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Word Meanings - CHECKERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Marked with alternate squares or checks of different color or material. Dancing in the checkered shade. Milton. 2. Diversified or variegated in a marked manner, as in appearance, character, circumstances, etc. This checkered narrative. Macaulay.

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  • COLORMAN
    A vender of paints, etc. Simmonds.
  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • DANCER
    One who dances or who practices dancing. The merry dancers, beams of the northern lights when they rise and fall alternately without any considerable change of length. See Aurora borealis, under Aurora.
  • MARKETABLENESS
    Quality of being marketable.
  • DIFFERENTIALLY
    In the way of differentiation.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • DANCY
    See DANCETTé
  • MARKETER
    One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
  • DIFFERENTLY
    In a different manner; variously.
  • MARKETSTEAD
    A market place. Drayton.
  • VARIEGATE
    To diversify in external appearance; to mark with different colors; to dapple; to streak; as, to variegate a floor with marble of different colors. The shells are filled with a white spar, which variegates and adds to the beauty of the
  • SHADELESS
    Being without shade; not shaded.
  • SHADEFUL
    Full of shade; shady.
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • MARK
    A license of reprisals. See Marque.
  • COLORATE
    Colored. Ray.
  • COLORIMETRY
    The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.
  • DIFFERENT
    1. Distinct; separate; not the same; other. "Five different churches." Addison. 2. Of various or contrary nature, form, or quality; partially or totally unlike; dissimilar; as, different kinds of food or drink; different states of health; different
  • MATERIALNESS
    The state of being material.
  • MARKSMAN
    One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
  • SEAMARK
    Any elevated object on land which serves as a guide to mariners; a beacon; a landmark visible from the sea, as a hill, a tree, a steeple, or the like. Shak.
  • TRADE-MARK
    A peculiar distinguishing mark or device affixed by a manufacturer or a merchant to his goods, the exclusive right of using which is recognized by law.
  • ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
    See ASCENDENCY
  • CONCOLOR
    Of the same color; of uniform color. "Concolor animals." Sir T. Browne.
  • COUNTRY-DANCE
    See MACUALAY
  • AIDANCE
    Aid. Aidance 'gainst the enemy. Shak.
  • BOOKMARK
    Something placed in a book to guide in finding a particular page or passage; also, a label in a book to designate the owner; a bookplate.
  • COMMARK
    The frontier of a country; confines. Shelton.
  • REMARKER
    One who remarks.
  • DOUBLE-SHADE
    To double the natural darkness of . Milton.
  • FOOTMARK
    A footprint; a track or vestige. Coleridge.
  • SWANMARK
    A mark of ownership cut on the bill or swan. Encyc. Brit.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.

 

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