Word Meanings - ASSIGNAT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the notes, bills, or bonds, issued as currency by the revolutionary government of France , and based on the security of the lands of the church and of nobles which had been appropriated by the state.

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• BASKING SHARK
  One of the largest species of sharks , so called from its habit of basking in the sun; the liver shark, or bone shark. It inhabits the northern seas of Europe and America, and grows to a length of more than forty feet. It is a harmless species.
• BASIFY
  To convert into a salifiable base.
• ISSUABLY
  In an issuable manner; by way of issue; as, to plead issuably.
• BASILIC; BASILICAL
  Pertaining to certain parts, anciently supposed to have a specially important function in the animal economy, as the middle vein of the right arm. (more info) 1. Royal; kingly; also, basilican.
• CHURCHLINESS
  Regard for the church.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• BASS VIOL
  A stringed instrument of the viol family, used for playing bass. See 3d Bass, n., and Violoncello.
• BASSWOOD
  The bass or its wood; especially, T. Americana. See Bass, the lime tree. All the bowls were made of basswood, White and polished very smoothly. Longfellow.
• CHURCHLIKE
  Befitting a church or a churchman; becoming to a clergyman. Shak.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• BASTARDLY
  Bastardlike; baseborn; spuripous; corrupt. -- adv.
• BASKET BALL
  A game, usually played indoors, in which two parties of players contest with each other to toss a large inflated ball into opposite goals resembling baskets.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• BASAL
  Relating to, or forming, the base. Basal cleavage. See under Cleavage. -- Basal plane , one parallel to the lateral or horizontal axis.
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• BASINET
  See BASCINET
• APPROPRIATION
  1. The act of setting apart or assigning to a particular use or person, or of taking to one's self, in exclusion of all others; application to a special use or purpose, as of a piece of ground for a park, or of money to carry out some object. 2.
• BASED
  Wearing, or protected by, bases. "Based in lawny velvet." E. Hall. (more info) 1. Having a base, or having as a base; supported; as, broad-based. 2. Etym:
• BASIFIER
  That which converts into a salifiable base.
• MONOTESSARON
  A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• POLYBASIC
  Capable of neutralizing, or of combining with, several molecules of a monacid base; having several hydrogen atoms capable of being replaced by basic radicals; -- said of certain acids; as, sulphuric acid is polybasic.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• POLYBASITE
  An iron-black ore of silver, consisting of silver, sulphur, and antimony, with some copper and arsenic.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• NARCISSUS
  A genus of endogenous bulbous plants with handsome flowers, having a cup-shaped crown within the six-lobed perianth, and comprising the daffodils and jonquils of several kinds. (more info) Narcissus, Gr. na`rkissos, Na`rkissos, fr. na`rkh torpor,
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE