Word Meanings - CONCERTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Act of concerting; adjustment. Young.
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- YOUNGISH
Somewhat young. Tatler. - YOUNG
, , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of - YOUNGTH
Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser. - YOUNGNESS
The quality or state of being young. - CONCERTMEISTER
The head violinist or leader of the strings in an orchestra; the sub-leader of the orchestra; concert master. - YOUNG ONE
A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt. - CONCERTATIVE
Contentious; quarrelsome. Bailey. - CONCERTION
Act of concerting; adjustment. Young. - YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which - CONCERTATION
Strife; contention. Bailey. - CONCERT OF THE POWERS
An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers, the United States, and Japan in 1900 to take only joint action in the Chinese aspect of the Eastern Question. - CONCERTINA
A small musical imstrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the two hexagonal heads. - CONCERTINO
A piece for one or more solo instruments with orchestra; -- more concise than the concerto. - CONCERT
1. Agreement in a design or plan; union formed by mutual communication of opions and viewa; accordance in a scheme; harmony; simultaneous action. All these discontens, how ruinous soever, have arisen from the want of a due communication - YOUNGLING
A young person; a youth; also, any animal in its early life. "More dear . . . than younglings to their dam." Spenser. He will not be so willing, I think, to join with you as with us younglings. Ridley. - CONCERTED
Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals. Concerted piece , a composition in parts for several voices or instrument, as a trio, a quartet, etc. - CONCERT OF EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONCERT
An agreement or understanding between the chief European powers to take only joint action in the Eastern Question. - ADJUSTMENT
Settlement of claims; an equitable arrangement of conflicting claims, as in set-off, contribution, exoneration, subrogation, and marshaling. Bispham. 3. The operation of bringing all the parts of an instrument, as a microscope or telescope, into - YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and physical welfare of young men, founded, June 6, 1844, by George Williams in London. In 1851 it extended to the United States and Canada, and in 1855 representatives of similar - YOUNGGER
One who is younger; an inferior in age; a junior. "The elder shall serve the younger." Rom. ix. 12. - YOUNGLY
Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak. - MISADJUSTMENT
Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement. - PRECONCERTED
Previously arranged; agreed upon beforehand. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ly, adv. -- Pre`con*cert"ed*ness, n. - READJUSTMENT
A second adjustment; a new or different adjustment. - DISCONCERT
1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. 2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash. The embrace disconcerted - PREADJUSTMENT
Previous adjustment.