Word Meanings - DISCOVERT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

Related words: (words related to DISCOVERT)

• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• NEVERTHELESS
  Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• WIDOW-MAKER
  One who makes widows by destroying husbands. Shak.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• BONDSWOMAN
  See BONDWOMAN
• BONDSTONE
  A stone running through a wall from one face to another, to bind it together; a binding stone.
• WOMANLY
  Becoming a woman; feminine; as, womanly behavior. Arbuthnot. A blushing, womanly discovering grace. Donne.
• BONDSMAN
  A surety; one who is bound, or who gives security, for another. (more info) 1. A slave; a villain; a serf; a bondman. Carnal, greedy people, without such a precept, would have no mercy upon their poor bondsmen. Derham.
• MARRIABLE
  Marriageable. Coleridge.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• MARRIER
  One who marries.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• WOMANHEAD; WOMANHEDE
  Womanhood. Chaucer.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• MATRIMONY
  1. The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer 2. A kind of game at
• COVERTLY
  Secretly; in private; insidiously.
• WIDOW-WAIL
  A low, narrowleaved evergreen shrub found in Southern Europe.
• WIDOWLY
  Becoming or like a widow.
• WHENEVER
  At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
• AIRWOMAN
  A woman who ascends or flies in an aircraft.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• ENGLISHWOMAN
  Fem. of Englishman. Shak.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• UNWOMAN
  To deprive of the qualities of a woman; to unsex. R. Browning.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• INAPPLICABILITY
  The quality of being inapplicable; unfitness; inapplicableness.
• DISCOVERTURE
  A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery.