Word Meanings - BOAT-TAIL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A large grackle or blackbird , found in the Southern United States.
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- STATESMANLIKE
Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman. - UNITERABLE
Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne. - FOUNDATION
The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution, - FOUNDER
One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows. - SOUTHERNLINESS
Southerliness. - UNITIVE
Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor. - FOUNDATIONER
One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school. - FOUND
imp. & p. p. of Find. - UNITARIANISM
The doctrines of Unitarians. - FOUNDEROUS
Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke. - UNITARIANIZE
To change or turn to Unitarian views. - STATESWOMAN
A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson. - FOUNDRESS
A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund. - UNIT
The least whole number; one. Units are the integral parts of any large number. I. Watts. 3. A gold coin of the reign of James I., of the value of twenty shillings. Camden. 4. Any determinate amount or quantity (as of length, time, heat, - FOUNDERY
See FOUNDRY - STATESMANLY
Becoming a statesman. - UNITABLE
Capable of union by growth or otherwise. Owen. - STATESMAN
1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light - UNITIVELY
In a unitive manner. Cudworth. - LARGE-ACRED
Possessing much land. - CONFOUNDED
1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - TRIBUNICIAN; TRIBUNITIAL; TRIBUNITIAN
Of or pertaining to tribunes; befitting a tribune; as, tribunitial power or authority. Dryden. A kind of tribunician veto, forbidding that which is recognized to be wrong. Hare. - FOOL-LARGESSE
Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer. - JEJUNITY
The quality of being jejune; jejuneness. - TRIUNITY
The quality or state of being triune; trinity. Dr. H. More. - MUNITION
fortification, fr. munire to fortify, defend with a wall; cf. moenia walls, murus a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm. Cf. 1. Fortification; stronghold. His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks. Is. xxxiii. 16. 2. Whatever materials - PUNITION
Punishment. Mir. for Mag. - ALUNITE
Alum stone.