a. Hermitlike. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat blunt. --
n.
a. [ AS. Brittisc, Bryttisc. ] Of or pertaining to Great Britain or to its inhabitants; -- sometimes restricted to the original inhabitants. [ 1913 Webster ]
British gum,
British lion,
British seas,
n. pl. People of Great Britain. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. An Englishman; a subject or inhabitant of Great Britain, esp. one in the British military or naval service. [ Now used jocosely ] [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
a. Pertaining to, or resembling, a brute or brutes; of a cruel, gross, and stupid nature; coarse; unfeeling; unintelligent. [ 1913 Webster ]
O, let all provocation
Take every brutish shape it can devise. Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]
Man may . . . render himself brutish, but it is in vain that he would seek to take the rank and density of the brute. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. Of or pertaining to Canaan or the Canaanites. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Catlike; feline Drummond. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Like a colt; wanton; frisky. [ 1913 Webster ]
He was all coltish, full of ragery. Chaucer.
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a. Practicing or exhibiting coquetry; alluring; enticing. [ 1913 Webster ]
A pretty, coquettish housemaid. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]
adv. In a coquettish manner. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Dilettanteish. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Doltlike; dull in intellect; stupid; blockish;
a. Foolish; weak; imbecile. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Eremitic. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Slightly faint; somewhat faint. --
a. Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [ Colloq. ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat fat; inclined to fatness. [ 1913 Webster ]
Coleridge, a puffy, anxious, obstructed-looking, fattish old man. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]
The real and absolute worship of fire falls into two great divisions, the first belonging rather to fetichism, the second to polytheism proper. Tylor.
He was by nature a fetichist. H. Holbeach.
A man of the fifteenth century, inheriting its strange web of belief and unbelief, of epicurean levity and fetichistic dread. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat flat. Woodward.
a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. [ 1913 Webster ]
Give your chaste body up to the embraces
Of goatish lust. Massinger.
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a. Like an idiot; foolish. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. somewhat introverted.
a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, an Ishmaelite or the Ishmaelites. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. (Zool.) Like or relating to a kite. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat late. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. Inclined toward the political left. [ WordNet 1.5 ]
a. Of or pertaining to the Letts. --
a. Clownish; rude; awkward. “Loutish clown.” Sir P. Sidney. --
a. Full of whims or fancies; maggoty. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Moabite. Ruth ii. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to night. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ From Pet. ] Fretful; peevish; moody; capricious; inclined to ill temper. “A pettish kind of humor.” Sterne. --
a. Of or pertaining to Picts; resembling the Picts. “The Pictish peer.” Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Of or pertaining to the pulpit; like preaching. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Resembling a puppet in appearance or action; of the nature of a puppet. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Rickety. [ Obs. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Uproarious; riotous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ Prob. for riotish, from riot, like Scot. roytous for riotous. ] Wild; irregular. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. --
a. Somewhat saintlike; -- used ironically. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Somewhat salt. --