Word Meanings - REPUTATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The estimation in which one is held; character in public opinion; the character attributed to a person, thing, or action; repute.

• Thornbill
  Any one of several species of small, brilliantly colored American birds of the genus Rhamphomicron. They have a long, slender, sharp bill, and feed upon honey, insects, and the juice of the sugar cane.
• Theatricals
  Dramatic performances; especially, those produced by amateurs.
• Thricecock
  The missel thrush.
• Therapeutical
  Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.
• Thunderworm
  A small, footless, burrowing, snakelike lizard (Rhineura Floridana) allied to Amphisbaena, native of Florida; -- so called because it leaves its burrows after a thundershower.
• Thick-headed
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• THIGMOTACTIC
  Of or pertaining to thigmotaxis.
• Personize
  To personify.
• Thoroughly
  In a thorough manner; fully; entirely; completely.
• Thecophora
  A division of hydroids comprising those which have the hydranths in thecae and the gonophores in capsules. The campanularians and sertularians are examples. Called also Thecata. See Illust. under Hydroidea.
• Thrips
  Any one of numerous small species of Thysanoptera, especially those which attack useful plants, as the grain thrips (Thrips cerealium).
• Therefrom
  From this or that.
• Thus
  The commoner kind of frankincense, or that obtained from the Norway spruce, the long-leaved pine, and other conifers.
• Thiefly
  Like a thief; thievish; thievishly.
• THREESQUARE
  Having a cross section in the form of an equilateral triangle; -- said especially of a kind of file.
• THOROUGHBRACE
  A leather strap supporting the body of a carriage, and attached to springs, or serving as a spring. See Illust. of Chaise.
• Thoughtless
  Lacking thought; careless; inconsiderate; rash; as, a thoughtless person, or act.
• Thelytokous
  Producing females only; -- said of certain female insects.
• Throatlatch
  A strap of a bridle, halter, or the like, passing under a horse's throat.

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