Deceiving, or tending of deceive; fallacious; illusive; as, illusory promises or hopes.
Loading earlier words…
Capable of illustration.
Illustrated; distinguished; illustrious.
provided with pictures; -- of a publication; as, an illustrated weekly. Opposite of unillustrated.
The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct.
Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate.
By way of illustration or elucidation.
One who illustrates.
Serving to illustrate.
Possessing luster or brightness; brilliant; luminous; splendid.
In a illustrious manner; conspicuously; eminently; famously.
The state or quality of being eminent; greatness; grandeur; glory; fame.
Without luster.
The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.
Not luxurious.
Titanic iron. See Menaccanite.
A supposed element claimed to have been discovered by R.Harmann.
A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.
To represent or form an image of; as, the still lake imaged the shore; the mirror imaged her figure.
That may be imaged.
Having no image.
One who images or forms likenesses; a sculptor.
The work of one who makes images or visible representation of objects; imitation work; images in general, or in mass.
Capacity for imagination.
Capable of being imagined; conceivable.
Characterized by imagination; imaginative; also, given to the use or rhetorical figures or imagins.
Imagining; conceiving. An imaginer.
In a imaginary manner; in imagination.
The state or quality of being imaginary; unreality.
An imaginary expression or quantity.
Imaginative.
The imagine-making power of the mind; the power to create or reproduce ideally an object of sense previously perceived; the power to call up mental imagines.
Pertaining to, involving, or caused by, imagination.
Idealism.
Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word.
the capability of imagining; the power of imagination.
To form images or conceptions; to conceive; to devise.
existing in the mind only; not real or actual; as, her imagined fame.
One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.
Imaginative.
An image.
A lodging house for Muslim pilgrims.
Among the Muslims, a minister or priest who performs the regular service of the mosque.
See Embalm.
To put under a ban.
To form into a band or bands.
To inclose or defend with a bank or banks. See Embank.
The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment.
Having banners.
To bar in; to secure.
See Embargo.
See Embark.
To store in a barn.
To diminish in value.
To bastardize; to debase.
To bathe; to wash freely; to immerse.
See Embay.
To weaken; to make imbecile; as, to imbecile men's courage.
To weaken, as to the body or the mind; to enfeeble.
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
To sink or lay, as in a bed; to deposit in a partly inclosing mass, as of clay or mortar; to cover, as with earth, sand, etc.
Not warlike or martial.
A raised work like a bench.
The loon. See Ember-goose.
See Embezzle.
To drink in; to absorb; to soak up; to suck or take in; to receive as by drinking; as, a person imbibes drink, or a sponge imbibes moisture.
One who, or that which, imbibes.
The act or process of imbibing, or absorbing; as, the post-mortem imbibition of poisons.
To make bitter; hence, to make distressing or more distressing; to make sad, morose, sour, or malignant.
One who, or that which, imbitters.
The act of imbittering; bitter feeling; embitterment.
See Emblaze.
See Emblazon.
To become corporeal; to assume the qualities of a material body. See Embody.
See Emboil.
See Embolden.
Lack of goodness.
To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of.
To be concealed.
To hold in the bosom; to cherish in the heart or affection; to embosom.
See Emboss.
Embossed or raised work.
To inclose in limits; to shut in.
To make like a bow; to curve; to arch; to vault; to embow.
See Embowel.
See Embower.
act of imbowing; an arch; a vault.
To inclose in a box.
Embracery.
See Embraid.
To entangle as in a cobweb; to mix confusedly.
To generate within; to inbreed.
To lay in order, one lapping over another, so as to form an imbricated surface.
overlapping or layered as scales or shingles; -- used especially of leaves or bracts.
Bent and hollowed like a roof or gutter tile.
An overlapping of the edges, like that of tiles or shingles; hence, intricacy of structure; also, a pattern or decoration representing such a structure.
Imbricate.
Cloth of silver or of gold.
A hit or thrust.
An intricate, complicated plot, as of a drama or work of fiction.
To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure.
To wet or moisten; to soak; to drench, especially in blood.
The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.
To sink to the state of a brute.
The act of imbruting, or the state of being imbruted.
To tinge deeply; to dye; to cause to absorb; as, clothes thoroughly imbued with black.
The act of imbuing; the state of being imbued; hence, a deep tincture.
To supply or stock with money.
The act of imbursing, or the state of being imbursed.
An imbuing.
A dark yellow, crystalline substance, obtained by the action of ammonia on isatin.
A compound with, or derivative of, the imido group; specif., a compound of one or more acid radicals with the imido group, or with a monamine; hence, also, a derivative of ammonia, in which two atoms of hydrogen have been replaced by divalent basic or acid radicals; -- frequently used as a combining form; as, succinimide.
Pertaining to, containing, or combined with, the radical NH, which is called the imido group.
The quality of being imitable.
Capable of being imitated or copied.
The state or quality of being imitable; worthness of imitation.
Tendency to imitation.
To follow as a pattern, model, or example; to copy or strive to copy, in acts, manners etc.
The act of imitating.
Pertaining to, or employed in, imitation; as, imitational propensities.
A verb expressive of imitation or resemblance.
Loading more words…