Word Meanings - DRIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

Thank
A expression of gratitude; an acknowledgment expressive of a sense of favor or kindness received; obligation, claim, or desert, or gratitude; -- now generally used in the plural.
Thou
The second personal pronoun, in the singular number, denoting the person addressed; thyself; the pronoun which is used in addressing persons in the solemn or poetical style.
Theomachist
One who fights against the gods; one who resists God of the divine will.
Throatband
Same as Throatlatch.
Thermoscope
An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential t
Thwartly
Transversely; obliquely.
Third-penny
A third part of the profits of fines and penalties imposed at the country court, which was among the perquisites enjoyed by the earl.
THREEPILE
An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile. I have served Prince Florizel and in my time wore three-pile. Shak.
Thatched
of Thatch
Thrall-less
Having no thralls.
Theorbist
One who plays on a theorbo.
Throning
of Throne
Theropoda
An order of carnivorous dinosaurs in which the feet are less birdlike, and hence more like those of an ordinary quadruped, than in the Ornithopoda. It includes the rapacious genera Megalosaurus, Creosaurus, and their allies.
Thyroarytenoid
Of or pertaining to both the thyroid and arytenoid cartilages of the larynx.
Thirty
Being three times ten; consisting of one more than twenty-nine; twenty and ten; as, the month of June consists of thirty days.
THROWINGSTICK
An instrument used by various savage races for throwing a spear; -- called also throw stick and spear thrower. One end of the stick receives the butt of the spear, as upon a hook or thong, and the other end is grasped with the hand, which also holds the
Thaw
To melt, dissolve, or become fluid; to soften; -- said of that which is frozen; as, the ice thaws.
Thread
A very small twist of flax, wool, cotton, silk, or other fibrous substance, drawn out to considerable length; a compound cord consisting of two or more single yarns doubled, or joined together, and twisted.
Theorized
of Theorize
Throw
Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe.

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Word Meanings - DRIVER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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