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58 words match “AMOROUS”

An amorous side glance or look. Byron.

OPEN-MOUTHED a.

Having the mouth open; gaping; hence, greedy; clamorous. L'Estrange.

To pat or stroke amorously, or gently. To be paddling palms and pinching fingers. Shak.

to prove an affirmation; to appeal to. Fiercely [they] opposed My journey strange, with clamorous uproar Protesting fate supreme. Milton. To protest a bill or note (Law), to make a solemn written declaration, in due form, on behalf of the holder, against all parties liable for any loss or damage to be sustained by the…

A prostitute; -- so called because the quail was thought to be a very amorous bird.[Obs.] Shak. Bustard quail (Zoöl.), a small Asiatic quail-like bird of the genus Turnix, as T. taigoor, a black-breasted species, and the hill bustard quail (T. ocellatus). See Turnix. -- Button quail (Zoöl.), one of several small Asiat…

Honeycomb . . . raillies me upon a country life. Addison. Strephon had long confessed his amorous pain. Which gay Corinna rallied with disdain. Gay.

The sound of a drum when continuously beaten; hence, a clamorous, repeated sound; a clatter. The rubadub of the abolition presses. D. Webster.

One who scolds, or makes a practice of scolding; esp., a rude, clamorous woman; a shrew. She is an irksome, brawling scold. Shak.

A loud kiss; a buss. "A clamorous smack." Shak.

SMICKER v. 2 definitions

To look amorously or wantonly; to smirk.

Amorous glance or inclination. [Obs.] "A smickering to our young lady." Dryden.

To involve; to insnare; to entrap; as, to be tangled in lies. "Tangled in amorous nets." Milton. When my simple weakness strays, Tangled in forbidden ways. Crashaw.

he end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress. Lay trains of amorous intrigues In towers, and curls, and periwigs. Hudibras.

TOY n. 2 definitions

Amorous dalliance; play; sport; pastime. Milton. To dally thus with death is no fit toy. Spenser.

Noisy; clamorous. Gauden. R. Browning.

One who vociferates, or is clamorous. [R.]

Making a loud outcry; clamorous; noisy; as, vociferous heralds. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Vo*cif"er*ous*ness, n.

ch wafers are baked. -- Wafer woman, a woman who sold wafer cakes; also, one employed in amorous intrigues. Beau. & Fl.