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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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16 words match “PLENE”

PLENE n.
Full; complete; plenary. [Obs.]
AMPLENESS n.
The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.
ANTISPLENETIC a. 2 definitions
An antisplenetic medicine.
CRIPPLENESS n.
Lameness. [R.] Johnson.
GRIPPLENESS n.
The quality of being gripple. [Obs.]
SIMPLENESS n.
The quality or state of being simple; simplicity. Shak.
SPLENETIC a. 2 definitions
Affected with spleen; malicious; spiteful; peevish; fretful. "Splenetic guffaw." G. Eliot. You humor me when I am sick; Why not when I am splenetic Pope.
SPLENETICAL a.
Splenetic.
SPLENETICALLY adv.
In a splenetical manner.
SUPPLENESS n.
The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.
CALADE n.
A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.
SCHOOL v.
To tutor; to chide and admonish; to reprove; to subject to systematic disciplene; to train. It now remains for you to school your child, And ask why God's Anointed be reviled. Dryden. The mother, while loving her child with the intensity of a sole affection, had schooled herself to hope for little other return than the…
SPLENITIVE a.
Splenetic. Shak. Even and smooth as seemed the temperament of the nonchalant, languid Virginian -- not splenitive or rash. T. N. Page.
SULKY a.
Moodly silent; sullen; sour; obstinate; morose; splenetic.
VAPORISH a.
Hypochondriacal; affected by hysterics; splenetic; peevish; humorsome. Pallas grew vap'rish once and odd. Pope.
VAPORY a.
Hypochondriacal; splenetic; peevish.