Word Meanings - BEDCHAMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar
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A chamber for a bed; an apartment form sleeping in. Shak. Lords of the bedchamber, eight officers of the royal household, all of noble families, who wait in turn a week each. -- Ladies of the bedchamber, eight ladies, all titled, holding a similar official position in the royal household, during the reign of a queen.
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- TITLELESS
Not having a title or name; without legitimate title. "A titleless tyrant." Chaucer. - CHAMBERING
Lewdness. Rom. xiii. 13. - TITLED
Having or bearing a title. - EIGHTFOLD
Eight times a quantity. - TITLER
A large truncated cone of refined sugar. - CHAMBERER
1. One who attends in a chamber; a chambermaid. Chaucer. 2. A civilian; a carpetmonger. - ROYALIZE
to make royal. Shak. - NOBLEWOMAN
A female of noble rank; a peeress. - SLEEPWALKER
One who walks in his sleep; a somnambulist. - CHAMBERED
Having a chamber or chambers; as, a chambered shell; a chambered gun. - LORDSHIP
1. The state or condition of being a lord; hence , a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge , etc. 2. Seigniory; domain; the territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. What lands and - EIGHTIETH
1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions. - SIMILARY
Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South. - NOBLE
A European fish; the lyrie. (more info) 1. A person of rank above a commoner; a nobleman; a peer. 2. An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about .61. - HOLDBACK
1. Check; hindrance; restraint; obstacle. The only holdback is the affection . . . that we bear to our wealth. Hammond. 2. The projection or loop on the thill of a vehicle. to which a strap of the harness is attached, to hold back a carriage when - EIGHTHLY
As the eighth in order. - HOLDER-FORTH
One who speaks in public; an haranguer; a preacher. Addison. - EIGHTY
1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx. - APARTMENT HOUSE
A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but having conveniences, such as heat, light, elevator service, etc., furnished in common; -- often distinguished in the United States from a flat house. - SLEEP-AT-NOON
A plant which closes its flowers at midday; a kind of goat's beard. Dr. Prior. - FREIGHT
1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use - SLEIGHTLY
Cunningly. Huloet. - INHOLD
To have inherent; to contain in itself; to possess. Sir W. Raleigh. - HOLD
The whole interior portion of a vessel below the lower deck, in which the cargo is stowed. - COUNTER WEIGHT
A counterpoise. - SUPERROYAL
Larger than royal; -- said of a particular size of printing and writing paper. See the Note under Paper, n. - LADY'S TRACES; LADIES' TRESSES; LADIES TRESSES
A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely resemble braided hair. - SLEIGHT
1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous - COPYHOLDER
One possessed of land in copyhold. A device for holding copy for a compositor. One who reads copy to a proof reader. - HIGH-HOLDER
The flicker; -- called also high-hole. - BLANCH HOLDING
A mode of tenure by the payment of a small duty in white rent or otherwise. - BEHOLDER
One who beholds; a spectator. - OFFICEHOLDER
An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman. - AFFREIGHTER
One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods. - STAR-CHAMBER
An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed