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8,087 words match “RED”

HALF-BRED a. 2 definitions
Half-blooded. [Obs.]
HALF-TIMBERED a.
Constructed of a timber frame, having the spaces filled in with masonry; -- said of buildings.
HARD-FAVORED a.
Hard-featured; ill-looking; as, Vulcan was hard-favored. Dryden.
HARD-FAVOREDNESS n.
Coarseness of features.
HARD-FEATURED n.
Having coarse, unattractive or stern features. Smollett.
HARD-LABORED a.
Wrought with severe labor; elaborate; studied. Swift.
HARDFAVOREDNESS n.
Coarseness of features.
HATRED n.
Strong aversion; intense dislike; hate; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as evil.
HELLBRED a.
Produced in hell. Spenser.
HEREDITABILITY n.
State of being hereditable. Brydges.
HEREDITABLE a. 2 definitions
Capable of being inherited. See Inheritable. Locke.
HEREDITABLY adv.
By inheritance. W. Tooke.
HEREDITAMENT n.
Any species of property that may be inherited; lands, tenements, anything corporeal or incorporeal, real, personal, or mixed, that may descend to an heir. Blackstone.
HEREDITARILY adv.
By inheritance; in an hereditary manner. Pope.
HEREDITARY a. 2 definitions
ir at law; received or passing by inheritance, or that must pass by inheritance; as, an hereditary estate or crown.
HEREDITY n.
Hereditary transmission of the physical and psychical qualities of parents to their offspring; the biological law by which living beings tend to repeat their characteristics in their descendants. See Pangenesis.
HIGH-BRED a.
Bred in high life; of pure blood. Byron.
HIGH-COLORED a. 2 definitions
Vivid; strong or forcible in representation; hence, exaggerated; as, high-colored description.
HIGH-RED a.
Of a strong red color.
HOARED a.
Moldy; musty. [Obs.] Granmer.
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