Word Meanings - CAUTIONARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Conveying a caution, or warning to avoid danger; as, cautionary signals. 2. Given as a pledge or as security. He hated Barnevelt, for his getting the cautionary towns out of his hands. Bp. Burnet. 3. Wary; cautious. Bacon.

Related words: (words related to CAUTIONARY)

• CAUTIONARY BLOCK
  A block in which two or more trains are permitted to travel, under restrictions imposed by a caution card or the like.
• BACON
  The back and sides of a pig salted and smoked; formerly, the flesh of a pig salted or fresh. Bacon beetle , a beetle which, especially in the larval state, feeds upon bacon, woolens, furs, etc. See Dermestes. -- To save one's bacon, to save one's
• HATCHURE
  See HACHURE
• BACONIAN
  Of or pertaining to Lord Bacon, or to his system of philosophy. Baconian method, the inductive method. See Induction.
• HANDSPRING
  A somersault made with the assistance of the hands placed upon the ground.
• HATABLE
  Capable of being, or deserving to be, hated; odious; detestable.
• GETTABLE
  That may be obtained.
• PLEDGERY
  A pledging; suretyship.
• HATER
  One who hates. An enemy to God, and a hater of all good. Sir T. Browne.
• HATCHETTINE; HATCHETTITE
  Mineral t
• PLEDGE
  The transfer of possession of personal property from a debtor to a creditor as security for a debt or engagement; also, the contract created between the debtor and creditor by a thing being so delivered or deposited, forming a species of bailment;
• HANDSOMELY
  Carefully; in shipshape style. (more info) 1. In a handsome manner.
• HATTERIA
  A New Zealand lizard, which, in anatomical character, differs widely from all other existing lizards. It is the only living representative of the order Rhynchocephala, of which many Mesozoic fossil species are known; -- called also Sphenodon, and
• HATCHET MAN
  1. A person hired to murder or physically attack another; a hit man.
• HATH
  Has.
• HATEFUL
  1. Manifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden. 2. Exciting or deserving great dislike, aversion, or disgust; odious. Unhappy, wretched, hateful day! Shak. Syn.
• CONVEYER
  1. One who, or that which, conveys or carries, transmits or transfers. 2. One given to artifices or secret practices; a juggler; a cheat; a thief. Shak.
• CAUTION
  scavere) to be on one's guard, to take care to be on the 1. A careful attention to the probable effects of an act, in order that failure or harm may be avoided; prudence in regard to danger; provident care; wariness. 2. Security; guaranty; bail.
• HATCHEL
  An instrument with long iron teeth set in a board, for cleansing flax or hemp from the tow, hards, or coarse part; a kind of large comb; -- called also hackle and heckle. (more info) Dan. hegle, Sw. häkla, and prob. to E. hook. See Hook, and cf.
• SECURITY
  1. The condition or quality of being secure; secureness. Specifically: Freedom from apprehension, anxiety, or care; confidence of power of safety; hence, assurance; certainty. His trembling hand had lost the ease, Which marks security to please.
• THOMAS PHOSPHATE; THOMAS SLAG
  See ABOVE
• SULPHATIC
  Of, pertaining to, resembling, or containing, a sulphate or sulphates.
• SULPHATE
  A salt of sulphuric acid.
• PHILOSOPHATE
  To play the philosopher; to moralize. Barrow.
• INTERPLEDGE
  To pledge mutually.
• METAPHOSPHATE
  A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
• RECONVEY
  1. To convey back or to the former place; as, to reconvey goods. 2. To transfer back to a former owner; as, to reconvey an estate.
• CHITCHAT
  Familiar or trifling talk; prattle.
• ESCHATOLOGY
  The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected.
• PRECAUTION
  praecautum, to guard against beforehand; prae before + cavere be on 1. Previous caution or care; caution previously employed to prevent mischief or secure good; as, his life was saved by precaution. They treasured up their supposed discoveries
• CHATELAINE
  An ornamental hook, or brooch worn by a lady at her waist, and having a short chain or chains attached for a watch, keys, trinkets, etc. Also used adjectively; as, a chatelaine chain.
• CHATOYANT
  Having a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.
• SAFE-PLEDGE
  A surety for the appearance of a person at a given time. Bracton.