Distemper is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISTEMPER in dictionary:

VERB:
• to paint or colour with distemper, also DESTEMPER
• paint with distemper
• To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
• To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
• To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.
• To intoxicate.
• To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; as, to distemper colors with size.
• An undue or unnatural temper, or disproportionate mixture of parts.
• Severity of climate; extreme weather, whether hot or cold.
• A morbid state of the animal system; indisposition; malady; disorder; -- at present chiefly applied to diseases of brutes; as, a distemper in dogs; the horse distemper; the horn distemper in cattle.
• Morbid temper of the mind; undue predominance of a passion or appetite; mental derangement; bad temper; ill humor.
• Political disorder; tumult.
• A preparation of opaque or body colors, in which the pigments are tempered or diluted with weak glue or size (cf. Tempera) instead of oil, usually for scene painting, or for walls and ceilings of rooms.
• A painting done with this preparation.
NOUN:
• a kind of paint
• a viral disease of some animals, especially dogs, causing fever, coughing, and catarrh.
• political disorder
• a kind of paint using glue or size instead of an oil base, for use on walls or for scene-painting.
• a method of mural and poster painting using distemper.
• highly contagious viral disease of dogs
• any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
• an angry and disagreeable mood
• paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
• a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
• a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to throw out of order

Words related to DISTEMPER

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Words that contain DISTEMPER

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How to use DISTEMPER in a sentence

• Doubt and uncertainty nourish the lingering distemper that would undo me.
• The temperature should be taken, and if there is a rise of two or three degrees the case should be treated as distemper, and not as a common cold.
• So smiling and beautiful did these districts appear, that he could scarcely fancy they were the chief haunts of the horrible distemper.
• He was a very handsome man, but died, in 1483, of what the historian calls a distemper.
• It was not long after that a malignant distemper broke out in the neighbourhood, which proved fatal to many of the inhabitants, and was of unexampled rapidity in its effects.
• In short, a physician set me on fire, by giving me medicines to throw out my distemper.
• Not that I think but, being so near Turin, if there was anything to be feared from the distemper, you would certainly hear it, and not go.
• Bombay had not taken the distemper, rife in such a large area of India.
• But the same distemper of the state which had raised Carausius to power did not suffer him long to enjoy it.
• I was too sick of mind to speak, and my distemper was not of my wound.
• Pratts Distemper and Pink Eye Remedy will positively relieve the disease at once.
• I went to the boy, who was about seven years old, and found him suffering from a slight distemper, but on feeling his pulse I perceived that it failed at every fourth beat.
• This joint is commonly used for walls intended to be coated with distemper or limewhite.
• The general complained that the fleet lay idle while his troops were harassed and diminished by hard duty and distemper.
• In this year the violence of the distemper abated, nor was there any danger from a scarcity of corn, because provision had been previously made against it.
• On the day when she was seized with that distemper, which in a few hours proved mortal, she seemed to those about her to be in perfect health and vigour.
• While he was at this school, his father, the earl of Rivers, was seized with a distemper which in a short time put an end to his life.
• She goes nowhere else, because there is a distemper among the dogs.
• To which purpose, let her use baths of iron water, that correct the distemper of the bowels, and then evacuate.
• It has been as happy for them, as it was for their mamma and her Billy, that they had it under so skilful and kind a manager in that distemper, as my dear mother.
• Any artificial appetite begun is the beginning of distemper, disease, and a general disturbance of natural proportion.
• But that distemper is too beneficial to them not to expose to all their resentment the hardy wight that should undertake to put an end to it.
• Neither distemper nor madness is to be feared from these dogs, though no one cares for their wants.
• But whoever among you is sick, or is troubled with any distemper of the head, must redeem the shaving his head by fasting, or alms, or some offering.
• These are dreadful degrees and steps of this horrible distemper, and enough to make all flesh tremble.
• Antiochus died of a distemper which overtook him as he was fleeing from Elymais, from which he was driven during an attack upon its gates.
• The distemper is increased by his injudicious and preposterous endeavors, or pretences, for the cure of it.
• The abused wealth of this country continues a little longer to feed its distemper.
• What is it dares distemper Tamburlaine? TAMBURLAINE.

Similar words containing TEMP without suffix er and without prefix dis

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