Word Meanings - COSMETIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any external application intended to beautify and improve the complexion.

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• INTENDENT
  See N
• INTENDIMENT
  Attention; consideration; knowledge; understanding. Spenser.
• IMPROVER
  One who, or that which, improves.
• COMPLEXIONALLY
  Constitutionally. Though corruptible, not complexionally vicious. Burke.
• BEAUTIFY
  To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke. Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.
• EXTERNAL
  Away from the mesial plane of the body; lateral. External angles. See under Angle. (more info) 1. Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external
• INTENDANT
  One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance.
• INTENDER
  One who intends. Feltham.
• COMPLEXIONED
  Having a complexion; -- used in composition; as, a dark- complexioned or a ruddy-complexioned person. A flower is the best-complexioned grass, as a pearl is the best- colored clay. Fuller.
• INTENDMENT
  The true meaning, understanding, or intention of a law, or of any legal instrument. (more info) 1. Charge; oversight. Ford. 2. Intention; design; purpose. The intendment of God and nature. Jer. Taylor.
• EXTERNALLY
  In an external manner; outwardly; on the outside; in appearance; visibly.
• INTENDANCY
  1. The office or employment of an intendant. 2. A territorial district committed to the charge of an intendant.
• IMPROVE
  1. To disprove or make void; to refute. Neither can any of them make so strong a reason which another can not improve. Tyndale. 2. To disapprove; to find fault with; to reprove; to censure; as, to improve negligence. Chapman. When he rehearsed
• EXTERNALITY
  State of being external; exteriority;
• EXTERNALIZE
  To make external; to manifest by outward form. Thought externalizes itself in language. Soyce.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• IMPROVEMENT
  Valuable additions or betterments, as buildings, clearings, drains, fences, etc., on premises. (more info) 1. The act of improving; advancement or growth; promotion in desirable qualities; progress toward what is better; melioration;
• INTENDED
  1. Made tense; stretched out; extended; forcible; violent. Spenser. 2. Purposed; designed; as, intended harm or help. They drew a curse from an intended good. Cowper. 3. Betrothed; affianced; as, an intended husband.
• INTENDEDLY
  Intentionally. Milton.
• COMPLEXIONARY
  Pertaining to the complexion, or to the care of it. Jer. Taylor.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNIMPROVED
  1. Not improved; not made better or wiser; not advanced in knowledge, manners, or excellence. 2. Not used; not employed; especially, not used or employed for a valuable purpose; as, unimproved opportunities; unimproved blessings. Cowper. 3. Not
• SUPERINTENDER
  A superintendent.
• SURINTENDANT
  Superintendent.
• DISCOMPLEXION
  To change the complexion or hue of. Beau. & Fl.
• DISIMPROVE
  To make worse; -- the opposite of improve. Jer. Taylor.