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223 words match “VELE”

VELE n.
A veil. [Obs.] Spenser.
VELELLA n.
Any species of oceanic Siphonophora belonging to the genus Velella.
BEVELED; BEVELLED a.
Formed to a bevel angle; sloping; as, the beveled edge of a table.
DISCHEVELE a.
Disheveled. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DISHEVELE p.
Disheveled. [Obs.] Dishevele, save his cap, he rode all bare. Chaucer.
DISHEVELED a. 2 definitions
Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair.
DOVELET n.
A young or small dove. Booth.
DRIVELER n.
A slaverer; a slabberer; an idiot; a fool. [Written also driveller.]
GAVELET n.
An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]
GRAVELESS a.
Without a grave; unburied.
GROVELER n.
One who grovels; an abject wretch. [Written also groveller.]
HAVELESS a.
Having little or nothing. [Obs.] Gower.
HEAVILY-TRAVELED; HEAVILY TRAVELED n.
subject to much traffic or travel; as, the region's most heavily traveled highways. Syn. -- heavily traveled. [WordNet 1.5]
HIVELESS a.
Destitute of a hive. Gascoigne.
HOVELER n.
One who assists in saving life and property from a wreck; a coast boatman. [Written also hoveller.] [Prov. Eng.] G. P. R. James.
LEAVELESS a.
Leafless. [Obs.] Carew.
LEVELER n. 2 definitions
One who, or that which, levels.
LOVELESS a. 2 definitions
Not attracting love; unattractive. These are ill-favored to see to; and yet, asloveless as they be, they are not without some medicinable virtues. Holland.
MOTIVELESS a.
Destitute of a motive; not incited by a motive. -- Mo"tive*less*ness, n. G. Eliot.
MOVELESS a.
Motionless; fixed. "Moveless as a tower." Pope.
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