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Word Meanings - FABLIAU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of the metrical tales of the Trouvères, or early poets of the north of France.

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  • NORTHERNMOST
    Farthest north.
  • NORTHERN
    1. Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west. 2. In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind. Northern diver. See Loon. --
  • NORTHMAN
    One of the inhabitants of the north of Europe; esp., one of the ancient Scandinavians; a Norseman.
  • NORTHMOST
    Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.
  • NORTHEAST
    Of or pertaining to the northeast; proceeding toward the northeast, or coming from that point; as, a northeast course; a northeast wind. Northeast passage, a passage or communication by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans along the north
  • NORTHWESTWARD; NORTHWESTWARDLY
    Toward the northwest.
  • TALESMAN
    A person called to make up a deficiency in the number of jurors when a tales is awarded. Wharton.
  • METRICAL
    1. Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions. 2. Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
  • NORTH STAR STATE
    Minnesota; -- a nickname.
  • NORTHWESTERN
    Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.
  • NORTHERLINESS
    The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north.
  • POETSHIP
    The state or personality of a poet.
  • POETS' CORNER
    An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.
  • TALES
    Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like, or such as, the latter. Blount. Blackstone. syntactically sing.
  • NORTHEASTERN
    Of or pertaining to the northeast; northeasterly.
  • NORTHUMBRIAN
    Of or pertaining to Northumberland in England. -- n.
  • NORTHERNER
    1. One born or living in the north. 2. A native or inhabitant of the Northern States; -- contradistinguished from Ant: Southerner.
  • NORTHEASTERLY
    Pertaining to the northeast; toward the northeast, or coming from the northeast.
  • NORTHER
    A wind from the north; esp., a strong and cold north wind in Texas and the vicinity of the Gulf of Mexico.
  • NORTHEASTER
    A storm, strong wind, or gale, coming from the northeast.
  • ANEMOMETRIC; ANEMOMETRICAL
    Of or pertaining to anemometry.
  • ISOPERIMETRICAL
    Having equal perimeters of circumferences; as, isoperimetrical figures or bodies.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • DIAMETRICALLY
    In a diametrical manner; directly; as, diametrically opposite. Whose principles were diametrically opposed to his. Macaulay.
  • HEXAMETRIC; HEXAMETRICAL
    Consisting of six metrical feet.
  • HALF-YEARLY
    Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
  • EARLY
    Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
  • GASOMETRIC; GASOMETRICAL
    Of or pertaining to the measurement of gases; as, gasometric analysis.
  • PLUVIAMETRICAL
    See PLUVIOMETRICAL
  • ELECTRO-METRIC; ELECTRO-METRICAL
    Pertaining to electrometry; made by means of electrometer; as, an electrometrical experiment.

 

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