Word Meanings - ACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A process or condition of acting or moving, as opposed to rest; the doing of something; exertion of power or force, as when one body acts on another; the effect of power exerted on one body by another; agency; activity; operation; as, the action of heat; a man of action.

• Double-bank
  To row by rowers sitting side by side in twos on a bank or thwart.
• Dodd
  Alt. of Dod
• Downgyved
  Hanging down like gyves or fetters.
• Dolente
  Plaintively. See Doloroso.
• Processioning
  A proceeding prescribed by statute for ascertaining and fixing the boundaries of land. See 2d Procession.
• Donna
  A lady; madam; mistress; -- the title given a lady in Italy.
• Actinozoon
  One of the Actinozoa.
• Double-handed
  Having two hands.
• Dodecastyle
  Having twelve columns in front.
• Downtrod
  Alt. of Downtrodden
• Dollman
  See Dolman.
• DOCIBILITYDOCIBLENESS
  Aptness for being taught; teachableness; docility. To persons of docibility, the real character may be easily taught in a few days. Boyle. The docibleness of dogs in general. Walton.
• Doom
  Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation.
• Actor
  One who acts, or takes part in any affair; a doer.
• Double-tonguing
  A peculiar action of the tongue by flute players in articulating staccato notes; also, the rapid repetition of notes in cornet playing.
• Doeglic
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, the doegling; as, doeglic acid (Chem.), an oily substance resembling oleic acid.
• Doxologized
  of Doxologize
• Dolphinet
  A female dolphin.
• DOGLEGGED
  Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.
• Doornail
  The nail or knob on which in ancient doors the knocker struck; -- hence the old saying, "As dead as a doornail."

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