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3,473 words match “URN”

HEARTBURNED a.
Having heartburn. Shak.
HEARTBURNING n. 3 definitions
Same as Heartburn.
INBURNING a.
Burning within. Her inburning wrath she gan abate. Spenser.
INBURNT a.
Burnt in; ineffaceable. Her inburnt, shamefaced thoughts. P. Fletcher.
INURN v.
To put in an urn, as the ashes of the dead; hence, to bury; to intomb. The sepulcher Wherein we saw thee quietly inurned. Shak.
IRRETURNABLE a.
Not to be returned.
JOURNAL a. 5 definitions
Daily; diurnal. [Obs.] Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.
JOURNALISM n. 2 definitions
The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]
JOURNALIST n. 2 definitions
One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.
JOURNALISTIC a.
Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.
JOURNALIZE v. 2 definitions
To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.
JOURNEY n. 4 definitions
a day. [Obs.] Chaucer. We have yet large day, for scarce the sun Hath finished half his journey. Milton.
JOURNEY-BATED a.
Worn out with journeying. [Obs.] Shak.
JOURNEYER n.
One who journeys.
JOURNEYMAN n.
distinguished from apprentice and from master workman. I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well. Shak.
JOURNEYWORK n.
Originally, work done by the day; work done by a journeyman at his trade.
LABURNIC a.
Of, pertaining to, or derived from, the laburnum.
LABURNINE n.
A poisonous alkaloid found in the unripe seeds of the laburnum.
LABURNUM n.
A small leguminous tree (Cytisus Laburnum), native of the Alps. The plant is reputed to be poisonous, esp. the bark and seeds. It has handsome racemes of yellow blossoms.
LECTURN n.
A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read; hence, a reading desk. [Written also lectern and lettern]. Fairholt.
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