Word Meanings - BURGLARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary

Additional info about word: BURGLARY

Breaking and entering the dwelling house of another, in the nighttime, with intent to commit a felony therein, whether the felonious purpose be accomplished or not. Wharton. Burrill. Note: By statute law in some of the United States, burglary includes the breaking with felonious intent into a house by day as well as by night, and into other buildings than dwelling houses. Various degrees of the crime are established.

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• ENTERPARLANCE
  Mutual talk or conversation; conference. Sir J. Hayward.
• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• BREAKMAN
  See BRAKEMAN
• FELONY
  An act on the part of the vassal which cost him his fee by forfeiture. Burrill.
• UNITERABLE
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated. "To play away an uniterable life." Sir T. Browne.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• ENTERDEAL
  Mutual dealings; intercourse. The enterdeal of princes strange. Spenser.
• BREAKABLE
  Capable of being broken.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ACCOMPLISHED
  1. Completed; effected; established; as, an accomplished fact. 2. Complete in acquirements as the result usually of training; -- commonly in a good sense; as, an accomplished scholar, an accomplished villain. They . . . show themselves accomplished
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• FELONIOUS
  Having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious; in a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime; as, felonious homicide. O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• ENTEROLITH
  An intestinal concretion.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• HOUSEWARMING
  A feast or merry-making made by or for a family or business firm on taking possession of a new house or premises. Johnson.
• UNITIVE
  Having the power of uniting; causing, or tending to produce, union. Jer. Taylor.
• PURPOSE
  1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer.
• MAKE AND BREAK
  Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker.
• MESENTERY
  The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum
• CONCENTER; CONCENTRE
  To come to one point; to meet in, or converge toward, a common center; to have a common center. God, in whom all perfections concenter. Bp. Beveridge.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• LAWBREAKER
  One who disobeys the law; a criminal. -- Law"break`ing, n. & a.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.