Word Meanings - EIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of EIGHT)

• Prerogative
• Eight
• privilege
• immunity

Related words: (words related to EIGHT)

• EIGHTFOLD
  Eight times a quantity.
• EIGHTIETH
  1. The next in order after seventy-ninth. 2. Consisting of one of eighty equal parts or divisions.
• EIGHTHLY
  As the eighth in order.
• EIGHTY
  1. The sum of eight times ten; eighty units or objects. 2. A symbol representing eighty units, or ten eight times repeated, as 80 or lxxx.
• PREROGATIVE
  precedence in voting, preference, privilege, fr. praerogativus that is asked before others for his opinion, that votes before or first, fr. praerogare to ask before another; prae before + rogare to ask. 1. An exclusive or peculiar privilege; prior
• EIGHTSCORE
  Eight times twenty; a hundred and sixty.
• PRIVILEGED
  Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his
• EIGHT
  An island in a river; an ait. "Osiers on their eights." Evelyn.
• EIGHTETETHE
  Eighteenth.
• EIGHTLING
  A compound or twin crystal made up of eight individuals.
• IMMUNITY
  free from a public service; pref. im- not + munis complaisant, obliging, cf. munus service, duty: cf. F. immunité. See Common, and 1. Freedom or exemption from any charge, duty, obligation, office, tax, imposition, penalty, or service;
• EIGHTEENMO
  See OCTODECIMO
• EIGHTH
  1. Next in order after the seventh. 2. Consisting of one of eight equal divisions of a thing. Eighth note , the eighth part of a whole note, or semibreve; a quaver.
• PREROGATIVELY
  By prerogative.
• EIGHTEENTH
  1. Next in order after the seventeenth. 2. Consisting of one of eighteen equal parts or divisions of a thing.
• EIGHTEEN
  Eight and ten; as, eighteen pounds.
• PRIVILEGE
  1. To grant some particular right or exemption to; to invest with a peculiar right or immunity; to authorize; as, to privilege representatives from arrest. To privilege dishonor in thy name. Shak. 2. To bring or put into a condition of privilege
• PREROGATIVED
  Endowed with a prerogative, or exclusive privilege. Shak.
• FREIGHT
  1. That with which anything in fraught or laden for transportation; lading; cargo, especially of a ship, or a car on a railroad, etc.; as, a freight of cotton; a full freight. The sum paid by a party hiring a ship or part of a ship for the use
• SLEIGHTLY
  Cunningly. Huloet.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• SLEIGHT
  1. Cunning; craft; artful practice. "His sleight and his covin." Chaucer. 2. An artful trick; sly artifice; a feat so dexterous that the manner of performance escapes observation. The world hath many subtle sleights. Latimer. 3. Dexterous
• AFFREIGHTER
  One who hires or charters a ship to convey goods.
• SLEIGHTY
  Cunning; sly. Huloet.
• WELTERWEIGHT
  1. A weight of 28 pounds (one of 40 pounds is called a heavy welterweight) sometimes imposed in addition to weight for age, chiefly in steeplechases and hurdle races. 2. A boxer or wrestler whose weight is intermediate between that
• FREIGHTAGE
  1. Charge for transportation; expense of carriage. 2. The transportation of freight. 3. Freight; cargo; lading. Milton.
• WEIGHTINESS
  The quality or state of being weighty; weight; force; importance; impressiveness.
• WEIGHTILY
  In a weighty manner.
• FREIGHTLESS
  Destitute of freight.
• OVERFREIGHT
  To put too much freight in or upon; to load too full, or too heavily; to overload.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.