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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



194 words match “BROWNING”

CATES n.
r which Apicius could not pay. Shurchill. Choicest cates and the fiagon's best spilth. R. Browning.
CHAPLET v.
To adorn with a chaplet or with flowers. R. Browning.
CHILDLY adv.
Like a child. Mrs. Browning.
CLOUDLET n.
A little cloud. R. Browning. Eve's first star through fleecy cloudlet peeping. Coleridge.
COLLOPED a.
es or bunches of flesh, like collops. With that red, gaunt, and colloped neck astrain. R. Browning.
COLT PISTOL n.
acts and ejects the empty cartridge case, and reloads ready for another shot. Called also Browning, and Colt-Browning, pistol.
CONTRARIOUS a.
ety; repugnant; perverse. [Archaic] Milton. She flew contrarious in the face of God. Mrs. Browning.
COVE n.
(1654). Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. Mrs. Browning.
CRATEROUS a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, a crater. [R.] R. Browning.
CREANT a.
Creative; formative. [R.] Mrs. Browning.
CREEPY a.
by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.
CRINKLE v. 2 definitions
s through all the casements pushing forth, Like red-not devils crinkled into snakes. Mrs. Browning.
DARTLE v.
dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.
DEDUCTIBLE a.
away, or withdrawn. Not one found honestly deductible From any use that pleased him. Mrs. Browning.
DEVELOP v.
evelops year by year. Nor poets enough to understand That life develops from within. Mrs. Browning.
DILATION n.
The act of dilating, or the state of being dilated; expansion; dilatation. Mrs. Browning. At first her eye with slow dilation rolled. Tennyson. A gigantic dilation of the hateful figure. Dickens.
DIMPLEMENT n.
impled, or marked with gentle depressions. [R.] The ground's most gentle dimplement. Mrs. Browning.
DISCEPT v.
o discuss. [R.] One dissertates, he is candid; Two must discept, -- has distinguished. R. Browning.
DISENSHROUDED a.
Freed from a shroudlike covering; unveiled. The disenshrouded statue. R. Browning.
DISLOYAL a.
ct disloyal to the king; a husband disloyal to his wife. Without a thought disloyal. Mrs. Browning.
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