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2,296 words match “SURE”

OUTMEASURE v.
To exceed in measure or extent; to measure more than. Sir T. Browne.
OVERMEASURE v. 2 definitions
To measure or estimate too largely.
OVERPRESSURE n.
Excessive pressure or urging. London Athenæum.
OVERSURE a.
Excessively sure.
PASSYMEASURE n.
See Paspy. Shak.
PLEASURE n. 6 definitions
or satisfying; -- opposed to Ant: pain, Ant: sorrow, etc. At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Ps. xvi. 11.
PLEASUREFUL a.
Affording pleasure. [R.]
PLEASURELESS a.
Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
PLEASURER n.
A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
POISURE n.
Weight. [Obs.]
POSTCOMMISSURE n.
A transverse commisure in the posterior part of the roof of the third ventricle of the brain; the posterior cerebral commisure. B. G. Wilder.
POT-SURE a.
Made confident by drink. [Obs.]
POTSURE a.
Made confident by drink. [Obs.]
PRAECOMMISSURE n.
A transverse commissure in the anterior part of the third ventricle of the brain; the anterior cerebral commissure.
PRESSURE n. 6 definitions
ssing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.
PRESSURE WIRES n.
Wires leading from various points of an electric system to a central station, where a voltmeter indicates the potential of the system at those points.
RASURE n. 2 definitions
The act of rasing, scraping, or erasing; erasure; obliteration.
REASSURE v. 2 definitions
To assure anew; to restore confidence to; to free from fear or terror. They rose with fear, . . . Till dauntless Pallas reassured the rest. Dryden.
REASSURER n.
One who reassures.
REINSURE v. 2 definitions
To insure again after a former insuranse has ceased; to renew insurance on.
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