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n. Behavior that demonstrates a lack of professional competency. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ See Eddish. ] The stubble of wheat or grass; a stubble field; eddish. [ Eng. ] [ Written also arish, ersh, etc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The moment we entered the stubble or arrish. Blackw. Mag. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Partaking of the qualities of a bear; resembling a bear in temper or manners. Harris. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Stock market) Fearful of or anticipating falling prices, as in the stock market; as, bearish sentiment inhibited buying. [ PJC ]

3. (Stock market) Tending to cause prices to fall. “bearish news about inflation caused a sharp drop in the Dow.” [ PJC ]

4. Hence: Pessimistic. [ PJC ]

n. Behavior like that of a bear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat bitter. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Swinish; brutal; cruel. [ 1913 Webster ]

In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a boor; clownish; uncultured; unmannerly. -- Boor"ish*ly, adv. -- Boor"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

Which is in truth a gross and boorish opinion. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a buccaneer; piratical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat like a cavalier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cheerfulness. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cherished p. pr. & vb. n. Cherising. ] [ F. chérir, fr. cher dear, fr. L. carus. See Caress, Finish. ] 1. To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. [ 1913 Webster ]

We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To hold dear; to embrace with interest; to indulge; to encourage; to foster; to promote; as, to cherish religious principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

To cherish virtue and humanity. Burke.

Syn. -- To nourish; foster; nurse; nurture; entertain; encourage; comfort; protect; support; See Nurture. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deeply loved or valued.
Syn. -- precious, treasured, wanted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. One who cherishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cherisher of my flesh and blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Encouragement; comfort. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich bounty and dear cherishment. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat clever. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Containing, or partaking of the nature of, copper; like copper; as, a copperish taste. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Cur. ] Having the qualities, or exhibiting the characteristics, of a cur; snarling; quarrelsome; snappish; churlish; hence, also malicious; malignant; brutal. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thy currish spirit
Governed a wolf. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some currish plot, -- some trick. Lockhart.

-- Cur"rish*ly, adv. -- Cur"rish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to the czar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat old; elderly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Perished; decayed. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I deem thy brain emperished be. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. See Impoverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Tolerably fair. [ Colloq. ] W. D. Howells. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Having a fever; suffering from, or affected with, a moderate degree of fever; showing increased heat and thirst; as, the patient is feverish. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Indicating, or pertaining to, fever; characteristic of a fever; as, feverish symptoms. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Hot; sultry. “The feverish north.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Disordered as by fever; excited; restless; as, the feverish condition of the commercial world.
Syn. -- fevered. [ 1913 Webster ]

Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being. Milton.

-- Fe"ver*ish*ly, adv. -- Fe"ver*ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Flemish. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To adorn with flowers orbeautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with anything showy; to embellish. [ Obs. ] Fenton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Sith that the justice of your title to him
Doth flourish the deceit. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to swing about in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish. [ 1913 Webster ]

And flourishes his blade in spite of me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To develop; to make thrive; to expand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottoms of thread . . . which with a good needle, perhaps may be flourished into large works. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Flourished p. pr. & vb. n. Flourishing. ] [ OE. florisshen, flurisshen, OF. flurir, F. fleurir, fr. L. florere to bloom, fr. flos, floris, flower. See Flower, and -ish. ] 1. To grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant; a thrive. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tree thrives and flourishes in a kindly . . . soil. Bp. Horne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth, honor, comfort, happiness, or whatever is desirable; to thrive; to be prominent and influental; specifically, of authors, painters, etc., to be in a state of activity or production. [ 1913 Webster ]

When all the workers of iniquity do flourish. Ps. xcii 7 [ 1913 Webster ]

Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish, and that by the means of their wickedness. Nelson. [ 1913 Webster ]

We say
Of those that held their heads above the crowd,
They flourished then or then. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To use florid language; to indulge in rhetorical figures and lofty expressions; to be flowery. [ 1913 Webster ]

They dilate . . . and flourish long on little incidents. J. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make bold and sweeping, fanciful, or wanton movements, by way of ornament, parade, bravado, etc.; to play with fantastic and irregular motion. [ 1913 Webster ]

Impetuous spread
The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To make ornamental strokes with the pen; to write graceful, decorative figures. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To execute an irregular or fanciful strain of music, by way of ornament or prelude. [ 1913 Webster ]

Why do the emperor's trumpets flourish thus? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To boast; to vaunt; to brag. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Flourishes 1. A flourishing condition; prosperity; vigor. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The Roman monarchy, in her highest flourish, never had the like. Howell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Decoration; ornament; beauty. [ 1913 Webster ]

The flourish of his sober youth
Was the pride of naked truth. Crashaw. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Something made or performed in a fanciful, wanton, or vaunting manner, by way of ostentation, to excite admiration, etc.; ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as, a flourish of rhetoric or of wit. [ 1913 Webster ]

He lards with flourishes his long harangue. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A fanciful stroke of the pen or graver; a merely decorative figure. [ 1913 Webster ]

The neat characters and flourishes of a Bible curiously printed. Boyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A fantastic or decorative musical passage; a strain of triumph or bravado, not forming part of a regular musical composition; a cal; a fanfare. [ 1913 Webster ]

A flourish, trumpets! strike alarum, drums! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The waving of a weapon or other thing; a brandishing; as, the flourish of a sword. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who flourishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flourishing manner; ostentatiously. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., n. Same as Garish, Garishly, Garishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. OE. gauren to stare; of uncertain origin. Cf. gairish. ] 1. Showy; dazzling; ostentatious; attracting or exciting attention. “The garish sun.” “A garish flag.” Shak. “In . . . garish colors.” Asham. “The garish day.” J. H. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

Garish like the laughters of drunkenness. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gay to extravagance; flighty. [ 1913 Webster ]

It makes the mind loose and garish. South.

-- Gar"ish*ly, adv. -- Gar"ish*ness, n. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. tasteless showiness.
Syn. -- flashiness, gaudiness, loudness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. strident color or excessive ornamentation.
Syn. -- gaudiness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Unmeaning; as, gibberish language. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Gibber, v. i. ] 1. Rapid and inarticulate talk; unintelligible language; unmeaning words. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, like a gypsy, oftentimes would go;
All kinds of gibberish he had learnt to know. Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such gibberish as children may be heard amusing themselves with. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Incomprehensible, obscure, or pretentious technical talk or writing; excessively obscure jargon. [ PJC ]

a. Patched; mean. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ OF. guarir, garir, F. guérir. ] To heal. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a hare. [ R. ] Huloet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being imperishable: indstructibility. “The imperishability of the universe.” Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. im- not + perishable: cf. F. impérissable. ] Not perishable; not subject to decay; indestructible; enduring permanently; as, an imperishable monument; imperishable renown. -- Im*per"ish*a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*per"ish*a*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Impoverished p. pr. & vb. n. Impoverishing. ] [ OF. empovrir; pref. em- (L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. Empoverish, and see Poor, and -ish. ] 1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, impoverishes. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement. ] The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. īrisc, fr. īras the Irish. Cf. Aryan, Erse. ] Of or pertaining to Ireland or to its inhabitants; produced in Ireland. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irish elk. (Zool.) See under Elk. --
Irish moss. (a) (Bot.) Carrageen. (b) A preparation of the same made into a blanc mange. --
Irish poplin. See Poplin. --
Irish potato, the ordinary white potato, so called because it is a favorite article of food in Ireland. --
Irish reef, or
Irishman's reef (Naut.), the head of a sail tied up. --
Irish stew, meat, potatoes, and onions, cut in small pieces and stewed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. sing. & pl. 1. pl. The natives or inhabitants of Ireland, esp. the Celtic natives or their descendants. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The language of the Irish; also called Irish Gaelic or the Hiberno-Celtic. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

3. An old game resembling backgammon. [ 1913 Webster ]

get one's Irish up to become angry. [ PJC ]

. A native of Ireland who has become an American citizen; also, a child or descendant of such a person. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Irishmen A man born in Ireland or of the Irish race; an Hibernian. [ 1913 Webster ]

Irishman's hurricane (Naut.), a dead calm. --
Irishman's reef. (Naut.) See Irish reef, under Irish, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The Celtic people of Ireland. “The whole Irishry of rebels.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]