Word Meanings - CROUPIER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes. 2. One who, at a public dinner party, sits at the lower end of the table as assistant chairman.

Related words: (words related to CROUPIER)

• PUBLIC-SPIRITED
  1. Having, or exercising, a disposition to advance the interest of the community or public; as, public-spirited men. 2. Dictated by a regard to public good; as, a public-spirited project or measure. Addison. -- Pub"lic-spir`it*ed*ly,
• ASSISTANTLY
  In a manner to give aid.
• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• PUBLICLY
  1. With exposure to popular view or notice; without concealment; openly; as, property publicly offered for sale; an opinion publicly avowed; a declaration publicly made. 2. In the name of the community. Addison.
• GAMING
  The act or practice of playing games for stakes or wagers; gambling.
• PUBLIC SCHOOL
  In Great Britain, any of various schools maintained by the community, wholly or partly under public control, or maintained largely by endowment and not carried on chiefly for profit; specif., and commonly, any of various select and usually
• GAMOGENETIC
  Relating to gamogenesis. -- Gam`o*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• GAMOMORPHISM
  That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.
• PUBLIC-SERVICE CORPORATION; QUASI-PUBLIC CORPORATION
  A corporation, such as a railroad company, lighting company, water company, etc., organized or chartered to follow a public calling or to render services more or less essential to the general public convenience or safety.
• GAMIC
  Pertaining to, or resulting from, sexual connection; formed by the union of the male and female elements.
• DINNERLY
  Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
• PUBLICNESS
  1. The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale. 2. The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property. Boyle.
• LOWERMOST
  Lowest.
• GAMBET
  Any bird of the genuis Totanus. See Tattler.
• GAMMON
  The buttock or tight of a hog, salted and smoked or dried; the lower end of a flitch. Goldsmith.
• GAMBA
  A viola da gamba.
• GAMMADION
  A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• WILLOWER
  A willow. See Willow, n., 2.
• WINDFLOWER
  The anemone; -- so called because formerly supposed to open only when the wind was blowing. See Anemone.
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• MISOGAMIST
  A hater of marriage.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• MEGAMPERE
  A million ampères.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• DEUTEROGAMIST
  One who marries the second time.
• FLOWERY-KIRTLED
  Dressed with garlands of flowers. Milton.
• CAULIFLOWER
  An annual variety of Brassica oleracea, or cabbage of which the cluster of young flower stalks and buds is eaten as a vegetable. 2. The edible head or "curd" of a caulifower plant. (more info) caulis, and by E. flower; F. chou cabbage is fr. L.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.