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30 words match “TUCKER”

TUCKER n. 4 definitions
One who, or that which, tucks; specifically, an instrument with which tuck are made.
CONFATED p.
Fated or decreed with something else. [R.] A. Tucker.
CRINKLE n.
or turn; wrinkle; sinuosity. The crinkles in this glass, making objects appear double. A. Tucker.
DISKINDNESS n.
Unkindness; disservice. [R.] A. Tucker.
ESOTERY n.
Mystery; esoterics; -- opposed to exotery. A. Tucker.
EXOTERY n.
That which is obvious, public, or common. Dealing out exoteries only to the vulgar. A. Tucker.
GRAPE n.
small blue globular flowers in a dense raceme. -- Grape fungus (Bot.), a fungus (Oidium Tuckeri) on grapevines; vine mildew. -- Grape hopper (Zoöl.), a Small yellow and red hemipterous insect, often very injurious to the leaves of the grapevine. -- Grape moth (Zoöl.), a small moth (Eudemis botrana), which in the la…
HYLOZOIST n.
A believer in hylozoism. A. Tucker.
INCONCEIVABLE a.
y, adv. The inconceivableness of a quality existing without any subject to possess it. A. Tucker.
INDIVIDUAL a.
distinct from that of all other things, and is pure, unmingled, individual substance. A. Tucker. United as one individual soul. Milton.
INEXIST v.
To exist within; to dwell within. [Obs.] Substances inexisting within the divine mind. A. Tucker.
INEXISTENCE n.
That which exists within; a constituent. A. Tucker.
INHARMONIOUSNESS n.
lity of being inharmonious; want of harmony; discord. The inharmoniousness of a verse. A. Tucker.
INVETERACY n.
udice or of error. An inveteracy of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. A. Tucker.
OIDIUM n.
d to be temporary conditions of fungi of other genera, among them the vine mildew (Oïdium Tuckeri), which has caused much injury to grapes.
PRICK n.
ng pricked; a sharp, stinging pain; figuratively, remorse. "The pricks of conscience." A. Tucker.
PUNITORY a.
ay make moral evil, as well as natural, at the same time both prudential and punitory. A. Tucker.
SENSORIAL a.
Of or pertaining to the sensorium; as, sensorial faculties, motions, powers. A. Tucker.
SHOOT v.
ing hit, as an object. When Roger shot the hawk hovering over his master's dove house. A. Tucker.
SKIRT n.
uns along the upper part of the stays before, and crosses the breast, being a part of the tucker, is called the modesty piece. Addison.
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