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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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427 words match “LATTER”

To exceed in flattering.

PLATTER n. 2 definitions

is brought to the table. The attendants . . . speedly brought in several large, smoking platters, filled with huge pieces of beef. Sir W. Scott.

PLATTER-FACED a.

Having a broad, flat face.

To be careless, negligent, or aswkward, esp. with regard to dress and neatness; to be wasteful. Ray.

SLATTERN a. 3 definitions

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; slatterny. "The slattern air." Gay.

SLATTERNLINESS n.

The quality or state of being slatternly; slovenliness; untidiness.

SLATTERNLY a. 2 definitions

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

SLATTERPOUCH n.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gayton.

To spatter; to splash.

SPLATTERDASH n.

Uproar. Jamieson.

the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.

servile; groveling; despicable; as, abject posture, fortune, thoughts. "Base and abject flatterers." Addison. "An abject liar." Macaulay. And banish hence these abject, lowly dreams. Shak.

Pertaining to, containing, or derived from, acetyl, as acetic ether, acetic acid. The latter is the acid to which the sour taste of vinegar is due.

mpound of carbon and hydrogen, in the proportion of two atoms of the former to two of the latter. It is a colorless gas, with a peculiar, unpleasant odor, and is produced for use as an illuminating gas in a number of ways, but chiefly by the action of water on calcium carbide. Its light is very brilliant. Watts.…

An addition, or a thing added. Fuller. My persuasion that the latter verses of the chapter were an additament of a later age. Coleridge.

To flatter in a servile way. Byron.

Servile flattery; praise in excess, or beyond what is merited. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out With titles blown from adulation Shak.

A servile or hypocritical flatterer. Carlyle.

Containing excessive praise or compliment; servilely praising; flattering; as, an adulatory address. A mere rant of adulatory freedom. Burke.

A woman who flatters with servility.