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vapourish
vapourish, a. (ˈveɪpərɪʃ) [f. vapour n. + -ish.] 1. Of the nature of vapour; dim through the presence of vapour; vapoury.1647 Hexham i, Vaporish, dompigh, roockachtigh. 1781 Hayley Triumphs Temper i. 287 To drive gross atoms from the rays of noon Or chase the halo from the vapourish moon. 1844 Black...
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vapoury
vapoury, a. (ˈveɪpərɪ) Also 6 vaporie, 8–9 U.S. vapory; 7–8 vap'ry. [f. vapour n. + -y.] 1. Of the nature or consistency of vapour; composed of, or caused by, vapour.1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Furies 262 The heat, hidden in a vapoury Cloud, Striving for issue. 1598 Drayton Heroical Ep., Ros. to...
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howish
† howish, a. colloq. Obs. (ˈhaʊɪʃ) [f. how adv. + -ish.] Perh. short for the earlier I-don't-know-howish, how-howish: Having a vague sense of illness or indisposition; ‘all-overish’.1694 Dryden Love Triumph. v. Wks. 1884 VIII. 462, I am—I know not howish. 1708 Motteux Rabelais iv. lxiii. (1737) 257 ...
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yawning
▪ I. yawning, vbl. n. (ˈjɔːnɪŋ) [f. yawn v. + -ing1.] The action of the verb yawn. 1. The action of opening the mouth wide, esp. involuntarily from drowsiness.c 725 Corpus Gloss. (Hessels) B 23 Barritus, ᵹenung. c 1050 Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 412/5 Garrulitas, ᵹeonung. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 536/1 Ȝanynge,...
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blue devil
blue devil 1. A baleful demon (cf. blue a. 3, 8).1616 R. C. Times' Whistle vii. 3443 Alston, whose life hath been accounted evill, And therfore calde by many the blew devill. 1870 Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 364 He..keeps a pet sorrow, a blue-devil familiar, that goes with him everywhere. 2....
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