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Slightly feverish.

1. Hanging or having the appearance of hanging by a thread.
2. Suspended by a thread.
3. Suspended by, or strung upon, a thread; said of tuberous swellings in the middle or at the extremities of slender, threadlike plant rootlets.

1. Of or resembling a fistula.
2. Tubular and hollow, as the leaves of a scallion.
3. Made of or containing tubular parts.

Of or pertaining to a rope-walker.

Hanging from a rope; connected with a hanging rope.

1. Full of trivial conversation.
2. Excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner; especially, about trivial matters: "He made a garrulous and boring speech."
3. Using many, or too many, words; excessively or pointlessly talkative.
4. Etymology: from Latin garrulus, "talkative" from garrire, "to chatter".

1. In a chatty loquacious manner.
2. Given to excessive and often trivial or rambling talk; tiresomely talkative: "When I was young," she continued garrulously, "I used to do all sorts of unacceptable things."

1. The quality of being wordy and talkative.
2. A reference to being excessively talkative in a rambling, roundabout manner about insignificant subjects.

Globular; spherical; orbicular.

A reference to a small drop.

1. Unbelieving; not ready to believe; sceptical. Formerly used of religious unbelief, but no longer applicable in that sense.
2. Unable or unwilling to believe something or completely unconvinced by it.

In an incredulous manner; with incredulity.

1. Taking or showing extreme care about minute details; being precise and thorough: "My father was always a meticulous craftsman."
2. Meticulous adherence to technicalities.
3. Marked by extreme care in the treatment of details; synonyms: painstaking, careful, scrupulous, fastidious (concern), and punctilious (minute details of conduct).
4. Etymology: from Latin meticulosus, "fearful, timid"; literally, "full of fear", from metus, "fear".

In the sense of "fussy about details" was first recorded in English in 1827, from French méticuleux.

A meticulous person is very careful because he, or she, is "afraid" not to be.

1. A reference to being extremely careful and precise.
2. Characterized by being excessively concerned with details.
3. In a meticulous manner.