Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of mean is as below...

Narrow-minded :: Narrow-minded (a.) Of narrow mental scope; illiberal; mean.

Lean :: Lean (v. i.) Wanting fullness, richness, sufficiency, or productiveness; deficient in quality or contents; slender; scant; barren; bare; mean; -- used literally and figuratively; as, the lean harvest; a lean purse; a lean discourse; lean wages..

Strappado :: Strappado (n.) A military punishment formerly practiced, which consisted in drawing an offender to the top of a beam and letting him fall to the length of the rope, by which means a limb was often dislocated..

Muniment :: Muniment (n.) That which supports or defends; stronghold; place or means of defense; munition; assistance.

Help :: Help (v. t.) To furnish with the means of deliverance from trouble; as, to help one in distress; to help one out of prison..

Petit :: Petit (a.) Small; little; insignificant; mean; -- Same as Petty.

Theriaca :: Theriaca (n.) An ancient composition esteemed efficacious against the effects of poison; especially, a certain compound of sixty-four drugs, prepared, pulverized, and reduced by means of honey to an electuary; -- called also theriaca Andromachi, and Venice treacle..

Open :: Open (a.) Free of access; not shut up; not closed; affording unobstructed ingress or egress; not impeding or preventing passage; not locked up or covered over; -- applied to passageways; as, an open door, window, road, etc.; also, to inclosed structures or objects; as, open houses, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead..

Low-thoughted :: Low-thoughted (a.) Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.

Rag :: Rag (n.) Hence, mean or tattered attire; worn-out dress..

Etch :: Etch (v. t.) To produce, as figures or designs, on mental, glass, or the like, by means of lines or strokes eaten in or corroded by means of some strong acid..

Epi- :: Epi- () A prefix, meaning upon, beside, among, on the outside, above, over. It becomes ep-before a vowel, as in epoch, and eph-before a Greek aspirate, as in ephemeral..

Fission :: Fission (n.) A method of asexual reproduction among the lowest (unicellular) organisms by means of a process of self-division, consisting of gradual division or cleavage of the into two parts, each of which then becomes a separate and independent organisms; as when a cell in an animal or plant, or its germ, undergoes a spontaneous division, and the parts again subdivide. See Segmentation, and Cell division, under Division..

Possibly :: Possibly (adv.) In a possible manner; by possible means; especially, by extreme, remote, or improbable intervention, change, or exercise of power; by a chance; perhaps; as, possibly he may recover..

Trover :: Trover (n.) The gaining possession of any goods, whether by finding or by other means..

Aggregate :: Aggregate (a.) Having the several component parts adherent to each other only to such a degree as to be separable by mechanical means.

Pick :: Pick (n.) A heavy iron tool, curved and sometimes pointed at both ends, wielded by means of a wooden handle inserted in the middle, -- used by quarrymen, roadmakers, etc.; also, a pointed hammer used for dressing millstones..

Pioned :: Pioned (a.) A Shakespearean word of disputed meaning; perh., abounding in marsh marigolds..

Roynish :: Roynish (a.) Mangy; scabby; hence, mean; paltry; troublesome..

Jade :: Jade (n.) A mean or tired horse; a worthless nag.

Random Fonts

Most Popular