Word Meanings - DINNERLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.

DINNERLY
Of or pertaining to dinner. The dinnerly officer. Copley.
DINNERLESS
Having no dinner. Fuller.
PERTAIN
stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
OFFICER
Specifically, a commissioned officer, in distinction from a warrant officer. Field officer, General officer, etc. See under Field, General. etc. -- Officer of the day , the officer who, on a given day, has charge for that day of the quard,
DINNER
1. The principal meal of the day, eaten by most people about midday, but by many at a later hour. 2. An entertainment; a feast. A grand political dinner. Tennyson. Note: Dinner is much used, in an obvious sense, either adjectively or as the first
AFTER-DINNER
The time just after dinner. "An after-dinner's sleep." Shak. -- a.
SUBOFFICER
An under or subordinate officer.
UNDEROFFICER
A subordinate officer.
APPERTAIN
To belong or pertain, whether by right, nature, appointment, or custom; to relate. Things appertaining to this life. Hooker. Give it unto him to whom it appertaineth. Lev. vi. 5. (more info) appartenir, fr. L. appertinere; ad + pertinere to reach