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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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4,399 words match “IRE”

DIRECTOIRE STYLE n.
A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.
DIRECTOR n. 4 definitions
One who, or that which, directs; one who regulates, guides, or orders; a manager or superintendent. In all affairs thou sole director. Swift.
DIRECTORATE n.
The office of director; also, a body of directors taken jointly.
DIRECTORIAL a. 2 definitions
Having the quality of a director, or authoritative guide; directive.
DIRECTORSHIP n.
The condition or office of a director; directorate.
DIRECTORY a. 5 definitions
Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial.
DIRECTRESS n.
A woman who directs. Bp. Hurd.
DIRECTRIX n. 3 definitions
A directress. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
DIREFUL a.
Dire; dreadful; terrible; calamitous; woeful; as, a direful fiend; a direful day. -- Dire"ful*ly, adv. -- Dire"ful*ness, n.
DIRELY adv.
In a dire manner. Drayton.
DIREMPT a. 2 definitions
Divided; separated. [Obs.] Stow.
DIREMPTION n.
A tearing apart; violent separation. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.
DIRENESS n.
Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak.
DIREPTION n.
The act of plundering, despoiling, or snatching away. [R.] Speed.
DIREPTITIOUS a.
Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc. Dict.
DIREPTITIOUSLY adv.
With plundering violence; by violent injustice. [R.] Strype.
DISATTIRE v.
To unrobe; to undress. Spenser.
DOCTRINAIRE n.
pounder of a new set of opinions; a dogmatic theorist. Used also adjectively; as, doctrinaire notions.
EIRE n.
Air. [Obs.] Chaucer.
EIRENARCH n.
A justice of the peace; irenarch.
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