Word Meanings - COURTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles. Sherwood.

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• LOVERWISE
  As lovers do. As they sat down here loverwise. W. D. Howells.
• LOVER
  1. One who loves; one who is in love; -- usually limited, in the singular, to a person of the male sex. Gower. Love is blind, and lovers can not see The pretty follies that themselves commit. Shak. 2. A friend; one strongly attached to another;
• PLAYSOME
  Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
• MARRIAGEABILITY
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• MARRIAGE
  1. The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony. Marriage is honorable in all. Heb. xiii. 4. 2. The marriage vow or contract. Chaucer. 3. A feast made on
• MARRIAGEABLE
  Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable. -- Mar"riage*a*ble*ness, n.
• COURTSHIP
  1. The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor. Swift. 2. The act of wooing in love; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to
• LOVER; LOVERY
  See HALL
• SEA PLOVER
  the black-bellied plover.
• FREE-LOVER
  One who believes in or practices free-love.
• TRUTH-LOVER
  One who loves the truth. Truth-lover was our English Duke. Tennyson.
• PLOVER
  Any one of numerous species of limicoline birds belonging to the family Charadridæ, and especially those belonging to the subfamily Charadrinsæ. They are prized as game birds. (more info) LL. pluviarius, fr. L. pluvia rain, from pluere to rain;
• HART'S CLOVER
  Melilot or sweet clover. See Melilot.
• DISCOURTSHIP
  Want of courtesy. B. Jonson.
• NORFOLK PLOVER
  The stone curlew.
• INTERMARRIAGE
  Connection by marriage; reciprocal marriage; giving and taking in marriage, as between two families, tribes, castes, or nations.
• CLOVER
  A plant of differend species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. -- Clover worm
• GLOVER
  One whose trade it is to make or sell gloves. Glover's suture or stitch, a kind of stitch used in sewing up wounds, in which the thread is drawn alternately through each side from within outward.
• FRANK-MARRIAGE
  A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife , and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten. Blackstone.
• REMARRIAGE
  A second or repeated marriage.