or other structure, in distinction from the covering or boarding. So they prepared timber . . . to build the house. 1 Kings v. 18. Many of the timb…
TO prep. 2 definitions
rbal noun, and connecting it as indirect object with a preceding verb or adjective; thus, ready to go, i.e., ready unto going; good to eat, i.e., good for eating; I do my utmost to lead my life pleasantly. But it has come to be the almost constant prefix to the infinitive, even in situations where it has no preposition…
TONGUY a.
Ready or voluble in speaking; as, a tonguy speaker. [Written also tonguey.] [Colloq.]
TOWARD a.
Ready to act; forward; bold; valiant. Why, that is spoken like a toward prince. Shak.
TRANCE n.
visions; an ecstasy. And he became very hungry, and would have eaten; but while they made ready, he fell into a trance. Acts. x. 10. My soul was ravished quite as in a trance. Spenser.
TRIDE a.
Short and ready; fleet; as, a tride pace; -- a term used by sportsmen. Bailey.
TRIM v. 2 definitions
To make ready or right by cutting or shortening; to clip or lop; to curtail; as, to trim the hair; to trim a tree. " And trimmed the cheerful lamp." Byron.
TROWELED n.
d with a trowel; smoothed with a trowel; as, troweled stucco, that is, stucco laid on and ready for the reception of paint. [Written also trowelled.]
TUMBLE-DOWN a.
Ready to fall; dilapidated; ruinous; as, a tumble-down house. [Colloq.]
UNBURIABLE a.
Not ready or not proper to be buried. Tennyson.
UNDERGO v.
To undertake; to engage in; to hazard. [Obs.] I have moved already Some certain of the noblest-minded Romans To undergo with me an enterprise. Shak.
UNDERMEAL n.
fternoon nap; a siesta. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Another great supper, or undermeal, was made ready for them, coming home from ditching and plowing. Withals (1608). I think I am furnished with Cattern [Catharine] pears for one undermeal. B. Jonson. In a narrower limit than the forty years' undermeal of the seven sleepers.…
UNDERPINNING n.
underpinned; the material and construction used for support, introduced beneath a wall already constructed.
UNREADINESS n.
The quality or state of being unready.
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