Word Meanings - ALLITERATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The repetition of the same letter at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals; as in the following lines: -

• Succeed
  To follow in order; to come next after; hence, to take the place of; as, the king's eldest son succeeds his father on the throne; autumn succeeds summer.
• SHORTWAISTED
  Having a short waist.
• Letterure
  Letters; literature.
• Short-handed
  Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers.
• Succeedant
  Succeeding one another; following.
• SHORTWINDED
  Affected with shortness of breath; having a quick, difficult respiration, as dyspnoic and asthmatic persons. May.
• Letterwood
  The beautiful and highly elastic wood of a tree of the genus Brosimum (B. Aubletii), found in Guiana; -- so called from black spots in it which bear some resemblance to hieroglyphics; also called snakewood, and leopardwood. It is much used for bow
• Shortage
  Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.
• Shorthead
  A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors.
• Succeeder
  A successor.
• SHORTWITED
  Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment.
• Beginning
  of Begin
• Short-breathed
  Having short-breath, or quick respiration.
• Shorthorn
  One of a breed of large, heavy domestic cattle having short horns. The breed was developed in England.
• Wordsman
  One who deals in words, or in mere words; a verbalist.
• Beginner
  One who begins or originates anything. Specifically: A young or inexperienced practitioner or student; a tyro.
• Othergates
  In another manner.
• Shortcake
  An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked.

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