Word Meanings - HABIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The usual condition or state of a person or thing, either natural or acquired, regarded as something had, possessed, and firmly retained; as, a religious habit; his habit is morose; elms have a spreading habit; esp., physical temperament or constitution; as, a full habit of body.

• Personae
  of Persona
• 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.
• Thirl
  To bore; to drill or thrill. See Thrill.
• Thanatopsis
  A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.
• Thread-shaped
  Having the form of a thread; filiform.
• Theologizing
  of Theologize
• Thrummed
  of Thrum
• Thermometrical
  Of or pertaining to a thermometer; as, the thermometrical scale or tube.
• THACKTHACKER
  See Thatch, Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
• Personation
  The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
• 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
• This
  As a demonstrative pronoun, this denotes something that is present or near in place or time, or something just mentioned, or that is just about to be mentioned.
• Thankworthy
  Deserving thanks; worthy of gratitude; mreitorious.
• Three-decker
  A vessel of war carrying guns on three decks.
• Theophilanthropist
  A member of a deistical society established at Paris during the French revolution.
• Thug
  One of an association of robbers and murderers in India who practiced murder by stealthy approaches, and from religious motives. They have been nearly exterminated by the British government.
• Thermotropic
  Manifesting thermotropism.
• Possessionary
  Of or pertaining to possession; arising from possession.
• Thomist
  A follower of Thomas Aquinas. See Scotist.
• Thaumaturgist
  One who deals in wonders, or believes in them; a wonder worker.

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