adj. causing agony. Opposite to painless.
Syn. -- excruciating, harrowing, torturing, torturous, torturesome. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adv. With extreme anguish or desperate struggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Causing amazement; very wonderful; as, amazing grace. -- A*maz"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

a. [ Cf. F. appétissant. ] Exciting appetite; as, appetizing food. [ 1913 Webster ]

The appearance of the wild ducks is very appetizing. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to excite appetite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Burning with a blaze; as, a blazing fire; blazing torches. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blazing star. (a) A comet. [ Obs. ] (b) A brilliant center of attraction. (c) (Bot.) A name given to several plants; as, to Chamælirium luteum of the Lily family; Liatris squarrosa; and Aletris farinosa, called also colicroot and star grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. any of various North American plants of the genus Liatris having racemes or panicles of small discoid flower heads.
Syn. -- blazing star, button snakeroot, gayfeather, snakeroot. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess.
Syn. -- drink, drinking, drunkenness, crapulence. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. The act or art of communicating to articles in metal, wood, clay, plaster, etc., the appearance of bronze by means of bronze powders, or imitative painting, or by chemical processes. Tomlinson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A material for bronzing. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a buzzing manner; with a buzzing sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. causing to concentrate at a center. Opposite of decentralizing. [ Narrower terms: centripetal, unifying(prenominal) ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

p. pr. & vb. n. of Craze, v. Hence: n. Fine cracks resulting from shrinkage on the surface of glazed pottery, concrete, or other material. The admired crackle in some Oriental potteries and porcelains is crazing produced in a foreseen and regulated way. In common pottery it is often the result of exposure to undue heat, and the beginning of disintegration. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. [ See 1st Craze. ] A mill for grinding tin ore. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. prenom. causing a dispersion or movement away from the center; -- used especially of power or administrative functions. Opposite of centralizing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The process of giving a dull or ground surface to glass by acid or by mechanical means. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. discouraging. Opposite of encouraging.
Syn. -- demoralising, disheartening, dispiriting. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

adj. making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli. Opposite of sensitizing. [ Narrower terms: numbing ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a process causing an absence of synchronization; the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times; as, the stimulus produced a desynchronizing of the brain waves.
Syn. -- asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronisation. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. (Economics) the reduction of expeditures and personnel in order to become financial stable; -- of businesses.
Syn. -- retrenchment, curtailment. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The act of giving special importance or significance to something.
Syn. -- accenting. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. 1. imparting or capable of imparting vitality and energy. [ wns=1 ]
Syn. -- bracing, brisk, fresh, refreshing, refreshful, tonic. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those nobler exercises of energizing love. Bp. Horsley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. supplying motive force. [ wns=2 ]
Syn. -- energizing, energising, kinetic. [ PJC ]

adj. serving to familiarize. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. pl. [ See Feaze, v. t. ] (Naut.) The unlaid or ragged end of a rope. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Hissing and bubbling, like a carbonated beverage. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Tending to freeze; for freezing; hence, cold or distant in manner. -- Frrez"ing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

Freezing machine. See Ice machine, under Ice. --
Freezing mixture, a mixture (of salt and snow or of chemical salts) for producing intense cold. --
Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32° Fahr., and at 0° Centigrade. [1913 Webster]

n. A person or thing gazed at with scorn or abhorrence; an object of curiosity or contempt. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Given to viewing one's self in a glass or mirror; finical. [ Poetic ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of one who, or that which, grazes. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A pasture; growing grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A tool with a hardened steel point, formerly used instead of a diamond for cutting glass. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Plumbing) A tool for smoothing the solder joints of lead pipe. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. rays of rapidly moving subatomic particles, x-reys, or gamma rays, sufficiently energetic to cause ionization when absorbed by matter. Such radiation is emitted by radioactive elements, or may be generated by highly energetic physical processes, as in stars. When absorbed by living tissue, ionizing radiation can cause mutation, cellular damage, or death. [ PJC ]

n. A texture like that of marble. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Making as great as possible; increasing tothe highest degree. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. Inducing stupor or narcosis.
Syn. -- narcotic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. leaking out slowly.
Syn. -- oozy, seeping. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray. [1913 Webster]

n. [ See 2d Prize. ] The application of a lever to move any weighty body, as a cask, anchor, cannon, car, etc. See Prize, n., 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Serving to make real, or to impress on the mind as a reality; as, a realizing view of the danger incurred. -- Re"al*i`zing*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. The act of taking or grasping suddenly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Naut.) (a) The operation of fastening together or lashing. (b) The cord or lashing used for such fastening. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Act of covering or treating with size. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A weak glue used in various trades; size. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of sorting with respect to size. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of bringing anything to a certain size. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Univ. of Cambridge, Eng.) Food and drink ordered from the buttery by a student. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Physiol.) The act of violently forcing air out through the nasal passages while the cavity of the mouth is shut off from the pharynx by the approximation of the soft palate and the base of the tongue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of pressing; compression; oppression. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. pl. That which is forced out by pressure; dregs. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Same as Squeeze, n., 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of observing the stars with attention; contemplation of the stars as connected with astrology or astronomy. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, absent-mindedness; abstraction. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a tantalizing or teasing manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a temporizing or yielding manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Making tranquil; calming. “ The tranquilizing power of time.” Wordsworth. -- Tran"quil*i`zing*ly or Tran"quil*li`zing*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

See accommodating.
See aching.
See ailing.
See aiming.
See alarming.
See altering.
See appreciating.
See approving.
See aspiring.
See assisting.
See attempting.
See attending.
See bearing.
See befitting.
See beginning.
See believing.
See bleaching.
See bleeding.
See blemishing.
See blenching.
See blossoming.
See blushing.
See boding.
See branching.
See breathing.
See burning.
See calculating.
See ceasing.
See changing.
See charming.
See communicating.
See complaining.
See complying.
See conceiving.
See conducing.
See confessing.
See conniving.
See consenting.
See considering.
See conspiring.
See consulting.
See consuming.
See contending.
See contriving.
See conversing.
See convincing.
See dawning.
See decaying.
See delaying.
See depending.
See derogating.
See deserving.
See desiring.
See despairing.
See detesting.
See deviating.
See differencing.
See discerning.
See discording.
See discriminating.
See disobliging.
See dispensing.
See dissembling.
See dissolving.
See distinguishing.
See distracting.
See disturbing.
See doubting.
See dreading.
See drooping.
See ebbing.
See echoing.
See edifying.
See ending.
See enduring.
See engaging.
See enjoying.
See entering.
See enterprising.
See entertaining.
See envying.
See existing.
See fadging.
See fading.
See fainting.
See faltering.
See fearing.
See feigning.
See fighting.
See fitting.
See flagging.
See flattering.
See flinching.
See folding.
See forbearing.
See foreboding.
See foreseeing.
See forgiving.
See giving.
See grudging.
See harming.
See heeding.
See hesitating.
See hoping.
See hurting.
See importing.
See imposing.
See improving.
See interesting.
See intermitting.
See intoxicating.
See inviting.
See jarring.
See laboring.
See lingering.
See listening.
See loving.
See meddling.
See meriting.
See mistrusting.
See moving.
See murmuring.
See obliging.
See observing.
See offending.
See opening.
See pardoning.
See paying.
See perceiving.
See performing.
See perishing.
See pitying.
See pleasing.
See possessing.
See preaching.
See prepossessing.
See presuming.
See pretending.
See prevailing.
See prevaricating.
See profiting.
See promising.
See proving.
See quailing.
See questioning.
See reasoning.
See recalling.
See reclining.
See recurring.
See referring.
See reflecting.
See refunding.
See refusing.
See rejoicing.
See relaxing.
See relishing.
See remembering.
See repenting.
See repining.
See reproving.
See repulsing.
See resisting.
See resolving.
See resting.
See returning.
See rewarding.
See sanctifying.
See satisfying.
See searching.
See seeing.
See setting.
See shrinking.
See sinking.
See sleeping.
See slipping.
See slumbering.
See speaking.
See stinting.
See stirring.
See stooping.
See submitting.
See sufficing.
See suiting.
See surging.
See suspecting.
See sweating.
See swerving.
See sympathizing.
See tasting.
See thriving.
See tiring.
See toiling.
See trading.
See trembling.
See trespassing.
See trifling.
See vacillating.
See varying.
See walking.
See wandering.
See waning.
See wasting.
See wavering.
See weeping.
See winking.
See winning.
See withdrawing.
See withering.
See wondering.
See working.
See writing.
See yielding.
----- and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The above classes of words are unlimited in extent, and such compounds may be formed by any writer or speaker at will from almost all the adjectives or participles in the language, excepting those which have a recognized and usual negative correspondent with the prefix -in. No attempt will be made, therefore, to define them all in this Dictionary; many will be omitted from its Vocabulary which are negations of the simple word, and are readily explained by prefixing a not to the latter. Derivatives of these words in -ly and -ness will also, for the most part, be omitted for the same or similar reasons. [ 1913 Webster ]

There will be inserted as separate articles with definitions, the following: -- [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Those which have acquired an opposed or contrary, instead of a merely negative, meaning; as, unfriendly, ungraceful, unpalatable, unquiet, and the like; or else an intensive sense more than a prefixed not would express; as, unending, unparalleled, undisciplined, undoubted, unsafe, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Those which have the value of independent words, inasmuch as the simple words are either not used at all, or are rarely, or at least much less frequently, used; as, unavoidable, unconscionable, undeniable, unspeakable, unprecedented, unruly, and the like; or inasmuch as they are used in a different sense from the usual meaning of the primitive, or especially in one of the significations of the latter; as, unaccountable, unalloyed, unbelieving, unpretending, unreserved, and the like; or inasmuch as they are so frequently and familiarly used that they are hardly felt to be of negative origin; as, uncertain, uneven, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Those which are anomalous, provincial, or, for some other reason, not desirable to be used, and are so indicated; as, unpure for impure, unsatisfaction for dissatisfaction, unexpressible for inexpressible, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

II. Un- is prefixed to nouns to express the absence of, or the contrary of, that which the noun signifies; as, unbelief, unfaith, unhealth, unrest, untruth, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Compounds of this last class are given in full in their proper order in the Vocabulary. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Metal.) A process for coating metal (usually iron or steel) surfaces with zinc by exposing them to the vapor of zinc instead of, as in ordinary galvanizing, to molten zinc; -- called also Sherardizing. Vapor galvanizing is accomplished by heating the articles to be galvanized together with zinc dust in an air tight receptacle to a temperature of about 600° F., which is 188° below the melting point of zinc, or by exposing the articles to vapor from molten zinc in a separate receptacle, using hydrogen or other reducing gas to prevent oxidation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. With a whizzing sound. [ 1913 Webster ]